1. Sea Breeze to Sherbet Town: An Historic African American Beach Resort is Lost to Affluenza Liz Hines, UNCW

3. Sea Breeze Village and Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina

5. Wilmington Record burned 11/10/1898

6. Freemans’ Sea Breeze (Glory days, 1950s-1970s)

11. 1949

14. The Monte Carlo by the Sea, as it was in 1953 and lamented in 1998
The Monte Carlo by the Sea, as it was in and lamented in It was destroyed by Hazel, but rebuilt twice by Frank Hill.

15. Hurricane Hazel, 1954

17. Community Activism, 1980s

18. Joe McNeill, of the 1960
Woolworth’s Sit-in

22. New Hanover County’s Long Range Plan
for Sea Breeze Revitalization,

25. 2000

29. 2006

30. (a census-designated place)
Sea Breeze Village
(a census-designated place)
Currently, about 1,300 people live in Sea Breeze’s 1.6 square miles
25 feet above sea level
82% white, 16% black, 2% Hispanic or other
Median Age, 45.9 (NC 35.3)
Median income, $46,600 (NC $40,729)
Median house/condo value $267,800 (NC $127,600)

32. 2006: Colorado Coastal Properties installs water and sewer on Sea Breeze Road

47. “Affluenza”
A term attributed to Michael Moore and popularized in a Public Television documentary of the same name. Defined as:
1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses.
2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream.
3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.”

49. Looking north, across Snow’s Cut, at Sea Breeze

50. Looking East, across the Intra-Coastal Waterway, at Sherbet Town, north of Freeman Beach

54. Freeman Beach, but no Sea Breeze on this tourist map

55. Winner party boats

57. Sherbet Town’s gate

60. The palms of Sherbet Town

62. Freeman Beach

63. Looking west from Sherbet Town to Sea Breeze

65. Finis
Thank you