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Submitted by carz1 on Sun, 2005-09-04 19:36.
Who remembers the Greenlawn Drive-in?(and sneaking in)
Who remembers Driftwood Cory?
Who remembers going to see bands play at the then
Bft Junior High?
Who remembers Baileys? Yahoo!!!
Who remembers zots?
who remembers "Slack" Velgus?
Who remembers the few concerts at the then Beaufort Elementary School where we thought they were really small scale smoke-ins?
Who remembers low tide at the original Robert Smalls Middle?
Who remembers Ed Bart?
Who remembers Howard Robinson? (truant officer)
Who remembers the ripples?
Who remembers Gene Keith?
Who remembers hitch hiking to the beach and passing out on the sand dunes that same night?
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Do you remember hurricane grace(gracie)?
We lived in a trailer in Fort Fremont trailer park behind the Naval Hospital. I remember my father whisking away my sister and I to the shelter of the concrete laundry builing about 100 feet from our trailer. My dads car was a Renault and he had tied it down with nylon rope to our trailer. At one point I remember see the car floating up and down by the fierce winds. I don't recall any injuries except for the people that had pet squirrels. They didn't make it. After the storm my father showed me a piece of straw that was embedded in a palmetto tree.
We lived on Brickyard Point road. In fact my mother still lives in the same home. I remember watching trees fall all around us and no water, electricity, or school for a long time. I remember not being able to see the road from the house. I remember sharing water from our swimmming pool with anyone that stopped by. I remember candles, real hurricane lanturns, and filling up every container we could find with water. I remember it seeming like fun; my father cooking on charcoal. Most of all I remember the mosquitos were really bad after the storm. I remember our dog always hiding under something every storm after that!
We spent 2-3 days/nights in the basement of USNH when Gracie hit. My Dad was at sea and Mom packed the three of us boys into the nearest fallout shelter (even though our house on Narcissus Lane is on some of the highest ground in the county). Lord knows how many times we watched Jack Webb in "The DI" over the course of those days since that was the movie being shown at the hospital theater.
'Came home to a house surrounded by a yard completely covered by fallen trees and spanish moss. My only thought: Wow! Look at all the neat forts I can make in my front yard!! 'Got really peaved when my Dad came home two days later (by train to Yemessee and then hitchiking the last 26 miles in uniform) and we had to start clearing all that stuff away. ('Barely got half of my planned forts built.)
I still have my Dad's two kerosene Dietz lanterns that we used as our only light for a week after Gracie. And I still keep them in working order waiting for the next one to hit. We've always called them 'hurricane lanterns' out of respect for Gracie.
Doug -
I remember your parents well...your Mom at Dr. Jenkins office and your Dad at the Drugstore. How are you?
Alton Aimar
Mom and Dad were some pretty longstanding fixtures in the area. Dad worked in every drug store the Aimars (and Goodwins) had in Beaufort. Mom was with Dr. Parker Jones before Drs. Jenkins/Hudson/Bush. Alas, both are gone now -- Dad in '78 and Mom just last year. Both are still there in Bft, however, in the national cemetery.
My wife and I are in Sumter now. It's within striking distance of home but nowhere near enough (and nowhere near as beautiful)! I took up a second career as a high school teacher after the Navy. We're doing well.
Have you remained in Bft all this time?
Do you remember?
The Yankee
The Shack Drive in
The Jarvista
Ribuat road as a two lane road
there was no McTeer bridge
Boundray street as a two lane
The Dairy Land
Yes, I remember the Jarvista/San susi.
I also remember Jones Bar-B-Que on Ribaut, The Sandwich bag, Villiage Inn Pizza Parlor after a football games and Linnen's Restaurant at 2 or 3 in the morning on Friday night/Saturday morning.
Do you remember the dairy nook?
Do you remember a band at each end of Bay St for the water festival and both were local bands?
Do you remember the Sore Thumb Tavern?
Do you remember parties at Fort Freemont?
Do you remember summers at Crystal Lake?
Do you remember the Piggie Park?
Do you remember Basil Green?
Do you remember when using the excuse of getting caught by a bridge opening mattered?
Do remember not being able to get to work because the bridge was broken?
Do you remember when Fast Freddie sold cars?
Do you remember hanging out at the canteen at the tennis courts?
Do you remember sno cones at the baseball games?
Do you remember the breezeway at Beaufort High back in the day?
Do you remember Sonny Hogge?
Do you remember outdoor concerts at the 21 Drive In theatre?
Do you remember Jackpot?
Freddie Bazemore I knew him well.
yes he was my younger brother and not a day goes by that i dont wish if i could only have him back in our lives for just one day how grateful i would be.
