Maggie’s Beauty Shop, Valdosta
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Walter Morrison’s General Store, Mount Vernon
These two buildings on Church Street are my favorite in Mount Vernon. The red brick storefront on the left was Walter Morrison’s General Store. Neal Stanford writes: This was my grandfathers’ store, which he operated for 70 years. It closed in 1988. What great memories I have of it being open on Saturday mornings. Lisa Graham notes that the false-front building on the right was where Mr. Morrison stored his feed and seed.
It has been home to Dominique’s beauty salon for quite a few years.
Pretoria, Georgia
Update: As of 2024, this structure has been razed. It was a general store last known as Pretoria Station.
Blocker’s Store, Evans County
This is a survivor of the days when US 301 was one of the busiest north-south highways in Georgia. Eddie Mosley writes, via our Facebook page: This store was known as Blocker’s store. My great grandparent’s house was located about half a mile from there. There was a push in the 1950s to try to cash in on tourists taking US 301 south to Florida. Several families opened up little stores along this stretch south of Claxton towards Glennville. All of them are closed now, but a few like this store are still standing.
Update: As of 2023, though I cannot confirm, I believe this structure is gone.
Grocery Store, Poulan
The white building on the left has always been Poulan’s grocery store. Hugh Harris West writes: Mr. Harvey Carter and wife Ella Ruth, ran this store. Russell and Gertie Houston ran the store and market during the 60’s. Mr. Leon Gray and wife Gladys came next I believe. Mr. Alton Gray (Leon’s brother) had already closed his store by this time.
Mystic, Georgia
Henry Harding Tift named this sawmill town in honor of his hometown, Mystic, Connecticut.
Steven Boytis wrote, in 2017: “Mystic, my second home…all family. Photo of one of the three Towson stores owned by my grandfather, George T. Towson. That building was the merchandise store, Post Office and phone operator. Ran by my cousin Willie Belle Morgan Pierce. The railroad depot was to the right, along with the drug store, and my grandfather’s office. To the left was another store for all small goods; meat and fish were fresh cut in the back. It also had two gas pumps out front with a smoke house and an ice house. Attached included a barber shop. After the passing of my grandfather in 1930, some of his businesses closed; others were run by his brother and children. My grandmother was left with ten children to care for. Many of the buildings were still in use till the mid 1980’s. Great and fond memories.“
Bennett’s Grocery, Moultrie
Apparently, the last business located here was Randy’s Auto Mart, but Bonnie Murphy Eusner writes, via our Facebook page: This store was operated by Mr. Hall Bennett in the 50s and 60s. He was a hunting friend of my Dads. I thought,as a child, this was a huge store. My parents sometimes shopped there and Mr Bennett also had a butcher shop in the back. Children may have called him Mr. Hall in the southern tradition of speaking to an adult using their first name as a matter of respect. But his name was Hall Bennett. He had a son named Jerry Bennett. They lived further out toward the present by-pass on the same road that the store was on. My family has a picture of some of the local deer hunters of the early 50s surrounding a piebald deer killed in Ludowici GA. Mr Hall Bennett was among them. They were all dressed so smartly. No smiles Sort of looked like a posse. Picture is treasured. Mr Bennett was a big man and a really nice gentleman.
Judy Plymel remembered it by Mr. Bennett’s first name and also shared her memories: This used to be Hall’s Grocery, back in the day. Rich Oil used to be across from it. I use to go down here, get my grandma 3Thistle Snuff, peppermint pillows and a small bottle Coke, all for a quarter. This was back in the 60’s. They had oiled floors and a meat counter in the back. you could get your own cookies out of the canisters up front and Mr. Hall would let me go behind the counter and get my candy; it wasn’t wrapped but laid out fresh in the display.
National Grits Festival, Warwick
The National Grits Festival has been paused in the past due to sponsorship issues but I believe it is back and better than ever. It’s held the second Saturday in April. The building pictured here is the old Warwick Masonic Lodge.Dan Aultman and Lee Lucas shared memories of the building. Dan wrote: Sixty years ago when I was a young fellow, this old Masonic Lodge was an old wood building . The kids in Warwick, lacking safe places to play, used the bottom floor to roller skate. I don’t remember if we were given permission or if we assumed it was okay. The one police officer never threw us out, but life was different back then. Lee recalled: In the middle to late 60’s, upstairs in the Masonic building was where we held the Boy Scouts meetings. The Scout Master was Mr. Grady West, who would take us on hikes and camp outs through out the surrounding countryside. We even went on canoe trips down the Flint River from just below the power dam (where Mr. West worked) to downtown Albany Ga. This was during the heyday of Turner Air Field, an U.S. Air Force B-52 airfield. You have not lived until a B-52 takes off just feet above your head while you are in a canoe. The way our troop scattered INTO the river,you would have thought we were being strafed! Fun memories!
Parrish Store, Mystic
