Article: Hooters Air Founder Wins Businessman of the Year Award in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

By Kathleen Vereen Dayton, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 28--It isn't every day that a man born on a Horry County tobacco farm just after the Great Depression manages to finish college, start his own companies and become a millionaire.

Not to mention that, at age 66, he successfully launches an airline.

Bob Brooks of Myrtle Beach has done all of that and more, and was recently voted The Sun News Businessman of the Year for 2003.

In the past year alone, Brooks created the first Myrtle Beach-based airline, Hooters Air, and in less than a year has grown the airline to a fleet of four Boeing ...

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