Comments on: SP Road Trip: Sea Island, GA

By: JRG

JRG — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:12:42 +0000

My first steps took place on the Sea Island beach. Grilled cheeses at the beach club were the best in the world…I doubt they even sell them anymore!

By: Cator Sparks

Cator Sparks — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:13:35 +0000

This place is near and dear to my heart. My great grandfather, Cator Woolford helped Mr. Coffin start it up in the 20′s. I spent many a summer there and I am so sad by the change. Too much, too big, too pricey.
Last time i was there I went riding on the beach and the trainer told me none of the old families come back because they have been priced out. Now its just conventions. Hope this isn’t true and do hope to go back soon. Thanks for this Cooper!

By: JRS

JRS — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:54:42 +0000

Excellent post. One of my favorite places on earth. Great for a long weekend getaway, or for the annual UGA vs. Florida game.

All the Best,

JRS

By: allen

allen — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:47:52 +0000

I learned to swim there some 40+ yrs. ago. My grandfather was one of the first members. He had built a house on st. simons when my mother was a teenager. I watched sea island go from a FUN place to spend a summer, to a snobby, pretentious, money grabbing zoo, in which you had to spend $10 for a common hot dog. When my mother died, we gave up our “CL” membership. $20,000 a yr, and then pay to walk in the door. I will always remember saying “Hi!” to Carol Burnett and Jimmy Stewart on the beach, but really don’t believe anyone of their quality would ever care to spend that much money to go to a beach off the coast of Ga. that is eroding at a scary rate yearly.

By: derick

derick — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:00:45 +0000

A HORROR! End of the Mizner era. Was once a wonderful and oh so southern place, yet not good enough for today’s hubris …which is why Sea Island filed chapter 11 (see the Atlanta Journal yesterday) and the Jones family who have held it since the 20s have lost control. So sad.

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World Wide News Flash — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:34:53 +0000

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By: Down East Dilettante

Down East Dilettante — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:26:32 +0000

Isn’t the new Cloister a horror? I’m glad not to be alone. I started my own blog in a snit one day when I realized that during the last 15 years, almost nothing that was good and subtle was being improved, and that increasingly, elaborate and new was being mistaken for quality. I have happy memories, like you of the old place, and a wilder Sea Island…

Dear D.E.D.,
I wouldn’t necessarily say “horror”. As much as I was shocked by the rococo-coco craziness of it all, it was a marvel to witness. I mean the recreation is nearly cinematic, but alas, not authentic. I do very much love the place and will cherish my time there as if each visit is the last.
SP

By: Titus

Titus — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:13:11 +0000

This sort of development is not only tragic, it’s economically suicidal. In ten years Sea Island might be gone, but I doubt if it will be because of the influence of those hotels. It’s far more likely to be due to the influence of a hurricane. The barrier islands aren’t made, so to speak, to hold ritzy hotels, and ritzy hotels aren’t generally built to withstand hurricanes. Hell’s bells, look at the Opryland Gaylord in Nashville: that hotel wasn’t even built to withstand creeping water. When the storm surge comes, it’ll be Katie bar the door for those resorts and their ledger books.

By: henry

henry — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:19:41 +0000

I had no idea the old club is gone!

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