Remember when... (Charleston, Beaufort, Moncks Corner: buy, beaches, rich)

[meks]

remember when they built the round Holiday Inn? it was originally supposed to have a restaurant up top that actually rotated slowly all the time

lots of things have changed, everything has changed...

[SCBeaches]

Originally Posted by Geechie North

TU (Tulip) was for East Of The Cooper.
At least the long-term memory still works.................

Anyway, Circa 1962 there were two "foreign" families in our neighborhood. One was a family with two daughters which had a Canuck dad and a mom from New Orleans.They really kept to themselves.
Other family was from Vermont and wanted to be very involved in the local "Civic Club". This went over like flatulence during High Mass, and was made worse by the fact the wife was very pushy, and always pointed out that their subdivision had no sidewalks. That's when the cattyside of local gossip among women took over.
It seems one of the local ladies was a receptionist at a local Doc's office where the Vermont women went- and the receptionist found out that her neighbor had a bad case of hemmorhoids. Had this been anyone else, it would have been a state secret, but because of who she was, it became ammo.
So at the next gathering (held at our house) the receptionist-turned spy spilled her dirt. Everyone laughed, my mother who was an RNwas at first appalled, but I noticed after a short interval she was joining in the general fun. We kids who were playing in earshot didn't know what a hemmorhoid was, but knew it was something dirty- and funny since the yankee woman had them.
The "oopsy" payback came the following Monday at Stono Park elementary where we all went, including my classmate, and pal, George (not his real name). So we're sitting there Monday morning in our class when the teacher went around the room asking her pupils what they learned this weekend.
Kids were giving the usual; I said something about airplanes.
Then came George who blurted out "Mrs (pronounced Mizz) ------ has hemmorhoids and needs to take a bath."
That got back to the adult clique asap, and everyone ended-up with a pain in the butt!

Been wanting to tell that story for over 40 years.

Great story! Typical small town stuff, such as what I grew up with!

[ZUMAN]

How about Labraskas (sp?) on Folly Rd? It was a popular James Island pizza joint in the early 70s where we teens hung out. Students from JIHS and FJHS (yeah, Fort Johnson High) would often meet and clash there. There may have a location downtown too but I can't remember for sure.

[jetsfan16]

Remember when Redskins games, with Sonny, Sam, and Frank, were on Charleston radio on WXTC-FM before the Panthers came?

I also remember how big of a deal it was when the Stingrays won their first Kelly Cup. 5,000 people greeted them after they won, and it seemed like everyone in town became a Rays fan, as several of their games were televised back to Charleston.

I also remember the Battery playing at Stoney Field, and when the Coliseum used to have NBA and NHL exhibition games almost every year in the mid 90's.

Wow, Labraska's, I wonder where that was on Folly. I also remember the great trattoria place on King St, which closed and became the first Kickin' Chicken.

[jetsfan16]

Remember when there was no Wando bridge, and the only way to get to Daniel Island was up 41, all the way to the Wando drawbridge, and you had to turn at Clements Ferry? I also remember when the only way to get to Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island was to go down the Ben Sawyer Bridge, and sometimes it would fail, and people would be stuck on the islands for hours and days.

[jetsfan16]

I have some more memories. People on Facebook have submitted some things, and here are some of them, from the You know you're from Charleston group.

The old Castle motor court between Ten Mile Hill and Goose Creek
The Polaris club (a reputed whorehouse )
The Road house and Motor court on Yeamans Hall road in Hanahan
Berkeley Drug Stores
Fort Sumter Chevrolet and Paul Motor Company ( Ford )
Tuckers Pool Hall
Robinson's Bicycle shops (which closed about a decade ago)
Western Auto
When the only place between Charleston and Summerville was Ladson
seeing porter military kids in their military uniforms, I confused them with citadel cadets
when there was only a two lane highway to Columbia and Myrtle Beach

[mcevoy34]

does anyone remember a biker bar between goose creek and summerville? dizzy lizzys? something like that. and is it still around.

[Luvsdabeach]

Originally Posted by mcevoy34

does anyone remember a biker bar between goose creek and summerville? dizzy lizzys? something like that. and is it still around.

Is that the biker bar that was in a old house about a mile off the interstate on Hwy 78? Going to S'Ville was on the left side.

Remember the skating rings Birchador (sp) in GC with the wood floor, and Galaxy on Ashley Phosphate? I think Starlite is still open on Rivers Ave..

[mcevoy34]

Is that the biker bar that was in a old house about a mile off the interstate on Hwy 78? Going to S'Ville was on the left side.

Thanks, yes. I am not a Harley Dude, but some of the Marines that I was stationed with over seas, were. They would ask me about it (when they found out, I had just left the Marine Barracks in Goose Creek). I guess in the Harley Dude world of the 70s & 80s it was pretty famous. Drove by it a thousand times when I was stationed there. Never went in though. It did look like a run down old house.

[Luvsdabeach]

I have never gone inside either. I'm not sure if it's still there but I'll check the next time I'm in that area.