Church Street is changing before our eyes. This photo of the corner of Church Street and Pisgah Church (Lees Chapel) Road shows one of the buildings of yesteryear. At one time, Church Super Market, was a barber shop with an older barber who would give his young clients mosquito houses. They were shaped like bird houses and about the size of a quarter. Likely, given the FOR RENT SIGN from last year, it is already something else and not inconceivable that the bilding will be torn down to become a 21st-century franchise. Don't you love the way the businesses are painted different colors? So clever and practical.
Canterbury School is located about a mile up the road and, beyond that, the Lake Jeanette neighborhoods. Just south, is Skateland East. Do you have any memories of this part of town? At one time, this area was strictly country. Now, it is strictly suburbs.
In 1992 that corner only had the building you photographed, the laundry behind it, Kangaroo store and something else where great stops is now. Food Lion shopping center was there then.
On the South side between Church and Elm in '92 there was nothing but woods and a house between the Kangaroo Station and Elm Street. Now it's full of commercial the whole length.
The north side had a school, a church which has been torn down and a bank which is the First Citizens at the corner of Elm and Pisgah Church. Now there's two more banks (where apartments and the church used to be), bojangles and popeyes.
Posted by: Hugh | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 02:25 PM
Thank you, Hugh. You know so much about Greensboro! Why don't you suggest some places/things for us to photograph?
Posted by: Janis & David | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 05:08 PM