Yesterday, today and tomorrow

 

Main Street (now State St.) looking east on US Highway 70 Black Mountain NC (date?)

Today:

Looking east on State St. 2024

State St. looking west from corner of Montreat Rd. (NC 9) 2023

Tomorrow:

 I  will return in a few days from visiting family out of state, and resume working on clay again.

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Today's quote:

We’re built to live simultaneously in love and loss, bitter and sweet.

SUSAN CAIN

In honor of Water, again.

I really thought I'd already posted this walk...

But I couldn't find it.

So here it is, as I thought I'd organized it, probably as I fell asleep one night.

This is Flat Creek as it comes through Black Mountain. Much more "civilized" than it is up in Montreat in the curves of the mountains.

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Today's quote:

Death tugs at my ear and says, "Live, I am coming." 

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

Our Monte Vista Hotel

 In honor of National Retro Day, let's take a step back in time. (I never heard of that day...Feb 27!)

Built in 1937, the Monte Vista Hotel is a three-story Colonial Revival-style hotel located at 308 West State Street to the west of the commercial district in Black Mountain, North Carolina. With the completion of a railroad connection in the late-nineteenth century, the Black Mountain area became a popular gateway for tourists to visit Mount Mitchell and the surrounding mountains. Lucien and Rosalie Phillips opened the Monte Vista Hotel in 1919 in a former school building and built a fifteen-room annex in 1926. The Phillips's borrowed $70,000 during the height of the Depression to construct the modern brick building, which was designed by architect S. Grant Alexander and built by Connally Dougherty. The Monte Vista Hotel, which has operated continuously since 1919, meets National Register Criterion A in the area of Entertainment/Recreation as one of the largest and most successful hotels in Black Mountain. A six-room addition to the hotel built ca. 1940, soon after the main building was completed, and an attached sixteen-room annex built in 1980 are located to the rear of the main building. The period of significance for the hotel, which remains in operation, extends from the construction of the main building in 1926 to 1957.

Today The Monte Vista Hotel still functions as a hotel with full bar and restaurant, as well as venue space for weddings and gatherings. Our guests enjoy the step back in time to a simpler life with no telephones or televisions in our historic rooms but the modern convenience of AC.

Today's quote:

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)

My question: Why would you ask a lawyer to tell you what an artist is?

And we mustn't forget the celebration of the day (thanks to Frog and Penguinn)

National Cheese Doodle Day

and here in North Carolina, it's primary election day.

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Some views around town in February

 

This is one of the most "unfavorite" shops in Black Mountain. Why? Not just because their products are deadly for adults...and they push them on young people trying to grow into "savvy adults," but because this building is located right across the street from the Primary School. That's young children's educational site. They may learn to read, and just look what they can see out the bus windows or from the playground during recess!

Driving further toward town on State St (Hwy 70), I can see a local savings bank (Black Mountain Savings) across from me.

The old Depot and part of the red caboose. Photo by Fred McCormick 2020

Next to the red caboose...

Turning a few times on First Street, and there's this little building going up. Is it a tiny home? Or perhaps a bit bigger? I would wonder...there are roof trusses already laid down.  But it's really squeezed in between its neighbors.

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Today's quote:

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. 

-Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, and playwright (3 Feb 1874-1946)