Driftwood Cory, now there is a name I have not heard in quite a while, but while on the subject, does anyone agree with me about the debate on-going about the corner of Bay & Carteret...How does Dean Moss dare talk about the oak tree...I remember when the Gas station was there and then Lolly Lipton had a shoe store right on the corner on what is now the BB&T parking lot.
I also am a bit concerened, you folks are talking about Freddy Bazemore in the past, I saw Freddy several weeks ago and he is alive and well!
Freddie is indeed live and well....I was just asking who remembered when he sold cars!
who rembers koth's getting boild penuts
who rembers going to ma millers sitting by the pot belly stove listning to the old folks stories
who rembers swimming in the trussel.
i rember the last three movies at the green lawn.
clint eastwood. the good,bad and the ugly. high plaines driffter. a fist full of dollars.
who rembers when a coke was a coke
who rembers gas .25 cents no im not that old but when we went to see my grandmothe in ma in a volkswagon stationwagon i saw gas at .25 cents.
who rembers uyou did not lock your door when you were not home.
and last but not the lest
who rembers the switches........ lololol
it is a good thing to rember the past because there were good things and bad things. long live rock and roll...............
Who remembers watching Bruse Lee kick butt at the greenlawn?
Who remembers watching The Exorcist at the breeze and flipping out all night afterwards?
Who remembers my green 1968 Baracuda and always geting stopped by Beaufort's finest?
Who remembers all the concert road trips to Savannah and the pit stops at Krystals for a sack of munchies?
I remember swimming at the north street trestle and Koth's peanuts as I worked there as a teen!! Good ole J M and Jimmy!!
What do you remember Beaufort???
Help us out here!!
I remember as a kid that everywhere you went, you saw someone you knew. Now you can drive all over Beaufort and never see a soul you've met before.
Who remembers when Klan rallies were held on Hwy. 21 out past the air station?
My best friend, from when we first met as fellow Port Royalians at age five to our now second half a century together, Phil Foster, had a fabulous fire-engine red '65 Commando V8 (black upholstered 4-stick) that suffered grieviouly one night from a missed power shift coming onto Hwy 170. Unfortunately, the exact space on the shift column for second gear was exactly where Phil's female companion had her left knee. Long story short: gear missed, girl left hobbling for the better part of a month, and rods (plus other itms) taking flight at around 9000+ rpms from their proper places in the block to parts unknown under the hood.
Phil eventually put her back on the road, but she was never the same.
'Never can remember that girl's name.
Who remembers Ribaut Rita from Beaufort P.D.?
Who remembers ice cream on Saturdays at the Dairy Nook?
Who remembers Royal Oaks Drive In theater on Ribaut Road?
Who remembers the ampitheater at the waterfront on Bay Street?
Who remembers when the only four lane road in Beaufort was Highway 21 from Ribaut Road to the Air Station?
Who remembers Beaufort High Tidewave?
Who remembers Pappy's on West Street?
Who remembers Edwards Five and Dime on Bay Street?
Who remembers when Beaufort High school has double sessions?
Who remembers the hospital was a brick building with 2 wings?
Who remembers the airplane in the park on Pigeon Point Road?
Who remembers the monkey at the Exxon next to the hospital?
Who remembers the campground on the south end of Hunting Island beach?
Who remembers the myna bird at lipsitz?
Who remembers(as a friend mentioned today) the parades with Tutti Frutti leading the way?
Who remembers starting the weekend at The Village Inn Pizza Parlor and their round fireplace?
Who remembers the parties in the woods off Brickyard Point RD and all the kegs?
Who remembers Bill Emerson?
Who remembers Ms Krog at Bft High School?
I remember Bill Emerson; he was my uncle. My mom is Sandra, my uncles are Greg and Joe.
Yes, I remember many of these things, but especially what Bay Street and the downtown area looked like thirty years ago. Belks was there too. Bay Street in the downtown area was a shopping place for us, but those days are long gone, now Bay Street has developed into an artist's colony and a place mainly for tourists. Sad.
rita yes a speeding ticke for 1 mile over the speed limit
is that keith of the band..
oh and who rembers pruit gro. a nab and drink for .25 cents
or thoms chocklet drink and a nab
how about 2 ciggarets for a .05 cents lol
i rember a lot of things and this town sure has changed alot.
dose anyone rember the manbeck band here in beaufort. david drove a red corvett.
i rember we put our parrents through hell, what our kids put us through is nothing short of total disaster.
black lights, peter frampton, kiss, less paul, life sure was good back then life today is fast never ending no respect hard to find someone to open a door for a girl, hard to find the old day's.
terriable 2's we wish our parrents would have warrend us about the teen years and beyond.
i rember back then we thought life was just fun. who rembers vicky and vera, the codwell's, the heaymans, to much to rember i am going to have to defrag my brain after tonight lol.
