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Sue Bridge moved here with her husband in 1953. After all that time, she still marvels that the ocean turns a different color every day. She still believes that the salt air can cure sores. So she crosses the bridge to the mainland only when necessary: once a month to pay bills.
Most every restaurant and bar here hangs pictures of revelry on the island in the 1920s, when men wore suits and hats out by the surf and women boasted about being liberated because they weren't wearing stockings.
The past is everywhere in Wrightsville. Locals constantly point out landmarks and oystering spots that no longer exist, or suggest you talk to acquaintances of theirs who really know the island — if they're still alive.
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Back at King Neptune, white-haired locals at the bar say the biggest mistake the town ever made was tearing down that pavilion, forgetting that by the 1970s, it showed its age even more than Cab Calloway did.