Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Amusement park and seaside resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The Myrtle Beach Pavilion was an 11-acre pay-per-ride amusement park at the corner of 9th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It held over 40 attractions, including the wooden roller coaster Hurricane: Category 5, and stood a few blocks from Family Kingdom Amusement Park. The site was cleared for redevelopment in 2007.
The first Pavilion, a one-story building attached to the Seaside Inn, opened in 1902 and was expanded in 1908; its bricks were later reused in Conway after a fire. A two-story replacement built in 1923 burned down in 1944, and a poured-concrete Pavilion opened in 1949. The amusement park began in 1948 when a traveling carnival that had stopped in Conway for the Tobacco Festival signed with Myrtle Beach Farms and settled across Ocean Boulevard.
The pipe organ built in Germany for the Paris World Exposition arrived at the complex decades later, paired with a hand-carved carousel from 1912. Both pieces drew families who came to ride and listen until the closure in 2006.
The site now sits as open space near newer attractions such as the SkyWheel observation wheel and the Broadway at the Beach entertainment district. Visitors can walk the area and find beach access along with nearby shops and restaurants.
The park started as a temporary carnival set up for a local tobacco festival and then stayed open permanently. Over the decades, it became a regular stop for vacationers along the South Carolina coast.
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