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
