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Updated August 18, 2025
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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 5: All Costs

August 26th, 1950 was the night that changed Myrtle Beach. It changed Charlie and the impact reverberated throughout the south.
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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 4: Mr. Nobody From Nowhere

There’s much mystery surrounding Charlie Fitzgerald and who he was before Myrtle Beach. Before he was Charlie Fitzgerald he was Lucious Rucker. So who is Lucious Rucker?
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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 3: Power Cedes to Power

Charlie Fitzgerald loaned money to white folks in town to bend the rules in his favor. How long until he became a target?
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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 2: Sin City

Dance at Charlie’s Place wasn’t just dance; it captured the spirit of an era defined by both segregation and creativity. When white audiences arrived for the music, these moments sparked shifts that transformed Myrtle Beach and resonated far beyond its borders.
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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 1: Whispering Pines

At the height of segregation when everywhere else was divided, Black and white people danced together to the biggest R&B acts of the time at Charlie’s Place.
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Podcast: Mini Golfing in Myrtle Beach

From erupting volcanoes to mystical minotaurs, it's a putting experience like no other.
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Meet Myrtle Beach's Mini-Golf Master

Once a year, Mini-Golf’s finest gather under Hawaiian Rumble’s rumbling volcano to strut their stuff at the Mini-Golf Masters tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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Podcast: Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum & Education Center

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