Lights, Camera… Mount Pleasant’s First Big Screen Experience

A drive-in movie.

Who doesn’t enjoy a good movie? Some folks prefer the convenience of streaming a flick at home, but to many there’s nothing like the experience of seeing a movie on the big screen. Talk to some longtime residents of Mount Pleasant and you may hear them reminiscing about catching a show at the long-gone drive-in … Read more

Coleman: More Than the Name of a Busy Boulevard

It’s a saturday afternoon, and i’m sipping an iced coffee in the window of Starbucks on Coleman Boulevard. A typical day in Mount Pleasant, the road is abuzz with shoppers, bike riders and diners. I sit watching the smiling faces pass by, imagining what errands these people are running on the boulevard today. It seems … Read more

Mount Pleasant’s Main Street: Then and Now

It stretches just 2.4 miles, from the foot of the Ravenel Bridge to the intersection of Ben Sawyer and Chuck Dawley boulevards, but the story of what is now Coleman Boulevard reaches back to the earliest days of Colonial Charles Town. Georgetown Road was the main thoroughfare in Christ Church Parish when Robert Mills surveyed … Read more