The Point Walk

The scene

In The Prince of Tides this is the house of Tom Wingo's mother. It is the Lewis Reeve Sams House at 601 Bay Street, once the Bay Street Inn, on the corner of New Street facing the seawall, as Local Life and the Island Packet both report. The photograph is a postcard from about 1910: the double porches and the picket fence look much as they do now, but the balustrade on the roof has gone. It is a private home: look from the street.

The scene

The Green is the open block on the Point between King, Pinckney, Laurens and Short Streets, an old lawn under live oaks that is now kept as a public green. In The Great Santini (1979) it is where Ben Meechum finds his father, drunk and distraught, under an oak tree. The county library's local history collection places the scene on this square, and Local Life names The Green for it. Which of the oaks it was is not recorded.

The scene

Tidalholm, built in 1853 for the planter Edgar Fripp, is the house at the centre of The Big Chill (1983). The weekend the old friends spend together after the funeral was filmed here, inside and out. Four years earlier the same house had been the Meechum family home in The Great Santini. It is a private home: look from Laurens Street and do not go onto the grounds.