SOUTHPORT, NC Walkabout with a little Movie History
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2022
- Today our adventures have brought us to the beautiful town of Southport, NC. We are starting out at the riverfront area along the Cape Fear River. I’m inviting you to come along with me today. We’re going to do a walkabout. We’re going to see some restaurants, some store fronts, The Christmas Shop that is open year-round. Along the way I’ll show you some filming locations for the movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer. Let’s go see what Southport is all about.
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The old houses in Southport are the real attraction. Street after street of beautiful historic homes. Even Black Beard 🏴☠️ had a house there
Thanks for watching Bo!
Love the town. We have visited the old jail several times.
I have never been to the old jail. I hate I missed that. Oh well....I will check it out next time. Thanks letting me know. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I hope you have a great day friend!
You had me at Christmas shop! Nice tour! Such a cute town and lots of movie 🎥 history!
Thank you for watching and commenting. I love finding filming locations for movies and then incorporating it to my videos when possible.😁
Safe Haven made me fall in love with this town.
Southport is one of my favorite coastal towns! Thanks for watching Stacey!
The tower on the waterfront was the old ham radio tower for the pilot boats. It was built in 1940 to replace an old wooden tower. It was used as the radio station in the TV show, Under The Dome. My family in Southport is the Potter's. Potter's Seafood on the Yacht Basin is in its 5th generation.
Hey friend! Thanks for being so informative about the tower. I enjoy learning history about the area. You being a 5th generation owner of the Potter’s seafood. I think I am learning from a good source. Have a great day and thanks for watching!
@@HitchHikingYeti After my grandfather and grandmother ran and retired from it, my uncle took it over and now my cousin runs it.
Great video, but when you said, "I don't know anything about "Safe Haven", I almost fell out of my chair. That movie was one of the reasons I purchased my home here. LOL
I feel like the only person to have not seen Safe Haven. I am going to make time in the future to watch it. I promise! Thanks for watching Ken.
Great video!! Southport is so quiet at night time too!! Almost like a ghost town and super peaceful. Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching buddy.
In the opening the land pictured behind the ferry is Caswell Beach, Bald Head Island is further left and further away.
Sorry. I should have been pointing the camera a little more to the left. I was trying to focus on the ferry crossing over from Bald Head Island. But now when I watch it I see your point. That is Caswell Beach in the background.
Its the most charming little city ive ever had the pleasure of visiting. Im in love with it and hope to move there in the next couple of years 😊 Thanks so much for sharing this!
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Anytime my friend thanks for watching. I recently uploaded my Safe Haven filming locations video. The movie was filmed in Southport. Here is the link if you have not watched it. czcams.com/video/ff8gaXxk_yk/video.htmlsi=710-DMulSm42zMkl
Loved the video. Job well done!
Thank you so much Rebecca. Thanks for watching. Have a great rest of your day!
We have spent years in North Carolina but have never been to Southport. It looks lovely. And it is so cool that so many movies and tv shows were filmed in the area. I would love to go to that Christmas house. We love year-round Christmas stores. Thanks for taking us along for this tour!
It was my pleasure. Thank you for watching. Have a great day!
@@HitchHikingYeti where's Southport?
@@ghostwriter1415 Southport is located in Brunswick County North Carolina.
You have to check it out. we go to oak island and always visit Southport
Love it!
Thank you for watching!
It was great meeting you on Sunday night at the Carolina Beach boardwalk. Crazy that we would run into you! My daughter and I really enjoyed Southport.
Thank you for saying hello! It was a pleasure meeting you and your daughter. People like you is what makes the CZcams community so cool. I was working on my Labor Day weekend video at the boardwalk when we spoke. The video will go live this Friday. I hope you and your daughter can watch it. Thanks again for watching! Have a blessed day friends!
Daggum! I hate we missed going to the visitors’ center. Would’ve loved to have seen the Safe Haven movie memorabilia. We were there last month. Great little town.
The visitors center had some good information in there. I almost missed it myself. Thanks for watching friend. Have a great rest of you day.
I actually worked on Safe Haven when they were filming it there. It was a fun set to really work on. Josh Duhamel, and Julianne Hough were allot of fun to work with. Many mornings we had to be there by 6:30am, and usually worked till about 9pm. There was a couple of nights where we worked till the wee hours of the morning!! It was a good time though!!!
Hey Mitch. Thanks for sharing your story. That sounds you had a great experience working on Safe Haven. Do you mind me asking what your job was while working on set? Thanks for watching friend!
@@HitchHikingYeti I was an extra on the set, and worked on it for the last couple months they were shooting.
Josh Duhamel invited me to go golfing with him. In one scene, when he is chasing the ferry with Julianna Hough on it. When we had to back up and do another take, he rode on the sideboards of my SUV when we were doing that scene. So we chatted a little, and I even gave him a cigarette. That's why the next day he invited me to go golfing with him, but I declined. I don't golf, and I am sure would be terrible. Besides the casting company I worked for at the time might not have liked that. But Josh did say he would fix it for me had I gone.
