Memories of Bennettsville South Carolina

Today I go back to my hometown Bennettsville South Carolina and share a few of my memories. Hey Yall, Please Subscribe and click the bell so you wont miss anything. You can contact me by Email @ [e-mail] Follow me on Twitter. / carolinatony1 Follow me on Facebook. / carolina-ton. . Please consider becoming sponsor/patron to help fund special adventures / carolinatony Regular Mail. Carolina Tony 1560 West Market St. Cheraw S.C. 29520 Intro music by: Matt's Blues by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...) Source: incompetech.com.... Artist: incompetech.com/

[@FreddieIngram]

I’m from Bennettsville also. Your memory about the vegetable soup and sandwiches at the school cafeteria are exactly the same as mine. I never forgot 9:45 how good those meals were and the vegetable soup and sandwiches were always served on Fridays. I still remember my 4th grade teacher Mrs. McPhail also. Thanks for the memories Tony.

[@garydebruhl3528]

I lived in Bennettsville 1963 - 1967. I lived on West Main St.. Great footage of the town and walking down memory lane with the towns street views, the Powers Hotel, the police station and fire department....friends dad was a fireman and we used to stop by when he was on duty. I played football and baseball down the hill from the hotel. During summer, would ride the bike out to Lake Wallace and hang out most of the day. Thanks for the video....great memories of Bennettsville times. (Gary DeBruhl)

[@CAROLINATONY]

Seems like life was so simple then. Thank you for watching

[@RandWFarmstead-TonyWalsh]

Great way to start my day, coffee, grits, bacon and another tour from Carolina Tony. Have a blessed week my friend.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thanks. I hope you had a good day

[@GarysMetalDetecting]

I just moved from California to Pendleton. Im home shopping in Bennettsville. Thank You for the tour.

[@dennisreeder754]

I spent a year there as a state trooper. Loved the people and the area.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Cool. All the state troopers knew me by name when I was 17 lol. Just kidding.

[@CAROLINATONY]

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[@macleoddj]

Don't touch the bricks! 😂 You shared some great memories. I've always been fond of Bennettsville for some reason. It's great hearing about the old buildings.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thanks Elvis. Have a good week

[@g.g.4856]

haha I still remember getting my butt switched in the 4th grade! Funny how that stays with ya over the years

[@CAROLINATONY]

I got a rolled magazine on the rear in the bathroom.

[@sandybostick2747]

Great video. I left B’ville in 1980 to go to college of charleston. Great memories .. thanks. Fun times .. family still lives there.. .. Sandy Bostick..

[@CAROLINATONY]

I left in 1978

[@sandip.7968]

I really enjoyed this visit to your childhood stomping grounds! Very interesting!

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thanks Sandi

[@CharlesWilliams-ou2cr]

It’s a great little town…I moved away in 1997…My family still lives in and around Bennettsville…My father was from McColl and from the stories I’ve been told growing up, he was a hell-raiser…Great video!

[@CAROLINATONY]

My wife family is from McColl as a teenager I was told not to go there or you would get shot. Lol

[@keyboardDell]

Bennettsville was my hometown too. I can't remember the last time I went back. I enjoyed the video. Thanks

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thanks for watching Wilbert. I have lived in Cheese for the last 44 years and Bennettsville is not the same place we grew up in. As far as that goes neither is the world. Thanks for watching

[@dianegottfried2986]

Thanks for sharing .

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thank you for watching

[@NeedfulThingsAgain]

I have that same vegetable soup and peanut butter sandwich memory. I still eat them every once in awhile with vegetable soup.

[@joejeffers2406]

What great memories of a nostalgic town Lotta cool buildings surprised they haven’t made some movies there thanks for the tour hope you’re doing well brother

[@CAROLINATONY]

Doing good Joe. Heading out early in the morning to film 🎥 at the outer banks

[@carolynshealy5536]

Now that was so much fun, joining you down memory lane! Got me to going down memory lane myself, thank you great video!

[@CAROLINATONY]

A lot of that stuff I had forgotten until I went back

[@tmoz1228]

I'm 40 but reminds me of alot of my memories as well!

