Sharing this week with Sepia Saturday
Circa 1930s view of SE corner of State Street and Broadway (and called Montreat Rd as it goes north) Black Mountain NC. The gas station on the left is now the location of the Town Square. The building on the far right still remains, and is Town Hardware. I took a photo recently at this corner...so will include it just for the fun of "then and now."
But first, here's more about that gas station!
"In 1927, the gas station at the corner of Montreat Rd. and State Street, the site of Black Mountain's town square, pumped more gasoline than any other station in North Carolina. The New Theatre, just to the east on state Street was renamed the Pix, and was managed by Lee Hiltz's stepson Laddie Terrell. It closed in the 1960s. (Source: Swannanoa Valley, by history museum.)
Almost "now" from 2014...there's Town Hardware still on the right, the tree growing in Town Square where that gas station once was on the left. Maybe some of the original buildings going down Broadway have been incorporated into the furniture store with blue awnings, Tyson's Furniture.
Open Culture Newsletter just dropped this in my email in box last Thursday, and so I have a connection for my Sepian friends!
Here's probably more information than you want...
And since I'm active in trying to cease the production and use of all fossil fuels, this is really an interesting topic for me.
Let's consider energy itself...as we experience it.
There are many pathways in this life and it doesn't matter which one you take, for they all have a common destination, and that is the grave. But some paths give you energy and some take it away.
- Cervantes
- Cervantes
Wonderful sepia images, I love the rainbow. Happy Sunday, have a wonderful week!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm not in the right place to see rainbows these days, so I'm glad I had this one to remember with.
DeleteBeautiful rainbow.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of those free gifts of nature that everyone can enjoy!
Delete...a Frank Lloyd Wright designed gas state is in the Buffalo Automobile Museum.
ReplyDeleteCool.
DeleteInteresting history and a lovely rainbow.
ReplyDeleteThanks, interesting that everyone likes the rainbow!!
DeleteThe mountains in the background make the place recognizable :) Love the rainbow "meeting" the yellow lines in the road in the 2014 photo! I also enjoyed the video.
ReplyDeleteGood that you recognized the same mountain silhouette. And I like the thought of the rainbow melting the yellow lines...it all depends on the rain.
DeleteI read something a while back about future generations driving on roads paved with solar panels. Vehicles would draw power from those panels, and homes & businesses along those solar paneled roads would also draw power from them. Sounds like a real winner all the way round. But paving all our roads & highways & freeways with solar panels would be a huge undertaking - even spread out over many years - more probably decades - so I don't know how possible something like that would be?
ReplyDeleteWith the wear and tare on our roads, even concrete diminishes with time...I don't understand any material that solar panels could be made of that could withstand the traffic. Great idea, but how practical?
DeleteThere are a few of these classic filling station in my neck of the woods. Some sit empty, some have been repurposed..
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a shame some are still just gathering dust.
DeleteFrank Lloyd Wright designed gas stations? Amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt's dark out (9:18) and a skein of geese are flying by hoking their fool heads off. This has nothing to do with your post, but I though that I would write it anyway. 🤪
ReplyDeleteI was hooked by the claim that Black Mountain's gas station once pumped the most gas of any station in North Carolina. I don't see how that is possible considering the size of the town. Maybe blame it on the tourists? As for Frank Lloyd Wright's service station, it has that 1950s cool modern style combined with his midwestern craftsman aesthetic. But I know that a lot of his buildings suffered from poor construction and bad engineering. Years ago my mother did a historic research project on a 1950s FLW residential home in Virginia Beach near where my folks lived. It was built on a waterfront lot like their home and my dad would take guests out on his boat to see the house from the water. It was a striking ranch house design that used lots of glass walls that were not vertical but angled outward at the top, mimicking a ship's hull. However in comparison to the gigantic McMansions built near it in the last decade, it was quite small and unpretentious.
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