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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Imperial Theater Augusta, GA. Analogue photography. 1979 "The Hitter" is on the marquee, which was released in 1979 and thus confidently dates the photo. Located at 749 Broad St., the theater opened in 1917 as The Wells Theater, and was killed by the Spanish Flu pandemic and the closure of public venues. Sold to Lynch Enterprises, along with several other local theaters, it reopened as The Imperial. It closed in 1981 and was reopened in 1985 as a performing arts venue. I've always called it the Imperial Palace, which I guess is wrong. Damn. I liked it being The Imperial Palace. Love the street lamp. With so many photos, looking at them I can plug into the moment I took the picture, not the day or the hour but the seconds surrounding when I took the photo. With this one I "feel" it was Sunday. Broad Street was already pretty well emptied out by 1979, but a reason for it being this sparse is because it was Sunday. I never saw "The Hitter". The theater is still there. One can look it up in Google Maps. * * * * * Photo is black-and-white looking down a side street toward the Imperial Theater on Broad. There are no people in the photo though it is downtown, and only two parked cars are observed, otherwise the streets are empty. #augustagaphotography #augustaga #augustageorgia #augustadowntown #augustabroadst #imperialtheater #1970saugustaga #analoguephotography #analoguephotograph #blackandwhitephotograph #blackandwhitephotography #streetlamp #movietheater #oldmovietheater

Imperial Theater
Augusta, GA. Analogue photography. 1979

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