Who remembers those long summers and lugging coolers full of PJ to the water front for water festival?
Who remembers Pruitt's girlfriend and yes cashing in soda bottles for those ciggies and a match?
Who remembers David Manbecks annual Christmas eve parties and Paul Howell always cooking all day while "getting happy"?
Who remembers Paul Howell setting his hair on fire in the woods?(oops)
Who remembers Valerie and Mike?
can't remember when hardees was a walk up window burger joint, or the the field across the street before grants was built, parties and the trash can of pj, piggy park was new, port royal town line was past the kayo gas station.....even my sisters prank of loading the bank fountain with soap and the fire department having to close ribault road to clean it up....can't remember s---.....
Mr. Stewart,
Dont let the door hit you in the rear when you move on. Bye Bye
I am trying to figure just how this fits in with "Do you remember?" It is obvious that the success Mr. Stewart managed elsewhere was quite enormous, probably an experience equivalent to the "American Dream." Would you prefer that he simply sit on his liquid wealth and instead do things like park a $20 million yacht downtown or, for that matter, at his own dock? Or maybe build some industry quietly out of the way in the backwoods of the Combahee or Ashepoo Rivers, leading to addional pollution to the ACE basin? Without question, if he had not decided to return and begin investing liquid financial resources in an area that he once lived as a child, it would have certainly been someone else or, worse yet, some conglomerate (something quite possibly much more uglier than the small operation of 303 Associates) that the less successful would still choose to moan and groan about every day. To cry foul at someone who is trying to produce and maintain local commerse with liquid reality, along with it a substantial tax base and some reasonable avenues of employment, is sort of like slapping a gift horse in the face. Maybe you simply wish that he sink his money into profitless ventures, you know, throw it all away and even go back school, I don't know. The only thing for certain that I can figure out here is that you are hoping this BLOG runs long enough so that one day someone's comment, maybe even your own, says "Do you remember the Stewarts?"....with a reply not unlike "Yeah, those were the folks with the really big yacht who decided to dissassemble a few of their houses, place them on a towable barge, and move to some deserted and isolated islands in the Bahamas?"
Then again, are you possibly part of an anonymous force concerned that property on the other side of Carteret street just might take the lead someday, where trolly cars go to and fro and peacefully remain west of Carteret? If so, then a BLOG one day just might read "Do you remember the Green Trolley?" with a reply not unlike "Yeah, and all that damn horse s___?"
Who remembers those long summers and lugging coolers full of PJ to the water front for water festival?
Who remembers Pruitt's girlfriend and yes cashing in soda bottles for those ciggies and a match?
Who remembers David Manbecks annual Christmas eve parties and Paul Howell always cooking all day while "getting happy"?
Who remembers Paul Howell setting his hair on fire in the woods?(oops)
Who remembers Valerie and Mike?
Who remembers the Miller 8 pack of ponies?
Who remembers Steve Gubetti?
Who remembers Bowers Red and White?
Who remembers Bruce Hayman's homemeade party boat?
Who remembers the putt putt by Laurel Bay and then by the old Hardees?
Who remembers Gil's homemade stove top still?
Who remembers camping by the North St trestle....wait a minute...I can barely remember those occasions.
Who remembers Hippie Harry?
Who remembers the Port Royal River Rats????What the Heck was that all about!
carz1 sounds like you might have grew up in the neighbor hood in the old Battery Creek Elementary area because I do remember all the things that you have written about my youngest brother was a part of it all.There were many good things about our town back then and before it's sad that we never seem to take the time to really appreciate it and now it's too late, so we all just sit with our memories and remeber when.
Yes I did grow up around the old school and ball field. I started this blog to get people thinking and talking about Bft back in their youth. Don't know who you would be but we all had a blast back then and our experiences good and bad helped make us into who we are today!!
So let's here more of OUR memories and thoughts of Bft in our youth.
Who remembers.........
It is so funny, I usually don't read any of the post however tonight I did. I lived in that area also. I remember Jackie,Gil, the Painters, the Gurels, Vicki, Vonna, Vera, Vanesa, and their brother. Do you remeber Joe Video, Keith Pender, the Adams family on Fraser Dr. I remember shrimping, crabing and swimming at the North Street trestle. Do you remeber the football games at the park on North Street? The neighborhood baseball games. I remembre Ms. Whit being my teacher in 6th grade. Does anyone remember Cindy King and Beth Donnelly? Does anyone remember the Berger's and the Caldwell's from Frazier Drive. I also remember the Goodyear's on the corner of North and Frazier. I haven't thought about all of that for a long time. Thanks for the push in memories of growing up in Beaufort. Also remember when all the events where held on Bay Street during the water festive. There was only about 30' of concrete behind all of the stores. Do you remember watching Jaws in the theater down town? Faviorte memory the Police Moive Club during the summers at the theater downtown, and the door prizes and fun. I am just sorry that Beaufort wasn't Beaufort when my children were growing up. I also remember riding my bike to Koths and to Mr. Pruitts store. Thanks for the memories many smiles came to my face.
goodyears had the tree company, the adams family lol. the twins yes i rember swimming fishing shrimping bottle rokett fights lol. ( sometimes that hurt ) the winns family.
official river rat member here.teehee
u must remember harry's surf mobile?
