Category Archives: Vanishing Charlotte

Section: Seersucker and Sunshine

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

When We Were Young That’s Just Klaus From the pen of Marsha L Burris My sibs and I grew up in Newell, in a 1950s brick rancher that sat on the northwest corner of Mary and Osborne Yeomans’ dairy farm. … Continue reading →

Posted in Seersucker & Sunshine, Southern Culture, Southern History, Southern Muses, The South, Uncategorized, Vanishing Charlotte | 2 Comments

Thompson’s Bootery and Bloomery

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and I have a clear image in my head of a circa early 1970s Valentine’s Day display window at the old and unfortunately long gone Thompson’s Bootery and Bloomery .If you are of “old Charlotte” … Continue reading →

Posted in Back when Charlotte was Interesting, Historic Mecklenburg County, Vanishing Charlotte | Tagged | 2 Comments