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Last month Folly Beach hosted Folly Gras; a festival encompassing everything Mardi Gras with a side of Folly funk. There were beads, a parade, a street festival, masquerade masks, and even a food competition. Placing third was Planet Follywood with their Alligator Meatball Sub; in second, Chico Feo with a Cajun Bahn Mi, and in first place for Best Folly Cuisine was the creators of the Muffaletta and Shrimp Skewer, Loggerhead’s Beach Grill.

Post by The Folly Current

The Center Street Shark 

Folly Flashback

In 1991, the staff at Oceansports Surf Shop was struggling to find a way to get patrons down the street from the beach to their store. When owners Bill Perry and Betty Sue Cowsert spotted a giant fiberglass shark on its way to a delivery in Myrtle Beach, they made an offer for their own “half shark,” knowing it was just what the store needed to attract attention.

On a Sunday evening, Perry, his friend Ed Hollingsworth, and Ed’s two sons, Charles and Lee, arrived at Oceansports with a covert mission. Taking advantage of the building inspector’s day off, they stood atop a van backed onto the sidewalk to mount a shark head on the shop’s exterior wall, mere inches from City Hall.

“The next morning, we all showed up and said, ‘Well, look at that,’” recalls Perry. “Nobody from the city ever said anything about it.”

The shark remains in place on Center Street.

Photo Courtesy of Bill Perry and Betty Sue Cowsert

Folly Flashback Column By Stratton Lawrence of The Folly Current