How many other river rats are out there? Let's here from you and let all the bloggers in on what it was all about. Not only do I remember Harry B's surf mobile but I remember hanging out with him at his little hut while he made surf boards. Boy the fumes alone were a great way for a cheap high....haha (actually the hut was his house on his parents property)
the gig is up who are you i rember bruces party boat me and his brother scott took it out sometimes lol. camping at the trestle i rember someone cooking a flounder and eating it yuck i do not eat seafood lol.
You'll have to ask Berry Gooch. :-)
Don't remeber all that but, I do remember those same sisters taking me out on a date! I think I was maybe 6 yrs old and they convinced me I did not have to have shoes on because, guys thought it was sexy to not wear shoes..needless to say, yep, we got in trouble especially the baby not having shoes on!! I do remember the yum-yum hut because those same sisters that took me out on the "date" worked there too!!guess I must find my way to maine to get the rest of the story from big brother Mike......
We are looking for our very long lost friend, David Manbeck who used to drive a Red Corvette and play guitar in a band (way back when), live on North St? in Beaufort. We have lost touch with him for about five or so years? He has a brother, Keith. He is a house painter? If anyone knows him, please have him contact Tootie at 252-646-4919 or Joanne at 910-382-5652.
Thank you!
I heard Manbeck was sited in the Wal Mart parking lot, he was being accosted by choco's peeples.....they broke his guitar over his head....the assailants were described as 3 unsupervised pre-schoolers.....
As I sat reading these posts I have come to the conclusion that y'all must've lived here all your lives. I don't remember any of this stuff! I've been here for 11 years and a lot has changed since then....
Luther's was Bananas.
Hwy 278 dead-ended at the bridge.
Hwy 170 was 2 lanes.
Hwy 280 merged to 2 lanes at Shell Point.
The "old" WalMart.
Bft High was in Mossy Oaks.
See, my memories are too fresh to really be counted. I do love seeing old pics of downtown. I saw the pics in Common Ground of when they put in the Woods Memorial bridge. Saw the gas station on the corner where BB&T is. Gas was .30 then. But with so many people coming into the area, I feel special when I remember "how it used to be".
I used to live on Beaufort's Point, and remember how nice it was to be able to have shopping within walking distance. We had the Piggly Wiggly, the Bank of Beaufort, Belks, Luther's Pharmacy, Fordham's Hardware, The Dolphin Room at the Sea Island Motel, the Beaufort Courthouse, the Beaufort Library, the Beaufort Post Office - those were the days!
Remember Mrs. Danner who lived in the Castle, and Mrs. Peeples at 501?
Her late husband (a physician) had an auditorium named after him in Columbia.
In those days, many of the small dilapidated houses on the Point were referred to as "servant's quarters". They've all been redone now and worth a bundle!
I saw Purple Rain there about 11 times.
We also went to the BPD Movie Club during the summer....remember C.H.O.M.P.S.
Do you remember Roses?
Catching fiddlers.......
Ms. C. Lewis on D hall at BHS.
When Mr. Glaze and Mr. McBride taught high school science.
Hersch's shoe store.
Allied Department store......
Martin Menswear.
Halloween Carnivals at Beaufort Jr. High now BES.
Going to Mr. Pruitt and buying penny cookies......
Those were the days.
Renewnow, you have sent me back into a happy time I went to Bft. high & had Mrs. Lewis - heck she drove all the way from Savannah to Beaufort each day just to teach & she did not take any crap in class. I do remember Pruitt's we had alot of fun there as other downtown spots. I lived on the point back then so downtown was it for me until I got a car then off I went allover...... remember the game room on 21 near where Napa auto parts is now ? Bft. back in the 70's was GREAT !!!! OH' how about the Skateboard Park where Dairy Queen is now...... & Dr. Buzzard & Amos on SI .... what great times & homemade wine etc...... great thoughts to start a morning off.......
I see you and Elida both lived on the Point. Maybe you were neighbors.
i remember the BPD movie club during the summer. Does this program still exist? Man I never won any of the prize giveaways.
Mrs Celestine "you teach me and then i'll teach you!" Lewis, the lady, the legend. She and Mrs Peggy Hegstrom drove from Savannah every day to Beaufort High.
