Simkins Seed Store, located at 1129 Broad Street, first appears in a 1939 ad, and I wonder what was in this space before then. I was able to find the owner was Leroy H. Simkins, born 1904, who in the 1920 was a landscape architect for a corporation. That's a big change to make, it seems, from landscape architect to the proprietor of Simkins Seed Store. Now I find a wedding announcement from 1931 that clarifies he was already a partner in the Simkins Seed and Feed Company, while also being employed as landscape architect for the Forrest Hills Ricker Hotel that was founded in 1926 and had its own golf course designed by golf course architect Donald Ross. A luxury resort hotel, it became an army hospital in 1942. It was razed in 1988. What was the Simkins Feed Store is now the Westobou art gallery. The black-ane-white photo shows part of the shop's exterior, the business closed, an old ad for I can't tell what long degrading in an upper window.

Simkins Seed Co., 1129 Broad
Downtown, Augusta, GA
Between 1976 and 1979
Analogue photo

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High contrast image of old building downtown with faded "Red Rock" on the side. Old location of a distributor? Bottler?I don't remember where this was downtown (I've not been to downtown Augusta in decades) but I suspect from looking at Google maps that wherever this was doesn't exist any longer in near the same form.

Red Rock
Street in downtown, Augusta, GA
Between 1976 and 1979
Analogue photo

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Rooftops, Broad St., Augusta, GA 1970s Hand-tinting on black-and-white photo approx 9 in wide by 7 in h There is some digital touch-up on this photo but not much. I took this shot while we were living at 226 Broad Street, looking west from the second floor of what we used for our living room. An elderly gentleman occupied the first floor, whose wonderful story was that he once met Louis Armstrong when he was in town to play at the base, that it was during the time of strict racial segregation, Louis wasn't going to be able to find a place to serve him a meal before his show, and he was proud to take Louis to his home to cook him steak. His name was Baines. Mr. Baines. He wasn't from Augusta, he had served at Fort Gordon (maybe Camp Gordon when he was there) and then had stayed, becoming a taxi driver later. Marty says he was instead a civilian working at the base, but I could swear he had landed in Augusta because he served at Fort Gordon That was the best memory of his life, he said, cooking for Louis Armstrong. He was crazy about jazz, and had almost no furnishings except for a bed, a table, and an old record player console from the 1940s on which he played his many old jazz albums for us. When I say he loved old jazz, I mean that's all he listened to, so it was quite an honor for him to both drive and cook for Louis Armstrong. Mr. Baines liked having us upstairs, and when we moved over to a neighborhing house he had a terrible experience with the people who next rented the upstairs, he said he couldn't withstand anything like that again (one night they bashed their car repeatedly into a tree outside because they simply did things like that) so he purchased a micro-house, one room and a bath and he probably lived the rest of his life there. We went over once for a dinner of cellophane-wrapped peanut butter crackers. And sat for several hours listening to his jazz albums one last time. The views from our second floor windows over the east end of Augusta's dow…

View from 226 Broad St., Augusta, GA
Mid-1970s analogue hand-tinted photo
Juli Kearns

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445, Augusta Georgia, Mid-1970s Hand-tinting on black and white photo plus black-and-white version One of my oldest photos. This is a scene from a row of old rooms that was located near Broad Street in downtown Augusta in the 70s. If I remember it was a dirt road alley. I vaguely remember very hesitantly stepping inside, one room, and it was empty except for maybe some old newspapers, no surprises. I've tried finding old archive photos of the area and have come up with nothing, probably because it was a street too poor to be worth thinking about. My negatives are long gone. I don't remember if I got a shot of the street for context. I should have, but I was 18 and didn't know that decades in the future I'd wish for one. I do vaguely recollect I had taken several shots, one of them showed the whole window but not the step leading up to the doorway, somehow I had neglected to get a photo capturing both so I opted for a print showing the stoop and sacrificing the edge of the window. I've always felt bad about not having that full window in there.

445, Augusta Georgia, Mid-1970s Hand-tinting on black and white photo plus black-and-white version One of my oldest photos. This is a scene from a row of old rooms that was located near Broad Street in downtown Augusta in the 70s. If I remember it was a dirt road alley. I vaguely remember very hesitantly stepping inside, one room, and it was empty except for maybe some old newspapers, no surprises. I've tried finding old archive photos of the area and have come up with nothing, probably because it was a street too poor to be worth thinking about. My negatives are long gone. I don't remember if I got a shot of the street for context. I should have, but I was 18 and didn't know that decades in the future I'd wish for one. I do vaguely recollect I had taken several shots, one of them showed the whole window but not the step leading up to the doorway, somehow I had neglected to get a photo capturing both so I opted for a print showing the stoop and sacrificing the edge of the window. I've always felt bad about not having that full window in there.

Analogue photography, personal, mid 1970s (1976-1977). Hand-tinted and black-and-white. Juli Kearns
Place: Augusta, GA. A row of old rooms on a dirt alley in downtown.

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About a year and a half after it became Fort Eisenhower, the local Army post will become Fort Gordon again.
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My sign (I am not a calligrapher 😆) for today’s protest at the Richmond County Courthouse in Augusta, Georgia, as part of the “50 States, 50 Protests, 1 Day” movement. #augustageorgia #resist