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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
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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.