This video made me cry. I grew up in Norfolk va and my family and I had many happy visits to Nags head. We fished on Jeanette pier, swam, had great times. As a teenager, my best friend and I and other friends frequented the Casino. What a blast we had. Now my family is gone and to look at this video made me sad because it brought back memories
A year-by-year slide show from the early 70s to early 80s would be interesting when it morphed from primarily mom & pop motels to primarily rentals. I'd like to see a photo of the Peabody's T-Shirts store.
one of the best new shows on Broadway in the last few decades. so fun, so many ultra talented kids, such a fun score by Sir Webber. saw it on Bway with a stand in for Dewey. physically he was the opposite of Brightman...skinny, blond, short. but he nailed it.
The good ole days.....been going to the outer banks since 1965....now....thanks to zealous money hounds....nothing but fast food & mini hotels(single family homes(rolling eyes!) with 35 bedrooms & 38 baths!).... The natural beauty is almost gone....very, very sad......northerners have _ucked it all up!!!
YES! i dont know if this video was taken off of youtube for a bit but i couldn't find it for a while, BUT NOW IT'S BACK!!! seriously, one of my favorite videos on the internet, this video is gold.
Thanks for the note - I haven't been to Nags Head in quite a while. I wasn't too excited about the direction it was going. It is sad to hear that more of that history is disappearing.
Thanks for the comment - I live far away these days, so I haven't been there in a very long time. It was, however, a very important place during my childhood and I cherish the memories.
We went there on a family trip around July 1971 when I was 5 & I had a blast! We drove down the coast from NY. We stayed in a small, cute Cottage or Hotel & those awesome Sand Dunes really stuck out! I remember seeing this band perform under a Tent one evening with this girl playing a Tambourine-it was intense! It'd be interesting to know what those musicians are doing now but this is a great vid,great place I have to re-visit before I die!
Patrick, great video of your trip through the Grand Canyon and it looks like you had a fantastic time! I have been lucky enough to take three seven day trips with Tour West and had a blast each time including my first trip with the founder of Tour West Frank and later his son who's name I do not remember.
@@Shindig99 Patrick, I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip. It's to bad your trip was late into the drought, we had higher water flows and very cold water. On my last trip I was able to take my two daughter's who were in their late teen's and we had a blast. I'm now 69 and planning on one more trip this coming summer. I must say that every trip I took was the best vacation that I have ever been on, have fun on your next trip!
Sea Spray Hotel? Sand Dollar I remember. Evans Market. We could catch big crabs off the docks are Oregon Inlet by lowering a string with a piece of fish on it. We were there two weeks in August from 1956 to add bout 1962. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for your comment - I remember when after September, there were only one or two restaurants that were open and only a couple of stores. You had to go to Manteo if you wanted to buy more than the essentials.
@@Shindig99 That sounds like the old days. I remember our first cottage way down near the turn to Oregon Inlet, the water from the kitchen spicket shocked us, so my brothers and I would make a conduit by holding hands to shock the last in line. We climbed Jockey Ridge barefoot and that burned. I think the Ink Spots played at the Casino. Dad and I lucked into a school of blues surf fishing in Hatteras.
That was really neat. I started going down to the outer banks in the mid-70's as a young teen. So many of those pictures bring back such wonderful memories ... bonfires on the beach, riding our bikes up the middle of Rt 12 into Duck; the unbelievable stars you could see on a clear night ... no lights around to inhibit your view. No TV, just swimming, fishing, bike rides, ice cream and Dowdy's amusement park for a special "night out". Very special memories. I'm blessed to have known the Banks that way.
Old memories linger, but the place is long gone ! The best times were in the 50's 60's ,and even up to the 70's! Now it's just a well manicured ,and congested tourist trap !
My dad bought a house here around 1976 and growing up I spent every summer in Nags Head. It's changed so much since then, but it's still beautiful and is my favorite place in the world.
I wonder how it feels when you preform "Your in the band" as Dewy Finn from school of rock on this stage then a couple of years later come back to the exact same stage and preform "The whole being dead thing" as Beetljuice from Beetlejuice the musical
First visit was in the late 70s. I go back every year. (sometimes twice a year) Newman's remains my all time favorite place. My daughter picked up a fish made of sand there and it is upstairs right now. Things have changed so much. Lots of "monopoly" houses on the beach now... but still my favorite place to go. Thank you for posting!
