Hard To Say Goodbye - The Myrtle Beach Pavilion
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- This is the official documentary in its entirety of the Myrtle Beach Pavilion, commissioned by the owners. Much of the footage and interviews were shot during the summer of 2006 which was the last summer. The documentary also features the song "Hard To Say Goodbye" which was written and produced especially for this project.
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The BIGGEST mistake that Myrtle Beach ever made in it's History is letting the Pavilion get tore down. So much history lost due to greed. I wish someone would come along and rebuild it back just the way it was. That person would be the ultimate hero.
I agree, so many memories there as a kid growing up in the 80s 😢
They ripped the heart out of Myrtle and it's gone down ever since.
They done it with Uk parks too !
That was whole idea ruin somethin great
It really is not the same
and soul...😥
I'm from Myrtle Beach and grew up with a unique experience. My father was was a commercial sign artist and had a shop in the neighboring town of Conway. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s he created and maintained all of the signage for the Pavilion. I grew up practically living at the Pavilion because not only did I help my dad with the signs during the day, we were given large amounts of free tickets by the management, so my brother, myself, and all of our friends went their almost every night during the summer.
In the late 1980s my father was asked to repaint the German Pipe Organ because many of the vibrant colors were fading from years of being in the sun. He worked on that organ for weeks and weeks and when he finished it looked brand new. My dad was an incredible artist and unfortunately he died, very unexpectedly, just a few years after he completed the organ. He was so proud of the job he did to bring that priceless work of art back to life again. I miss him so much and when The Pavilion closed it was a terribly sad day for me and my family. I guess time really doesn't stand still for no one. RIP JWA & JKA.
Bless his heart 💙 the pipe organ was beautiful when it was restored. I remember. I wonder if B&C sold it off or if they have it somewhere in storage?
I'm from West Virginia and we vacationed in MB from the late 70's through the late 80's. It was a wonderful time to experience the Pavilion and all things Myrtle Beach. I loved that pipe organ and would sit and stare at it and listen to it in the evenings. I actually lived there in 79 and 80 on N.Kings Hwy. God bless you and your Father.
I was born in 1974. My family vacationed there most every summer in my early childhood and teens til about 1988 or 89. I was able to go a couple of times in my adulthood but the Pavillion was gone, the spirit there has changed. I'm not sure if I could feel the same visiting there after they transformed the place and demolished the Pavillion.. The change is not for the best.
Been there numerous times in the 80s and 90s, so I've appreciated your fathers work. It was awesome.
I'm a native South Carolinian and so, accordingly, spent every summer going to MB at least once almost every year of my life. That stopped when they tore The Pavilion down. I'm 57 and this beautiful bit of Pavilion history brought me to tears. I am viewing this video only now because 2 lifelong friends and I were going down memory lane. I know you are proud of a fine legacy and you definitely should be. Myrtle Beach changed beyond rescue, sadly, when they took it's heart----The Pavilion.
"But it will bring better days.."
As we look into the empty lot that has sat there for the last decade
Going on two decades
And dum ccmf and truck eventa
Some of my best childhood memories are at the pavilion. It made myrtle beach something really really special, I will never forget it.
I worked at the Pavilion at "Dr Feelgood's Old Time Photos" for three summers in early 80's while in school. It was a wonderful time. You
don't know what you are missing until it's gone. This video was a tear jerker.
I worked for Henry too as an airbrush artist.
Was it early 90s ?@@aaamenpreacher3
The pavilion WAS Myrtle Beach. I have so many awesome memories of the pavilion - the Magic Attic, the games - my favorite skee ball, the dipped ice cream cones, but most of all the amusement park - the Swiss Bob, the wooden roller coaster, the Himalaya - oh goodness I could go on and on!!!!! This was Myrtle Beach for me - my childhood. And now no pavilion and no amusement park so no me!!!!!
Me too. So sad.
I loved all of these too, but my favorite was the Enterprise. 🐳
PS...so good to see it here in this video
This made me so sad and mad!