Yeah i remember Roses in Beaufort Plaza and Martins and Allied on Bay Street...got many Buster Brown's at Hersch's.
What about Sky City? Do yall remember Sky City?
I do
from Hilton Head to shop. You could find so much, and pay so little!
We had Maxway and that is all we had. We could drive to Savannah (which NO one wanted to do, remember the old bridge?) or we could drive to Beaufort. Beaufort was so cosmopolitan compared to Hilton Head. So many conveniences, a real city.
We didn't even have a daily newspaper, we had a 2xwk Packet that was tabloid style. We had one traffic light at Starvins and all the restaurants closed for 3 months over the winter.
Beaufort was such a treat to come over to spend the day. So much to do, so many restaurants, and fast food! Fast food! There were 3 groceries, the Big Star at Pineland and the Big Star at Sea Pines Circle and of course Martin's Red & White. You could drop your chicken neck at any place in Sea Pines and haul in a cooler full of blue crab. You could take your laundry baskets to the marsh and load them with oysters.
Beaufort had the only working marina back then next to the swing bridge, so a lot of boat folk stayed on this side of the big water because you couldn't get no work done on the HH side. Beaufort stayed the 'capital' city until the mid-late 80s when Hilton Head got down to some serious development.
Watching the Water Festival beauty pageant in what is now the marina parking lot, from 3rd floor balcony of the Anchorage where my grandmother lived (she worked at Luther's)...
Helping launch the race boats and getting sprayed by the "rooster tail" when they pulled away...
The movie "Frankenstein" (Boris Karloff) at the Breeze...
Haircuts at Bowers' Barber Shop on Bay in front of what is now Hemingway's...
The '50's were great!
How about T W Eatmon, the principal at Bft High and his well used wooden paddle. Or RC Woods, band director. Anyone remember Dr. Black, whose office was in the old 3 story Beaufort Hotel on Bay St. He made house calls. Anyone remember the '40 hurricane that left a shrimp boat on the corner of Bay and Charles? Or the 5' of salt water on the Old Point. Anyone rmember the Palmetto trees that lined the two laned entrance to Beaufort out to past where KMart is now. Or the farm fields from the Ribaut/21 light on out to Burton. Or the Enterprise Ice and Coal Co in Burton where the NAPA store is now. Or the original Beaufort bridge that had a wooden roadbed covered with asphalt. Or the cement truck that busted out part of it on the curve. Or the MCAS jet that crash landed right beside that bridge in the marsh. Or another MCAS jet that crashed on the Bellamy farm. Or the Naval Air Station with Hellcats where MCAS is. Or the basket factory built there after WWII. Anyone remember that was a large farm before WWII. There are people around that remember , but they may not be on line.
When there were palmetto trees on outer Boundary Street and the paperwhites came up between them at Chistmas?
When the Methodist church moved its parsonage to the Point?
When Jim Williams from Savannah restored the William Wigg Barnwell house before he became infamous?
When the Piggly Wiggly was on Port Republic Street?
When the Freedom Mall was the epicenter of the Water Festival?
When Mrs. Mitchell's and Mrs. Paul's houses had oyster porches?
When Mrs. Danner told a Hollywood actress with a similar name, "My dear, we cannot be related for you are an actress and you are a Yankee"?
When the only frozen yogurt to be had was at the Sandwich Bag?
When Pearl got mad at The Yankee, you better watch out?
When Ben Owens held court, literally, at the Boundary Street tennis courts?
When the Unknown Float made its debut at the Water Festival?
When Burckmyer had a real "Beach"?
When St. Peter's members could fit into the church on Carteret Street?
When the First Presbyterian Church enlarged?
When the Kate Gleason house was apartments?
When the old Country Club was on Lady's Island?
When Cuthbert Point became "Pleasant" Point, cat house and all?
When the naturalists were on Cat Island?
When Gene Norris influenced minds for generations?
When you went to Dr. Black or you went to Charleston or Savannah?
When people lived on Bay Street and Carteret Street in Open Land Trust areas?
When the Oyster Factory was still up and running?
When Hilton Head has the pontoon bridge?
When your father said "We're headed down the river" meant a weekend of fun?
We moved into the Arthur Paul house at 311 East with its oyster porch, which is now gone in the remodeling. I guess the buyers who renovated it did not understand or care about the unique and historic significance of that cool little porch. The Gazette showed a great picture around 1974 showing the contrast of the times when my then-boyfriend, Fred Sweatte, hard parked under it and the photo showed the oyster porch and then his car with the surfboard on top.
For others who asked earlier - I remember Bill Emerson and Ms. Kroeg. Doug Marsden. Valerie and Mike Howe - and Bill, too. Parties at the Sutton's trailer on Seaside Road. The Palm Sunday fire at Mickey's Bootery on Bay Street. Throwing snowballs on the green on the point on Feb 10, 1973 - snow in Beaufort!!!
