The Official Site of Monkey Junction, North Carolina
"It's more than an intersection, it's a way of life" -Confuscius (or maybe it was Abe Vigoda)
Monkey Junction Blog, Click Here now!
Asian flair now in Monkey Junction. Tengu Japanese Steakhouse, Thai Spice, and Hibachi Bistro now in MJ. E-mail us reviews, comments monkeyjunctionnc@yahoo.com
View the following annexation map courtesy of WECT.
What do you think of the new traffic patterns? monkeyjuncitonnc@yahoo.com
Empty spaces abound at new plaza...economy problems hit the MJ, growth thwarted...for now
1/22/2009-No More Panhandling! New Hanover County has banned panhandling with focus of the ban on our beloved Monkey Junction. You will no longer see folks asking for handouts at the Wal-Mart exit to S. College Road.
e-mail us what you know monkeyjunctionc@yahoo.com
9/10/2008-Target again denies a store will be built in Monkey Junction, go to Monkey Biz link for details
12/12/2008-Annexation vote put on hold, see Star News article http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081209/ARTICLES/812090297/0/SPORTS01, comment on our blog
Road Construction, comment on the Blog,click on Blog above
Monkey Junction Band, check them out and support them!
Welcome to the Monkey Junction!
Filled with fine restaurants, quaint shoppes (Super Wal-Mart), an army surplus store, a roadside zoo (with real monkeys!), and numerous gas stations, Monkey Junction is the new cultural hub of Wilmington, North Carolina. Call it MJ, the Junction, the 409 (as in zip code 28409), "The MJ" but please , NOT MYRTLE GROVE !! If you have been to Carolina Beach, Fort Fisher or Kure Beach, you have passed through the Junction! 
Monkey Junction's history is deep and famed. In the early 1900's a service station owner added live monkey's to his station's amenities to attract Pleasure Island visitors. Since then, the area has been known as Monkey Junction. Myrtle Grove is an elitist attempt to take our Monkey away. Save the Monkey!
Fort Fisher has an extensive Civil War history, Wrightsville Beach is North Carolina's favorite vacation desitination, Wilmington's place in history is well documented. Communites such as Landfall and Forest Hills are well respected. Sure we don't have famous residents or historical homes, or really much of anything...but we do have one thing far superior to these neighboring communities, one of the coolest names on earth, MONKEY JUNCTION!
Whether a visitor to the Junction, or celebrating your deep Junction heritage, it is time to represent our world famous community and ...
"Get the Monkey ON YOUR BACK!"
M*rtle Gr*ve Middle School gets it right! Representin' The Monkey!
Recollections of the Monkey....
"Perhaps you would like to know the true story of how Monkey Junction got its name. There used to be only highway 421 from Carolina Beach to Wilmington , with a junction where the Loop Road turned off to go towards the sound and Wrightsville Beach. College Rd was not there at the time. I was born in 1945 and raised on Carolina Beach. My family had a motel there. When I was a year old, my family started spending winters in southern Florida to avoid the cold wet winters here. Around 1947 or 48, my brother Steve was given a monkey by a research lab in Miami . Jocko had bad behavior habits and could no longer be kept by the lab. When we came back to Carolina Beach for the summer season, Jocko came with us. He was a precocious monkey but he hated anyone with brown eyes. Once in a while he would escape from his cage and ransack the boardwalk area, taking people's food from them, etc. Because of his socially unacceptable behavior, we were forced to consider giving him away. The man at the Junction gas station agreed to keep Jocko there. Soon it became an attraction. Children would beg their parents to take them to the Junction to see the monkey. As far as I can remember, Jocko was the only monkey at the station. He was the only one there in the mid 1950s. I can't remember if the station or the monkey were still there after Hazel in 1956. Harriet Nauheimer
" Just wanted to say I enjoyed the news articles in the Star News today. And Amy Hotz actually had the story right. So often the story gets way off from what is the truth. I call myself one of the original monkeys from Monkey Junction as my daddy ran the store after the Spindles. This was probably in 1947 as I was in the 4th grade when we moved here from High Point and that's when daddy ran the store and we lives in the 3 room apartment attached to the store. Actually daddy and mother both worked in the store and I have 2 sisters. So 5 of us lived in that little apartment. People still came by and wanted to know where the monkeys were and daddy would call us out and say we were the 3 monkeys. The store was an old time general store as we sold gas, groceries, beer and daddy even cut meats. As far as I can tell the store was just about where the intersection and the stop light is now. I have a picture of the store with my daddy's name on the front but it is a copyrighted picture or I would send you a copy. Yes, Monkey Junction was a great place to grow up. I still cannot believe it when I drive through that intersection at night and see all the lights. It is unbelievable that so much could change in what has seemed to be "a few years". Guess it really has been 60 years hasn't it? Anyway, thanks for reviving my memories." Billie Raper Botts
"Read the Monkey Junction article in Star-News this morning. I was born here in 1935, and can attest to Mr. Lentendre's description of the location. Something I have seen little about is the fact that the Spindle's also sold Parrots, and had several inside the store. On Sunday afternoons, I rode with my parents, often to Carolina Beach (which was a long drive in a 38 chevy) always stopping at the station for a beer (for my dad) and soft drinks for the rest. Watching the monkey's whiled away the half-hour stop. My Grandmother, Jakie Barden, often was with us, and she eventually purchased "Polly" for me, at a cost of $50 (a lot of money then). "Polly" lived with us for 28 years, becoming a regular family member.One thing that can never be changed is 'history". If the newcomers and elitist's want to change something, let them change their names, not Monkey Junction's." Don Loftin
10 Ten Monkey Songs