Happy Birthday Myrtle Beach Boardwalk!
The 10th anniversary of the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk is the subject of our Photos of the Week. Using plastic beach buckets and shovels, city officials and business leaders broke ground on the boardwalk in September 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession. Check out this photo retrospective at https://www.cityofmyrtlebeach.com/…/photos_of…/pow051520.php.
Construction on the $6.5 million project wrapped in the spring of 2010, with grand opening ceremonies 10 years ago, on M...ay 15, 2010. Guest star Buddy Valastro, TLC’s “Cake Boss,” baked an enormous, flip-flop-shaped cake for the occasion, which everyone enjoyed. The National Shag Dance Champions performed, and thousands celebrated the project’s completion.
The boardwalk was built in three sections: a traditional, raised wooden boardwalk from Pier 14 to Plyler Park; a wide entertainment section from Plyler Park to Eighth Avenue North; and a meandering oceanfront promenade from Eighth Avenue North to First Avenue. Initially, the boardwalk stretched 1.2 miles, from pier to pier. Later additions have extended the boardwalk to 16th Avenue North and a total of 1.3 miles in length.