You Know You're Old When You Feel Nostalgia...

[teddy_radiator]

sempraseverus' superb drawings of carousel animals has me thinking of the days when the Myrtle Beach Pavilion was a magic place you went to ride rickety amusement park rides, take a turn on the Full Menagerie Herschel-Spillman carousel, and listen to the German Band Organ. When I was a little girl, I used to stare at this for hours.

Now the Pavilion is only a memory, but the Organ and the Carousel were taken to another tourist attraction in Myrtle Beach called Broadway on the Beach. If you're ever there, go and listen to this lovely old organ which by the looks of it here, has gone through major renovations. At the Pavilion, it was sadly allowed to fall into a terrible state of disrepair. Now it's all shiny and beautiful. It is the sound and vision of my childhood, and even through my jaded teenaged years, I would stop and watch the band organ play. The top is just a nice set of shots, the bottom vid shows it in all it's jingling, turning, cherubic, bleating glory:

This one is sort of long, but worth it just to see the closeups!

Comments

[sandlappershell.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not - I have only been to Myrtle Beach a few times. Never went to the Pavilion, but I have been to Broadway at the Beach and have seen the organ. I always thought it was crappy the way the Pavilion was done. There is a new amusement park in that area now - but it is nothing like what my Mom and Dad told me about. When I was younger, we always went camping in the NC mountains until after my Grandfather died. Then we started going to the beach rather than camping, but we always went to Edisto Beach, about 45 minutes South of Charleston. Myrtle has just gotten way to commercial and crowded for us!