[@spookyhistorywithmegz9143]

I live in this small town I remember when that ice Co was opened. I think it was open up until I was about 5 or 6 years old, I’m now 28. I live near my grandparents now. My grandma went to the school by the now Library growing up. The Lake now has activities and such for the kids but there’s not as much action downtown like there was back in the day. I would love to go back in time and see how it was. I knew the Bennettsville civic center was once a movie theater, stories from grandma. Me and her used to go to the Blues Brothers show when the high school was doing it. I miss how Bennettsville was when I was growing up myself. So many great memories in my childhood too in Bennettsville. 💗

[@johnpriceprice6860]

I remember being with my mom and her friends driving around Bennitsville and they would park behind a building that had a big rainbow painted on it and they would smoke pot back there.

[@terrybane6206]

Memory Lane is a wonderful place to go especially when you go home. Those bags of cashews were amazing but I couldn't make mine last for more than a couple of minutes. I'm looking forward to the next adventure.

[@CAROLINATONY]

I forgot to mention sometimes I'd get Maple but goodies. Yum

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

Wow that was super,, I bet you had some good feelings,,Looks a lovely place to have grown up, I would love to take my grandaughter back to Scotland and show her my childhood days , Thank you 😘

[@CAROLINATONY]

That would be cool. You can take me if she doesn't want to go. Lol....

[@elizabethcochrane9015]

@@CAROLINATONY Hahahaha,,, Sure ,cute

[@TipsFromABellman]

I get a lot of compliments on my KZbin video , " Memories of Bennettsville , South Carolina " . I am glad to see you did one too , I am a fan and you commented on my video of Cheraw . I get to Bennettsville about every 5 years and stroll down memory lane . I too remember those peanut butter sandwiches because they put honey on it to make it good and sweet . The vegetable soup was good , but you forgot about the square pizza , the best . They also had an aluminum cover going over the sidewalk to the cafeteria . I loved the old library and when they built the new one around 1980 it became the recreation center . The new library was by the Police Department and First United Methodist Church at the top of the hill on Market Street . The Confederate Monument is in Ripley's Believe It or Not because it is a Union Soldier and it was an accident and since the county didn't have the money to replace , they left him up there . My father told me in the 50's the school would go to the Confederate Monument and put flowers on it once a year . I have 5 relatives that served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War . I remember going to the Murchison School in 6th grade and going to the auditorium in the back for things like Scared Straight . The old high school next door that used to be there , I went to 5th grade there . Jr High was at Lake Paul Wallace and the Primary School was on the other side of the lake near the golf course . I graduated in 1985 , the last year before they consolidated . I went in the Army in 1985 to Germany . I now live in Las Vegas . I have tons of memories there . I could go on and on . I lived on Market Street about a block away from the theater . You should have mentioned about Hospital Hill and how everyone's parents would teach their kids to hold the clutch on a manual transmission and not roll down that steep hill . Ha ha .

[@frankthomas2412]

Enjoyed it hauled a lots of cotton from this neck of the woods

[@themiccrazy]

Thank you for showing us your home town

[@tmoz1228]

That was a really cool story about the old days!

[@privacyseekr]

I have mixed feelings about Bennettsvile, my family wasn't treated too well there in the past (from the 18th century up until the 20th). I still have some family members who live there and have attended family reunions (The Browns) about as recent as 3 years ago (2018).

[@janiceyoung2652]

Very Beautiful

[@socksal]

I love seeing the beautiful old schools, now they look like prisons.

[@92sawdust]

Been here 30 years. My "new" home.

[@randyg1594]

I was born and raised in bville currently live in Spartanburg. Great video bud

[@CAROLINATONY]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@justpassingthru3186]

My first grade teacher was also named Mrs.Lyles here in Lancaster, in 1979. She had curly hair and glasses.🤷🏻‍♀

[@CAROLINATONY]

My Mrs liles would of probably passed by then . She was past retirement age back then. Thanks for watching

[@carolinestapleton8862]

Loved the video!!

