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Kylie Zhu sketches something every day. But when the sixth-grader found out her artwork was going to be transformed into a 17-foot-tall light display in Holiday Lights at the Beach this year, she was surprised.
Motor lodges bought or developed by local families, who devoted their summers to the business, once dominated the Oceanfront. Of approximately 75 hotels within walking distance of the beach today, only a handful of mom-and-pop hotels that once prevailed in the Virginia Beach resort area remain.