Great video. Grew up in Wilmington, 1943-1967, graduated college, took married, and went in the Army all in within 3 weeks. School was let out when the USS North Carolina was moored, think it was in the fall of 1962. What memories of a great place to live.
3:00. Look at that building on the right that is dark brick for the first two thirds and lighter brick for the top third. Counting from the top left window, move down 5 floors and to the right 3 windows. That was my apartment from 1982 through 1985. It is a two bedroom apartment and the rent back then was $425. I really enjoyed my time in Wilmington, NC.
Wilmington has beautiful residential homes with Southern homes dating back to 1800s. Many of these homes have been used in movies and some actors rented the homes for temperary housing while working their craft in a movie production.
One of my best friends from college was from Wrightsville Beach. Overall, NC was about the best state in the Union. The northern invasion is rapidly lowering its quality, though.
Cheapest hotel accommodation on the NC coast in the summer will run you more than $100...and that room would be horrible. One of the priciest on-season beach vacations you can take, but that state has top-5, world-class beaches.
You couldn't have picked a better place to stay than Wrightsville Beach. My husband and I met in a town south of Wilmington, Southport. We always went to Wilmington when we were dating. That was 50 years ago this month. If you were there in the springtime, the Oleander trees would be in bloom, and I would suggest going down Oleander Drive. It is quite a sight to behold. Definitely a beautiful part of the country. It will always hold a special place in my heart. ❤️
Thank you, but unfortunately he has been gone almost 15 years. We were in it forever from our prospective, but illness happens. You and Nicole grab every minute that you can together.
I am sitting here in India and watching your videos for a while. Just love the feeling of watching these American cities and small towns from the comforts of my living room. Thanks for your efforts.
I really like touring old WWII ships, need to add the North Carolina to my list. It looks great with that paint job and it's cool to see the Kingfisher floatplane up on the deck. That beach looks terrific but you're right about the water temp, looking online it's 55 degrees...brrrr! The Holiday Inn looks pretty nice...I currently have enough rewards points for a free night, so I could afford to splurge on dinner! (I'll pass on breakfast though 🙂)
Friday morning and the sun is coming up so had to watch this before cracking on with the day. The first building you showed in the city, "Love" I think it was, love the stonework. For a Friday morning it seems very polite and I can see why they use it for filming. The houses are gob smackingly wonderful, the whole area looks clean and well maintained. Hotel looks very good even if the food is a bit pricey but you have the sea to look over. It looked like a mill pond but then reverted to the Atlantic I remember from over the pond, grey and wild. Wonderful start to the day and thank you for another interesting tour and making me try to think how many years ago I was lying in a pool with a beer. Be safe and see you in the next one.
Thanks for the tour. Prices really weren't bad for beach front stay. I always loved the southern lifestyle, and this little city seems to have it all !
I know you saw my post from your Biloxi, MS visit. All of that still remains. Great work. I actually worked at Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington for about 16 years. My wife and I grew up in Oak Island and Boiling Springs Lakes not far from Wilmington. We moved to Biloxi and the Gulf Coast because the film industry is in its infant stages of being developed there. I witnessed and worked in Wilmington as it was growing in the film and television there. Thank you again for showing and presenting, good or bad, sites some might never see. Safe travels.
Well first I want to say, GOOD to see you again Nicole!!! Been a while!! And now man what a Beautiful City!! And as always very informative as always!!! So you two are great people and I always enjoy all your work you do!!! Stay safe stay healthy and always me HAPPY 😊!!!
Thank you for coming to North Carolina Wilmington is a beautiful al City so is Carolina Beach and some of the other Islands wished you Nicole kryptek the trolley tour are the horse-drawn carriage ttour Hope you can come back again and visit North Carolina again
Hi, I appreciate your videos. I ❤ learning all of your history “tidbits”; very much a fun time to learn more things that I did in High school. I love your appreciation of older homes and not “cookie cutter.” Please review Richmond. The Forest Hill and Westover Hills neighborhoods off of the James River. Stunning.
