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75 Years Scrapbook
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Written by Dremea Hill
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My husband started coming to Morehead City back in the early 80's to fish. We had two young sons and always took them to Myrtle Beach where everyone from WV took their families. After each one of his "fishing" trips he would beg me to give up our annual Myrtle Beach trip and come to Morehead City, with its quaint shops and delicious seafood restaurants. Finally after much persuasion, I agreed and the rest is history! We never returned to Myrtle Beach and have been to Atlantic Beach ever since. One of the first shops I went in was Dee Gee's gifts and everyone back home received gifts and have been receiving them ever since. We have now purchased a condo on the beach and enjoy coming ever chance we get and I always make Dee Gee's a priority stop! I am glad you have kept this business going. Happy 75th Anniversary!
--Dremea Hill, Madison, WV. |
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75 Years Scrapbook
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Written by Karen Dodd
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My family had all their artwork framed by DG at the little store on the side street across from Roses. Little did we know that Russell's Glassworks did the real framing back then.
I "graduated" from being a Sanitary waitress when I worked up the courage to ask for a job at Dee Gees. How I dreaded the bus load of Camp Seagull campers, but it was better than coming home from work smelling like a hushpuppy.
I worked in the little shop over the water by the Sanitary when the Voorhees and Armstrong's owned it. Back then I worked with Jean Broadhurst and Carolyn McIntyre. When I took inventory on index cards I had to make sure all the teapot handles were turned to the right! Filling the stick candy jars and replacing the Carolina Soaps on display was a daily chore not to mention straightening the greeting cards and book piles. When wedding shoppers came, I had to gift-wrap everything from glasses and candlestick holders to lamps. The big ticket items were the Pawley's Island hammocks and figurehead of Annabel Lee! We used slick red wrapping paper but traded off for the newsprint bags and wrap in the mid60's.
I was promoted to run Dee Gee's Beach Hut around 1965-69. It was across from Dom-El's on the Atlantic Beach causeway. An old Coast Guard boathouse was converted and it was beside the Barnacle, an old Menhaden fishboat that ran aground and became a bar! --Karen Dodd, Author of Shifting Sands
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Written by Nicki Leone
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Our Story  I was the fall semester of my junior year when it hit me that there was actually an end to college and after that the beginning of, well, of something else. I immediately ran to Kenda’s room and when the hyperventilation subsided asked, “What could I possibly be happy doing for the rest of my life?”
“Hmm.” She responded. “I don’t know. I was thinking about owning a bookstore.” “Sounds good to me,” I said. “I’m game.” And perhaps I just said it because I needed some sort of direction, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I actually would be happy spending my life doing that. We began to make plans. |
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Written by Nicki Leone
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Dee Gee's celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2009. As one of the oldest businesses in Carteret County and as far as we can tell, the oldest continually-operating bookstore in North Carolina, Dee Gee’s and Gifts has been a mainstay for locals and tourists alike.
Dee Gee’s was established in 1934 by Mr. D.G. Bell and his mother, Madie Bell of Morehead City, NC. The original store, which burned in 1961, was on Seventh Street, two blocks west of its current location. The store moved to Evans Street into the original Sanitary Fish Market building on the water. Ed and Millie Voorhees bought Dee Gee’s in 1961 from Mr. Bell’s estate. In January 1990, the shop expanded to a larger building across the street. Doug and Jane Wolfe purchased the store in 1992. In 2007, Cathy Stanley bought the store from the Wolfes. Then, in 2010, Kathy Chalk, who had been the store's manager, took over ownership.
Dee Gee’s has offered quality books and gifts to several generations of residents and visitors to the Crystal Coast. So often middle-aged adults remark that they bought the same kind of candy sticks we sell today when they were children visiting with their parents and even grandparents! In celebration of our 75 years, we invite folks to write in and share their fondest Dee Gee’s memories…so start jotting down your thoughts…we’d love to hear from you. |
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