Shangri-La Mobile Park

Marlena Adams

2.5 at best. Been here a decade.. in the past 2 years, this places beauty has gone down as property dues have gone up. Also, its too close to folk for my liking.

Cliff & Katie Collins

This is the first place I can actually remember living. My parents moved into Shangri-La trailer park when I was around two or three years old and they stayed there until we moved to Neil’s Crossing in Fuquay, when I was around six years old. I have some of the fondest memories of my life in Shangri-La My first best friend, a little boy named Raymond - lived right next-door. We played G.I. Joe’s and He-Man every day until Mama would call me in for dinner. Down the way from us was a little girl named Melissa who also became one of my best friends and I kept in touch with her all her life. She and I used to collect a little Monarch caterpillars- putting them in paper envelopes and sellIng them to our neighbors. We would go door-to-door thinking in our little five year old minds that people there would actually want them, and you know what? They did. They would pay us a dime for each caterpillar. :) I remember making snowcones outside with a Snoopy snowcone machine, I remember my Michael Jackson poster on my sliding closet doors. I remember meeting a bunch of other neighborhood kids and making a playhouse in a bamboo forest on one of the streets of the community. I will always remember how exciting it felt to divvy up the rooms in that bamboo glade. I remember my dad building me and my little sister a blue and silver metal swingset where we would we play our days away. Watching the Muppets on our living room TV, looking at my dad’s bookcase with all of the Stephen King novels. Seeing Drew Barrymore’s flame framed face- at the time she was a girl not much older than me- on the book jacket for Firestarter. I remember adopting a sweet tabby cat there that I named Jason, who I later realized was female. The sweet memories I have of Shangri-La, I will cherish forever.

Marvin Flores

Nice