Yes , me too , we were lucky , I miss the 80's , especially myrtle beach pavilion , I'm 52 years old now , mom and dad are gone now , thank you mom and dad for taking me to the beach every summer , I was there only child , I miss my momma and daddy , I still have a beach ball from 1985 , it survived somehow , mom had it in the storage bin ❤
This makes me sooo sad! I graduated high school in 1988 and this is the sights I remember even as a kid! Myrtle Beach was never the same after all this was torn down!
Oh, wow man! I am so glad somebody decided to film this footage. I can remember this old pavilion just like I can remember yesterday. I have ridden every ride at that place... several times! I'm from Salisbury, NC.
Some of my favorite memories as a child in the 1980s were at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion! Sure miss it! It breaks my heart every time I ride by there now! To me, when they shut the Pavilion down, they cut the heart out of Myrtle Beach!
@@steveknight6398 Exactly how I feel I wish we all could start a petition and get enough people to sign it so maybe where they're demolishing alot of the old hotels/motels that sat beside the Myrtle beach Pavilion 💔🤦🏽♀️😔🙏
The title says 1987 was the year you filmed this. I was there the summer of 1987 with my sister and my grandparents. I was 13. This is pure nostalgia. I am so glad you shared this. This highlights much of the Pavillion rides from that time. This is the Myrtle Beach that lives in my memory and heart. I wish it was still like this. It's so different now according to current videos. I haven't been to Myrtle Beach in so long. I may yet visit again.
It's still enjoyable going to Myrtle Beach, but the Pavilion is gone, and the rides they have now are awful. Very kiddish and take rides. People walking around looking at their phones. The Garden City Pier is nicer imo than it was back then. The arcades we grew up on are gone, replaced by gambling type games. The food is very expensive.
@@atlantic_love I do not know you. My sister Lindsey and I went to Myrtle Beach with our parents as children. I only went on two occasions as an adult.
@@NikkiDocherty74 You're being weird. Hardly anyone uses their real name in their profile, and for safety you SHOULDN'T. You very, very likely don't know ANYONE in the comments, so your comment was unnecessary and defensive in stance. Take care.
I had my happiest childhood memories there. That place had a certain kind of magic about it. My son came along just a little too late to see it. Wish so much that I could have taken him there. Thanks for the upload!
Thank you so very much for posting this video. I had longed to go back to Myrtle Beach for many years, but now that the Pavilion is gone, I just don't think I would enjoy it at all. I have since joined a committee to bring the pavilion back. Though we know there is a great battle ahead of us, we will never stop trying to overcome the bureaucratic roadblock which stands between us and our chances to relive our fondest childhood memories.
Yep. Now days, you've got the Sling Shot & SkyWheel, but those are what you would call fun spots, not really a true amusement park like the Pavilion was. Thankfully Family Kingdom is still there. :)
brings back a lot of memories, my wife and I loved myrtle beach in those days, she's in heaven now, and memories are all I have left, good by my love for now
It amazes me to think back about it all. Summer of '87 I was 6 years old, my brother was 12. Mom and dad would turn us loose and we would ride rides, then play games in the arcades. I would never do that with my kids now. It truly was a different Myrtle Beach back then.
I miss this place. I rode my first roller coaster ever, the Galaxy, with my dad here. My grandma lives in the area. This was sad news finding out it was being torn down. Thank you for posting this.
Love this post! I was 16 in 1987 and still loved going to the Pavillion every Summer. We went every year my entire life until they tore it down. What a mistake to tear down such a wonderfully magical place by the ocean.
Oh wow. I cant believe some of the footage here! I was just a kid when this was filmed and its exactly how I remember. This really brings back some great memories. It's really cool of you to share this. That is some really good footage for 87.
Thanks! Yes, my dad had just purchased the RCA camcorder that year that recorded this. It took the VHS tapes and was very heavy, but great quality! I sure miss the Pavilion and still hard to believe it's gone. That was sure the place to be in 1987! With all the traffic, neon lights, arcades and music, it was like a mini Las Vegas strip!
@@derekfugate9052 Thank you so much for this! We started going to MB and the Pavilion back in the mid 70s when I was a little kid. This summer of 1987, I had just turned 19, was off from my first summer in college and met the cutest boy I'd ever seen down there, we spent part of that week at the Pavilion...just like I remember it here. Makes me teary-eyed.
