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Reggae bands, would pull up in
an old school bus, open the
doors and it would look like
Cheech and Chong. We would
have to explain to them that
they couldn’t smoke on the
property. Sometimes they
would
would “forget” and light up on
stage. After about a year and a
half the guys from Winston de-
cided to sell to Momma Gilbert
who had a rock club on the
south end. That next spring
Momma Gilbert’s grandson
talked her into turning it into a Shag Dancers Mural
gay club called The Option. It When Broadway at the Beach opened in 1993 marketing director Janet
Harrold and general manager Roger Davisson commissioned Atlanta-artist
was nationally advertised and Lee Bivens to paint the mural. Harrold selected the featured dancer to
had headliner drag shows. show a broad range of style and backgrounds. Illustrated left to right:
Back to Ducks... Beside Little Shad and Brenda Alverty;
Norfleet Jones and Sheila Bodie;
Ducks, at one time there was a Norfleet Jones and Sheila Bodie;
pawn shop that H. Lee owned Michael and LeAnn (Best) Norris;
JoJo Putnam and Joanne Johnson;
and where Ducks Cafe is now Sam West and Sarah West;
was a pool room called Mal- Charlie Womble and Jackie McGee;
Eddie and Vee Page;
lard Room. In time the pawn Chick and Carolyn Hedrick;
Harry and Dottie Driver;
shop closed so Little Ducks ex- Harry and Dottie Driver;
panded into that area and built William Green and Kristin Leggett;
George Hamrick and Kim Sykes;
a new dance floor and bar. The Dy and Dana Brown.
Mallard Room became Fat’s Around 2010, the mural was moved to 94.9 The Surf / WNMB where it
Pool Room. Next we expanded adorned the wall of the radio station on Pine Avenue.
into that area and it became Gift of Selene Graham to the North Myrtle Beach Museum
Ducks Too! The guys from
Winston sold to Bob Baker,
who brought in Norfleet Jones.
who
I left and opened Hawg Tide
Barbeque and Saloon in 1992,
and eventually went to the
Clubhouse in December of
1993. Worked
there for Mike
Swanson for
ten years until
he passed
away, and I
bought it
and was there
ten more years until I sold it. Roberts Pavilion 1836–1954

......as told by Rock Carter The Roberts Pavilion, built in 1936 by William Roberts, was an early
open-air oceanfront pavilion on the Grand Strand. The rhythm &
blues of the post-World War II ear—later called beach music—was
played on jukeboxes here and at other popular pavilions on the
beach. At these pavilions dancers perfected the Shag, 33