Was there for 13 months in the 80s.

I guarantee you till that soil add some Fertilizer retill it add some potting soil retill it. Then plant something. Then if nothing grows there's something interesting going on.

Love the video! I remember the bumper cars when I was young and the putt putt at the boardwalk. I also remember going to Jubilee Park! 😂

I’ll guess nafta and Americans endless desire for cheap Chinese crap happened ?

I grew up just miles from it, near the frank liske park. Sirens still go off to this day when someone escapes. My mom when I was kid would make me come inside whenever they went off, we were really close.

Awww this was cool! I love all your vlogs, but the Carolina Beach ones are my favorites.

Love the then and now videos! Christmas Vacation is God given american classic!

I was 1st introduced to da beach when I went to Myrtle at 16 yrs old with my best friend's family...fell in love with it. When I got married & had 2 toddlers around '83, '84, our little family & my Mom, with younger siblings in tow, would rent houses, pre airbnb, through realtors or motels at Carolina Beach. My daughter, wearing glasses at 5 yrs old, got on the rough bumper cars with her Dad & me looking through those huge windows with bars hehe, saw their car get violently bumped & her glasses flew off onto the floor area! Somehow, no one ran over them & her Dad was able to drive by & reached down to swoop them up! We always fixed our breakfasts in the places we stayed but I definitely remember the Plantation House & when Burgers & Bites had gas pumps. My favorite Christmas movies are the old classics...It's a wonderful Life, first 2 Home Alone & yes, Christmas Vaca & I too, laugh at that thing, especially when Chevy's up in the attic & later says... where's the Tylenol hahaha Thanks for the updated look at The Oceaneer. I hope the renovations will be completed & I just might have to rent a room there next summer for old time's sake

Hands down, "A Christmas Story". Almost as good as the team previously called the "Redskins".

My fave is It's A Wonderful Life

I love all your videos but the ones at Carolina Beach are my favorites! Great news about Island Burgers and Bites! Hardee’s is the perfect location! I love Kate’s! Christmas Vacation is a must! 😃 Thank you for the video! Have a blessed day! 🎄😁

Cool changes over the years. Thanks for highlighting. I’m old -my favorite movie is “Its a Wonderful Life “ .

I am sorry to have missed pronounced the name of the town in this video. The towns name is Fair Bluff. For some reason I was calling it Flair Bluff. I guess watching Rick Flair interviews on youtube before filming was not a good idea.😁 Thank you for your understanding.

My family and I drove near there not long after the 2018 flood, on the way to Carolina Beach. It’s sad to see all the deviation. I hope the town can rebuild. Thank you for the video!!

The clock is probably half of a Verdin carillon system which rang the town bells every hour. Usually the clocks are across the street from the town hall where the speaker system was installed.

I love these old towns in the US. I know they are not what they use to be when the coal industry was thriving.Very pretty some of them & have lovely buildings & old houses. Love how the chickens were following you around! I love the countryside of WV very pretty. I come from a coal area in the UK, there are no cosl mines left now & its so sad. The areas are now business parks not the same, train tracks see very little traffic now but i remember seeing coal trains as long as the eye could see one after the other full of coal on there way to the power stations & docks for export. Those were the days! Thanks for showing us around WV, what you said about workers payments only to be used in coal owners shops happened here too. Communism but we were happier i believe! ❤😊

Hurricanes have a lot to answer for.Decimating communities to this day in NC. It makes you think what the future holds for towns like Fair Bluff. Will it happen again? Its a worry i dont know if i could live somewhere that is so susceptible to Hurricanes. Its very sad. ❤

went there today and got chased out by homeless people

I grew up in this town, and Curtis is a cousin of mine. I worked at Melvin's in the early 90's when Pat and Ann Melvin still owned it. Actually met my wife there, and we have been married for 22 years. The locals call it, " the pool room". Pats grandfather started the business, and it use to have pool tables inside and they sold only burgers and hot dogs. Pat made money off the volume of customers. Back then you couldn't even get cheese. The average day, we went through 400-600 pounds of ground beef, which was supplied by the no farmers market behind it.

You should explore the small town of Bladenboro that's not far from there. Dig down into the history of the Bladenboro Beast.

It's sad to lose these old towns like this. Bet insurance ditched and denied lots of claims there.