Man this is hard to watch.... every summer for 39 years of my life we go
Myrtle beach,it’s a family tradition now we never leave garden city ever since they tore the pavilion down,it’ll never be the same.
i miss the pavilion
The worst thing ever done to Myrtle Beach. Once the Hot spot of the Beach. Now an eye sore on the coast.
How stupid was MB Farms was to destroy the Pavilion and the amusements.
MB has never been the same.
and it never will be again.
Exactly very stupid
Why did they?
We still go every summer but now we never leave garden city...
The Pavilion was the best place in the South. When I was 14 in 1972 we were staying near the Pavilion and I went to the Magic Attic to hear this rock band playing there that night. They played my favorite songs by Three Dog Night " Liar " and Old Fashion Love Song. I lost track of time having so much fun that night I got home about 2:00 am. My father was upset with me , but he did not punish me back then and that was a miracle in those days.
David, wow...I was 14 in 1984 and we kinda did the same thing. Thanks for sharing! 🐳
This just brought back so many memories. I'm lucky that I got to take my kids there a few times before it was torn down. What I wouldn't give to go back in time and have one more week with all this the way it was.
They can always bring it back.
A vacationer to Myrtle Beach for 35 years, now a local. The Pavilion holds many fond childhood memories for me. It is so hard , even 13 years after we said "farewell" to this landmark, to ride down to the site and walk the boardwalk with out it there!
Man! What a tear jerker......for those who grew up in the 50's and went there every year, things will never be the same. Those who never 'knew' the Pavilion and Amusement Park will never know what they missed. So very very sad.....
I grew up in the 80's and 90's and remember it well too. I love classic amusement parks.wooden coasters, haunted house dark rides, etc.. was really sad when they tore it down.
Was born in 1997 and never had a chance to stop and enjoy The Pavilion but I can remember being a young kid sitting in the back seat marveling at the sight of the roller coasters and everything the Pavilion had, plus that iconic sign. I miss the Myrtle Beach of early 2000s.
What the Sunset Strip was to California, the Pavillion was for Myrtle Beach. How horrible it was what they did to the life of this place.
Every summer from 1989 till 2006 was spent at the Pavilion! Some of the best Summers of my life and I wish my son could have experienced it!
So much of my childhood was their in the summer's in the 80s as a kid and 90s as a teenager. I'm 39 now and even though I've made memories with my kids in MB it's just not the same or as good as it was back from 1985 - 1998
I stayed for a time in North Myrtle beach, back when the zoning statutes would not allow the building of skyscraper hotels. A wonderful, sleepy seaside town. That too is sadly gone. In the 60s and 70s, when the family would vacation in Myrtle Beach, that cozy aspect still thrived. Lots of mom & pop motels, easy bike rides along ocean boulevard, restaurants we'd wait a year to go to again, and of course every kid's destination: the Pavilion amusement park. The 80s brought a slow realization of changes not necessarily for the better as small motels faded away--even the one we'd book every year (Hillcrest at Ocean and 76th Ave North) is gone. Favorite restaurants and attractions started to disappear, and more and more of those bright glassy beachwear shops threatened to take every scrap of real estate. One place in particular I liked was called "Village of the Barefoot Traders" a collection of little souvenir shops in the woods next to the waterway not far from restaurant row. it was turned into the overpriced Barefoot Landing and retained none of the original charm. I remember the Marina Raw Bar when it was a tiny little shack with red and white checkered tablecloths on wooden tables with $8 buckets and it was a great place to eat. That too was overhauled into something not worth visiting anymore. In the frenzied race to maximize business these places seem to have forgotten why people went there in the first place. But the Pavilion...to tear the heart out of the city and leave the space undeveloped...not much reason to visit MB anymore. Unless you like golf, I suppose. Thanks for the video.