Later in the movie he introduced me to Julianna Hough, and I got to talk to her a little to. In the scene where it looks like an outside street fair, and live band. Well in between cuts I would get to talk to her and Josh. I knew she danced on Dancing With The Stars, and I asked her if she knew how to Shag??? She had no clue, and I explained it was a style of dancing, to a style of music we called beach music. Like Under the Boardwalk, and With This Ring, by The Drifters and The Tams.
Anyway, she asked how long had I been shagging, I told her I was brought up into it. All my life so far. She said really.......Well show me, or teach me rather?? So I called out a song, I can't even remember. They played something close to what I called out, and I taught Julianna Hough how to shag that day. We had a ball, the most fun of all the different movies I worked on.
Missing Provisions now that I’m back in Boston in January
Hopefully you can come back soon and visit the area. I the mean time. The northeast has some amazing pizza restaurants.lol
@@HitchHikingYeti for sure, we go for the first 3 weeks in August every year. My wife’s grandparents used to own a home in Caswell Dunes but sold it when the grandmothers Parkinson’s got too bad
@@plaguedr8831 Wow! Three week vacation sounds good. Sometime I cross the over from Carolina Beach that time of year. If you see me out please say hi. Thanks for watching my video. 😀
Thanks for the video , Safe Haven movie is how I know about Southport was just there last week but couldnt go in places because I travel alone with my little four legged buddy and wont leave him in the vehicle . How ever I did eat at the Fishy Fish Cafe a couple times because they allow dogs in the outside area and even provide them with a bowl of water. If I could afford one of the older , smaller homes in the more historical part I would move there in a heartbeat , it is so beautiful down there I live in Hickory NC so I will just have to keep visiting Southport .
Hey Mike thanks for sharing. I think it is really cool Fishy Fishy is a dog friendly restaurant. Have a good day friend. Thanks for watching!
Check out the museum. We buy the clerk an ice coffee...hints
The next time y’all go there you should do the ghost tour. It starts right next to Oliver’s restaurant.
That sounds like a great idea. I went on a ghost walk in Wilmington a few years ago. I would love to try another for the Halloween season coming up.
Hop the ferry and go to Fishy fish restaurant.
And the rest of the town.
Sounds like a good idea. Thanks for watching friend!👍
It's always a good time 🌃
I work at provisions haha best place on the planet
Awesome! I might stop in at Provisions soon for lunch. I have always heard good things about Provisions restaurant. If you see me please say hello.
Yeti ur somethg else I'm heading that way this weekend would love to see u and ur Mrs but I know ur not there every week GoD bless u and urs keep smiling.
Thanks Theresa. We hope you have a wonderful visit to Southport. Thanks again for watching.
Have a good day stay safe
You too Bobby! Thanks for watching friend!
The visitors center you peeked into at the beginning of the video is perhaps the most historic structure. It's Fort Johnston military outpost founded by the British late 1790's, then American through the Civil War and beyond. It's on the National Register of Historical Places.
Hey George! Thank you for the information about the Fort Johnston military outpost. Have a good day and thanks for watching.
Fort Johnston was actually built in 1749.
I think I mentioned I went to the icehouse in Wilmington. They have a big movie production up there. Are they still in operation? Cool tour! I always think of cape fear (but not filmed there) and Dawsons creek but didn’t know that I know what you did last summer was filmed there. If you make a mistake on a rotary phone you have to start over. Lol
Not sure if they are still in operation. The only movie production studio that I know of is Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington. Thanks for watching Dude!
What are you wondering if its still in operation, the movie studios or the Icehouse? Movie production is still going strong in Wilmington, Southport and surrounding area and the Icehouse has been closed for believe it or not, almost 3 decades now! Damn I'm getting old. Can't remember the exact year Icehouse closed, but I think it was '94?
@@BreakerOneNine07 it may have changed names i had lunch there in 2001 or so. Great little spot but man 20 years flys by.
Thanks for not sharing the names of the two best places to dine. So happy it's cool to scooter around there!👍👍👍
Thanks for watching friend!
Safe Haven really shows off Town of Southport , so does Domestic Disturbance , both are really good movies
I have no choice but to watch Safe Haven now. Everyone keeps telling me how it shows off Southport. Thanks for watching Richard. Have a great day friend!
@@HitchHikingYeti Yes...Safe Haven is a great movie and shows off a fantastic little town. It gives the town its due justice.
Meu sonho conhecer está cidade onde a série under the dome foi gravada parcialmente
Best of luck on your visit finding filming locations for Under The Dome.
@@HitchHikingYetiIt's not that hard to find Under The Dome locations. Actually that tower you passed on the waterfront, was the radio station in the show.