WSIB. WAPE. Royal Oaks Drive in, burned down compliments of Stephanie S. and co.. :-) Spike? Chip? The downtown shell-shaped ampitheatre and that area, which was called Freedom Mall. The gas station - Ricky Griffin and family - that stood where now lies the grassy area that has the Christmas tree. The A&P on Port Republic and Charles. Mr. Christy and Ms. Cooley at the Beaufort Library. Mr. Sires - who was bludgeoned to death at the gas station on the corner of Carteret and Port Republic....Double Sessions and all the people who knew each other and were friends before (the first) Battery Creek High was built and the two schools became rivals. Partying at Fort Fremont, Lands End. Climbing to the top of the lighthouse. The "Main Beach" at Hunting Island. Yes, the camping area where "south beach" is now - 75 cents a night. Getting caught smoking hoon at BHS. Madness Reigns. Sans Soucie. Conglomerate #1. The Long Branch. The Island Club. The Back Door Club. Harry's Restaurant. The Lamp Post Restaurant. Freddies Grocery Store (on Sam's Point Road). And so much more......
Do you remember Roses?
YESSSSS Roses was my 1st job. I remember having to leave early 1 night due to snow!
When Mr. Glaze and Mr. McBride taught high school science.
Yup... I had 'em both.
It sure does my heart good to read all of this. I absolutely love Beaufort, the OLD Beaufort. If only we could have it back.....
I can remember almost ALL of everything I read here and it's all a wonderful memory. I grew up in Port Royal. Went to school at Port Royal Elementary. My dad went to that same school! He was a shrimper and docked his boat at the dock in Port Royal, where Dockside is now. They used to HAVE to take us kids with them and heading out on the boat in the wee hours of the morning, when a ship was docked there was one of my favorite memories. Along with running to the railroad tracks when a train would be coming by and ALWAYS the engineer would throw my brothers & me Juicy Fruit chewing gum packs!
Remember Grants before it was Roses dept. store? I saw JAWS at the theater downtown. Scared me out of the water for many years!
Thanks so much for the memories!
Ha ha. We still laugh about the way Mr Glaze used to say polysacharide!!
My all time favorite teacher was Ms. Prather at the old Beaufort Junior High. Then Mrs Holloway Singleton at the old Bft High.
Roses had the best breakfast in town at the best price!!
Does anyone remember Mr Collier? The asst. principal of the old Bft Jr. High?
i rember him he was the best. how about oh never mind he is not worth talking about lol.
Celebrating the same birthday and the parties at your house (East St and Pine St.) Leaving the grounds of the old Robert Smalls and sitting across the street at Maryland Fried Chicken after we stopped to buy cigarettes at Pruitts. Mrs.Redman, Linda Kirkland and the day Tony Santigatti came to BHS at the DECA teacher. Learning to play Foos ball at the Back Door Club and Joey Martin giving us free beer. When Johnny Harvey got his barber's license and Furman had the largest barber chair in Beaufort County. Edwards had the best hotdogs around and the night Ann got robbed at the Hwy 21 drive-in
Haha - Good to see ya on here, girl! Yeah man - those were the days! What a great time, reading all these memories! More to come! We need to all get together and publish a bood - written by the Beaufort locals born and bred! :-)
Good to blog with ya!! Those were the days and yes we need to have a reunion, bring it on.
Since I started this blog and even before, I thought about a reunion but...........!!!
Yep. I remember almost everything that's been mentioned. Bill Emerson, Mother Goose aka Island Club, Ms. Kroeg, and I worked at the Greenlawn. And something else...I run into my 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Charmaine Webb, and my 4th grade teacher, Ms. Betty Sams, occasionally at Publix and THEY STILL REMEMBER MY NAME!! I graduated from BHS 32 years ago --- so do the math. And, I remember ABdaughtry when she was "queen of the monkey bars" at Beaufort Elementary (now USCB/Performing Arts Center) in the days that girls HAD to wear dresses or skirts to school.
Mrs. Webb? As in Mrs. Webb from Mossy Oaks elem. that used to carry around a ruler??
Good Lord, Amy, of all the names to pull out of someplace where the sun don't shine, how'd you come up with mine?
