JANUARY 16, MONDAY
I had seen a Carolina BBQ buffet place on the road in Wilmington on several occasions, but had never stopped for one reason or another. It is called The Carolina BBQ and Sea Food restaurant and it is at good as it gets, everything I expected and very reasonable at $6.49 for seniors.
It is across from beautiful Hugh McRae Park Blacks want the name changed because of Hugh McRae's white supremacist past even though he donated it to the city. Here's hoping they don't change the name, but that will probably happen.
Fully full, I continued to US-421 and Carolina Beach, going over that wonderful Snow's Cut Bridge. From the top of it you can see the ocean and Masonboro Sound, something that over the years, and my family has been coming to Carolina Beach since I was a baby, always have me a great thrill. "We're here at the BEACH now!!"
My grandparents owned a cottage on the Southern Extension of Carolina Beach until it was completely destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1954. After that, we'd rent a great aunt's cottage right behind it all the way into the 70s.
--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.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
Showing posts with label Hurricane Hazel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane Hazel. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Road Work Ahead, Summer 2014 N.C. Trip-- Part 23: Kure Beach
We then drove the short distance to Kure Beach, past Big Daddy's Seafood Restaurant which has been there since at least the 1950s and home of some great seafood. They have a marker in front of it by US-421 saying it was the site where Union forces came ashore for the attack on Fort Fisher a few miles southward.
Kure Beach has a really small "downtown" area and a pier. We took a ride along their road going north from the downtown (one way heading north) and saw the cottage that looks like my grandparents' cottage that was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel. We have often considered renting it to see of the inside is somewhat like the one we lost. Of course, in the ensuing 60 years, there would have been a lot of renovation.
On to the Fort! --RoadDog
Kure Beach has a really small "downtown" area and a pier. We took a ride along their road going north from the downtown (one way heading north) and saw the cottage that looks like my grandparents' cottage that was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel. We have often considered renting it to see of the inside is somewhat like the one we lost. Of course, in the ensuing 60 years, there would have been a lot of renovation.
On to the Fort! --RoadDog
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Road Work Ahead, 2014 Summer N.C. Trip-- Part 23: Carolina Beach Southern Extension and the Beauregard
Left the Carolina Beach boardwalk area and drove to the Southern Extension area which has a one-way street running along the ocean-side with cottages and condos on both sides of it. This is where my grandparents on my mother's side had their cottage right on the ocean during the 1940s until 1954.
I evidently spent a lot of every summer (well, first three years of my life) at this cottage and it is where I learned how to walk. The wreck of the blockade-runner Beauregard was right in front of it and you could see it at low tide. Perhaps one of the reasons I got so interested in the Civil War, well, that and Fort Fisher about five miles down the road.
Unfortunately, the cottage was completely erased by Hurricane Hazel in 1954. No trace of it was left. For years, the lot set empty until my grandparents sold it in the 70s and now the large cottage named the Sema is on it.
My great aunt, Anna Mae, had a cottage directly across the street and we used to go there a lot during the rest of the 50s and 60s and even as late as the 80s. The new owners have done so many renovations that you can no longer recognize her place.
Spent Many Weeks Here. --RoadDog
I evidently spent a lot of every summer (well, first three years of my life) at this cottage and it is where I learned how to walk. The wreck of the blockade-runner Beauregard was right in front of it and you could see it at low tide. Perhaps one of the reasons I got so interested in the Civil War, well, that and Fort Fisher about five miles down the road.
Unfortunately, the cottage was completely erased by Hurricane Hazel in 1954. No trace of it was left. For years, the lot set empty until my grandparents sold it in the 70s and now the large cottage named the Sema is on it.
My great aunt, Anna Mae, had a cottage directly across the street and we used to go there a lot during the rest of the 50s and 60s and even as late as the 80s. The new owners have done so many renovations that you can no longer recognize her place.
Spent Many Weeks Here. --RoadDog
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Road Work Ahead, Summer 2014 N.C. Trip-- Part 18; The Blockade-Runner Museum and Britt's
July 28, Monday
We're across Snow's Cut Bridge now and coming into Carolina Beach on US-421, the road to the beach. Once, there wasn't much between the town and bridge, but now it is built up extensively. Passed the Carolina Beach municipal building which used to be the old Blockade-Runner Museum, one of the best private museums around and with an big collection, including scale model of Fort Fisher and downtown Wilmington during the war.
I went here often and at one time was invited to be assistant manager in 1983, but turned it down which was a good thing because it was out of business a short time later.
One thing nice about Carolina Beach, it has free parking, if you can find it. We did and walked over to Britt's for those delicious doughnuts. Quite a crowd there even though it wasn't lunch time. Always time for dessert, you know. Donuts were 95 cents, or six for $5.95, but best deal was a dozen for $7.95.
You could have been in Britt's on July 28, 1954, before Hurricane Hazel, which wrecked Carolina Beach, and everything would have been just the same. Garage door entrance, two counters, visible kitchen, no air conditioning and crowds. The only thing different would have been the prices and every one of the employees would grab their cell phones every chance they got and thumbs would fly.
Next, a Walk on the Boardwalk. --RoadDog
We're across Snow's Cut Bridge now and coming into Carolina Beach on US-421, the road to the beach. Once, there wasn't much between the town and bridge, but now it is built up extensively. Passed the Carolina Beach municipal building which used to be the old Blockade-Runner Museum, one of the best private museums around and with an big collection, including scale model of Fort Fisher and downtown Wilmington during the war.
I went here often and at one time was invited to be assistant manager in 1983, but turned it down which was a good thing because it was out of business a short time later.
One thing nice about Carolina Beach, it has free parking, if you can find it. We did and walked over to Britt's for those delicious doughnuts. Quite a crowd there even though it wasn't lunch time. Always time for dessert, you know. Donuts were 95 cents, or six for $5.95, but best deal was a dozen for $7.95.
You could have been in Britt's on July 28, 1954, before Hurricane Hazel, which wrecked Carolina Beach, and everything would have been just the same. Garage door entrance, two counters, visible kitchen, no air conditioning and crowds. The only thing different would have been the prices and every one of the employees would grab their cell phones every chance they got and thumbs would fly.
Next, a Walk on the Boardwalk. --RoadDog
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