![]() ![]() In 1979 he went to work at the Flamingo at the new Tower building. Today, Tudor is the longtime head of Worcester County's Department of Development Review and Permitting. "I went into withdrawal, too, because I was missing Miss Rose," she said.Įd Tudor is a former resident manager of the Flamingo. Miller at one point did take a year-round job, but returned weeks later to the motel. Basically, we're like a family," she said. She started in housekeeping and is now an assistant manager, and is ostensibly Rose Brous's right hand. Irvine Miller, 54, has been working at the Flamingo since she was 16. ![]() She especially loves to see some of the same families coming back after as many as 30 or 40 years. Wearing flamingo-pink lipstick and nail polish, and sporting a flamingo necklace, Rose Brous says she likes to chat up all her guests. If I'd had 72 kids and two rooms, it could have been a little harder. They said, 'Hi Rose, how are you?' I said, everything's fine. "I went out to meet them in the parking lot. "I hadn't seen them for a year," she said. She recalled how the summer after George's accident, the fireman's convention was in town. Rose had lots of support from friends, family and supportive motel guests. Ten years later, in 1977, George added a five-story, 40-unit building to the motel property. Rose and George married in 1965, and two years later came to live in Ocean City year-round. George Brous and his father in 1963 purchased the Flamingo when it was still a 23-unit motel on 31st Street and Baltimore Avenue. "I wish today's youth could witness what I witnessed and then there would be a true understanding of the word freedom." "We were all seeing history in the making," she said. She remembers watching the East German soldiers standing atop the Berlin Wall, ready to shoot anyone trying to escape to the free West Berlin side. She met her husband the next spring when they were both waiting tables at Embers in Ocean City.Īfter two years of teaching in Baltimore County, she took a job through the Department of Defense in 1962, as a teacher for the children of soldiers stationed in West Berlin, Germany. Rose Brous attended Wicomico High School and graduated in 1960 from Salisbury State Teacher's College. If someone's going to be in charge of something, I don't want to second-guess him. "All he ever wanted to do was run this place, he told me," she said. She works part-time now, and her son, Joel, is the general manager of the Flamingo. They can talk to anybody on any level because they're so used to talking to people." "It's all they ever knew it's a part of their life," she said. When their father died, Joel was 7 and Nick was 10. She ended up raising her young sons, Joel and Nick, in the motel business when they weren't in school. And I know if I kept the business, as long as I could rent the rooms, I'd be fine. I decided to keep it because I didn't know how easy it would be to get a job teaching. "If I keep the motel in the summertime and they work for me, I'll know where they were. "My thoughts were, I have these two boys," she said. ![]() She considered going back to being a school teacher, but instead stayed with the motel. Her husband, George, told her if anything ever happened to him, to keep the business, for at least a year. ![]()
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