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THE MAGAZINE OF SOUTH CAROLINA san One Dollar Twenty-Five JANUARY • 1971 THE GREATER GREENVILLE AREA APEX OF SOUTH CAROLINA INDUSTRY AND CULTURE ONE OF A SERIES DEPICTING UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA'S PROGRESS PROPOSED GREENVILLE DOWNTOWN COLISEUM AND CONVENTION CENTER "/"/Fr==i•E31 C:: - ,;C::,,,... "/I THE CENTER will have a seating capacity of approximately RADIO 133 13,000 for various stage shows, sporting events and GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA •MULTIMEDIA STATIONS conventions. Complementing the main area are separate exhibition and banquet facilities and a multistory ,~/Fr==iiE31 c::=: - ~ "/I parking building making this one of the most complete STEREO 937 and up to date complexes of its kind. ~7n today's world where talk comes cheap~ action speaks louder!' I When somebody wants to sell you something, you almost always know the words: We care. We understand. We're interested. We listen. We do more for you. We make it easy. It all sounds so meaningful. 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INTERNATIONAL DIVISIONS: BIRMINGHAM, ALA., BRUSSELS, BELGIUM GREENSBORO, N.C., JACKSONVILLE, FLA., SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO LEXINGTON, KY., LITTLE ROCK, ARK., AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND RICHMOND, VA. LONDON, ENGLAND SALES OFFICES: NEW YORK, N.Y., CHICAGO, ILL. THE MAGAZINE sandl apper. READERS' COMMENTS 4 NEXT MONTH 6 RESIDENTIAL TO MOVE OR NOT TO MOVE 8 Lucille B. Green MARY C. SIMMS OLIPHANT 13 Charles E. Thomas SALES AND RENTALS SOUTH CAROLINA TRICENTENNIAL CROSS-NUMBER PUZZLE 17 Frank E. Oneal A PEDESTRIAN-ORIENTED COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES MAIN STREET PLAN 18 James G. Vaughan Jr. THE ROCK HOUSE 22 Eugene Warner Member of GREENVILLE'S SLEEPING GIANT 26 Nancy V. Ashmore GREENVILLE IN CHIAROSCURO 30 Nike Middleton Multiple DANIEL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 32 Beth Ann Klosky Lis ting FROM AIDA TO ZACCARIA 36 Charles F. Koelsch Service 300 YEARS OF CAROLINA COOKING 40 JeanH. Hunt GREENVILLE: A PROGRESSIVE CITY 1400 Laurens Road LOOKS TO THE FUTURE 44 Box 8244 - Station A WASHINGTON PLACE 54 Clifford Hackett Phone 803 - 239-1346 TEXTILE HALL 57 Greenville, South Carolina 29607 POINTS OF TOURISTIC INTEREST AROUND GREENVILLE 59 SANDLAPPER BOOKSHELF 62 SANDLAPPER BOOKSTORE 64 CIVIL EVENTS 66 GREENVILLE PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS 72 WAR For home and den, suitable for framing. Any A NEW COLISEUM 74 James G. Vaughan Jr. item of your choice $1.00 each. Pony Express GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY 77 Lucille B. Green Notice; Gen. Robert E. Lee Funeral Notice; INTERESTING, UNUSUAL Confederate decoding chart; Anti-Lincoln Car ITEMS AND SERVICES 80 toon; Jefferson Davis Election Notice; President Johnson impeachment ticket; Army orders on President Lincoln Assassination; Army Dis PUBLISHER Robert Pearce Wilkins charge Certificate; Gold Mining Stock Certif EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Delmar L. Roberts icate; Draft Exemption Certificate; $1,000 EDITORIAL ASSIST ANT Albert Davis Reward for Gen. Morgan; Slave Dealer Poster; EVENTS EDITOR Beth Littlejohn Confederacy Law of Treason Poster; Recruiting STAFF ARTIST Michael F . Schumpert Poster; Abolitionist handbill; Underground ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE J.T. McKee Railroad Poster; List of slaves for Sale; K.K.K. CIRCULATION MANAGER Rose T. Wilkins Notice of new organization; Uncle Toms Cabin CIRCULATION ASSIST ANTS Harry D. Hull, Kathryn F . Little Celia S. Truesdale, Anne Watson Poster; $500 Reward for runaway Slave; Civil STAFF ASSISTANTS Phil Baity, Lewis Hay War Recruits Handbill; Lynching Poster; Slave Auction woodcut; Civil War handbill for Brooks SANDLAPPER is published and printed by Sandlapper Press, Inc., Robert Pearce Wilkins, presi Pat; Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail dent; Dan K. Duke~ Jr., vice president and general manager; Delmar L. Roberts, vice president road Notice; Civil War Ambulance woodcut; editorial; Rose T. Wilkins, vice president and secretary. Slave Chins Devices; General Orders Head SANDLAPPER- THE MAGAZINE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, January 1971, Volume 4, Number quarters department of the South; Confederate 1. Published monthly except for the combined May-June and July-August issues, making a total Soldier woodcut; Horses wanted Notice; of 10 issues annually. Offices and printing plant located on U.S. 378, West Columbia, S.C. MAIL Calamity Jane handbill; Buffalo Bill Poster; ING ADDRESS: All correspondence and manuscripts should be addressed to P.O. Box 1668, Annie Oakley Poster; Reward Posters-Billy the Columbia, s.c. 29202. Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings and photographs Kid; Jesse James; Frank James; Francisco submitted if they are to be returned. Query before submitting material. No responsibility assumed Pancho Villa; Joaquin; Belle Starr; John Wilkes for unsolicited materials. Second-class postage paid at Columbia, S.C. Subscription rates: $9 a year Booth; The Daltons; Black Bart; Bill Doolin, in the United States and possessions; foreign countries, $12. Add 4% sales tax for South Carolina subscriptions. © 1971 by Sandlapper Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of th is publication BELLS COIN SHOP may be reproduced without written permission. Sancllapper is a registered trademark. Box 276 Cover: Snow Scene, Greer. F.J. Jackson. Second Prize Photo Contest. Tolleson, Arizona 85353 January 1971 3 haven't forgotten them. I'm grate yearly issues into a single volume, READERS' ful for the article. as we did in the volume entitled "Sandlapper 1968." COMMENTS Anna Ruth Kietzman We do not plan to publish an (Mrs. Carl W. Kietzman) other such volume. The 1968 book Milford, Ohio Sandlapper welcomes letters to was published because we sold out the editor on matters of general in We are the proud owners of of the first three months' issues and terest. We ask that the letters be "Sandlapper 1968" and we are dis knew there would be a number of held to 150 words or less. Excerpts appointed to find out that there is new subscribers who would wish to from this month's letters are pre no "Sandlapper 1969" or "Sand have all the articles, beginning with sented below. lapper 1970." the very first issue of the magazine. All the back issues except I'd like to make a comment on Anne Cunningham January-March 1968 and January the article in the November issue on (Mrs. W.C. Cunningham) 1969 are still in print. Thus, by the Alamo. As a Texan born and Aiken, South Carolina ordering "Sandlapper 1968" and bred, I'd like to let the author available back issues, a subscriber know that though movie people We have had a number of in can obtain all articles ever printed and novelists may forget Travis and quiries concerning whether or not in "Sandlapper" except those in the Bonham, the people of Texas we would bind the articles from the January 196 9 issue. Ed. From the sun swept coast to the rising mountains ... in almost every city ... we serve homeowners, business and industry through comfortable mortgages. In addition, all types of insurance, real estate and property management in Greenville. A comfortable - mortgage . .. the key to hap- pier living in South Carolina. C.Douglas Wilson & Co. HOME OF c~~'YYl~n~ GREENVILLE / ANDERSON / CHARLESTON / COLUMBIA / FLORENCE / SPARTANBURG 4 Sand lap per In Gibbes' "Documentary His tory of the American Revolution," volume III, pages 58 ff. occurs the following note from Gen. Francis NEXT MONTH IN Marion's "Orderly Book" dated 1778: "Sentries ... came up with flapped hats, bare legs, long beards SANDLAPPER and uncombed hair .... As long hair gathers much filth and takes a great deal of time to comb ... every soldier [is] to have his hair cut short, to reach no further than the top of the shirt collar, and thinned upwards to the crown of the head .... Any soldier who comes on parade with beards or hair uncombed shall be dry shaved HAWKING immediately and have his hair By C.W. Kilbey dressed on parade .... " And this later comment, also from Gen. Marion: " ... enjgins them not to meet with any mobs, nor to have the least hand in any riotous proceedings whatsoever." Oh! The repetitions of history! Arney R. Childs Columbia, South Carolina MIDDLETON PLACE KNOWING SOUTH CAROLINA Those who really know our STABLEYARDS state . .. By Both native and guest, Jean May Usually appreciate That here we have the best: The beauty of our countryside, From coast to rolling hills; Hallowed ground where heroes died, Gives history-lovers thrills; Delightful rural folkways, WINTER GOLF ON THE GRAND STRAND And South Carolina lore By James W. Thompson Often prompts a visitor To ask a native more; AUTHOR WILLIAM PRICE FOX But too long ... and to our shame, When along a visitor came, By Charles M. Israel Asking us about our state, PRICE'S MILL Answers, he could not await ... Too few knew what to say By Beth Brown and Gary C. Dickey To the visitor on his way; But, no longer is this so, Now, Sandlapper lets us know. This is in appreciation of your CALENDAR OF EVENTS successful portrayal of South Caro lin a for three years in "Sand • Art • Theatre • Tours lapper." I've found out-of-staters • Music • Sports • Fairs appreciate it too.