I used to be so scared of the haunted hotel as a kid!! I hated that the man's entire head would come off with his hat. And I rode my very first rollercoaster here (the wooden one) with my sister! My grandparents also took us to the NASCAR place, Broadway at the Beach, and the water park (Myrtle Waves?)! Summers were great back then. I actually still have a Pavilion ticket, it was ~59¢! Thanks for this awesome video. 💕
This truly brings back so many gorgeous memories for me. Thank you for sharing this, I felt like I was back in time, for a moment I was living in the summer of 87 again, down at Myrtle, not a care in the world.
My mom has a picture somewhere of me riding the little bikes/boats that they had there...about this same time actually. We used to go every year. Every time I go to Myrtle Beach now, I always look where it was and think about how much I miss it being there.
I still can’t believe what they were thinking in demolishing this treasure.. it’s been years and years but I just can’t wrap my mind around it even still. They tore damn an entire award winning amusement park to put up a ropes course that is never even open. That log flume was my favorite log flume.. the haunted mansion was great.. and then when they built the Hurricane coaster.. man those were the days.. the Roman rapids were great too.. ALL of it was absolutely great and it’s truly sad others will never be able to experience the pavilion.. glad I was alive in those years and was able to experience it
Those were some great times back in the 1980s ! I was stationed in Camp Lejeune in the mid-80s and had a lot of gorgeous girl friends who in resided in Myrtle Beach !
This definitely takes me back! We went to MB every summer when I was a kid, which was almost every summer in the 1980's! I wanted to spend all of my time at the Pavilion and Family Kingdom. Thank you so much for this amazing video!
Family Kingdom was called Grand Strand Amusement Park in the 80’s. Did they ever have a haunted ride like Pavilion? They added a western themed shooting ride in the 90’s that looks lame. Shame that Haunted Hotel at Pavilion had to meet a sad end. I’m building a Myrtle Beach park in Planet Coaster with both Pavilion and Family Kingdom although they will be closer together than they were due to limited park size. I want to recreate the early 2000’s and the 80’s or 90’s. My late grandparents went to MB late 80’s-early 90’s and brought back brochures that had ads for Mayhem Manor haunted house, an overhead view of Pavilion when it was smaller and had the Corkscrew.
Thanks! I have another video just on the Myrtle Beach Corkscrew as well. That was such a fun place, and I liked the Corkscrew much better than the Hurricane coaster that replaced it. I sure wish it was all still there.
I remember that when Burroughs and Chapin were wanting to take down the Pavilion they promised some attractions that would be year round. The Pavilion was only open 4 months out of the year and the idea of a year round attraction sounded good to many of us. Sadly B&C lied and the Pavilion and Myrtle Square Mall sites are just empty lots. B&C and the cronies on city council are truly the ones that turned a vibrant beach into an over priced slum.
They should have had the pavilion open year round and they should have left it in place, You know the Thing about Myrtle Beach is it is warm about 9 months out of the year and nowadays there is no stop to the tourist season that and so many people live here now. But they have closed so many great attractions such as Magiquest, Myrtle Beach Grand Prix, Planet Hollywood, Dragon's Lair Mini Golf. They've closed so many great restaurants and stores, And the only things that they are building here now are bars and condos. There is so much potential here and like there are a couple things that I think Myrtle Beach would do very well to add such as reopening the pavilion bigger and better, I also think Myrtle Beach needs a zoo yes we've got the Alligator Adventure which i absolutely love but I would love to see an AZA accredited zoo here. Now granted one other thing that I like that they are doing now is they are bringing a PGA tournament here.
Wow I do to! Do you remember the CAN-AM gift stores? I believe that's what they were called? I still have many of the original KISS posters I purchased from there and they had a ton of 80's rock T-Shirts as well. Very cool stores, I believe there were two of them along the strip.
Well done! Thanks for sharing this. I have a number of MB Pavilion Amusement Park videos posted, but they are from 20 years earlier, so mine lack the sound that brings this one more to life.
We went to myrtle beach every year.the last year I was there we spent every night at the pavilion.made for some of the best childhood/teenager years ever! What a shame!😔
I think Ripley's and maybe that Waves beachwear store are the only locations I saw on this video still in existence in a similar manner today. This was great! I love what Myrtle Beach is and is becoming, but this was a part of the soul of Myrtle Beach that I miss dearly. I think Family Kingdom is great, but could stand more acreage.