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thank you

[@TyhlerNovac]

Your channel just earned a sub for me I love the way you edit your videos

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thank you. I do think some turn out the way I want. Sometimes they don't

[@nancysolt3928]

My Grandmother was Vance Odom Craig of Bennettsville, S. C. . My grt. grandfather was Henry King Odom of Bennettsville, S. C.also ...The Powers Hotel is where my Grt. Uncle Archie T. Odom lived until he died in 1966....When did it burn ? Are there any newspaper articles available on the fire? I have enjoyed your tour video...Thank you.

[@jessicawhitten7484]

I am Diane Alexson, born in Bennettsville and left in 2003. Tony, I feel need to correct you on 4:39. Bair Drug was on the corner of Marlboro & Market and Rose's was beside the Western Auto

[@CAROLINATONY]

Bair drug was on market and marolboro but in the 50s & 60s it was on the corner of broad and main. Roses was next to the western auto and Eagles was on the opposite corner of Bair Drug.

[@jessicawhitten7484]

@@CAROLINATONY I was born in 1963, so I don't remember Bair Drug being any where else. I am just old enough to remember when the Post Office was on the corner of Broad & McColl Street. And I remember when a certain fellow named Rick Hendrix(?) of NASCAR fame had the Chevrolet place on the corner of Main & Cheraw Street. If you ever went to the fish market on Broad Street between the hardware store & Breeden's grocery, you probably know my grandparents Harry & Meta Drew or my Uncle Danny Drew

[@CAROLINATONY]

@@jessicawhitten7484 I was born in 56. I thought a Williams man had that fish market but I might be mistaken. Where Bair drug was in the 70s before that it was R. W Walkers they did tires and front ends. My daddy worked there.

[@tommywright7196]

I remember going to bennettsvile to the horse sale one time and dad bought a mule to plow the garden with . my brother who was older than me would go and buy horses on Wednesday and take them to Monroe the fowling Monday because he could get more for them there

[@CAROLINATONY]

I have been there for a sale a few times long time ago

[@lisajmiller2620]

I still live in Bennettsville South Carolina

[@ChrizardsAdventures]

How is it? I'm moving there next week?

[@OLSKOOLKINGZ]

My hometown Bennettsville sc

[@johnsonhousejohnson298]

Memorial Day is at the end of the month and the date varies. May 10th is Confederate Memorial Day in SC. Was that the reason May 10th was chosen?

[@MoviemaniaNick]

Thanks for the tour! Sounds like you were a little trouble maker when you were young. Lol

[@CAROLINATONY]

I've been told that. Glad I'm not the same as back then.

[@adventuresofmoonman]

That’s okay tony I don’t like wearing lipstick either ha ha. A lot of my memories revolve around food also, I been eating at my local diners and delis regularly since I was old enough to know. Very beautiful small town. My home town isn’t like this at all. My hometown is more concerned with tearing down historic buildings to build Mexican restaurants, McDonald’s, and travel centers. Not to mention we have 3 Walmart’s in our small town. Still though, there’s no place like home 🏠

[@ChrizardsAdventures]

Moving there

[@shannonsheppard2520]

My Hometown Bennettsville

[@johnpriceprice6860]

I really wanna take my wife and kids back home to visit Bennitsvlle someday. I moved to San Antonio when I was 10 and within a year or two I became a city slicker and started dressing like a cholo. I think my kids would be surprised that I wasn't always they way I am now.

[@gayeyount7948]

You home town is beautiful and I bet it's a lot quieter since you left. Just kidding. I'm just thank I grew up before social media. Can't prove a thing. Lol

[@FreddieIngram]

Tony, did you graduate from BHS? I graduated in 1975. Was looking through my yearbook, “the Spectator”, but couldn’t find your picture. My pic is under Maxine Herndon’s pic if you have a copy of the yearbook.

[@CAROLINATONY]

I graduated in 1974

[@russellscarborough1036]

Are there any haunted places in Bennettsville?

[@addyboisus8983]

I live here

[@bettyriggs8573]

Beautiful home town.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Thank you 😊

[@aratipatel7337]

I live in bennettsville

[@russellscarborough1036]

May 10 isn't Memorial Day.

[@CAROLINATONY]

Yes it is confederate memorial day

[@brianbusbee1653]

Still don't like wearing lipstick, huh? 😆