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This caught my eye in the shuttered old Oliver's Lodge Restaurant in Murrells Inlet South Carolina and thought it was pretty cool looking.It closed down a few years ago and I think a bank has it now as a foreclosed property. Mickey Spillane it is said used to eat here and had a house in Murrells Inlet. I used to eat there as a kid and later drank at the bar with my college sweetheart.
Don
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The original part of Oliver's was built around 1860 as the summer home of LT. Gov. Plowden C.J. WEston, the owner of Laurel Hill Plantation. Laurel Hill was a rice plantation sitting on the Waccamaw River and was eventually incorporated into Brookgreen Gardens. The house was actually constructed at Laurel Hill and moved to its present site in sections. The property was later purchased by J. Homer Woodward who sold it to Emma Limehouse Oliver in 1901. Emma married W.L. (Capt.Bill) Oliver around 1895. Capt. Bill was steamboat captain ferrying passengers between the Inlet and Conway on the Waccamaw River. Capt. Bill also began the commercial and charter deep sea fishing industry now so important to the Inlet. In 1910, Capt. Bill and Emma opened their home to fishermen and guest as a lodge and restaurant serving family~style meals and Oliver's Lodge was born. They continued operating as a lodge and restaurant until Emma's death in 1939.
The second generation of Olivers to run the business was Capt. Mack Oliver and his wife Tina (Teeny) Vereen Oliver. Capt. Mack continued the tradition started by his father and ran a fishing boat named the "Anne~Howe" from Oliver's. They continued as a lodge until 1947 when Capt. Mack and Teeny began serving cooked to order dishes from a menu. In the early 1940's, the U.S. military used areas around the Inlet as a target range for planes from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter. A crash boat operation was headquartered off the "government dock," a large dock located approximately where Capt. Dick's Marina now sits. The servicemen stationed here used Oliver's Lodge, not only to dock three PT boats, but the men themselves stayed and ate at the Lodge. ...Show more →
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