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The first boardwalk in what would later be called Myrtle Beach connected its first hotel, the Sea Side Inn, and the first of several pavilions. [11] Myrtle Beach had a wooden boardwalk in the 1930s. After being upgraded with concrete in 1940, with plans to expand it delayed by World War II, [12] it was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1954.
The wooden boardwalk was ultimately entirely replaced with concrete. [12] When originally planned, the boardwalk was to extend almost 9 miles (14 km) from Beach 9th to Beach 169th Streets, connecting with the boardwalk in Jacob Riis Park. The boardwalk was intended to be 80 feet (24 m) wide and an average of 14 feet (4.3 m) above the beach.
Ocean City, a notable dry town, first built its wooden boardwalk in 1880 from the Second Street wharf to Fourth Street and West Avenue. In 1885, plans were made to extend the boardwalk the entire length of the beach after the first amusement pavilion opened on 11th Street into the 2.5-mile (4 km) length it is today.
Breezy all-American boardwalks are not just a Jersey thing, though the Garden State is well represented. From Atlantic City to Venice Beach, America's boardwalks are iconic vacation destinations.
A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, and were commonly found in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th ...
A boardwalk (alternatively board walk, boarded path, or promenade) is an elevated footpath, walkway, or causeway typically built with wooden planks, which functions as a type of low water bridge or small viaduct that enables pedestrians to better cross wet, muddy or marshy lands. [1] Such timber trackways have existed since at least Neolithic ...
The park became part of a larger plan in the 1980s to renovate the city's run down South Pointe area. Renovation plans were first drawn up in the city's 1995 master plan, but it wasn't until 2008 that the park underwent a major renovation program. The Hargreaves Associates, of New York City, were hired to redesign the park. The renovation was ...
The boardwalk's planks are set in a modified chevron design, running at 45-degree angles between two longitudinal wooden axes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The diagonal pattern was intended to "facilitate ease in walking", according to American Lumberman magazine, [ 5 ] while the 6-foot-wide (1.8 m) wooden axes were designed for chairs to be rolled down the ...