Here's a quick Top 10 list for you of other things to remember:
(1) when Meridian Road was a dead end
(2) Sam's Point Road was THE place to drag race on Friday nights since there was NEVER any traffic to worry about
(3) when The Island Club was originally Mother Goose's (first opened as a club by Joe Compton)
(4) when Ms. Hunter was the librarian at BHS and had such an allergy to Juicy Fruit chewing gum
(5) the original Beaufort Junior High School (which was the original Beaufort High before that)
(6) Aimar's pharmacy on Carteret, Luther's Pharmacy on Bay, and Colonial Pharmacy on Boundary
(7) the ice cream stand at the corner of Ribault and Allison Drive
(8) when Sears was next to Colonial Pharmacy where Ribault Road deadends into Hwy 21
(9) when "Ribault" always had an "l" in it, and
(10) when Talbird Road (between Southside and Waddell) was a twisty-turny one-lane dirt trail?
Say hello to Donny and your brothers.
Cawl me! 843-575-1326!!!! Amy
Living in Sumter for the past decade. Teaching English at Camden Military Academy.
Y'all are a bit older than me, so you remember things that I don't, but here are some of mine: Vanilla Cokes at Luther's pharmacy, playing on the stairs at the Belk on Bay St., the water slide park on the way out to the beach, Tutti Frutti leading every parade, buying stickers from "Wonders", the Village Inn pizza parlor, when Duke Pressley performed at the Waterfront in the marina parking lot, when Ed Hanna worked at the A&P, the old "little" library that we walked to every Thursday from school, riding our bikes to Big Star to get something for dinner, umm...I'm still thinking...
With all due respect, do any of you remember any of the "seemingly" old folks who used to sit around talking about the things that they remembered from the good ole days when they were young?
i do not rember there names but i used to stop by ma millers store and they would be talking around the old wood stove/heater lol
i do not rember there names but i used to stop by ma millers store and they would be talking around the old wood stove/heater lol
How about Wallace/Danner & Schein's stores on Bay Street? What about Pat Conroy when he taught @BHS? His classes were a scream but he could give some hard tests!
i memba Tutti Frutti.
Dairy Nook
Sky City
Cap'n Geech's
the old gas station where LT's is now
old Red & White
James Mack (service station on 21 St Helena)
Blocker Store
Cormiers (sp)
Dr. Lipsitz, Dr. Joseph, and Dr. Whisnant's dental practices
Bill & Mary's in Port Royal
Kelly's Place
The Soul Palace
Sycamore Grocery
Ann Fripp Grocery
Bill & Mary's in Port Royal
The GQ Club
The Super Spook Disco
Von Harten's Sea Food - where can you even buy rock shrimp these days?
Humble Buck's later known as Humble Buck's Exxon
Kinghorn Lumber and Building Supply
Cottage Farm owned by the McCeshney's and Ten Eyck's
Sonny's
The Biscuit Basket
Dutch Treat
New Year's Eve at The Anchorage
The Main Deck
Pumpkin Hill Shipyard
Precious Cargo
Kinwin
Beaufort Hardware and Paul Schwartz, Sr., and Paul Schwartz, Jr., Mr. Duncan and, our favorite, George White
Hollingsworth Barber Shop
The Army/Navy Store on Carteret St.
RB Productions
Gymnastics Unlimited
Linda Dodd's art classes
Mrs. Martin's ability at LUTHER'S to 1) pour a fountain coke 2) answer the phone 3) talk to another customer across the store 4) reply to Dr. Lawson about someone's prescription and 5) tell some child to "put that down, you've not paid for that" all at the same time
The put-put course at Hunting Island
Cucumbers from McLeod's farm
Yemassee Caviar
The Gazette as a weekly
The pickle factory
Lucy Creek eggs
The Eagle's Nest - Nancy Ricker (then Webb) Rhett's store
Al's Steak House
Riverdale Restaurant and Marina
Schein's Department Store
Breeze theater
Palms theater
Carnegie library with books in the cool basement
Community Center where the Beaufort Library is now
Frogmore Post Office in the the "Corner Store", then moved across the street, then moved into the present building, then changed to ST. Helena Island several years ago.
Beaufort Hospital built in 1940s, the first hospital in the county, in a small brick building on present site of Beaufort Memorial.
Green Lawn Drive In, where the Pig is on Ribaut in Port Royal.
The bridge tenders' little house on the old bridge catching fire and burning. I have photos.
The old bridge being cranked open by hand.
The A&P store on Bay
All of the woods between Beaufort and Port Royal along Ribaut before the town lines were joined.
Fire sirens in town with different patterns to denote the location for the volunteers.
Air raid drills in school and at home.
No AC in schools with big windows to let in the breeze and bugs.
Porpoise Fish Company
School buses with scraped right sides from crossing the narrow old bridge. I drove one in high school.
The Coca Cola plant behind Fordham's on Carteret.
Mark Furniture Company
Beaufort High where Beaufort Elementary is.
Schoenberg's Bakery. Yummy stuff, especially coconut macaroons!
