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beachbites Above: Beach Car, Station I, Wrightsville Beach. Right: Early trolley bridge over the Inland Waterway at Wrightsville Sound, 1928. View of two houses at Wrightsville Beach after a storm, 1929. “I can remember well when you’d take the streetcar down from Wilmington, and you got to Seagate, if the conductor didn’t have a passenger, he’d try to gather steam and just pour it on and sail right over that old rickety trestle,” remembers my grandfather. Shell Road, Wrightsville Turnpike, 1900. George Clark fishes off the porch of his childhood home, east of Ocean Avenue. 39 www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM IMAGE COURTESY OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY LIBRARY IMAGE COURTESY OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY LIBRARY IMAGE COURTESY OF BILL CREASY AND GEORGE CLARK

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• Table of Contents
• Up Front
• Beach Bites
• Thinking Outside the Lunchbox
• Special Advertising Section: Health and Wellness
• She Rocks On
• Must Haves
• Big Daddy’s Wrightsville Beach Memories
• Wrightsville at the Root
• Art Treatise
• Rowin’ on the River
• Special Advertising Section: Financial Profiles
• The Lady was a Spy
• Things to Do
• Beach Bungalow Glow
• Social Seens
• Tide Chart

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