Used to vacation with my parents in MB every summer. From the time I was a small child until the last time I took my daughter in 2006. The Pavilion was magical, and I loved the rides and seeing the lights. Myrtle is not the same anymore. I no longer vacation there because it makes me too sad to see all of the changes. (For the worse!) 😢
The only thing that will ever bring me back is to see the antique carousel.
The pavilion was my first stop at Myrtle, great memories, wish it was still there, would love to visit one more time.
Bring back the PAVILLION!
Growing up my family would always take a weeks vacation at Cherry Grove. One of the highlights of our trip was going to the amusement park at the pavilion. The next to the last time I was at the beach was in 1978. The last time I was at N.Myrtle/Myrtle Beach was in 2011. It broke my heart. Gone were all of the charming beachfront cottages that used to dot the oceanfront. Nothing but hotels now. There were so many of them that you could not see the ocean when driving down Ocean boulevard.
Inlet point at Cherry Grove isn’t all hotels yet. Still a great area, especially at the point. It’s really beautiful and wide open beach as far as you can see down there. The beach meets with the inlet there and there are little pockets of palm trees dotting the open beach as it travels up towards NC. Quite scenic views. I love staying there because it’s got all of the less crowded beach but you don’t have to travel far to get to all of the attractions and restaurants of Calabash, N Myrtle and Myrtle. There are a few three story condo buildings down that way, but I don’t think there will be any high rise hotels there anytime soon. Hope I didn’t just jinx it by saying that though lol. The upper part of Cherry Grove seems like one of the best kept secrets of that area.
Overbuilt, nowhere to park, less beach each year, thugs, too expensive restaurants, will never be the same.
This brought tears to our eyes by the end.
this makes my heart feel funny and gives me a bit of a lump in my throat. the Pavillion was torn down for basically an empty field. the board of directors who sold a profitable park for petty greed should be ashamed of themselves. i hope it keeps them up at night. Such a shame... simpler times...
They did same thing up here with Nantasket beach mass just greed.
Some of the happiest memories of my life were spent at the pavilion in Myrtle Beach.
I miss this so much
I'm 67 years old now and I've been going to myrtle beach and garden city since the 50s with my parents then in 80s thru 2001 with my kids an now with my grand kids. I'm sorry my grandkids will never see this place. Now it's a park. Wtf we're counsel members thinking to close this iconic place of fun entertainment great food rides Carneval game and make it a darn worthless park
FYI - the property was privately owned - Myrtle Beach city council had no say in the matter other than in regards to the zoning in place.
@@stagesvideo Was not aware. Thank You.
Change isn’t always good. Seen the news lately?
Someone made a lot of money for personal reasons tearing this building down. What do they have there now, NOTHING What a shame.
so many wonderful priceless memories....
The song "Hard to say goodbye" has a nice vibe.
The way I see it, it's better to have said goodbye, than to have never said hello.
Biggest mistake they ever did was get rid of it. I grew up here and remember the days of going to the Pavilion and then heading to the Magic Attic and spent hours there. My parents never had to worry about us when we were down there. You used to be able to watch shag competitions and it was so fun. Too bad its crime ridden now.
I spent so many great summers going to the pavilion with family and friends. I have so many great memories. I have watched this documentary so many times and every time I do I remember what a great lesson this is is what GREED can do. Plan and simple greed stole so much for those of us who were lucky to spend our teenage years having fun at the pavilion but also steeling never had memories of the youth of tomorrow.
One of the greatest places in the world to be, sorry to see it go
Thanks for sharing. Brings back many good memories.
Oh I miss the Pavilion, It was great. I cant believe another one wasnt built. Walking barefoot through all the games. A nice breeze blowing, a wonderful view of the Ocean and the boulevard, Bikini contests. It was great. PLEASE BUILD ANOTHER ONE!!!
I was the Life Guard next door in the late 70's. Alabama was playing at the Bowery next door.
Dang, at 17:53 it looks like he is using a cell phone!