That is a sweet suite! Wilmington is a beautiful city. UNC-Wilmington is a great school. You did a great job of capturing the city and the beach. NC has some great beach towns.
I live just north of Wilmington (Jacksonville) .. work from Wilmington.. and stay most of my summer on topsail island .) Surf city.. enjoy the friend laid back way of life..been here 1986 from Indiana .. north Carolina has more military forces than any other state in America.. semper Fi marines..
First time I shall Wilmington was 1971 as a young Marine. Way diff only highway 17. But very cool beach town. Laid back. I’ve been numerous time again always enjoy being there.
I like Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Been many times. During Summer they offer Trolley Tours of all the Historical homes and area. Not far up the road from Southport, you can take a Ferry Boat ride over to Bald Head Island which is nice as well where the only form of transportation on the Island are golf carts. Very natural area.
I drove from Raleigh to. Wilmington regular for work installs. Nice area and town from what I remember. Hurricanes and humidity though, I moved to back to the dry and high in the Rockies where working outdoors was not miserable.
Awesome as usual...lovin' the drone shots and riding along to learn US geography...what you don't know is that I'm looking for a new place to live and you are helping immensely. Thanks!!!
I often thought if anyone else was researching for settling somewhere else. I must have fallen in love with at least 50 small towns that Joe & Nic have shared with us. Good luck Charliespider 😃. This is an awesome channel.
Wilmington is gorgeous ! I love the houses and the Cape Fear River. Gorgeous downtown too. Thank you for all of the trivia. Resort town looks nice too. Love the drone footage! Great hotel! Wow!
I'm in possession of a jigsaw puzzle of that very ship that was given to my family many years ago by my late grandfather who had visited that ship/museum. He bought it from their gift shop. It was one of the last gifts, if not the last one, given to my family by him before he passed away from cancer.
Nice 👍 in a lot of town's in Colorado you have Hot Spring's Pools and natural where you can be outside in them year round. Usually each pool is a different temperature 💕
I’m from Lincoln, UK and I’ve been Wilmington twice. I got engaged here on the river walk and I kayaked on the big river way down to the house where they filmed Dawson’s Creek (it killed my shoulders!). It’s my favourite place I’ve been in the USA!
I came to Wilmington with some college friends on a fishing trip back in 1969, got separated from them and here we are in 2023 and I still haven't gone back home. I refuse to leave until I find my "Fishing Buddies" LOL. I love living here.
Looks like some good surf fishing right there in front of your hotel room.I found out the best way to surf fish is throw a cast net into the surf waves . And what ever you catch in the cast net put it on your hook and cast it a little further.
I live North of Wilmington about 50 miles to be exact and have always lovedWilmington. There is a great heal of history in that town and those old homes date back into the 1700’s It is a college town and there is lots of old money there.
@@brotherel8225no, it's just like Winston Salem. Old money earned from Tobacco manufacturers, snacks crackers Nabisco, Hanes Manufactures , Texas Pete, and I am sure I am missing a few. Winston Salem was the only stop between Fl and NYC for many years.
Awesome area ! Fancier motel than I can afford but I enjoyed seeing it. I stayed at the Holiday Express in Amarillo Tx a couple weeks ago. Clean and nice . $104 / night and the same breakfast you had was with the room ! My room didn't have a view of the Ocean though ! 8 ) Would love to tour that Battle Ship ! Ya'll drive safe !
You're very much welcome...it's just so simple you do it, but we'll enough to obtain those good and important information...I didn't realize how decated our country is...soooo sad...Blessings to you and your family....keep up with the good job and keep humble....Alwayssss
Surprised to find you visited my home town. Much different back in the 50s and 60s. Yep I watched them bring the battleship NC in back in 1961. Wrightsville beach isn't quite the same as it was back in the 60s and 70s. Little too snobby now... Thanks for dropping by..
Sold on Wilmington and the hotel. Impressive to say the least. In the summer booking must be expensive and difficult. None the less, Looks like a fun place.
The bar area used to do karaoke on Thursday nights long ago. A couple who was staying there had a bit much to drink and decided to go at it in the hot tub. I guess they thought no one could see them since it was dark. Fun nights and memories at the Sunspree.
