MYRTLE BEACH - When co-authors Janice McDonald and Lesta Sue Hardee got the green light to start a book project all about the old Myrtle Beach Pavilion and amusement park, they soon became consumed with the project, which was a labor of love.
"(The Pavilion) was such an integral part of Myrtle Beach," said Hardee on Monday. "Without it, I feel like we'd feel kind of lost. It's in the heart of everybody," she said.
"Everybody remembers the first time we rode the carousel, the first time we rode the Ferris Wheel," said McDonald. "I was there every summer. If I had pictures of every memory, we would have had no problem finding photographs," she said.
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It still really wasn't a problem. Hardee and McDonald interviewed hundreds of people and collected a treasure trove of photographs chronicling the history of several pavilions built on the site at the intersection of 9th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard. The Pavilion and the accompanying amusement park closed in 2006 after decades of entertaining summertime crowds of all ages.
"We knew the history, so we had to find the photographs that fit the history," said McDonald.
"I knew what it meant to me, but I really didn't realize what it meant to a lot of people," said Hardee.
The book is published as part of the "Images of America" series by Arcadia Publishing, and is now available for sale wherever books are sold.
For more information about the book, click here.
The authors will have a book signing Monday night at Books-A-Million at Coastal Grand Mall, and on Tuesday at Books-A-Million at Inlet Square Mall in Murrells Inlet.
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