ROLL CALL: High School attended and year graduated.
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Small world. I'm her sister. Went to the same church until I moved away in the early 70s.
My, oh, my! Mike, it has been so many years. Hope all is well with you and your family. Let's get together next time you're in Columbia!
I was at Conway in '90. My sister graduated in '89. Did you play any sports? I played soccer in '89 for Conway
I met Ed Pitts many years ago at a Gamecock Club meeting in Asheville. Ed is a super nice guy.
Myrtle Beach HS - Class of 1968 - school site was demolished long ago to make way for K-Mart, Olive Garden, Taco Bell, etc. - they built the 'new' MBch CoC building on our old football field. Hwy 17 was 2-lanes traveling N towards NMyrtlBch and 2-lanes going South towards Surfside/Garden City/Murrells Inlet/Pawleys Island/Georgetown ... there was no Litchfield Beach - there was no Highway 17-Bypass, there was no 'convention center' ... in 1968 the area bordered by 21st Ave. N and Oak Street where the convention center stands today was the 'city dump'. No roads parallel to Highway 17 west of Oak Street were paved. Joe White Ave. from Ocean Blvd to Broadway-At-The-Beach on 17-Bypass was a 1-lane/sometimes 2-lane dirt road that led to 'black' nightclubs, where a 17-year old HS student could still get a PBR after midnight on Saturday. We had four (4) golf courses (counting NMB AND Georgetown County all the way to the river) ... the Surf Club, Dunes Club, Pine Lakes and Myrtlewood; our 5th would open that Spring across from Coastal Carolina College - which in '68 was a USC Regional Campus with two (2) buildings and less than 500 students.
We had no shopping centers, no 'Belk's' or other department stores (Belk's had a store in Conway - which was a 'bigger' town) - Chapin's was our 'shopping center'/department store - there was no 'restaurant row' - after Nixon/Agnew won the Presidency in '68 (my 1st vote for President) Agnew visited MBch the next year and stayed at the Thunderbird Hotel 'penthouse' ... it was on the 5th floor. In '68 the 'city' had nineteen (19) 'modern' hotel signs (i,e,. manually-changable letters on storyboards) - no 'electronic' sign boards ... none. 'Modern' was neon. Our 'Holiday Inn' wasn't a Holiday Inn. We has ZERO 'national chain' hotels. In 1968 Myrtle Beach had less than a dozen elevators - and half of those were in the old Ocean Forest Hotel.
My HS buds and I would like to thank MOST of you for allowing your Mother's, sister's and wives to visit MBch 'tween 8th & 9th Ave's on Ocean Blvd in front of the old Pavilion, across the street from Sloppy Joe's at 9th & OB and the Bowery on 9th extension ... several of you may be a smidgen Waccamaw or Chicora Indian and not even know it.
On behalf of that entire lustful band of brothers please accept our sincere apologies ... for the whole of my life I've witnessed otherwise extremely prudent and reserved young ladies act like TOTAL, insatable crazy women while doing things they would NEVER do in Spartanburg or Columbia, Florence or Aiken, Lake City or Chester, Greenville or Ninety-Six, Knoxville or Charlotte, Atlanta or Augusta, Sumter or Charleston, Anderson or clemson, Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia and a few dozen other locations (that's a list which fairly represents the 'ladies' I 'got to know' on their visit(s) to MBch - small potatoes ... others [the good-looking guys] did FAR BETTER than I did) ... I didn't have a car in HS, their room had to be close if they didn't like the beach ... we all had a 45-minute rule to get there and get back - opportunity was everywhere 24/7.
I've saved the 'local' (then weekly) MBch newspaper from November '67 after all these years - my senior year with front page pictures of the 1st time in history MBHS ever beat Conway in football (or Georgetown for that matter) - FWIW: in the Real Estate section of that same issue there's a 2-story "OCEANFRONT" house for sale - 4BR/4Baths, fully-furnished ... $13,750. The 'nice houses' (NEW ones) were in Pine Lakes or the Dunes Club - some of those cost ALMOST $50,000!!! All those old beach houses were 'wooden cottages'. Four years later (1972) when the developers of North Litchfield Beach started selling lots you could buy an 'oceanfront' lot for $3,000 (or 2/$5,000 if you paid cash). Nah, TOO far down to drive to work. We only went that far South to drink and dance at the Pawley's Pavilion, or walk around 'Alice's Grave'.
Ocean Lake's Family Campground didn't exist. We had NEVER HEARD of a 'patio home' or a waterslide or a 'timeshare'. Brant's Hamburgers at 3rd Ave. S & Hwy 17 sold burgers 5/$ .99, including the 3-cent sales tax - FIVE hamburgers and CHANGE for a dollar! In 1968 Brant's sold more than the 'NEW' McDonald's and the 'NEW' Hardee's put together. McDonald's 'Big Mac' wasn't invented when I graduated from MBHS. Introduced in Pittsburgh in the Fall of '68 the 'Big Mac' didn't make it to MBch until the Spring of 1970. We had a Lum's next door to Brant's that sold hot dogs steamed in beer ... but even at a 1/4 pound the price of $1.19 seemed steep 'cause you could get a foot-long chili dog at Sloppy Joe's for $ .89 cents. It was age 18 to drink beer. We didn't wait. The state of SC's changed a LOT since then. FEW places, if any have changed as much as the beach. Oh, I left out Camden. Tell all them wide-load, gray-haired gals (today) 'hey'!
We did have a Howard Johnson's 'restaurant' - but the hotel behind it wasn't part of the deal. Loved those 'clam strips'.
