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Dalrymple’s Card & Gift Shoppes Celebrates 60 Years, and Over a Century of Life in Sea Isle City

Pictured are just a few of the Dalrymples that work at the store. Back row, from left: Charles Lien, Katie Dalrymple Potter, Barbara. Front row, from left: Angel Dalrymple and Valerie Gaughen.

By Collin Hall

SEA ISLE CITY – Dalrymple’s Card & Gift Shoppe, right by the beach at the end of John F. Kennedy Blvd. in Sea Isle City, has remained open seven days a week, nine hours a day, for 60 years – they closed only during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and for a brief stint of road repair that rendered the store inaccessible.

The Dalrymple family runs the shop to this day, and they do so with infectious joy. Angel Dalrymple, who works year-round at the store as a bookkeeper, checkout clerk, and all-around handyperson, said that the store was her “mother and father’s dream.”

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