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Monday, August 31, 2009

Jolly Rodger, Kill Devil Hills, NC


This is the Jolly Roger Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills. Pastel 20 x 16 on Ampersand. This is a joyful, goofy, eclectic mix of wait staff in pirate costume, Christmas ornaments hanging from every nook, cranny, and ceiling, and this amazing stained glass solarium. We were staying at a quaint motel on the beach, and it included breakfast…but you have to go down the street to the Jolly Roger for that breakfast. Plate-sized pancakes, waffles, eggs, grits, bacon…the Carolina heart-stopping breakfast. The yuppies and northern invasion had not gotten hold of this property yet. It was obviously a small diner that had expanded three or four times with rooms that didn’t quite fit one another, doorways that didn’t quite match up, and vacationer-tacky knickknacks everywhere. However, the bar area/ solarium was just a tremendous surprise at the end of a serpentine walk through the other “memorabilia.” What fun...