RENN WILLIAMSON
“IT is a beautiful bridge. As
you are coming onto the
beach with the high rise, you
can see the ocean and across
the beach and Topsail Sound,” says
Wilmington orthodontist Greg
Richardson, who owns a property
on the island. “It is much more
scenic and awe inspiring as you
are coming onto the island than at
ground level before with what we
called the Old Pickle Bridge.”
Richardson is speaking of the old
Surf City swing or turning bridge,
which was built in the 1950s and
slowed car traffic many times each
day to let boats pass.
“My family called it the Pickle
Bridge because it was green,”
Richardson says.
Hundreds of residents and
island visitors loved the swinging
bridge. The thumpity-thump of
driving across it was a signal to
sleeping children that they did not
have to ask one more time, “Are
we there yet?”
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