Old Myrtle Beach Pavilion rides find new home

Several of the rides and attractions from the Myrtle Beach Pavilion amusement park will have a new inland home.

• Burroughs & Chapin said it is moving the historic carousel and German organ, nine rides like the Caterpillar and Pirate Ship and some of the old park’s midway games from their old oceanfront location to Broadway at the Beach, a shopping and entertainment area a couple of miles from the beach.

• They will be placed at the Pavilion Nostalgia Park, a year-round attraction scheduled to open this summer, the company said.

Moving the rides and other attraction to Broadway at the Beach allows families to continue the tradition of visiting the Pavilion in an area that is easy to get to, Burroughs & Chapin President and CEO Doug Wendel said.

• “If popular demand during the last year when we were announcing the closure and we went into the farewell season is any indication it’ll be phenomenally received,” Wendel said.

• The Pavilion Nostalgia Park also will include a building to commemorate the Pavilion’s place in Myrtle Beach history.

Source: The Associated Press