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One of the surest spots to find beach music these days. It opens daily at 4:30 but doesn't really get going until around 9, or later. If you want to learn to do the shag, you might want to go earlier. They give free shag lessons. Though in his 70s by now, you will probably see Fat Harold (Bessent) during your visit. He is a big man with large glasses. Ask Brenda, a bartender there for at least 25 years, to point him out for you. It is said that Fat Harold's is his home and that shag dancers are his family. With the bar-neon, photos, awards, news clippings, etc. on display in this place, it could be a museum, if they would turn up the lights. In its July 17, 2005 Travel Section, in a feature article on Beach Music, The Charlotte Observer stated, " You can buy Carolina barbecue all over the country, but away from Lexington, it loses something. You can listen to beach music anywhere in the Carolinas, but at Fat Harold's, surrounded by its fans, you don't just hear it. You feel it. It gets inside you. It probably has the same effect on you in 2005 as it did on Jim Hannah and the late Chicken Hicks in 1948."
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