Beach Bums Barcadia offers attractions, food

THE SCOOP: Beach Bums Barcadia offers fun for the family

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Apr 7, 2021
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Beach Bums Barcadia offers a pool hall area where parents and young adults can play pool while the younger generation partakes in the arcade games. There are plans to bring in a youth pool league and to host regular pool and dart tournaments, owners James and Cason McDonald said.

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The staff of Beach Bums Barcadia gather for a photo outside the building’s colorful facade in downtown Freeport. Owners James and Cason McDonald, who also own Beach Bums Bar & Grill in Surfside Beach, hope their new business will contribute to revitalizing Freeport’s downtown area.

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Some of the old-school arcade cabinets include Ms. Pac-Man, which one older lady played for about five straight hours, owner Cason McDonald said with a laugh. With the arcade, the McDonalds hope to bring back some of the nostalgia from the 1980s and 1990s.

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While a card-swipe system will be implemented eventually, every machine in Beach Bums Barcadia takes quarters. Two machines can make change for $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills, owners Cason and James McDonald said.

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A mural of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles enjoying a pepperoni pizza welcomes visitors to the pizzeria counter inside Beach Bums Barcadia. All pizza is hand-crafted and hand-tossed dough — nothing frozen, owner Cason McDonald said.

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With seven children and three grandchildren, James and Cason McDonald go to Chuck E. Cheese quite often.

“There’s nothing for the parents to do,” James said. “Here, there is.”

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