We have seen this bar and grill every time we cross the Little River Bridge over the ICW into North Myrtle Beach – wondering what it was like – always seemed packed – we found out with friends!
MY LITTLE SMILE FOR THE DAY!
We had heard good things – music – drinks – happy hour and food!
There are boat slips here along with a marina – and all types of boat traffic on the ICW!
View of the slips and marina and the causeway bridge we travel over on our way to NMB!
Pam – Sherry – Papa and Bob – my grade-school – Jr. High and H.S. buddy from Eldred, Pa.
They were in a campground a couple miles from our home for almost two weeks –
we did a lot with them and this was our last night get-together.
This is only one half of Captain Archies – our food was very good and happy hour drink prices!
Pam and Sherry – we sat outside in the sun with views of the Marina and the bridge.
Palm trees – boats – great company – sorry to see them go – we played golf three times!
Bobby and Pam – we talked of maybe again in the Spring when they leave Florida!
Pam in oversized CAPTAIN ARCHIE CHAIR – fun times and lots of laughs!
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PAPA’S WORLD – FIRST TIME VISITING CAPTAIN ARCHIES WITH FRIENDS – WE WILL GO BACK!
Our lives together began while dating in 1980 – 81 – over forty years ago.
We were married on 6-25-1982 in Portville, N.Y.
Sherry from Mount Jewett, Pa., and myself from Eldred, Pa.
The combination of her girls and my boys.
The last of my family growing up in our house – my older brother Roger – is gone now but never forgotten.
He was the only hero I had – ten years my senior – thankfully we once again reunited the last ten years of his life – he graduated from H.S. and then College and the Navy.
He never came back home to live!
Sherry – Papa – Pam and Bobby – my grade-school – Jr. high and H.S. friend –
Now – after all these years we still get together!
Friends for life – now when here a golfing buddy!
Jimmy – Dottie – Sherry – Buck – Cindy and Papa –
close friends from back in WNY and Pa.
Visiting each other – vacations – golfing – neighbors and friends from my post-H.S. days.
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My very early years were growing up in a little town in NWPA known as Eldred.
Not big – about 800 to 1000 in a good year!
My youth was spent roller skating – playing Kick the Can with neighborhood kids.
Throwing apples at the train cars as they sped past.
Smoking corn silk in a corncob pipe.
Playing in the sawdust hill up the street and sleeping out on the front porch in an old army bag of my brothers-in-law.
I had to walk from our home on North Main Street all the way across town to South Main Street and the High School – grades 1 through 12!
Often I would walk the tracks until the creek and then along the sidewalk.
One day – I was wearing my Davy Crockett Coon Skin hat – I stopped and put it on the bridge railing and then stuck my head through to look down at the water.
And there I was stuck!
My ears popped out and I could not pull my head back through.
Needless to say, the fire department came to the rescue – embarrassing my older brother by ten years who was in H.S. then.
Pictured here is the OLD HIGH SCHOOL where I attended until the end of grade four!
They built a brand new Elementary school for grades K thru 6 –
And combined three communities – Eldred – Duke Center and Rixford and Eldred Township.
The front windows were first grade – taught by Mrs. Shields.
It was a grand old building – I think built in the late 1800s.
In the winter we would sled ride down the hill to the right which also was a large cemetery.
Eldred, Pa. was before the movie “STAND BY ME”!
What you saw in that movie was exactly as it was in our little town where everyone knew your name –
and if you did anything wrong – your parents knew all about it before you got home!
Today – we live in the South – near the border of N.C. and S.C. – by the beaches!
My childhood memories have followed me here along with contact with friends I grew up with.
I do not get back there often – staying in touch with the few relatives I have left.
My family I grew up with are all gone and are in the cemetery up in Barden Brook.
We are 12 to 15 hours away – a long drive and no close airport other than Buffalo which still requires over a two-hour drive and a rental car.
Sherry – Papa – Pam – wife of my childhood buddy – grade school until graduation – Bobby!
We had many adventures that I can not put on here and today see each other about once a year.
We played sports together all those years – and now we have memories we talk about!
We are seniors in our sunset years yet living life to the plus – they RVing and us living our dream of the Salt Life.