I was 17 and you just showed the soul of my childhood and for that I say thank you for posting this. The Cork Screw, The Caterpillar, The Pavilion! Sigh.
The only ride missing from this was the scrambler that they put inside the air conditioned bubble with the music, lights, and mirrors. Otherwise this is a great memory for me. IDK who the brain trust was that wanted to undo this and change it to what they have today.
Yes the Mind Scrambler! I remember that well, I can still smell the fog machines that were in there. I recall walking to the ride car with the lights on before it started, it was still dark in there then, but the ride was painted a flat black with a red stripe. I remember the cool light show, loud music and mirrors too, that was really neat. They had another ride like that called the Sky Tracker I believe? It was a Trabant in the dark, but the Mind Scrambler was more popular.
@@derekfugate9052 The lines were massive for a scrambler that you would not have ridden if not for the music and lights. LOL In the line, you were under black light so white clothes and teeth glowed.
Wow....Myself and 3 of my high school buddies went to MB for a week on the last week of July that summer.All 4 of us had turned 21 that week..Oh man does this bring back some memories...RIP Ricky
I was in elementary when I went and rode the caterpillar got so Soo scared and started crying... Won't never forget... As I got older I grew to like this and the Bob sled it's something like it and the pirate ship....
Wow! I had forgotten all about that til you mentioned it. Yuck, yes I do remember that vividly. Also remember that great tunnel had a slight drop in it, one of the best flume rides anywhere. Man I really, really miss the Pavilion!
Tearing this place down was a huge mistake! Especially since they left this part of Myrtle Beach empty for so many years until putting a zip line attraction in it's place! 😠 Sorry, but it doesn't even come close to making up for the absence of this place. It was the heart of Myrtle Beach!
I was there the summer before this. I rode some crazy ride that was a completely enclosed circular spinning room with padded ceiling floor and walls. You leaned up against the walls and waited for it to spin up. Then kids started trying to crawl up to the roof or along the floor and would try to stand up only to get slammed back into the wall like a rag doll. Pretty insane, but fun to try! I'm sure it's illegal now. EDIT: Ha, I found it @2:31 The Gravitron! I missed it the first time.
I'm not so sure of the WHY, but from what I understand, The Inn used to be located on the opposite side of the park...maybe even just outside the parameters of the park? I think they basically moved the whole Inn across the park in 1992, then started renovations on it. They took away the skull and replaced it with a witch on the balcony (cannot find pictures of the witch ANYWHERE, but I remember it) and when they renovated in 1997-1998, I guess they replaced it with the bellhop, Gravesly, who was decidedly more cleaned up than the witch, and took off his head! This was always my favorite ride at the Pavilion. I just wish I could remember what it was that terrified me so much about it before they changed everything.
It was pretty much the worst idea ever. My family lived in surf side in the late 70’s early 80’s and my grandparents lived there and we always went to the pavilion. I loved it!
Oh yeah! You'd hear it while waiting in line, and it'd play again when you went through that spinning tunnel that made you feel like you were tipping over lol
I just moved here in April 1987. Been here since but if I ever win big lottery money, I'm moving and hopefully my kids & grandkids will too. NC has nice beaches.
Hi! Thank you so much for posting this. I am planning on making a non profit making video that I will only post on youtube using some clips of The Pavillon Amusement Park. Could I use some of your footage for my project? It would be amazing. I will of course give you the credit for the visuals! Your footage makes me immediately feel nostalgic and I can't seem to find other 80s videos of the Pavillon Amusement Park by night. I hope it's okay for you, best regards.
Derek - You have a real treasure here with this video. I am in the very preliminary process of producing a comprehensive presentation of vintage Pavilion. I may have an opportunity to produce this as a public show to be presented in a Myrtle Beach venue, with the help of a local TV station. (Any proceeds from that show would be contributed to a local MB charitable cause.) It would be an honor to get your permission to use some of the scenes from your terrific video here, or even present it in full as is, since it is well edited already. Naturally, if you are available, you would be invited as an honored guest to the presentation. And you would have a say as to how your video would be integrated into the larger presentation. Are you interested in pursuing this? - Best Regards, John Gasch
Hello John, yes that would be great if you could use the footage, I just ask you to credit me with my footage. I also have a unique video of the Pavilion Corkscrew roller coaster from 1994 that's been edited well on my channel, you are welcome to use that too, if you like. The Pavilion was my favorite seaside amusement park, it's such a lose that it's not there anymore. That Corkscrew was so popular there in the 80's and 90's, so many wonderful memories! The Pavilion was surely the place to be, and the heart of Myrtle Beach. Keep me informed on the event and presentation, I wish you the best of luck with that and would love to attend. Thank you, Derek Fugate.
