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Clemson Sports Icon [56348]
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Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 5:27 PM
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Cars now look the same and are computers on wheels.
In the day they looked different.
The new model was kept secret until the "unveiling". Cousin Buddy and I lived near the Chevy dealer so got an early peek by slipping in the garage.
Here is Surfside Beach with some nice cars. They look different from each other.
Like the cars, the SC Beach has changed to generic.
Any of yall remember fishing and drinking there?
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Athletic Dir [1165]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 7:29 PM
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That photo was taken about 1960, and I could be one of the distant persons shown. My uncle's home was the first one south of the store, and it was the third home built on Surfside. The original name was Flora Beach, and the name was changed in the early 1950s. The fishing pier was built about that time, and I fished many days on that pier.
On calm mornings, my uncle would drive his jeep down on the beach, and we took his small boat off the trailer and went out across the breakers. We usually filled the bottom of the boat with fish about two miles straight out from the pier in two hours.
My uncle went down to check on the house occasionally during the winter, and my cousin and I would go with him. There were never any other people there during the winter. We walked up and down the beach with our shotguns hoping to shoot any passing ducks.
That photo brings back so many fond memories. Thanks.
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Head Coach [970]
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That is awesome.
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May 2, 2024, 7:44 PM
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I wish I could have experienced the coast during that era.
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Legend [7002]
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Re: That is awesome.
May 3, 2024, 2:22 PM
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My memories of the area begin in the late 70s. Small motels vs the current hotels and condo towers. I even loved down town Myrtle during that era. Now Myrtle is a combination of dilapidated relics of the 60s through 80s and new poorly maintained resort hotels and condo towers.
Would love to time travel to the 70s again.
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Orange Phenom [15096]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 10:07 PM
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FWIW, that's a 65-67 Chevrolet Impala SS leaving the parking lot.
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Walk-On [131]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 3, 2024, 2:30 PM
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Love the '59 station wagon and the '57 two door hardtop backed up to the building
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Heisman Winner [78602]
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This is the best post I have read in a very long time.
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May 3, 2024, 12:32 AM
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I genuinely appreciate the history lesson and glance back at a simpler time. A time when values meant something.
Thank you!!!
NH Tiger
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All-TigerNet [5701]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 3, 2024, 1:35 PM
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I think that picture was taken later than 1960. The white car next to the Impala station wagon appears to be a 1965 Ford.
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Rival Killer [2916]
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Re: Surfside Beach
May 4, 2024, 10:02 AM
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Is that a Corvair pulled up to the building, right behind the Chevelle that is leaving?
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Athletic Dir [1142]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 7:47 PM
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Looks like 1965. Was too young to enjoy the pier and pavilion then. Caught up to it in mid 70’s.
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Head Coach [970]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 7:48 PM
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Early 80s for me.
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Clemson Sports Icon [56348]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 7:49 PM
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That is a '65 Chevy
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Athletic Dir [1142]
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May 2, 2024, 7:51 PM
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I recognize 65 Fairlane, 65 Galaxy and 65 Tempest or GTO.
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Paw Warrior [4993]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 7:48 PM
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Old Myrtle Beach was the best. Brings back a lot of nostalgia for me!
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Paw Warrior [4993]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 4, 2024, 9:50 AM
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Why would some lowlife on here thumb down my post? Some of you must live a very pathetic and painful life!
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Solid Orange [1304]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 2, 2024, 8:30 PM
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Loved the restaurant on the pier
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I might be off topic so forgive me
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May 2, 2024, 8:30 PM
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But I bought a ‘22 Dodge Charger R/T with the 5.7 Hemi and every morning when that mother fires up, I say thank you to the God of Internal Combustion. Amen.
Go Tigers!
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Game Changer [1654]
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Funny, those cars look way more similar
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May 3, 2024, 10:48 AM
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Than what I see today. Guess it’s just what you are used to.
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All-TigerNet [5701]
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Re: Surfside Beach
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May 3, 2024, 1:32 PM
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I stayed in a motel at Surfside on a trip to fish the Pabst Blue Ribbon Marlin Tournament in about 1978. I left 4 Penn International 80s mounted on Fenwick rods (about $3,000 value at the time) inside the car (a 1976 M-B sedan).
When I came out the next morning I found that someone had broken into the car (with a crowbar), but the rods and reels were still there. There was body damage to the car, but the only thing missing was a $50 FuzzBuster. I figured the culprit was a druggie looking for something to sell quickly for enough money to buy his daily need for a fix.
I later found out that the perp was the son of the Surfside police chief.
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Re: Surfside Beach
May 3, 2024, 2:02 PM
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Sad in thinking about the contrast in what Myrtle was and is today. Seems drugs are rampant there now. I just started staying more north when I would go, but have not been in years.
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Legend [7002]
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Re: Surfside Beach
May 3, 2024, 2:38 PM
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Loved the entire Grand Strand during 70s 80s and early 90s. During mid 90s, Myrtle started going to crap. It is now a combination of dilapidated relics from the 60s - 80s and poorly maintained new hotels and condos. Crime is crazy. Way too many low life individuals in Myrtle. I still love extreme North Myrtle , Garden City, Surfside, and Pawleys. Scared they too are headed in same direction as Myrtle.
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Paw Master [17045]
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Re: Surfside Beach
May 3, 2024, 4:36 PM
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I see a 64 or 65 Chevelle leaving the parking lot.
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Orange Beast [6559]
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Re: Surfside Beach
May 4, 2024, 10:19 AM
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One day we were driving the freeway and began pointing out cars that were copies of the 1994 Honda Accord. It was astounding. Every manufacturer makes a clone of the 1994 Honda Accord, even the luxury brands. It changed from a game to play to pass the time on the road to an eyeopening experience.
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