We had no shopping centers, no 'Belk's' or other department stores (Belk's had a store in Conway - which was a 'bigger' town) - Chapin's was our 'shopping center'/department store - there was no 'restaurant row' - after Nixon/Agnew won the Presidency in '68 (my 1st vote for President) Agnew visited MBch the next year and stayed at the Thunderbird Hotel 'penthouse' ... it was on the 5th floor. In '68 the 'city' had nineteen (19) 'modern' hotel signs (i,e,. manually-changable letters on storyboards) - no 'electronic' sign boards ... none. 'Modern' was neon. Our 'Holiday Inn' wasn't a Holiday Inn. We has ZERO 'national chain' hotels. In 1968 Myrtle Beach had less than a dozen elevators - and half of those were in the old Ocean Forest Hotel.
My HS buds and I would like to thank MOST of you for allowing your Mother's, sister's and wives to visit MBch 'tween 8th & 9th Ave's on Ocean Blvd in front of the old Pavilion, across the street from Sloppy Joe's at 9th & OB and the Bowery on 9th extension ... several of you may be a smidgen Waccamaw or Chicora Indian and not even know it.
On behalf of that entire lustful band of brothers please accept our sincere apologies ... for the whole of my life I've witnessed otherwise extremely prudent and reserved young ladies act like TOTAL, insatable crazy women while doing things they would NEVER do in Spartanburg or Columbia, Florence or Aiken, Lake City or Chester, Greenville or Ninety-Six, Knoxville or Charlotte, Atlanta or Augusta, Sumter or Charleston, Anderson or clemson, Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia and a few dozen other locations (that's a list which fairly represents the 'ladies' I 'got to know' on their visit(s) to MBch - small potatoes ... others [the good-looking guys] did FAR BETTER than I did) ... I didn't have a car in HS, their room had to be close if they didn't like the beach ... we all had a 45-minute rule to get there and get back - opportunity was everywhere 24/7.
I've saved the 'local' (then weekly) MBch newspaper from November '67 after all these years - my senior year with front page pictures of the 1st time in history MBHS ever beat Conway in football (or Georgetown for that matter) - FWIW: in the Real Estate section of that same issue there's a 2-story "OCEANFRONT" house for sale - 4BR/4Baths, fully-furnished ... $13,750. The 'nice houses' (NEW ones) were in Pine Lakes or the Dunes Club - some of those cost ALMOST $50,000!!! All those old beach houses were 'wooden cottages'. Four years later (1972) when the developers of North Litchfield Beach started selling lots you could buy an 'oceanfront' lot for $3,000 (or 2/$5,000 if you paid cash). Nah, TOO far down to drive to work. We only went that far South to drink and dance at the Pawley's Pavilion, or walk around 'Alice's Grave'.
Ocean Lake's Family Campground didn't exist. We had NEVER HEARD of a 'patio home' or a waterslide or a 'timeshare'. Brant's Hamburgers at 3rd Ave. S & Hwy 17 sold burgers 5/$ .99, including the 3-cent sales tax - FIVE hamburgers and CHANGE for a dollar! In 1968 Brant's sold more than the 'NEW' McDonald's and the 'NEW' Hardee's put together. McDonald's 'Big Mac' wasn't invented when I graduated from MBHS. Introduced in Pittsburgh in the Fall of '68 the 'Big Mac' didn't make it to MBch until the Spring of 1970. We had a Lum's next door to Brant's that sold hot dogs steamed in beer ... but even at a 1/4 pound the price of $1.19 seemed steep 'cause you could get a foot-long chili dog at Sloppy Joe's for $ .89 cents. It was age 18 to drink beer. We didn't wait. The state of SC's changed a LOT since then. FEW places, if any have changed as much as the beach. Oh, I left out Camden. Tell all them wide-load, gray-haired gals (today) 'hey'!
We did have a Howard Johnson's 'restaurant' - but the hotel behind it wasn't part of the deal. Loved those 'clam strips'.
Long time lurker here.... Orangeburg Prep class of 2002. Pitcher for the 2001 and the 2002 state championship softball team
Man, you are much younger than me and a distinguished gentleman to boot. LOL!
WOW! That's an impressive resume'.
Golden Cock - my mother, father, and mother in law all went to Winyah high. i took my mother to her 50th reunion in 2008. downtown georgetown has not changed at all. i have a painting of winyah high by bruce chandler in my spare bedroom.
My sister's 50th was also 2008. Pretty sure she didn't make that one. Although she may have driven all the way from Tallahassee and not tell me.
My sister's name was Libby, and she hung around with a Judy, Kathleen, Edna Earle, and several more that escape me right now. and dated a guy named Sonny (Charlie).
I went to my 50th in 2012. Great memories.
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Moultrie High School. Mt. Pleasant, SC 1969, Member of State Championship in track, which is pretty amazing since we didn't have a track. We practiced on a path that went behind the baseball field backstop and around the football field.
I graduated from Belton-Honea Path H.S.....who will be playing for the South Carolina 3A state championship in baseball Monday night at 6:00PM. The Bears, upper state champs, are up 1-0 in the best of three game series against St James who is the lower state champs. The second game of the series was rained out tonight. Best wishes to Steve Williams who is the head coach for BHP...he is also the father of Matt Williams, of our Gamecocks! BTW, I graduated BHP in 1977.
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Walterboro High School 1976
Three year letterman in football
Two year all conference in baseball and MVP.
Butch you went to school with my brother, and me and you have played many basketball games together.
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Same year as my brother who also played football. I graduated in 1976 and also played.