It is wonderful to see some of the older towns able to keep their beauty. The homes, the streets and the different things in town that add to the beauty. and I imagine in the south and in the North East it is really something to see with the very old architecture giving it that something really special. So many beautiful towns, especially the smaller ones, have been so devastated by the outsourcing of industry overseas, leaving them a hollow shell of what they used to be and robbing them of the charm and leaving the blight. And then, with the advent of malls and box stores in the outter areas of many towns and small cities, that has also left a blighted mark on the downtowns and older areas that were left to rot rather then keeping them and their history. The big irony now is that the malls and big box stores that drained many towns for 60+ years are now left to be hollow shells themselves. And many creative people have turned back to the old areas to rejuvinate them and make them cool again. Sadly, that only with a small percent of these towns. Many are just dying away as the new ghost towns as people move out.
Truth! But the blame fall on the government! If you saw how thing were back in the 1970-1980. Most of these towns were really busy , but after the government push out the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and Other companies that these people work in. It destroyed the towns! You can blame WALMART for destroyed the downtown section. Even Wal-Mart had empty buildings in some of those small cities. Moving around and leaving behind a empty building .
Looks like a fantastic trip in a beautiful city. Not a fan of Holiday Inn myself for the same reasons but that is a very nice hotel, love the room and looking right out on the ocean makes it top notch! I would stay there. 👌🏼
It has been awhile since I've been to Wilmington. We would drive down to visit my brother-in-law and his wife. It was a shortdrive as we lived in Goldsboro , North Carolina. The beach is nice but it gets crowded early. Check out the courthouse.
Wilmington seems wonderful! Nice, clean, well-maintained downtown, not alot of crime, no homeless problem, beautiful beaches, close to Raleigh, and very peaceful. It’s a hidden gem in North Carolina for sure!
No homeless problem? Carolina Beach along with other localities fought against Wave Transit providing bus routes because of the homeless population and is why it's so dangerous trying to ride a bicycle from Wilmington to Carolina Beach or vice versa. Unless something has changed recently and I mean four years since I left for family matters I don't think ignoring the industry on homelessness helps.
Gotta remember that Wilmington is an old city. Pirates lived there before general population took over. Writesville Beach is expensive compared to Carolina or Topsail beaches. Just to the north is Figure 8 Island. It's private and owners are politicians, entertainers, and old money. The Trask and Cameron families built Figure 8. With UNCW college local, the younger peeps keep the night life hopping. With the addition of I-40 interstate Wilmington exploded. DeLarentis movie studios opened in the 1980's. Movies like Firestarter and Maximum Overdrive were filmed there in the early times. I lived in Carolina Beach until the traffic became so aggravating I moved north to Carteret County where it's more laid back. Great Video
Imagine that I was born and raised here I’ve watched this place go through so many drastic changes from one way streets, dirt roads, Wool Worth , Toms Drugs Store , Reeds Jewelry, the Movie Theaters , We have lots of homeless people they are scattered across Wilmington living wherever they can sit you don’t know anything about this place you’re only in the decent areas of town you haven’t crossed over to the other side because you probably were told about it I hate when people are given misinformation about a city only to get people to come visit the money making areas this place isn’t what y’all think it is don’t be fooled explore and come and visit for yourself don’t allow someone else to lure you in with partial videos they can’t tell you if they don’t live there themselves our beaches are ok they too are money traps also I’m not knocking this place I’m just knocking how they are handling things here and lying to the public and the visitors and people who are moving here they are be careful who you vote into these chairs for mayors, council members and senators
I've been watching your channel for awhile now. I was surprised to see you came to the city where I live. I'm glad y'all enjoyed it here. I live on the other side of town near Carolina Beach...a little bit different vibe than Wrightsville Beach. I'm curious if the people in the pool were Coast Guard or Lifeguards... interesting. Btw we do have homeless folks here.
I've driven across the drawbridge many times on my way to Kure Beach. It's a beautiful old southern City but very expensive to live there as I understand. R
