Actually, my family owned the Superette at that time, and naturally I "worked" ;-) there as a teenager. So, not as much funn as one would expect...but at that age, it was a great way to meet people. Especially boys.
If not for that, there would have been no social life at all !!
I was seventeen when we sold it, and it closed for good a year later. By then I had a car and could go find my own funn. But, you spend most of every day at a place for years, especially your formative years, and it becomes a beautiful, nostalgic memory.
The building is still on 98; I think it is Redfish Interiors now. It was Bea's Interiors for many years. The Grayton Store is now the Red Bar. Of course, Campbell Lake is now in Topsail State Park, and now there are houses on all the cul-de-sacs in Gulf Trace.
It was great to grow up here...and at the time, nobody realized how great it really was.