)V; >■ \ U 1; . ■> V ( • ' I"": n’' \ Page 4 Friday, April 9,2004 Jhe\ V\\ v\ Back in the day... Boiling Springs and Gardner-Webb share ricii history Amanda Wood Pilot Staff Hambright, professor of history and political science at GWU and a 1961 graduate of Gardner-Webb Jr. College. Behind the drugstore, employ ees of Cleveland Sandwich Company made and It is called the crossroads - the intersection of Main Street and College Ayenue in Boiling Springs - and through years of change it has remained went to wr^PP®^ sandwiches to be the heart of the town. *u Q h shipped to out of town “It’s still the cross- onaCK oitop. g^ores and industries, roads,” said Magretta fOOntmute according to GWU histo- McKee, Boiling Springs’ and I had little rian Lansford Jolley. The town clerk and life-long /noney, and you Cleveland Sandwich resident, who remembers qq^i^i „et a bis Company the crossroads as it was _ . ® ® in her childhood days ^ when the intersection’s puck of donutS four comers were differ- for a nickeL” ent than they are today. j^uci Hamrick The comer now ' ■ s building is now occupied by Turner Trucking Company. The post office was located between the dmg store aBd Cleveland Sandwich Company until belonging to the Webb Building was the 1960’s, when it was moved to its occupied by G.T. McSwain’s gro eery and fumiture store until the 1960’s. A long, white, rectangular- shaped building, McSwain’s Grocery was the only supermarket in Boiling Springs until Ingles moved to the community in the 1990’s. McSwain’s grocery moved in the 1960’s and is still in operation as a fumiture and hardware store. The building now occupied by the Uptown Cafe was once home to present. location across from the Webb Building. The building now occupied by the Italian Garden was once a the ater called the Co-ed. According to Shirley Toney, dean of GWU’s nurs ing school and nursing instmctor since 1965, the theater’s elevated seating remains in today’s restau rant. The Snack Shop, located on Main Street, remains a long-time Boiling Springs Drag Co., owned by staple in Boiling Springs for local pharmacist and Boiling Springs res- residents and students. Luci ident Bob Beason. Hamrick, a 1944 graduate of “It had three booths and you Gardner-Webb Jr. College, remem- could bers going to the Snack Shop with 4 .♦W#' Photo Courtesy of The Shelby Star The above photo depicts Main Street, Boiling Springs, as it was in 1986. Uptown Cafe now occupies the Boiling Springs Drug Co. building. Main Street was incorporated in 1911. Photo Courtesy of The Sheltjy Star Above, an aerial photograph of Gardner-Webb’s campus. Notice the old Huggins-Curtis Building where the present-day Dover Campus Center • stands. Also note the construction to Stroup in the top right comer. her roommate. “We went to the Snack Shop. My roommate and I had little money, and you could get a big Pepsi and a pack of donuts for a nickel,” said Hamrick. Jolley and his wife, Cothenia, met in &e Snack Shop during the fall semester of 1946. They were both sophomores. Jolley had just retumed from World War II, and his friend Buddy Sheperd, another Gardner-Webb Jr. College student, introduced them. According to the Jolleys, the Snack Shop was one of the main date-night attractions in town. “You could only date on Friday night Saturday night and Sunday night,” Jolley said, adding that students had to have a certain grade point average to be allowed to date. When she was not out on a date with Jolley, then Cothenia Jones enjoyed the ping pong tables, piano and bowling alley in the basement of the old Huggins-Curtis Building, which stood near the present site of the Dover Campus Center. “We didn’t have to have all kinds of special things to entertain us,” Cothenia Jolley said. Hamrick agrees. “We nijanaged to entertain ourselves, and we also managed to leam a little,” she said. Photo courtesy of the Shelby Star The front of Boiling Springs Baptist Church, established in 1847.

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