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The old Victorian building across from Dixie Drug was the old Sylacauga Secondary Agricultural School..After the new high school was built it was turned into a boarding house, mostly occupied by teachers..In the forties, before the USO building was constructed, it was still used as a boarding house and a couple of students at SHS lived there after their parents moved elsewhere in order to graduate from the high school they were attending..One of these was Jerry Bryan, the preacher's son..
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Jimmy, I remember it as a two story wooden hotel across from Dixie. I thinmk it burned, anybody know?
Across the street from the Sylacauga Theatre I worked at Domestic Loans as a "Outside adjuster" for $250.00 a month and a $60 car allowance. I Had to run down the deadbeats and others that couldn't or wouldn't pay their payments. Man! I was getting rich!! I wore out a 55 ford doing this. I sure didn't know ole Jerry was an artist. That was some good drawing. Oner can't draw a lick but can paint anything. She did sketch a picture of our grand daughter Heather, in charcoal and it looked fairly good to me.
As you all know, I'm an old weastern movie nut and also an old car nut. I say that to say this, can anyone name the make and model of the cars at the White Midget, Dairy Queen, and Old Hickery? Cubby named the studerbaker at the Martin Theatre and I think know some of the others but I'd like to have expert Info on them.MVB ES
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Jim:
I can't remember the color of the old building for sure, but for some reason I think it was a dark yellow or brown. Could have been some other dark color..
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Here's a photo I found of the State Secondary Agriculture School, built in about 1895, that could have been located across from Dixie Drug. It most likely occupied the space where the later Recreation Center's concrete slab basketball court was. It was formerly called the Fourth District Agriculture School in the 20's & later became the old Sylacauga High School. This building was eventually converted into a bording house & later a 42-room hotel.
(Source of info: "A History of Sylacauga," Author: Phillip Mizzell, SHS Class of '66.)
This book is at the Isabell Anderson Comer Museum.
I'm still trying to find a photo of the old Saxon-Knight Hotel that was next to the Martin Theatre.
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I know a lady that might have a photo(painting) of the Saxon-Knight Hotel. Gayle Simpson Saxon, from Childersburg; bless her heart. If you want to talk to her about it, email me and I will give you her phone number (or I can call her myself).
I want to send this photo link to some friends of mine, but I dont know what E-mail address to send them.
I am not a computer savy person in many ways, so can you help? I can get to angelfire.com, but what from there?
I've been visiting the Comer Museum trying to find old photos of interest. Yes, send me what you have & I'll check them out! Just email me with attached photos.
Cubby, I thought the car at the white midget next to Ham's on the right was a Caddy by the V on the trunk. And the one at the Old Hickery in the middle, is it a 56 chevy, or a 54 ford or none of the above. MVB ES
Sorry Butch, I mis-read your post or something! Just as Jimmy stated in his post below, to send a webpage link to someone, just copy the link from your web browser address bar & paste it into your outgoing email.