Article in Feb. 1st Panama City News Herald about a beach town that hit upon hard times, Atlantic Beach, South Carolina, by Jeffrey Collins of AP. "Once-segregated beach town struggling to survive."
One of the few businesses left in town, the Crazy Horse strip club, has paid its 2009 taxes early to keep the town from laying off its few remaining employees. Now, this is not something you'd expect to see regarding any town located by the shore, especially the Grand Strand where high-rises are replacing the old mom and pop places. People flock here for fun in the sun, but not poor Atlantic Beach.
Collins writes that the town appears frozen in time since the quarter square mile place looks essentially the way it did back in its heyday, 50 years ago, only more run-down.
It is also physically isolated from the other communities with its only point of entrance and egress at US-17. All other north-south roads are blocked.
A Sad Beach Story to Be Continued. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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