Top: Small storefront with one advertising window, boarded up, on Main Street. The building adjoins the back of Watlington’s Store. A sign pleads, “Please! Do not block drive.”
Bottom: Cinderblock, aluminim siding and wood storefront on Church Street in Yanceyville. Currently, as the handpainted sign states, the building houses the “BB New Image Hair Salon.”
Top: View under one-story metal carport, looking toward now empty building that housed an automotive dealership / mechanic shop. Though I am not sure, the metal structure providing shade, from similar structures I have seen nearby in Burlington and Hillsborough, was built to house automobiles for sale. The structure would provide respite from rain and high [...]
Top: View of Watlington’s Store viewed from the grassy Court Square in Yanceyville.
Middle: Close-up of Watlington’s Store, showing details of a 1970’s remodel of the first floor, using blue-green Formica panels, frosted aluminum strips and frosted aluminum doors; and a 1980’s remodel of the second story, utilizing vertical strips of aluminum siding.
Bottom: View of front advertising [...]
Top: Phillips 66 sign on Main Street, close to its intersection with U.S. Route 158. The sign is very old, as evidenced by its heft. Most signs of even the 1950’s and 1960’s were porcelain or painted metal of a thin scope. This sign is a heavy, inflexible metal, with an even thicker frame all the way [...]
Top: Cinder block storage building attached to the back of the old Caswell Theater building on Main Street. Access to the storage building is down a grassy alleyway between the theater building and the building housing the N.C. Cooperative Extension Center .
Bottom: Pig Cookers await use in the grassy alleyway beside the building that houses the [...]
Top: Sign advertising the site as that of “Little Car Wash.” Though faded, the sign begins with “25 cents.” I enjoy the open ended question this sign does not answer. Is this the “Little” Car Wash? Proudly owned by a local family with last name Little? Or, is the sign describing the car wash, “little?”
The car wash is….was [...]
Top: The Nathaniel Roan House in Yanceyville NC. The right side of the house, the taller roof line, was built for Dr. Roan (Yanceyville’s physician at the time) in the brick Greek Revival Style in 1838. The house was expanded in 1879, hence the left wing of the house at a lower roof height, and [...]
Top: An old service station at a traffic intersection that features one of only two traffic lights in the entire county. No longer offering service, the site is now a weekend flea market. Many items have been appropriated as tables in which vendors can show offer their wares. The aqua blue object in the photograph is [...]
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