Myrtle Beach lost its charm after it was taken down. I just came back from the beach last weekend and kept trying to figure out why it felt different from when I was a kid. It just felt off.
What was the difference inside between the Haunted Inn and the 1992 remodel into Haunted Hotel by Leonard Pickel with additions by Sally in 1997? I saw a vid of a ride through the Haunted Hotel but there are no vids or pics of the inside when it was the Inn. Too bad they just trashed it after the park closed. Classic dark rides are rare. They closed the park for stupid reasons. They did relocate a few rides to Broadway at the Beach though. I suppose the Inn facade and the Haunted Hotel building are in landfills. They probably trashed the Inn facade when it was remodeled into the Hotel in 1992. I never got to visit this park or MB. Now I see the Nightmare Haunted House was rethemed to zombies, and the Ripley's Haunted Adventure is now a shooting "game" with guns. You walk through and shoot the monsters I guess, before it was a traditional walk through haunted attraction. There's also another haunted house at the Hollywood Wax Museum called Outbreak.
The fact that I will never be able to look out at my favourite beach and ocean while riding the rainbow again is heartbreaking.
We vacationed there every summer in the 80’s. This video beings back wonderful memories!
Yes , me too , we were lucky , I miss the 80's , especially myrtle beach pavilion , I'm 52 years old now , mom and dad are gone now , thank you mom and dad for taking me to the beach every summer , I was there only child , I miss my momma and daddy , I still have a beach ball from 1985 , it survived somehow , mom had it in the storage bin ❤
The nostalgia is strong with this one.
This makes me sooo sad! I graduated high school in 1988 and this is the sights I remember even as a kid! Myrtle Beach was never the same after all this was torn down!
The sounds are what makes this video for me... especially the beeping from the midway games
Oh, wow man! I am so glad somebody decided to film this footage. I can remember this old pavilion just like I can remember yesterday. I have ridden every ride at that place... several times! I'm from Salisbury, NC.
i really hate they tore down the pavilion
Some of my favorite memories as a child in the 1980s were at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion! Sure miss it! It breaks my heart every time I ride by there now! To me, when they shut the Pavilion down, they cut the heart out of Myrtle Beach!
@@steveknight6398 Exactly how I feel I wish we all could start a petition and get enough people to sign it so maybe where they're demolishing alot of the old hotels/motels that sat beside the Myrtle beach Pavilion 💔🤦🏽♀️😔🙏
What was the Haunted Inn like? Describe the ride.
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It was very scary! I kept my eyes closed most of the time.
The title says 1987 was the year you filmed this. I was there the summer of 1987 with my sister and my grandparents. I was 13. This is pure nostalgia. I am so glad you shared this. This highlights much of the Pavillion rides from that time. This is the Myrtle Beach that lives in my memory and heart. I wish it was still like this. It's so different now according to current videos. I haven't been to Myrtle Beach in so long. I may yet visit again.
It's still enjoyable going to Myrtle Beach, but the Pavilion is gone, and the rides they have now are awful. Very kiddish and take rides. People walking around looking at their phones. The Garden City Pier is nicer imo than it was back then. The arcades we grew up on are gone, replaced by gambling type games. The food is very expensive.
@@atlantic_love I do not know you. My sister Lindsey and I went to Myrtle Beach with our parents as children. I only went on two occasions as an adult.
@@NikkiDocherty74 I'm not understanding why you felt the need to say that you don't know me. Did I imply that we did?
@@atlantic_love you seemed to imply. Your profile says Atlantic love, not your actual name, so I am not 100% sure but it is not probable
@@NikkiDocherty74 You're being weird. Hardly anyone uses their real name in their profile, and for safety you SHOULDN'T. You very, very likely don't know ANYONE in the comments, so your comment was unnecessary and defensive in stance. Take care.
The pipe organ!!! My heart. I miss watching those little cherubs with their bells and the angels.
