History of Scallop Cove

Scallop Cove History of Scallop Cove

1980's

  • The Picket family, of Port St Joe owned and operated Picks, a small market in the Simon's Bayou area. This location was the future home of Triple Trails Restaurant. The 2nd location as Pick's expanded, was to open a similar market on the Cape, and Pick's 2 was built. 

1986

  • The Picket's sold Picks 2 to a new family, in the mid-80's.
  • Mr. Ron changed the name to Scallop Cove, added the 6 Villa's behind the store, and added a Fish Market to the property (currently the Bait Shop).
  • Over the next several years, Mr. Ron sold the Villas off, one at a time, and then sold the general store and bait shop to eager new owners

2001

  • The Davis family bought the store in 2010 and added the State Park concession contract to the already busy set of stores. 

2007

2007 Scallop Cove Photo

2010

  • BP oil spill 2010 which changed Scallop Cove from BP to Marathon gas
  • Updated gas tanks and repaved parking lot

2011

2011 Scallop Cove Photo

2013

  • Added 5 beer taps
  • St Joe State Park 
    • 2013 - 5 yr concessionaire agreement

2017

2018

 

  • 2018 Oct 10 - Hurricane Michael
    • No water in the general store, but lost a storage hut and flooded the warehouse.
    • Unbranded Marathon gas to Scallop Cove gas

2019

  • New gas  canopy installed 
2019 Scallop Cove Photo

2020

  • January - Entered Scallop Cove chili into JSL chili cookoff and won 2 place
  • July - Updated Bait and tackle logo
  • Dec - Introduced Covey the Elf of the Shelf #CoveytheElfontheShelf
  • April 7 - Bought new gas pumps
  • Sept 5 - Mike from “Mikes Weather Page” hosted a meet and greet at Scallop Cove
  • Opened online Etsy store for online souvenir purchases

2021

  • Tyler and Claire bought out Jan and Greg’s half of Scallop Cove
  • Bought new chase boat for State Park
  • Part of the movie “Blood Orange” was filmed at the store.
  • Added free air pump in parking lot.

2022

2022 Scallop Cove Photo

2023

  • Added live weather cameras to view anytime anywhere.
  • Added Salt Water Aquarium to the Bait Shop full of local seen fish. Come meet Stewey the Puffer fish.
  • Implemented a new online rental reservation system for pontoons and kayaks in the State Park.
  • Etsy store gets new items added weekly that are designed by Claire and printed on demand. Check them out! 

2024

  • Added 2 more pontoon boats to the rental fleet out of the State Park.
  • Tyler and Claire's son won 2 place in his schools science fair on his research of "how to help beach erosion".
  • Hit 10,000 followers on Facebook. 
2023 Scallop Cove Photo

Sources

*This information was gathered from multiple websites and stories and we are not historians. If you find any of this information to be wrong, please tell us so we can fix.