Gerri Cohen (their daughter) remembers that as soon as her school was out the family would get on US Highway 421 in Winston-Salem and take it to Carolina Beach where they would stay all summer until just before school began in September.
Now, that's the life. Beach bum for the summer. I'd only get to do that for about a week and definitely not every summer. Perhaps if we had continued living in North Carolina and had Hurricane Hazel not destroyed my grandparents' cottage on Carolina Beach's Southern Extension, I might have been able to do that as well.
Us Highway 421 goes right through Carolina Beach and ends at the "Rocks" by Fort Fisher, about four miles away. I have taken US-421 from its northern terminus in Michigan City, Indiana, all the way to the "Rocks." Before I-40, it was the way to go from Winston-Salem (which it passes through) to Carolina Beach.
Carolina Beach, One of My Favorite Places in the World. --CootBum
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Saturday, September 2, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
Claude R. Pfaff-- Part 4: A Carolina Beach Connection
In the 1920s, when he was working for the Realty Bond Real Estate Company, the firm would send its salesmen on vacation to Carolina Beach so that they would come back and tell their customers how wonderful the beach was, and hopefully sell more lots at Carolina Beach.
Throughout his years of living in Winston-Salem, Mr. Pfaff most enjoyed going to Carolina Beach for the fall fishing season. His friend Ellis Freeman taught him how to fish, and Ellis' wife Annie, taught him how to cook what he caught.
In 1927, the Carolina Beach Hotel stood across from where Claude and Atha were staying, and one evening, while they were sitting on the porch of their place, they watched waiters and employees carrying out linens, silverware and other valuables from the hotel. The next night the hotel "mysteriously" burned to the ground.
In the early 1930s, Claude built a cottage near Carolina Beach Lake as a birthday present to Atha, who named it "The Lullaby" for the choruses of frogs that sang around it at night.
--Cooter
Throughout his years of living in Winston-Salem, Mr. Pfaff most enjoyed going to Carolina Beach for the fall fishing season. His friend Ellis Freeman taught him how to fish, and Ellis' wife Annie, taught him how to cook what he caught.
In 1927, the Carolina Beach Hotel stood across from where Claude and Atha were staying, and one evening, while they were sitting on the porch of their place, they watched waiters and employees carrying out linens, silverware and other valuables from the hotel. The next night the hotel "mysteriously" burned to the ground.
In the early 1930s, Claude built a cottage near Carolina Beach Lake as a birthday present to Atha, who named it "The Lullaby" for the choruses of frogs that sang around it at night.
--Cooter
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