This iconic crossroads store was owned by Betty & Maro Callier. In trying to answer where the crossroads got its name, Norman Carter wrote in The Pobiddy Joke Book (1995): Nobody knows exactly how Pobiddy got its name. I remember when my good friends Betty and Maro Callier had a store at Pobiddy and Maro drew a little chicken on the front of the store and underneath wrote “Pobiddy”. Other people say there were some people sitting on the porch of a home in Pobiddy when a little chicken ran across the road and a car hit it and killed it. Someone on the porch said “po biddy!”.
I remember “Po Biddy”…in the late 1940/early 1950 time period…and my mother would all ways tell me the story of the “po biddy”…the baby chicken that tried to cross the road…but didn’t make it…thus the name…
I seem to remember a single gas pump and a 5-cent cold drink machine out front as well…
Hi Brian,
I always look forward to getting your email drops on places you have visited and have taken photographs. Great work. Thanks
My father attended a one-room school in Talbot County in the 1920s. It is great to see one still standing.