I had my happiest childhood memories there. That place had a certain kind of magic about it. My son came along just a little too late to see it. Wish so much that I could have taken him there.
Thanks for the upload!
Thank you so very much for posting this video. I had longed to go back to Myrtle Beach for many years, but now that the Pavilion is gone, I just don't think I would enjoy it at all. I have since joined a committee to bring the pavilion back. Though we know there is a great battle ahead of us, we will never stop trying to overcome the bureaucratic roadblock which stands between us and our chances to relive our fondest childhood memories.
Another great video of the Pavilion back in its prime!
Yep. Now days, you've got the Sling Shot & SkyWheel, but those are what you would call fun spots, not really a true amusement park like the Pavilion was. Thankfully Family Kingdom is still there. :)
brings back a lot of memories, my wife and I loved myrtle beach in those days, she's in heaven now, and memories are all I have left, good by my love for now
It amazes me to think back about it all. Summer of '87 I was 6 years old, my brother was 12. Mom and dad would turn us loose and we would ride rides, then play games in the arcades. I would never do that with my kids now. It truly was a different Myrtle Beach back then.
The haunted inn facade cannot be beat!
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God, I really do miss the Pavilion. :(
Took away a piece of my childhood when they tore this place down.😢
I miss this place. I rode my first roller coaster ever, the Galaxy, with my dad here. My grandma lives in the area. This was sad news finding out it was being torn down. Thank you for posting this.
Love this post! I was 16 in 1987 and still loved going to the Pavillion every Summer. We went every year my entire life until they tore it down. What a mistake to tear down such a wonderfully magical place by the ocean.
Oh wow. I cant believe some of the footage here! I was just a kid when this was filmed and its exactly how I remember. This really brings back some great memories. It's really cool of you to share this. That is some really good footage for 87.
Thanks! Yes, my dad had just purchased the RCA camcorder that year that recorded this. It took the VHS tapes and was very heavy, but great quality! I sure miss the Pavilion and still hard to believe it's gone. That was sure the place to be in 1987! With all the traffic, neon lights, arcades and music, it was like a mini Las Vegas strip!
@@derekfugate9052 Thank you so much for this! We started going to MB and the Pavilion back in the mid 70s when I was a little kid. This summer of 1987, I had just turned 19, was off from my first summer in college and met the cutest boy I'd ever seen down there, we spent part of that week at the Pavilion...just like I remember it here. Makes me teary-eyed.
I used to be so scared of the haunted hotel as a kid!! I hated that the man's entire head would come off with his hat. And I rode my very first rollercoaster here (the wooden one) with my sister! My grandparents also took us to the NASCAR place, Broadway at the Beach, and the water park (Myrtle Waves?)! Summers were great back then. I actually still have a Pavilion ticket, it was ~59¢! Thanks for this awesome video. 💕
Tell me more about the Haunted Inn. Describe the ride.
I remember going to the pavilion every summer. This video brought it all back. I thank you for sharing this with us.
The Pavillion in Myrtle Beach was Awesome, that makes me bring back my memories, I LOVE IT!
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This truly brings back so many gorgeous memories for me. Thank you for sharing this, I felt like I was back in time, for a moment I was living in the summer of 87 again, down at Myrtle, not a care in the world.
My mom has a picture somewhere of me riding the little bikes/boats that they had there...about this same time actually. We used to go every year. Every time I go to Myrtle Beach now, I always look where it was and think about how much I miss it being there.
Gregory Collins it is heart breaking. I’m 40 and still have vivid memories of those two rides!! Oh well at least there’s a zip line now!🙄🙄😪
The bikes/boats were moved to Broadway at the Beach. They have a small section of items from the Pavillion. At least they did last time I was there.
I still can’t believe what they were thinking in demolishing this treasure.. it’s been years and years but I just can’t wrap my mind around it even still. They tore damn an entire award winning amusement park to put up a ropes course that is never even open. That log flume was my favorite log flume.. the haunted mansion was great.. and then when they built the Hurricane coaster.. man those were the days.. the Roman rapids were great too.. ALL of it was absolutely great and it’s truly sad others will never be able to experience the pavilion.. glad I was alive in those years and was able to experience it
Those were some great times back in the 1980s ! I was stationed in Camp Lejeune in the mid-80s and had a lot of gorgeous girl friends who in resided in Myrtle Beach !