I worked there in "86 under the stairs to the Magic Attic.(I worked the game where you throw a softball into those huge milk containers.There is always a trick to these games ,they had the top painted black so the hole looked bigger. When nobody was looking,I'd give people an extra couple of balls.) I was friends w/the band called The Creek(Sugar Creek at the time). When I got off work we would cruise the boulevard until 2 in the morning and on my days off we'd do it all over again.Those were some of the best memories of my life!!! As much money as Myrtle Beach pulls in each year,they could have redone the older rides and even torn down some of the older Motels and made it bigger. The reason I've heard is that Heroin and Prostitution is why they got rid of it.Why not have spent some of that money on making it safe rather than tearing it down. It's sad. I mean look they still have Family Kingdom Amusement Park,but it's not the same feeling that the Pavilion had!!!!
Yet the prostitution and drugs are rampant there now.
WHY DOESNT AMERICA CARE ABOUT PRESERVING HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND CULTURE?
THE PAVILION WAS PRICELESS
it’s gone now , so what do we have to show for it ?
JUST BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES!!!
This video was very well done! Thank you for putting it together as a lasting memory!
Thanks, appreciate the comment.
@@stagesvideo the video from the library came in today im going to pick it up tomorrow ill let u know how it turns out thank you for letting me know about this video
This makes me sad to watch. :(
I miss that place. Worked at the kite store that was there for a little while. Got paid to stand on the beach and fly kites.
Awwww Klig’s Kites ❤️ It started in Surfside and moved to the Pavilion later. Did you work the stunt kites?
@@southernmermaid2526 Yep. Worked at the Pavilion then up to NMB
Used to love watching them fly at night!!
...and watching the kite operators get drug down the beach hahah under control of course
I spent my whole summer's there. I was only a hour away My family been going there for years since it opened
That wooden coaster was a rough ride, made you feel like you had whiplash! lol I spent many summers at the Pavillion...the arcade mostly. No one had a bigger arcade..
“Change is always good.” Lmfao
Such a loss. I vowed not to go back, I haven't and I won't. P.S. I rode the Ferris Wheel 4 days before the accident.
In my opinion, One of the best seaside parks during the 80's through rarlt 2000's because alot of the seaside parks had closed and been torn down by the late 70,s . I didn't know many seaside parks that had a rapids ride along with their log flume.
I used to come here every year in the late 70's and early 80's and spent most of my time there and I must say meet many girls there, What memories I have had there and the pretty girls it was the best times of my life. I have lived here from 2005 and not a big fan of this place anymore. The whole place has in my book turned into a shithole. The place as a whole is so run down I know that they are trying to turn it around but for me I do not like it here anymore.
15 years ago you tore it down Mr. Burroughs. Nice volley ball court there. How's that workin out for ya? When you said that Earl Huston would say it's the right thing to do you were wrong. He's still rolling in his grave from y'all destroying the best thing MB ever had going for it. A freakin dirt patch with a fenced in volley ball court as if it's the year 1821. There should be criminal charges against everyone involved in this mess.
When you replace something good with nothing, and then 14 years elapse, it can't be explained away
The owners of the land, Burroughs and Chaplin are making major money hosting an annual Country Music Festival with very big names. 😭😭😭 the locals all hate it!!!
@@southernmermaid2526 Be that as it may, things like that don't bring as many people downtown as many days of the year - to the benefit of all the surrounding businesses, that the Pavilion and amusement park did. Plus, the character of Myrtle Beach was largely lost in my opinion.
@@kingward8426 You are so right! 💙
@dev null i second that!
@dev null I was born in 1974. My family and I vacationed there in my childhood and teens from probably 1976 to 1988 There weren't any cottages in Myrtle Beach where we were at. It was mostly family/ privately owned hotels and a few high rise hotels/condos. I remember one arcade across from the Pavillion amusement park, the ice cream stand right beside it.
Ah, the 1960's, camping at Lake Arrowhead Campground and nights at the Pavilion. Last time I was in Myrtle Beach was 1972' and sad to think this is all gone now.
