From the two Jolly Roger Amusement Parks and the beloved Thrasher’s French Fries to the iconic Ocean City Fishing Pier, multiple hotels and a slew of other businesses, Jenkins has already cemented his place in the local history books by creating a significant portion of the landscape of this seaside resort that attracts millions of people from all over the globe each year.
Yet, Jenkins is a quiet and unassuming figure who can sometimes be found standing on the porch of his office at Jolly Roger Amusement Park looking out over the masses of families from all walks of life letting go from life’s stresses and making memories together. It’s evident if you stand next to him on that porch just how important the idea of family is to him.
Talking with Jenkins for any length of time is like getting a valuable history lesson on our region, and that conversation can steer into the realms of the deeply intellectual and even somewhat philosophical. Yet, at the root of it, Jenkins says he is a do-er, and all that he has done over his long and successful career has simply been choked up to doing what his parents taught him to do.
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Dear Mr. Jenkins,
Couldn't you designate just one fryer for peanut oil? We miss the old way of cooking them, the new just isn't the same taste, we rarely go there now. My father used to repair your fry baskets in exchange for fries when I was growing up, really miss them!
Just gotta love this man.
They were hand cut from fresh potatoes then. Now they use pre-cut frozen potatoes. That makes a big difference.
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