Never heard of that town. But welcome a haunted town. Can’t get over all the flooding. You can tell it saw some action. I just can’t imagine it. What a mess. Praying for WNC geez,

I remember the area from the 1960s. Went to a Boy’s Camp in the vicinity.

400 to 450 people is not a Ghost Town

Sad to see that small town go to the way side. Great vid buddy

Omgosh! My navi took me through there last month on my way to my kids. It was so pretty & quaint. Thanks for this!

I find it hard to look at shades on a KZbinr, as I cannot see eyes. You must have extremely light-sensitive eyes? It's not even sunny! Otherwise, great vids!

The name of the town is Fair Bluff, not Flair Bluff!

Wow! The damage is something

Gah this is so sad. We live in Spartanburg, about 30-45 minutes away. This has been a daycay for us since we were kids. It breaks my heart to see it like this. 😭😭. And the people!? So sad. But yet Joe Biden sends our money to everyone else instead of Americans

That is one grand building.

They need to verify just how much dirt washed into the lake.deep in that mud are remains😥

I remember staying at the Geneva Motel in the early 60s with my parents and spending the day in the swimming pool.

Very sad, however the damage is actually minor. Back when super storm Sandy hit our entire East Coast from Northern Virginia all the way up to our border with Canada over 890 THOUSAND homes were lost and over 2 million people were suddenly homeless. But that was not the worst part of Sandy. The worst part was that the republicans in Congress made those 2 million homeless people wait for over 6 months before that would approve any FEMA help. This is merely the outcome when we take Risks. Building along coastline and along riverbanks and in river basins we are gambling and rolling the dice. which can roll snake eyes.

Ren and Stimpy! Not only did they give us Happy Happy Joy Joy, but they gave us the Log song too! 😂

A stalled hurricane that drops 30+ inches of rain, over 30 trillion gallons in such a short period of time! Natural right? I believe that this was a man caused weather manipulation! Biden, after granting an eleven year pardon to his crack addict son, tax evasion, illegal gun purchased ,deviant, flies off to some 3rd world place and gives billions of tax payers monies! But, nothing, even obfuscation of those who would help west NC in such dire times as they face 2 months later! Please God perform Psalm 109:8 on all these wicked!

I saw a video that they found a piece of the Rainbow Bridge in Lake Lure. It was part of the red and orange section, and the red section had some of the little white painted paw prints on it. Someone else found a plaque. It's so sad the this happened to that beautiful Flowering Bridge and esp. since it took away all those sweet collars of loved one's dogs. Let's just pretend all those collars went on up to Heaven to go back on the precious dogs, at least we can hope that's what happened. Great video and the updates. We've seen so much of the destruction, it's nice to see that people are trying their best to get life back to normal the best they can!

Pretty sure the shuttles are new for Fourth of July in Southport. We now have a trolley that runs daily from OKI-Southport making stops in between. This year I was apart of the children’s entertainment as Princess Pat and I was on the BAC float in red white and blue. Hope you check out winter fest the upcoming event for winter/Christmas 🎄 including Charlie Brown Christmas 😁

Thx❤

If they are going to drain the lake what are they going to do with the debris that is on the bottom of it and how would it help the environment or would it help the environment

I saw that Geneva motel in another guys video a few weeks back and he walked along the back side if the building and there is a hole lot of damage along the back it might not even be savable.and even the same cars are still sitting there .

Thank you for speaking out

That storm may have wiped out almost everything. But it won’t wipe out the memories my family and I have of that beautiful area. My wife and I, our children and then with our grandchildren.

Makes me wonder if anyone in that photo was washed away 😢

Drain it, expose it all, we the people are ready for full disclosure.

It's just not right what happened to these people.

I just looked their website up, Geneva Hotel, it was so, so nice there. That creek was narrow and way down and in the far back there and doesn't look big at all. It breaks my heart so much to see all of the devastation on these videos. I don't think I could handle it in person. I am praying for everyone affected by the evil hurricane Helene who took so much from all of these communities and families. They will be beautiful again. Don't give up. Thanks for the video tour. It is much appreciated. Those cars were crushed so badly, I pray there wasn't anyone in them. Have a beautiful, blessed day. 🙏

I just looked up a picture of the swimming pool area. Hard to believe that was even there.😮

Something that big would be called an urn.

its like everything turned to dust.. you would think there would be chunks of cement - but all you see is wood and sand.