South of The Border - I Finally Made It After All These Years - South Carolina Roadside Attraction 

Before there were tablets and cellphones to mess with in the car...we had the license plate game, and Pedros billboards. Its a shame people lost the spark that makes stops like this magical. Thanks for the video! (And hope you picked up some Blenheims ginger ale for the rest of your trip)

Definitely stayed more than once in all those hotels as a kid in the late 70’s/early 80’s. It was absolutely hoppin. Would love to see that all modernized. There’s still a place for roadside attractions in 2024.

Back around 1967 or 1968 my Dad took a notion we would visit South of The Border before heading on down to Myrtle Beach from Rock Hill. Maybe Dad picked the wrong day in June, but the place was packed!!! We spent the better part of the day wandering around, riding the various rides and buying souvenirs. We even met the Founder/Owner! I recall standing in line, around 6PM, to get a chance to eat at the restaurant with the sombrero. We finally got back on the road and made it to Myrtle Beach about 10PM, if memory serves, where we checked into one of the now long gone "Splinter Village" motels where we basically crashed and burned until late the next morning when it was already about 100 degrees! I think, in the end, we actually enjoyed South of The Border more than we did the beach. Sadly, it was only after we moved back home to our beloved home state of South Carolina in 2019, that The Lovely Bride and I got the chance to visit South of The Border again only to discover that darn near everything was closed down and/or run down. Seeing your video gave me hope that things are looking up based on the fresh paint and such. Anyway, The Lovely Bride and I are planning on driving down that way from Bennettsville this summer and refreshing our respective childhood memories of a simpler time.

I spent my 3rd honeymoon here. Been goin back ever since. Probably 30 times, and I never seen the splash pad thing. You did a good job on the video man. Thank you

loved finding the all of the billboards as a kid.. we would always stop for ice cream..

South Of The Border has changed a lot since I was a kid. By the time my family got to this point we were all too excited about almost being at the beach to take much time to enjoy South Of The Border. I hope you enjoyed your first visit. Thanks Timothy.

Sir you are a trooper. I did the same drove for over 10 years from New England to Myrtle Beach and saw those signs for 100 miles. I stopped once and it was enough for me. Never again. Hopefully it got better.

I remember as a kid I would see miles and miles of those signs before Interstate was built.

This place has been around for as long as I’ve been born. I remember visiting this place back in 98. Still looks the same. All the family would go down there when I was younger and buy all the fireworks they could. I do enjoy visiting Myrtle Beach that also holds memories as well. Thankyou Timothy for the video.

So nice to see this. It sure brought back some real good memories. Our family would stop here on our trip from Md to Florida. As a young kid I just could not wait to get here ! Been many years. Planning to move to NC in a few years. If all goes well I will definitely come to this place once again. Thank you for a wonderful video !

As a kid in the 50's, I can't tell you the number of times we would drive down to SOB from Northern VA to buy (loud) fireworks. Never ate there, never bought anything there other than the Fireworks. Wasn't the easiest trip back then, but always worth it. After I married a NC girl, we would go down to see her Aunt who lived in Dillon. She and her husband owned the Chevrolet dealership until the husband passed. Places like this don't do much anymore, and are generally drive by areas. A shame really, that people today missed out on a different time. Their loss. Thanks for the memories Timothy.

Fantastic place

South of the Border is Awesome. I Love That place. You did a great review of it.

That is a long time to wait to see SOB. Glad you got to it!

Blenheim ginger ale owns it now. They produced ginger ale over in Blenheim SC , just a few miles west

A LOT OF MEMORIES!❤

I've never been here. I need to go check it out. Doesn't look as busy as I'd thought it would be.😢

Cheap airfare did a lot of places like this in. Killed off the NY/New England-to-Florida traffic and the people going from the Research Triangle area to Myrtle Beach'll only stop for a few minutes and grab lunch at most.

awesome place. actually looks very clean ya think they got the funds to make it perfect. probably not.

Not very lively. What time of day is this? Thanks Timothy for the walk

Good job! It would be nice if the state put some real money into the place and made it a place everyone wanted to stop at.

Yes with people being able to Fly into MB it's probably lost 90% of it's customer base.

They need a large security or Police presence there to make families feel safer.

In all honesty it was probably tainted since I had been traveling for many hours and it just didn't seem very safe when I was there.

wow this dump is still there i stopped there in 1967

"REV at the Border," you finally made it, Timothy! South of the Border! 🤣🤣 That place has been a true hot mess for decades, beginning in the early to mid 1990s! 😩😩 It now certainly is the land that time forgot! They start advertising it on large, colorful Mexico-driven, corney billboards with "Pedro" hundreds of times beginning around Richmond, VA area on I-95 and ending upon your flabbergasted arrival at South of the Border in Hamer SC. Many a person's mouth has dropped wide open in disappointment, amusement, and shock when they've finally arrived there and began to see/experience the place's "unique" offerings and tackyness. Talk about false advertisement. However, the place seems to be a popular place for some, as many newly married couples still honeymoon there and couples have been doing so since the 1960s. Go figure, right? In the 1960s, South of the Border was a much larger place that was very nice, well-kept, and extremely popular and busy all the time. Back then, it was the largest employer in Dillion County, SC, employing well over 700++ people. But, I digress.....

I bet the woke crowd would love this place!

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