Last week’s Picturing the Past mentioned that Smith’s Barber Shop also had a women’s department.  According to Smith’s obituary, Dock Ramsey’s wife managed that part

Hart’s Barber Shop on East Main St. was a busy place in 1953. Notice the shoe shine stand in the back left. Like drug stores

Since the early 1900s downtown Brevard has been home to numerous cafes and restaurants.  The earliest mention of a local restaurant found in the Sylvan

In the early to mid-1900s small towns often had two or three drug stores.  They offered medication prepared by a pharmacist and first aid supplies. 

Girl Scouts planting a tree near the school on South Broad Street in 1925. Beulah May Zachary is 8th from the left. Beulah May Zachary

Toxaway Inn in its heyday. Last week Picturing the Past looked back at Transylvania County in 1912, 1927, and 1937.  This week the journey to

A look back at the headlines of yesteryear offers a glimpses at what was occurring in Transylvania County 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100

Plummer’s Department Store x-ray shoe fitter. The x-ray shoe fitter was a fluoroscope machine used to aid in the fitting of shoes.  Three different individuals,

Many of the Whitmire St. homes had low rock walls at the front of the lot. Whitmire Street was laid out by W.P. and J.C.

Some of Verner’s pencil sketches were made into postcards depicting mid-20th century Charleston from its streets. Elizabeth O’Neill Verner was a well-known artist and writer,