Dixie Lock & Key Service is located on Lewis Street, right down the street from the pop-up, Winterfest skating rink. It is a Lewis Street institution. Many of the other old-timey businesses have come and gone from this area of downtown Greensboro, known as South End; however, this Monday-Friday business is full of inventory. It looks like one of those places where you could get a key made for door from previous centuries.
In a News & Record article, Jonelle Davis describes the ambience as follows, "you can sit and wait for your keys to be made in a cloth van seat- complete with ashtrays and armrests."* Dixie Lock & Key even appears in National Lampoon's movie "Pucked," filmed in the Triad area in 2005** Hopefully, it will be around for years to come. There is an art to cutting a key and it is always nice having a specialty store around.
*reference, here.
** Yes! Weekly article on the movie, here.
Too bad most of the "old times" places have disappeared. Thanks for the description. It's a store I'd love to see in person.
Posted by: Linda | Monday, January 05, 2015 at 03:49 PM
We have a shop that does that here, among other things, though they've recently moved.
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, January 05, 2015 at 05:45 PM
Such a neat place, I do love these old shops.
Posted by: Denise | Monday, January 05, 2015 at 07:06 PM