This definitely takes me back! We went to MB every summer when I was a kid, which was almost every summer in the 1980's! I wanted to spend all of my time at the Pavilion and Family Kingdom. Thank you so much for this amazing video!
Family Kingdom was called Grand Strand Amusement Park in the 80’s. Did they ever have a haunted ride like Pavilion? They added a western themed shooting ride in the 90’s that looks lame. Shame that Haunted Hotel at Pavilion had to meet a sad end. I’m building a Myrtle Beach park in Planet Coaster with both Pavilion and Family Kingdom although they will be closer together than they were due to limited park size. I want to recreate the early 2000’s and the 80’s or 90’s. My late grandparents went to MB late 80’s-early 90’s and brought back brochures that had ads for Mayhem Manor haunted house, an overhead view of Pavilion when it was smaller and had the Corkscrew.
@@robkrasinski6217 I don't think Family Kingdom had a haunted ride, but Magic Harbor did.
This is the only video I’ve been able to find of the corkscrew. Thanks!
Thanks! I have another video just on the Myrtle Beach Corkscrew as well. That was such a fun place, and I liked the Corkscrew much better than the Hurricane coaster that replaced it. I sure wish it was all still there.
I remember that when Burroughs and Chapin were wanting to take down the Pavilion they promised some attractions that would be year round. The Pavilion was only open 4 months out of the year and the idea of a year round attraction sounded good to many of us. Sadly B&C lied and the Pavilion and Myrtle Square Mall sites are just empty lots. B&C and the cronies on city council are truly the ones that turned a vibrant beach into an over priced slum.
They should have had the pavilion open year round and they should have left it in place, You know the Thing about Myrtle Beach is it is warm about 9 months out of the year and nowadays there is no stop to the tourist season that and so many people live here now. But they have closed so many great attractions such as Magiquest, Myrtle Beach Grand Prix, Planet Hollywood, Dragon's Lair Mini Golf. They've closed so many great restaurants and stores, And the only things that they are building here now are bars and condos. There is so much potential here and like there are a couple things that I think Myrtle Beach would do very well to add such as reopening the pavilion bigger and better, I also think Myrtle Beach needs a zoo yes we've got the Alligator Adventure which i absolutely love but I would love to see an AZA accredited zoo here. Now granted one other thing that I like that they are doing now is they are bringing a PGA tournament here.
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Thanks for sharing! Great memories. I still have most of my heavy metal t-shirts I bought on the strip back in the day!
Wow I do to! Do you remember the CAN-AM gift stores? I believe that's what they were called? I still have many of the original KISS posters I purchased from there and they had a ton of 80's rock T-Shirts as well. Very cool stores, I believe there were two of them along the strip.
Good video 😀
The had the fastest "Himalaya" ride I have ever ridden. I miss this place so much. This and Dracula's Castle.
Thanks for sharing, brings back childhood memories!
I was 19 that summer. 52 now. It was a fun time that year.
This is fantastic! I feel like I’m 11 years old again that summer at the Pavilion. I’m so glad I stumbled upon this.
I will never forget those skeleton fingers moving up and down! I was a tiny kid and it was a little too much for me :)
This is so nostalgic. I think about the Haunted House often
Omg it doesn't get any better than this - this was my childhood I always had a total blast soooooooo sad that it's gone
Thanks for sharing. This really brings back memories.
The sounds of screams, laughter, music and fun has been replaced by gun shots. Ain't progress great, Burroughs and Chapin?
Well done! Thanks for sharing this. I have a number of MB Pavilion Amusement Park videos posted, but they are from 20 years earlier, so mine lack the sound that brings this one more to life.
I really miss the myrtle beach 🏖️ pavilion who ever thought about taking it out it was a really stupid move
Nice upload. Thanks for the memories!
We went to myrtle beach every year.the last year I was there we spent every night at the pavilion.made for some of the best childhood/teenager years ever! What a shame!😔
This was my Summer. 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990. Fantastic memories
I think Ripley's and maybe that Waves beachwear store are the only locations I saw on this video still in existence in a similar manner today. This was great! I love what Myrtle Beach is and is becoming, but this was a part of the soul of Myrtle Beach that I miss dearly. I think Family Kingdom is great, but could stand more acreage.
