ELIZABETH  CITY  - The WATERFRONT Today!

                                                                                                                                   'ROSE BUDDIES'

Many of us remember ‘walking’ a lot in the 50’s!  Walking to today’s generation is somewhat out of vogue…….but we tended to observe more of our surroundings in those days, while walking, as we also spoke to and got to know people along the way!  Read on as to observations by one of our ECHS 50’s Alumni, Jim Shannonhouse…..

           “Many places and streets have changed over the years.”  While walking “from Mom’s on Griffin St.,  

           down Main St. to Water St. and then across from Stalk’s building is a real ice Boat landing the city  

           has built.  There are park benches and a nice walkway that leads down to Grouper’s next door.”      

           (Our Reunion gathering site, Oct. 4^{th, 2003}) 

  “Every evening before dusk, Fred Fearing Sr. drives down and has wine and cheese for the boat people that have come for the night.  He and Joe Kramer, Sr. started ‘Rose Buddies’ to welcome boat people to ECity.  Willard Scott, NBC Weatherman donated a fancy golf cart that Fred uses to take people around town and to carry his afternoon party supplies.  From there I walk back up Church Street to Griffin and back home.  There is very little that has changed along that route except the immediate downtown area.  The old train station at the end of W. Main St. has been turned into a trendy restaurant.  I haven’t been inside but I hear that it is nice!” 

        And the waterfront, at the end of Main St. has always held a special memory in the Webmaster’s heart….Look at it today!

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