It was pure magic!!
honestly myrtle is still pretty good without the pavillion, but that was like the main thing that made the beach fun, still cant believe they got rid of it.
miss this place :( what a shame
Does anyone have any magic attic footage from the summer of 1992?
Wonder if Burroughs/Chapin will ever admit the huge mistake they made?
There the only people that it doesnt seem like a mistake to...full pockets.
This is awesome!
Sure do miss that place!
Been going to Myrtle Beach since I was 5 remember Pavilion well from the music from the automated german band organ to the flavor dipped ice cream cones and corndogs lots of good memories. Now what's there empty field with a zipline and some palm trees "smart move" Myrtle Beach. P.S. hows the rock and roll theme working for you.
Oh that's been torn down also
They are talking about the one in North Myrtle Beach not the one they just tore down.
for the owners to have let that happen
Went downhill when they put fence around and starting charging just to walk around
I never knew about the Pavilion I didn’t come to the beach until way later than 2006...which I was just a child
One of the top 5 dumbest things ever done on earth when they took down the Pavilion.
Hard to watch. Last time I was there in ‘05 it looked like Myrtle Beach. Don’t think I’ll ever go back.
im mad that they took away the pavilion thats the ♥
Today people just like to stay in their cars with their heads in their phones, the traffic in Myrtle Beach is horrible, that's not a complaint, but before any major decisions are made for what may be erected on that sacred ground, there must be improvements with the way to it. Within that 100 acres that is mentioned are many other landmarks and once that the prices are right for those owners, things will more than likely be improved, I think if they want to expand kings hwy and ocean bvd, like from a 4 lane to a 6 or 8 lane just within that 100 acres things could be enforced maybe.
MB is/was/and never will be the same. They destroyed downtown and the vide for generations past and generations to never come!
I agree not family friendly at all. Strip clubs filth try VA beach.
I'm not crying!!! 😚
At 17:54 into this, apparently in the 1950s or 60s time travel was possible because the guy looks like he is on a cell phone from way back then.
That’s funny but I promise you he’s not holding a cell phone.
Myrtle Beach is dying a slow death
On the contrary, it’s growing way tooooo darn fast. The growth in the last 15 years has been CRaZY!!!
The death of Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach has never been the same since the pavilion was torn down.
Closing the family friendly and nostalgic heart of the city rendered it a desolate and crime ridden wasteland. Thanks greedy imported folks!
Actually, those in-charge of the decision were locals. The Chairman of the Board for B&C was born in the area and actually worked at the Pavilion as a youth.
bring it back now
I think what made it hurt the most was there wasn't a definitive reason why it closed. Very generic answers to the public
Does anyone remember Doc Buttons who had a shop near the Pavillion? He took your picture and put it on a button.
Exactly WHY did they close it down?
The owners Burroughs and Chaplin hold an annual Country Music Festival with big names and make tons of money. None of the up keep costs or insurance of the park needed. 😭😭😭
wat was the reason to stop?
and of course my Sugarcreek brothers are in this video!
What was the purpose in tearing it down? Nothing there now
The owners of the land, Burroughs and Chapin host an annual Country music festival concert with several large names for major money.
@@southernmermaid2526 that sux
no magic anymore
My family was there right after the ferris wheel accident. I remember reading it in the paper. Horrible to think about.
Tell us more about this accident
Any idea who is doing the tune "Hard To Say Goodbye"? Can find R. Mark Black and Don Wise instrumental but no luck with the lyrics. Thanks
Gary Brown is the recording artist with music by Steve Marion and lyrics by Diane DeVaughn Stokes.
THANKS FOR THE HELP. -- ALL THE BEST --
Roller coaster war: the Hurricane vs the legendary Swamp Fox. Which was truly the greater ride?
