News: Myrtle Beach Pavilion icons to be saved

Posted at 1:32 PM EDT (1732 GMT)

Oct. 18th, 2006 -- Via Press Release:

Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc. of Myrtle Beach, S.C. has announced that it will preserve as many artifacts from its Myrtle Beach Pavilion Amusement Park property as possible and will reuse as many of those items as possible within the redeveloped Pavilion site and at its other properties.

“The Pavilion represents a significant part of our company’s history and it played a key role in the early development of Myrtle Beach,” said Burroughs & Chapin Vice President of Corporate Communications Pat Dowling. “We hope to be able to preserve as many park items as feasible. Our first priority will be The Attic building where we will concentrate on salvaging and storing for later reuse in our Pavilion site redevelopment everything from a healthy portion of the dance floor to unique signage and other materials.”

Burroughs & Chapin hopes to be able to move many of the amusement park’s rides to its other properties locally and out of the area. Due to their size, the company will not keep the Hurricane rollercoaster, the HydroSurge, the Log Flume, the Haunted House and the Treasure Hunt building.

The Herschell-Spillman Carousel, which dates back to 1912, and the Baden Band organ, which was first exhibited at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900, will remain in the Myrtle Beach area. The company hopes to integrate both Pavilion icons into its Pavilion site redevelopment.

“Ever since the closing of the park was announced,” Dowling said, “the two items that residents and visitors have most often requested us to save and reuse somewhere in Myrtle Beach are the carousel and the organ. To many, these two items represent the past allure and history of the Pavilion era. Our shareholders and board of directors have always felt the same way.”

Dowling said that the gradual preparation of the site for redevelopment will begin in mid-October and proceed in a deliberate but unhurried manner.

To read the complete press release visit Burroughs & Chapin.