Myrtle Beach
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Kosher Hand-Eye Coordination
THE KOSHER HAND THAT FED ME The other night I had dinner at the Jerusalem Cafe, a new restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a town that supposedly has more […]
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Silver Soldier, Robert D.
Robert, The older I get the more valuable my friends are. Leaving home, nearly fifty years ago, I didn’t realize how rich I was. Coming back, finding that the best […]
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Shag Birthday Surprise
SHAG DANCER’S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE A friend of mine had a birthday recently: Janet Harrold, the lady who keeps the editorials and party pictures coming from Carefree Times, the one and […]
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Walking in the Fog
This morning right at daylight I was walking in the fog. The sort of fog that soaks your hair that makes it seem you’re walking through a glass of fat-free […]
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The Music Is All There Is
What do you get dancing the shag at SOS? Everybody gets what they came for. That was my impression. I just hoped SOS wouldn’t end before it got old. You […]
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Golden Oldies
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The Ocean Forest Hotel Jeered at Myrtle Beach
In Myrtle Beach, the first really big idea was the Ocean Forest Hotel. When I was a kid, six or eight years old, every time Daddy took us to the […]
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The Birth of Beach Music
Come the summer 2015, seventy-two years ago, new music that would mesmerize teenagers worldwide was heard first on the beaches of North and South Carolina. Southern kids called it Beach […]
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The Golden Seeds of Big Ideas
Myrtle Beach was always a gold-rush territory. Big ideas and risky ventures have ever-permeated the atmosphere. It started back with the turpentine industry and commercial agriculture before the turn of […]