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cells of the old Wrightsville
Beach jail on Waynick Boulevard,
or shopping at Newell’s depart-ment
store.
“Going over there was like
going to heaven,” L.T. says of
Newell’s at the corner of Cause-way
Drive and South Lumina
Avenue.
As a teenager Melba enjoyed
roller skating at Lumina
Pavilion and going to the Crest
Theatre to catch the latest
Hollywood release, she told
Wrightsville Beach Magazine in
2008. L.T. frequently drove his
car without a license and would
often drive out to the end of
Johnnie Mercers Pier.
“You really had to entertain
yourself back then,” L.T. says.
“From September to just about
June, Wrightsville Beach was
dead. There was nothing going
on. The number of year-round
residents back then, you could
count them on one hand.”
L.T. says the only water avail-able
at beach cottages was well
water and, quite often, it was
very brackish. So Luke made an
arrangement with Charlie Fells,
owner of Middle of the Island,
to tap into Charlie’s well.
“My dad and Charlie were old
card-playing buddies, fishing
buddies. Charlie had to have a
very deep well for the Middle
of the Island because he needed
it for water, for cooking and
drinks. Daddy talked him into
letting us use the water out of
his deep well. Then Daddy and I
dug a ditch from the fish market
all the way to the commercial
building and we put plastic pipe,
rolled it out and that was the
water pipe that was used for our
water system. We’re probably
suffering from some strange
disease today as a result,” L.T.
says, laughing.
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