And the Wings store went to "Winks" then back to Wings
I was 17 and you just showed the soul of my childhood and for that I say thank you for posting this. The Cork Screw, The Caterpillar, The Pavilion! Sigh.
I miss this so much. Thanks for sharing.
I worked there from 1986 to 1992, I ran the swiss bob ride, the thunder bolt, the bumper cars, I miss it so much a lot of good memories
The only ride missing from this was the scrambler that they put inside the air conditioned bubble with the music, lights, and mirrors.
Otherwise this is a great memory for me.
IDK who the brain trust was that wanted to undo this and change it to what they have today.
Yes the Mind Scrambler! I remember that well, I can still smell the fog machines that were in there. I recall walking to the ride car with the lights on before it started, it was still dark in there then, but the ride was painted a flat black with a red stripe. I remember the cool light show, loud music and mirrors too, that was really neat. They had another ride like that called the Sky Tracker I believe? It was a Trabant in the dark, but the Mind Scrambler was more popular.
@@derekfugate9052 The lines were massive for a scrambler that you would not have ridden if not for the music and lights. LOL
In the line, you were under black light so white clothes and teeth glowed.
Cool, I was 13 then, My family went every year 1984 to 1990. :) Good memories.
Wow....Myself and 3 of my high school buddies went to MB for a week on the last week of July that summer.All 4 of us had turned 21 that week..Oh man does this bring back some memories...RIP Ricky
I will never understand why someone made the decision to destroy the one thing that made Myrtle Beach unique.
Oh my gosh thank you! I miss that haunted house so much! As a kid that skull scared me so bad!
This was the last year I was at Myrtle Beach with my Dad. Love you daddy RIP
I was in elementary when I went and rode the caterpillar got so Soo scared and started crying... Won't never forget... As I got older I grew to like this and the Bob sled it's something like it and the pirate ship....
Who remembers all the of the gum stuck to the wall of the log flume tunnel, lol!
Wow! I had forgotten all about that til you mentioned it. Yuck, yes I do remember that vividly. Also remember that great tunnel had a slight drop in it, one of the best flume rides anywhere. Man I really, really miss the Pavilion!
Yep
Tearing this place down was a huge mistake! Especially since they left this part of Myrtle Beach empty for so many years until putting a zip line attraction in it's place! 😠 Sorry, but it doesn't even come close to making up for the absence of this place. It was the heart of Myrtle Beach!
Growing up in Myrtle was fun... cannot believe the destroyed such a fun place.
Myrtle still gives me the same vibes!!
This was filmed before I was born & it still looks the same as I remember it except for the Haunted Inn.
They need to bring this back.
😭 I miss this park
I was there the summer before this. I rode some crazy ride that was a completely enclosed circular spinning room with padded ceiling floor and walls. You leaned up against the walls and waited for it to spin up. Then kids started trying to crawl up to the roof or along the floor and would try to stand up only to get slammed back into the wall like a rag doll. Pretty insane, but fun to try! I'm sure it's illegal now.
EDIT: Ha, I found it @2:31 The Gravitron! I missed it the first time.
That big skeleton was so dope. Does anyone know why they took it down? I mean before the pavilion closed
I'm not so sure of the WHY, but from what I understand, The Inn used to be located on the opposite side of the park...maybe even just outside the parameters of the park? I think they basically moved the whole Inn across the park in 1992, then started renovations on it. They took away the skull and replaced it with a witch on the balcony (cannot find pictures of the witch ANYWHERE, but I remember it) and when they renovated in 1997-1998, I guess they replaced it with the bellhop, Gravesly, who was decidedly more cleaned up than the witch, and took off his head! This was always my favorite ride at the Pavilion. I just wish I could remember what it was that terrified me so much about it before they changed everything.
Lauren Lawson I was 6 in 1987 and that skull always creeped me out so much but I couldn’t look away! I loved it at the same time!
They just updated, changed it from looking like a rustic German Inn to a more modern looking hotel on the outside, made some changes inside too
heartbreaking. what were those greedy ass clowns with Burroughs and Chapin thinking? Paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
It was pretty much the worst idea ever. My family lived in surf side in the late 70’s early 80’s and my grandparents lived there and we always went to the pavilion. I loved it!
Myrtle beach isn't the same since they destroyed the Pavilion ! GODBLESS
I miss these days
I miss this place was alot fun made vacation really fun
I wonder what it was like back then going to myrtle beach vs today?