My other best buddy along with Bobby – Jimmy – played years and years of softball and now golf!
Staying in touch – sharing good times in the NOW of my life!
Jimmy is also from that same little town!
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The “THEN” of the start of our life together – 6-25-1982!
The “NOW” of our life together – on the ICW off OIB in N.C. living life to the plus one day at a time!
I have known Bob since grade school – all these years and still friends!
PJ is his second wife and Sherry is my second wife – we have been married for over 41 years!
Here was last fall when they visited in their RV and we went on a Kayak tour of the marsh along the ICW!
Best buddies since middle school and Senior H.S.
What can I say – for 35 to over 40 years we have been friends thick and thin – from family vacations on the beach to travel over the world – to golfing and to parties –
Friends the entire time – and get-togethers a couple times a year –
to now living 35 minutes away from one couple to soon one other couple 3 hours away.
FRIENDS FOR ALWAYS!
Three very good friends – always laughing – singing – sipping wine and beer – doing shots –
but just being friends!
Watching BILLS games together – we are all from the WNY and NWPA area – BILLS COUNTRY!
Time and time again – the three ladies – smiling – laughing – FRIENDS!
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Our wedding day – June 25th. 1982 – starting out together after dating for 1 1/2 years!
It seems like only yesterday yet it is over 41 years ago and longer since we first started dating.
Both divorced – both had two children – her two daughters – my two sons –
We planned vacations on a budget – packing food to stop and have lunch on our way to a destination.
We had an old 12-passenger van – but fun trip.
We lived in the country – our driveway was 1/10 of a mile long – ice in winter –
It took me days to push and mow the lawn.
The early years – Sherry and her sisters. We were close to her family – often spending weekends with her parents!
Camping – tents and fifth-wheel and tag-along camper.
Our dream back then was warm weather – beach – surf and sand – vacations – wanting to stay!
We explored our states and country – sometimes by ourselves – mostly with kids –
providing what we could – money was tight.
But – we were happy – and we both worked for AOTC and DAL-TILE.
Along the way was National Gypsum, Private, Armstrong, and Mohawk.
The early years – Sherry and her sisters. In the mountains of the Kinzua Valley – Mount Jewett – Pa.
Our family was aging – the kids were gone to college and work.
We were thinking of transferring to within the company.
Several openings came up – but not what we wanted.
Then in 1999 – we applied for transfers and moved to NVA – still with Dal-Tile –
along the way we remained close to our friends for many years – one couple left for Wilmington, N.C. a few years before we went to NVA, and later the other couple transferred to Va.Beach.
We stayed in touch and in June of this year they all came to our new home to play golf –
FRIENDS FOREVER!
Our early years have now transformed into our senior years – now retired – and our dream came true!
We found our beach – sand – surf and warm weather – now our families come to visit.
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PAPA’S WORLD – livinglifedoingitmyway.blog OUR EARLY YEARS 6-25-82!
LIVING OUR DREAM TO THE PLUS ONE DAY AT A TIME – 2023 – OUR SENIOR YEARS BEGIN!
TAYLOR “NOW’ our horse-loving granddaughter – growing up!
TAYLOR AND HER MOTHER – “THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE – LIFETIME MEMORIES!”
We gather memories in thought and pictures – lifetime events that seemed small back then but turn into LIFE!
Life is full of little thoughts – but practice in life turns into positive happenings!
Many years ago – the four of us – friends – neighbors – decided to golf – fun times – laughter and friendships!
Today – living a mere 35 minutes away – we try to get together once a week or two – golfing in our senior years!
We were neighbors – back in WNY – and we decided to try and get the girls into golfing – they wore gloves because their hands were cold – laughing at us as we washed our balls –
Now – we are senior golfers – playing mostly scrambles guys vs. gals and they mostly win!
A LITTLE THING SUCH AS GOLFING HAS TURNED INTO A BIG THING FOR US TO WITH ONE ANOTHER!
A “LITTLE” bit of humor to bring a “BIG” SMILE! HGD!
A LITTLE TRIP AND A LUNCH – BEING TOGETHER IS PART OF OUR BIG SALT LIFE!
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