After more than “seven decades of sun and fun,” outfitting locals and visitors with classic Florida sportswear, The Beach Shop will close in July.
A landmark on Ocean Drive, half a block south of Sexton Plaza, the store was founded by Jackie Zorn in 1950, when the only way to get to Central Beach was by boat or via a dilapidated drawbridge. The beachside “had no shops, crude roadways, and … The Driftwood Inn and Sunny Cottages were the only businesses on the barrier island,” according to store’s history page.
Zorn built a two-story building on the west side of Ocean Drive, where Very Fitting is now located, and debuted Jackie Zorn’s Beach Shop, “one of the original stores on the island that helped to establish the Ocean Drive shopping district into what it is today.”…