Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2020

15 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ReadMPM.com I can vividly remember when we first started the “Best of ” voting. Long before cell phones became smart phones, nine years before Google was born and five years before Amazon became part of our everyday world, we published the first Best of Charleston within the pages of Mount Pleasant Magazine’s predecessor East Cooper Magazine in 1989. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was only 5 years old, the internet was not a part of our conversations yet and there was no convenient way to generate our Best of Charleston votes except at multiple locations where we would drop off boxes with lots of paper ballots and pens. Building enthusiasm for the Best of Charleston was not easy back then. We used radio spots and printed posters to tell voters where the ballot boxes were located, and we offered prizes to encourage people to come out and vote. For the second Best of Charleston in 1990, we had 61 categories; in 2020, we have 212 categories. Thirty years ago, our readers voted on categories like Best Video Rental Store, Best Record Store, Best Photo Developing, Best Local Male Sex Symbol and, of course, Best Local Female Sex Symbol. If you want a fun trip back in time, read the results from the Best of Charleston 1990 responses at BestofMP.com/ BestofCharleston1990 . As you can imagine, for the Best of Mount Pleasant 2020, it was easier to generate 47,265 votes than it was to drum up 2,300 votes in 1990. Celebrate all your local, reader-voted Best of Mount Pleasant 2020 winners by visiting BestofMP.com . Before I leave you, I’d like to ask you all to join me in giving a warm welcome to our new Managing Editor, Teri Errico Griffis, as she joins our publishing family here at Mount Pleasant Magazine . U ntil next time, Bill Macchio Publisher • Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com publisher’s note Photo by Jenn Cady. Vol. 10, Issue 1 • January/February 2020 Publisher/Editorial Director BILL MACCHIO Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com Managing Editor TERI ERRICO GRIFFIS Editor@MountPleasantMagazine.com Copy Editor TONYA MCGUE Art Director DANA COLEMAN Production Manager BETHANY THURM Ad Designers BETHANY THURM KIM HALL REBECCA SOTTILE Webmaster GEORGE CONKLIN Internet SHERMAN PAGGI Writers Cathy Bennett • Lindsay Bishop • Stephen Boyer Eileen Casey • Samantha Connors • Mary Coy Andrew de Holl • Stacy Domingo • Bill Farley Mac Finch • Jen Glekas • Teri Errico Griffis Jenny Harrison • Pamela Jouan • Rachel Maile Colin McCandless • Tonya McGue Frances J. Pearce • Alli Steinke • Anne Semmes Brian Sherman • Stephanie Shieder Valerie Smith • Ginger Sottile • Theresa Stratford Jeanne Taylor • Anne Shuler Toole John Torsiello • Holly Vories • Mitchell D. Watford Photographers Jenn Cady • Michelle Fiorello • Juli Kaplan Tonya McGue • Thomas Runion Sales Manager CULLEN MURRAY-KEMP Cullen@MountPleasantMagazine.com Independent Media Consultants JEREMY BENNETT Jeremy@MountPleasantMagazine.com ANDY BIMONTE Andy@MountPleasantMagazine.com MARGARET BURNS Margaret@MountPleasantMagazine.com CAGER HICKS Cager@MountPleasantMagazine.com MANDY WILLIS Mandy@MountPleasantMagazine.com Administration & Bookkeeping DIANE PAULDINE • GINGER SOTTILE Distribution U.S. POST OFFICE • HARRIS TEETER • PUBLIX • CVS Mount Pleasant Magazine is published locally by a team of independent contractors. Mount Pleasant Magazine is published six times per year by Media Services, Inc. 1013 Chuck Dawley Blvd., Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 Copyright © Media Services 2020. All rights reserved. Reproduction electronically or in print format without the expressed written consent of the publisher is strictly prohibited and a violation of U.S. copyright laws. Inquiries to: Mount Pleasant Magazine P.O. Box 22617, Charleston, SC 29413 843-881-1481 Info@MountPleasantMagazine.com