SC humor.....Clinton sign from SC

joey · #1 01-26-2008, 08:37 AM

Was it cold? Sure looks chilly in the pic's! I was up there this summer to fish the White Marlin Open,the town has change quite a bit since I lived there last.The pic you took in the inlet parking lot brings back memories. In my high school days we would all park down there facing the ocean and drink beer and play with the girl friends,those days are definately over,they would put a kid under the jail now days for that.

I still have a bunch of friends there and really wouldn't mind moving back,I know my wife would go,she's not really a big Florida fan.

NoBones · #2 01-26-2008, 10:28 AM

It was cold,(26')wet,rainy and blowing a steady 20 knots
I was up there for Ripley's at the pier.
Installed a new system. The wonderfull airline lost my
bag. Had to go to Wally World in Salisbury and buy enough
to hold me over. Drove to the Wicomico Airport to
check on my bag which they found the day I was leaving.
Not alot of time or good weather to check things out.

Needless to say they were not real busy there.

See ya, Ken

Fr. Frank · #3 01-29-2008, 08:55 AM

Hey, Ken, I know that pier well. I used to be the Dockmaster at the Bayside Boatel, at Rt. 50 and the bridge, more than 20 years ago. I worked for the bank to manage it as it came out of bankruptcy. We sold RyboRunner, Checkmate, Winner, and Alumacraft boats, and I lived up on Eagle Drive about 6 miles up on the bay.

Lovely memories of driving my 21' Checkmate w/ 3.4L 300hp Merc up and down Assawoman bay. (It was faster than driving the car to work, even if driving that boat at 70 mph in a heavy snowfall is one of my strangest memories.) I even boated a 22lb white marlin out of that boat one day while fishing for bluefish just a mile offshore.

joey · #4 01-29-2008, 11:18 AM

Fr Frank, The boatel is gone now,all condo's.I grew up in OC and ran charterboats out of Talbot St. Pier and the Angler for about 15 yrs back in the days when that was the only charter fleet in town.The town has changed a lot in the last 20 years,from the old Boatel south to the commercial harbor is all developed.Houses,condo's and a huge marina/dryrack complex.Change..some like it,I kinda liked it better back in the Day