Saturday, March 7, 2015

NC: Down East family shutters businesses



                             Driftwood Motel and Restaurant closedCruise Mart closed
I can't figure out why they closed and put them on the market instead of selling as going businesses.  Strange.  We always stop at the store as it is just before the ferry to Ocracoke.

Two longstanding Down East family businesses – spanning five generations – are closing for good.
Clay and June Fulcher say they are ready to retire and are closing their businesses, the Cruise Mart II – also known as the Red & White, a grocery and hardware store at 755 Seashore Drive in the Atlantic community, and the Driftwood Motel and Restaurant near the state ferry landing on Highway 12 at Cedar Island.

“We have been trying to decide what we were going to do for a couple years now, but our business advisers said it would be the best thing. We didn’t want to do it but we have to,” Mrs. Fulcher said Thursday.

The Fulcher family’s keystone business, Clayton Fulcher Seafood of Atlantic, was established in the late 1920s by Clay Fulcher’s grandfather and was once one of the state’s largest fish houses. It was also part of an extended family of Fulcher-run seafood operations, including Garland Fulcher Seafood in Oriental, until it closed in 2007.

4 comments:

  1. All the NC seafood fishermen seem to be closing, one by one. Last time I was down there, Garland had an 80' steel trawler he had just built and was selling it for 150,000.

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  2. Thanks, so I guess the imported shrimp are hurting, but what about everything else?

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  3. Damn...I hate that. Used to grab a biscuit from there just before catching the first ferry to Ocracoke.

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  4. Can you figure out why they didn't sell them as running businesses?

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