Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Intersection of Old Capitol Trail and Newport Road.


You can see Foards Store on the left in photo below
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3 comments:

Scott Palmer said...

You came through for me again! I had seen the photo part of the upper one before (or maybe a different shot of the same shop -- can't remember), but didn't know where it was. The fabulous bottom pic clears it up. Thanks!

Kelley said...

Odd the Copes General Store/ F.O. Dunmon Shop/Norman Barton Shop isn't visible on the right. The place is barely off the road. There is fencing in this photo.

Scott P said...

I'd guess that it's probably just out of the shot. The building is actually set back a bit from the road -- there's enough room to park a car head on in front of it, and the road was probably narrower then, too.

I noticed the fence, too. If you go back and look closely at the first old pic in the Bridge 155 post, it looks like there was a house on the east side of Newport Road, across from the two houses that are still there (has a high pointed Gothic gable, like some of the houses on New Street and Old Cap Trl). I wonder if the fence might have been theirs, and that property went over to Old Cap Trl. Maybe that's why Copes was not on the corner. Just a thought. I've spent whole mornings just staring at and analyzing these pictures. (And yes, I know how sad that is.)