I never rode the Hurricane, never went back when they put up the gates. I grew up in Myrtle and used to love riding the Swamp Fox when I was a kid. Rode that thing a year ago...felt like i had been in a car wreck hahaha
Ya know, that's infuriating that the Pavilion is no more. I'm sure the people then and now outnumber the people who didn't care or wanted it to go away. What a loss.
Sawyer brown at the magic attic. And then head over to the home church of rock and roll
I'm pretty sure its an open span of land now....
14 years later and there's just some lame zipline attraction built, which can be found in just about every major city. Seems to me the plan of the company was to sabotage this beautiful beachfront area in order to drive more people to their broadway location, as they were essentially competing with themselves. All nostalgia goes completely put the window when it comes down to a company trying to profit every single penny possible. B & C broadway at the beach sucks
It's pretty much just a field now.... Oh wait a Zipline is there. Yay....
They actually use the area now for outdoor events and festivals including the Carolina Country Music Festival.
@@stagesvideo and that really sucks
There still isn't anything there to this day. The Pavilion was timeless. The biggest mistake Myrtle Beach ever made was tearing it down. Some of the rides and the German organ were moved to Broadway at the Beach. Not sure if the organ is still there or if it was moved somewhere else out of state.
Even the rides from the old park are gone from Broadway at the Beach on the east side
This is what the American Dream is all about. 🇺🇸
Why did they close the Pavilion? What’s there now?
A zipline and ropes course it has almost no crowds now when I’m their on vacation it got quite a lot of crowds when it originally opened in 2012
@@ThrillsofColdplay but do you have any idea about why they closed the pavilion to begin with? Surely it was still a popular attraction around there when they demolished it, right? Was it financial issues or something like that?
What is this video talking about? It was still open in 2020...
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say it was "still open in 2020". Did you watch the video?
Your talking about the pavilion at Broadway not this one
it didn't have to close...as talk of hard rock park breaking ground and being built, from reading the paper, b&c told city council if you let it happen, we close the pavilion. city council should have told them their tax exemptions would be taken away if they did close it and they would have backed down.it wasn't because of the economy, they let it run down and let riff raff enter the parks.....didn't take long for hard rock and the park that took it's place to die out.....too far from the beach. dad said hard rock wouldn't make it, "too far out from the beach, people come FOR the beach and when vacation is over they're sunburned and mad at each other that they're in a hurry to get home." But b&c couldn't see that!
I wonder if the owners are secretly kicking themselves in the ass for closing the pavillion? If not, they should be.
we can only hope
does anyone know the real reason why this historic icon was destroyed.
Keep in mind how the real estate market was red-hot in 2004-2006 and this was especially true in Myrtle Beach.
Burroughs and Chapin the development company that owned the Pavilion and Amusement Park felt that there was a better use for that property. The plan was to build 2 high-rise condos on the oceanfront and then a mixed-use commercial/townhome district between Ocean Blvd. and Hwy.17 where the amusement park was. While the Pavilion Amusement Park was profitable, it only operated for half the year. The new commercial district would generate profits year-round. At about that same time the old Myrtle Square Mall was also demolished to be redeveloped in the same vein. By 2008 both properties had been razed and then the real-estate bubble burst. Both sites are still empty.
this building could have been saved and made even better. Just can't figure this out.
It was overrun with drug addicts. They tried to clean it up, but it just didn't happen. It's been a decade and I still miss it. 🙁
still could have made it better and kept the building
Jennifer Smith me too
But hey we got a zip line now .......smart 💩
This whole area was the cream of the crop........things change......and you move on
Somebody should go to jail for tearing down the Pavilion ...there I said it!
Was it true that it was the drugs and crime that caused them to close?
While the scene in downtown MB had grown "seedier", the main reason for shutting it down was the perceived oppportunity for mixed-use development - oceanfront condos, etc.
While the MB Pavilion and Amusement Park was a money-maker, it was only open for 6 months out of the year and the company was looking for year-round profits.
they ruined the town, we stay in Pawleys island now