This Should Be A Podcast with Folly’s Lorne Chambers!

Check out Episode 44 of This Should Be A Podcast featuring Folly resident and publisher of both West Of and The Folly Current newspaper, Lorne Chambers!

You’d Tap That

Loggerhead’s adds 20+ craft beer taps, hosts first beer dinner

On Feb. 24 Loggerhead’s Beach Grill hosted their first beer dinner to show off the newly added craft beer taps, which has a heavy emphasis on local beers. The dinner was a collaboration with Freehouse Brewing, recently named the Most Underrated Brewery in South Carolina by Thrillist, and who’s owner, Arthur Lucas named his grapefruit blonde ale after our beach, where he learned to surf. “Folly Pride” is described on the Freehouse website: “Like the beautiful beaches of the Lowcountry, this easy drinking brew keeps you coming again and again.” Thanks for the shout out! If you haven’t sat at the recently renovated Loggerhead’s bar inside, head on over next time you get a hankering for a cold craft brew. Stay tuned for more beer dinners in the Fall.

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