Mulligans Firestone Tires
Tons of scrap metal collection, including junked cars, piled up on old Beaufort Elementary school campus, now USCB campus. Made a nice interesting play place!
Von Harten's Chrysler Plymouth.
Coastal Chevrolet
Horne's Ford Motors
Terhune International Tractor and Truck
Beaufort Fire Department across from the Museum with 3 stalls for trucks and also an antique hand pumper on display.
No traffic lights around anywhere.
Bay Street with brick pavement.
Youman's Grocery Store and Freezer Lockers on Lady's Island where the Steamer is.
man o man!
Sorry just had to make a small correction Greenlawn Drive-Inn was located where K-Mart/Bi-lo is today and the other one was in Port Royal where the pig is was known as the Royal Drive-Inn. Can any of you folks remember what was located where Alvin Ord's is now? My brother and his wife are having a disagreement as to what was located there. He say's it was a fruit stand and she say's it was a gas station.HELP
I think it was a Comet gas station...... (?)
Was it a Comet or a SOC station?
It was a Comet station. The fruit stand was on the corner of Mossy Oaks and Ribaut Rd. A 7-11 was located where the State Farm Ins. office has been built. I also remember Mrs. Smalls at Beaufort Jr. High school, her paddle sure hurt when it connected. What about those old blue gym suits we used to have to wear. This blog has certainly brought back alot of good memories.
What was in all those old buildings outside LB gate? I heard one was a convenience store, 7-11 I think.
The largest building on the right as you go into LB was Stuckey Brothers Furniture. They moved to Hiway 170. The other buildings were small stores, always changing. The housing area used to be a large farm.
The Comet station was run by Mary Dennis she had several kids Bubba, Allison, Deborah, Sharon & Mary it was a fun time back then Allison was my best friend we were inseperable. Lil' Al lived across the street & Earl Burnsed lived close also. does anyone remember Kurt aka grasshopper that ran the music store on Ribaut Rd. and how about Purnell & Bubba always getting up to no good? LOL .........
I used to hang out at the Dennis' house all the time. Deborah & I were friends. I don't remember their mom running the Comet station. Maybe that's where she was when all of us kids were ganging up at their house!
Purnell passed away, I'm pretty sure. Bubba is on Lady's Island somewhere and has turned out pretty good. lol
The last time I saw Miss Mary she was working at Wal-Mart. (Please people....don't start another blog about Wal-Mart just because I mentioned it!)
name was kurt hait , somen like that, and wasent the "music store" he ran originally a "head" shop ran by the late Bernie Evans,or Richard McCarther? who by the way had the singer sewing machine repair shop..along with other numerous businessess with the late Jimmy Zediker..and may as well throw school teacher j.j purvis in the mix.as for Bubba Dennis, wasent his name Risdon Finished Dennis, i'm serious, think that was his real name.earl AND MARY did have a cute little white house on the corner, and he was a trucker and always ran into some original COORS beer, when you couldnt get it here///.
"Mrs. Martin" would have been the unforgettable Donna Martin, now residing in Florida, but once the glue that held Bay Street together.
i rember moast of that and i am not older just old lol. well now 47 mabe not to old lol
Who remembers the Greenlawn Drive-in?(and sneaking in)
Who remembers Driftwood Cory?
Who remembers going to see bands play at the then
Bft Junior High?
Who remembers Baileys? Yahoo!!!
Who remembers zots?
who remembers "Slack" Velgus?
Who remembers the few concerts at the then Beaufort Elementary School where we thought they were really small scale smoke-ins?
Who remembers low tide at the original Robert Smalls Middle?
Who remembers Ed Bart?
Who remembers Howard Robinson? (truant officer)
Who remembers the ripples?
Who remembers Gene Keith?
Who remembers hitch hiking to the beach and passing out on the sand dunes that same night?
Hi, Iam nancy Schein MacDougall and I do remember all the things that are in the Rembering of Beaufort.. I would always be at my Dads store and also help out there.. I would love to see friends and meet new people there..
My Brother Stephen and I still have the Scheins building but he rents it out..That store has alot of memories in it for me and other people.. Thank U so much for having this in the paper..
My addrees is:
Nancy Schein MacDougall
12 Hilda Avenue
Beaufort,SC 29907
843-525-1724
I was amazed over the many memories that have poured out of the hearts and minds of the bloggers here in Bft. I started the "Do you remember" blog over 1 year ago. There have been many great memories put into words and the funny thing is what I write may bring about a memory from your past and what you or someone else writes will do the same for me!! It truly is a continuing saga...
Scheins,Lipsitz,Edwards,Belk...this was the hub area of Bft back
then. The breeze theatre where I saw Billy Jack,Cheech and Chong and THE EXORCIST!!!! Thank you Nancy Schein for being a part of this great history! Feel free to share more memories....