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September 2007

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4 September 2007 | Link this

Groceteria.com was featured on last Thursday's Good Morning Show here in the Triad. You can watch, if you're so inclined. For trivia's sake, I'll add that I interned on that show many, many years ago when I was still contemplating a broadcasting career, rather than a career designing websites for TV stations.

I know I've said this before, but my apologies to everyone I've completely ignored for the past ten days or so. You can't imagine how overextended I've been between the fact that this is the busiest time of year for pretty much all my web clients and the fact that my first two weeks back in school proved a bit more hectic than I'd envisioned. Throw in one major family gathering, one part-time job, and several assorted minor crises, and you have me, as of today.

It'll be better in about two weeks.

14 September 2007 | Link this

New content soon, really, but this is just a semi-public note to Glenn in High Point. I'd love to speak with you, but you didn't include your email address when you sent the contact form, so if you'd try it again, that would be great. Thanks.

16 September 2007 | Link this

This beauty from the 200 block of East Front Street in Burlington NC, just a few blocks from Blanche Taylor Moore's Kroger, undoubtedly started life as a Big Star about 1938 or so. A lot of variations on this prototype were built in the southeast in the late 1930s, and a good proportion of them have held up remarkably well. The craftsmanship and materials are a stark contrast to the cheap stucco effects on most new chain stores.

I'm also guessing the building to the left was a 1940s A&P, but I'll save that for another post.

Also from this weekend's long drive:

I'm saying with maybe 60% certainty that this building from downtown Yanceyville NC once housed an A&P.

This Family Dollar on South Scales Street in Reidsville NC was definitely something, probably an A&P as well, but I'm not sure. It also looks like it may have expanded into a neighboring (but built at the same time) adjacent storefront.

23 September 2007 | Link this

We all have our fetishes related to vintage stores, I guess. One reader is particularly interested in floor tiles, while a few others are fascinated by various HVAC components. A big one for me has always been the front entrance. I get really excited when I find an old store that still has its original door configuration, and especially so when it has its original doors, as does this former Colonial store on North Main Street in Columbia SC. I was obsessed with old doors when I was a kid and was first looking at -- and drawing pictures of -- old stores.

Here's another one from my Saturday road trip, located on Harden Street in Columbia's Five Points area. I'm not sure what it was (Columbia is definitely a future research candidate) but it sure is pretty.

Maybe I'll add a "doors" feature to the site one of these days.

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