Left: Jim Wallace Sr., 16, at the family home, 25 East Columbia St., in 1933. Below: Jim Wallace Sr., Wrightsville Beach, circa 1960s. 37 streetcar or walked across the trestle crossing Banks Channel to Harbor Island, where their cars were parked. The children also took the streetcar to town every day for school. They trudged across the trestle and footbridge crossing Banks Channel, over the causeway spanning Harbor Island, across the Intracoastal Waterway, down to McCumber Station, then across the trestle over Bradley Creek. Just across the trestle was a little fishing community, Seagate, that lay along the creek. “I can remember well when you’d take the streetcar down from Wilmington, and you got to Seagate, if the conductor www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM IMAGES COURTESY OF JIM WALLACE SR.
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