Ocean Front Bar & Grill

as Ocean Front Tavern. In 1935, there was a beer garden built over the beach on a wooden patio which was removed in 1940 to make way for a new 12-foot wide concrete walkway. The business was bought by a new owner and renamed Ocean Front Restaurant. In 1948, Johnny Burroughs bought the eatery, and Ocean Front Grill was born. In 1954, Hurricane Hazel took out the boardwalk. The damage was so great that you could drive a Volkeswagon Bug under the building. The city had no money to rebuild the boardwalk, so we did it ourselves.