Thank you🙏
I remember the Haunted Inn a few years earlier would play Michael Jackson's song "Thiller" over and over. That song was stick in our heads all week.
Oh yeah! You'd hear it while waiting in line, and it'd play again when you went through that spinning tunnel that made you feel like you were tipping over lol
Sad that it's gone!
The water log 😢😢 my 😊childhood
Thanks for this video. Like many others, I spent my childhood in MB....memories..but too bad it's not the same.
Now it's just a field...... anybody got a time machine?
I saw a version of this with the song endless summer nights.
I just moved here in April 1987. Been here since but if I ever win big lottery money, I'm moving and hopefully my kids & grandkids will too. NC has nice beaches.
Man I miss this place
We miss you 🙏🏾
Can I use some parts of this video I’m making a What If The Pavilion Came Back From The Amusement Park Grave
Somewhere out there I'm strutting around in my Dokken shirt I bought at that rock n roll shop at Mrytle with the really pushy sales guys. Lol
RIP
When they took it all down and left mb went with them... Rip... Sooo sad...
Agree 100%
How can anyone forget the corkscrew?
B&C screwed this one up. Broadway will never replace The Pavilion
So sad to see it is gone forever.
Hi! Thank you so much for posting this. I am planning on making a non profit making video that I will only post on youtube using some clips of The Pavillon Amusement Park. Could I use some of your footage for my project? It would be amazing. I will of course give you the credit for the visuals! Your footage makes me immediately feel nostalgic and I can't seem to find other 80s videos of the Pavillon Amusement Park by night. I hope it's okay for you, best regards.
Derek - You have a real treasure here with this video.
I am in the very preliminary process of producing a comprehensive presentation of vintage Pavilion. I may have an opportunity to produce this as a public show to be presented in a Myrtle Beach venue, with the help of a local TV station. (Any proceeds from that show would be contributed to a local MB charitable cause.) It would be an honor to get your permission to use some of the scenes from your terrific video here, or even present it in full as is, since it is well edited already. Naturally, if you are available, you would be invited as an honored guest to the presentation. And you would have a say as to how your video would be integrated into the larger presentation. Are you interested in pursuing this?
- Best Regards, John Gasch
Hello John, yes that would be great if you could use the footage, I just ask you to credit me with my footage. I also have a unique video of the Pavilion Corkscrew roller coaster from 1994 that's been edited well on my channel, you are welcome to use that too, if you like. The Pavilion was my favorite seaside amusement park, it's such a lose that it's not there anymore. That Corkscrew was so popular there in the 80's and 90's, so many wonderful memories! The Pavilion was surely the place to be, and the heart of Myrtle Beach. Keep me informed on the event and presentation, I wish you the best of luck with that and would love to attend. Thank you, Derek Fugate.
They grassed paradise and put up a dumb zip line… 🎼🎼🎼
Which is gone
Biggest mistake they (Burroughs/Chapin Co.?) ever made....karma came to from that decision....
Myrtle Beach lost its charm after it was taken down. I just came back from the beach last weekend and kept trying to figure out why it felt different from when I was a kid. It just felt off.
I see McDonalds in background
I cant find any info on it, but I've seen it in some other videos
My childhood gone
I was 13
Closing this was the worst decision myrtle beach ever made I still visit but it's just not the same with out it
This gave way to the shooting and crime capital of SC.....
The Haunted Inn wasn't that scary. lol
What was the difference inside between the Haunted Inn and the 1992 remodel into Haunted Hotel by Leonard Pickel with additions by Sally in 1997? I saw a vid of a ride through the Haunted Hotel but there are no vids or pics of the inside when it was the Inn. Too bad they just trashed it after the park closed. Classic dark rides are rare. They closed the park for stupid reasons. They did relocate a few rides to Broadway at the Beach though. I suppose the Inn facade and the Haunted Hotel building are in landfills. They probably trashed the Inn facade when it was remodeled into the Hotel in 1992. I never got to visit this park or MB. Now I see the Nightmare Haunted House was rethemed to zombies, and the Ripley's Haunted Adventure is now a shooting "game" with guns. You walk through and shoot the monsters I guess, before it was a traditional walk through haunted attraction. There's also another haunted house at the Hollywood Wax Museum called Outbreak.
It was fun though!!!!