Isle Of Palms Magazine Summer/Fall 2018

26 www.IsleOfPalmsMagazine.com | www.ILoveIOP.com | www.IOPmag.com [ We Were Isle of Palms ] Magwood recalls that the next morning, Capers Inlet was over a mile-and-a-half wide. His family sold Capers for $10,000 in 1916, but Magwood couldn’t stay away for long, eventually settling back on Sullivan’s Island. The Cooper River Bridge put his freight business under in 1929, so he went into fishing, selling jumbo river shrimp for 3 cents a pound, head- off. He was the first fisherman to bring ocean shrimp into Mount Pleasant in 1930. “The creeks were so full of shrimp in those days, we could get a thousand pounds in no time,” he recalled. NELL PALMER BUNCH BornNov. 18, 1897 Bunch was born in Atlanta and moved to the Lowcountry in 1916 with her new husband. It was around this time that she began summering in Isle of Palms. “I remember the beautiful pavilion that Mr. James Sottile had. Everybody mentions the fireplaces when they speak of it. These were enormous, but nobody ever talks about the dance floor. It was simply beautiful. It was waxed every week with no bathing suits or food ever allowed in the place. …There was [also] a long boardwalk and people would dress up and promenade right down to the water. … Mr. Sottile had a mule and a rake … that he used to comb the beach with two to three times a week. He kept that beach very clean,” she said. In 1937, they were one of the first families to live on the island year-round when her husband built a “two-story monstrosity,” in her words, on Breach Inlet, surprising her with the idea that they could live above it and run a restaurant downstairs. Bunch, who had never cooked for anyone outside the family, defied the odds and grew it into a reputable restaurant, at first serving sandwiches to fishermen, then specializing in chicken dinners – 75 cents for a complete meal – made from chickens she raised. CALL ANDREA ROGERS for more information: 843.532.3010 www.AndreaRogersRealtor.com WATERWAY AND GOLF COURSE VIEWS! 2907 Waterway Blvd, Isle of Palms, SC $950,000 3 beds 3 full, 1 half baths 2,552 sq ft 0.23 acres lot