They carry a wide variety of affordable gifts including quality classic tees and hats, local pottery, soaps, and candles. Stop at the CAMP courtyard and browse the new Brick & Mortar, the creation of Kathy and Lynn. Philip still also focuses his art and talent on his fine jewelry business at Elegant Slumming. Philip has it again and it's the home of unique accent pieces and the unusual and the unexpected in home furnishings. It then changed hands and became an art gallery. The Philip Morton Gallery at 47 Baltimore Avenue was opened ten years ago by Philip Livingston owner of Elegant Slumming, 33 Baltimore Avenue, as a fine arts gallery.
On the second block is the venerable Blue Moon and new places and old standbys that continue to improve. Eden at 23 Baltimore Avenue and its sister restaurant Jam at 21 Baltimore Avenue being the more casual. On the beach block there are two great restaurants. On those two blocks you have a wealth of gay owned and operated places to eat and shop. CAMP set up their offices next door at 39 Baltimore Avenue and new gay owned and operated restaurants and shops opened adding to the attraction of a mile long boardwalk, white sandy beaches (poodle beach as it is dubbed is the very fun gay section of the beach at the south end of the boardwalk), salt water taffy, cotton candy, and always tempting Thrashers French Fries.īaltimore Avenue is a two block stretch from the Beach to Second Street. In 1980, Pisapia and Joyce Felton opened The Blue Moon, and gay owned and operated restaurants began their ascent." The Moon as it has been dubbed, at 35 Baltimore Avenue, became the anchor for a bustling LGBT scene. "In 1974, three restaurateurs, one gay (Victor Pisapia) and one straight couple (Libby and Ted Fisher), opened The Back Porch restaurant adding fabulous contemporary cuisine to the fried seafood platters in town. In the 1940s, Tallulah Bankhead and Hollywood cronies frolicked at the DuPont mansion and the local art league nurtured a cadre of women painters famous both for their canvases and their close camaraderie." If you have gay life fine dining will follow. According to a Gay history on the CAMP website "Lore has it the DuPont property along the ocean was where Rehoboth's gay nightlife began.