Picture in picture in picture

[catmandu57]

I wanted to get a photo of the Big Smith sign, a long gone era both in the making of quality work clothes and the small stores in small towns that sold them, but that's another story. Anyway, I'll have to get a better photo, it's only that we were right there and had the camera along, this is yesterday evening in our little town, I thought about discarding them, but after looking it's kind of cool.

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1. I think

Its pretty cool. Not just the picture in picture aspect but the old style store looks like its a hundred years old. The architecture and the street signs and lampposts. The you throw in 2ooo model cars where there should be buggies and horses. I like these old buildings solid brick with hints of wood limited use of glass and a big ole hand painted sign. Just me.

[catmandu57]

2. 1881 I believe

Or that may have been the first building, I don't know if there are any original buildings left on the square. They used to burn down pretty often when they were using wood and coal to heat with.
The streets are wide to accomadate horses and waggons, it took a lot of room to get the rigs turned, there used to be a light rail that ran down the center of Main. I need to get some photos taken, you never know when someone will buy a building then paint it over, covering up the history.

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3. I live in

S.E. Georgia and that building could be on any street corner in more than a dozen towns around here. The way the roof has those stacks of bricks and the awning, just oozes 18oo's to me. I like the "feel" of those buildings when your inside them the air seems aged as to say Ive seen a lot. I often wonder how many people or who has past through the doors. That probably sounds dumb but there is mystery as well as nostalgia to these buildings that have lived through hurricanes, floods depression, the good and the bad times. How many clothes have been made in this place, its just a building right? But I'll bet its played some significant roles in peoples lives, and still does.