Florence City/County Pics

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SUNDAY SOLITUDE 5/26/2019     "Do what makes your soul shine . . ."

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AND I LOVE HER 5/27/2019     "A love like ours Could never die As long as I Have you near me -The Beatles, AND I LOVE HER

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SAMBA PA TI     "Samba Pa Ti -Carlos Santana

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RT 101 EXTENDED 5/31/2019 (HAPPY FRIDAY!)     Enceladus 2.22 Million Stories   Enceladus BackBay     City Hall & Hall of Justice Midtown     Bruce Wayne Center Midtown

Edited June 4, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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TIME AND TIME AGAIN 6/3/2019     "Time and time again I went away But then would come the time when I would need you -Billie Holiday, I'M A FOOL TO WANT YOU         South Florence High Class of 1977

Edited June 4, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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I looked at that very same yearbook last Saturday. 

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On 6/4/2019 at 9:35 AM, vicupstate said:

I looked at that very same yearbook last Saturday. 

What a coincidence. Go, Bruins!  I am not sure what drew me to that particular YearBook since I didn't know or rather didn't know anyone in it at the time. I  could stay in that South Carolina Room for hours reading all those great history books of Charleston, Florence, the Pee Dee, and all those old High School Year Books that make me smile. Some of the odd history about Florence made me laugh esp. after reading how Florence's 1914 mayor foolishly got rid of the city's civil service commission like other American cities because he thought it was useless and the commission was abolished in 1918...however, the exigencies of modern Florence re-established the commission in 1955 under Mayor James R. Schipman.

Edited June 5, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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ON THE BORDER     "In the village where I grew up Nothing seems the same Still you never see the change from day to day And no-one notices the customs slip away -Al Stewart, On the Border

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excursion . . . colleton county, lowcountry south carolina

Walterboro silver in the stars

 

 

With a population of 5,328, Walterboro got its start in 1783 when the Walter brothers formed a small hamlet called Hickory Valley approximately 48 miles west of Charleston and 49 miles north of Savannah. The town was later named for the brothers, and in 1817, Walterboro was named the county seat of Colleton County.

Then there is Dukes BBQ of a string of Dukes from James Island to Aiken, but this one is our first located in Walterboro and gets 5 stars for authenticity, the friendliest people and sweet Carolina BBQ and the best Mac ‘n Cheese we’ve ever tasted anywhere.
 

"I'm just a country boy
-Don Williams

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 16, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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florence downtown eastenders

6/24/2019 

 

 

The Dispensary
Mussels, salad, martini & scotch
 

 

 

 

 

W. Evans Street

Edited June 25, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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JASPER COUNTY, SC

185 miles south of Florence, SC, the "Welcome to South Carolina" sign across Savannah River I-95 into Jasper county.

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lamb's

 

Lamb's Produce/Farmers Market, Southside 2nd Loop Road

"Soon it will be done-
-Mahalia Jackson, TROUBLE OF THE WORLD

Giant tomatoes

 

 

 

 

 

Gator bench, Southside Florence

Edited July 4, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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it don't worry me

7/5/2019

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E. Day Street

"Economy's depressed, not me
My spirit’s high as it can be
And you may say that I ain’t free
But it don’t worry me
-Barbara Harris, Keith Carradine, IT DON'T WORRY ME
from Robert Altman's classic film NASHVILLE

For the cyclist traveling east of McLeod Medical Center, Day Street drops like a rollercoaster and you're flying in the wind down a narrow curvy street past rolling hills, empty fields and tiny side streets above murky still creeks and endless pecan tree groves.  A short distance from bucolic St. Ann church is an abandoned factory waiting patiently for revival, one dilapidated house without hope manages to retain far more charm than the rest of the neighborhood consisting of rusty trailer houses and a working-class enclave of run-down clapboard dwellings with front yards and porches overstuffed with water-coolers that peek from behind raggedy shrubs and angry guard dogs tied at the end of poles. 

East Day Street Hill

At the end of East Day Street a small white Pentecostal church with a long Spanish name and a two-story hall erected in back of the church sits behind a sign that reads no dumping for a dirt path laid with gravel and grass grows down the middle and through the shady wood without sound the earth is pristine white in one area like oyster shells.   Looking up a light reaches behind the tallest hill pushing to be seen through the growth and at last the path ends abruptly and opens into an extensive railyard.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Ann Catholic Church, Kemp Street

 

 

 

 

Iglesia Torre Fuerte

 

 

 

 

 

Florence Railyard

Edited July 6, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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enceladus: the city

 

 

 

 

"Nobody knows where you're going
Nobody cares where you've been
'Cause you belong to the city
You belong to the night
Living in a river of darkness
Beneath the neon light
-Glenn Frey, YOU BELONG TO THE CITY

 

 

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late night:  hurt so bad

 

 

 

 

"Why don't you stay and let me make it up to you
-Linda Ronstadt, HURT SO BAD

 

 

 

4:30 a.m.
late night shoppers
 

Late night Breyers French Vanilla ice cream craving achieved ...

 

 

Edited July 14, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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the hat lady

 

Florence's PDRTA Bus Route #1

 

"Who's gonna pick you up when you fall
Who's gonna hang it up when you call
Who's gonna pay attention to your dreams
Who's gonna plug their ears when you scream
-The Cars, DRIVE

 

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"CLAIR DE LUNE" FLORENCE     JEFFRIES CREEK PARK Hillside Street   Eugene Ormandy:  The Philadelphia Orchestra-Clair de Lune  by Claude Debussy       JEFFRIES CREEK PARK                   Hillside Street

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THE EDGE OF TIME     "The night goes into Morning, just another day Happy people pass my way Looking in their eyes I see a memory -Barry Manilow, MANDY     JEFFRIES CREEK PARK         Jeffries Creek Park "GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE colour"

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STROLLIN' IN THE PARK         "mmm-hmmmm That's the time I feel like making love to you. That's the time I feel like making dreams come true. -Roberta Flack, FEEL LIKE MAKING LOVE

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BEFORE I GO ]     "Traveling twice the speed of sound  It's easy to get burned -Crosby, Stills & Nash, JUST A SONG BEFORE I GO   JEFFRIES CREEK PARK CITY OF FLORENCE

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valley of the dolls

Jeffries Creek Park

 

"When did I stop feeling sure, feeling safe
And start wondering why, wondering why
Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
What's in back of the sky, why do we cry
-Dionne Warwick, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

 

Hillside Street house driveway

"Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you, oh
Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you
-Daryl Hall, writer, EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY
 

 

Hillside Street house

 

Long incline bike lane, South Park Avenue

Edited July 31, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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THE florentine TAKES A BOW

 

At last! Demolition of The Florentine Apartment Building erected in 1951 begins

"And when we die and float away
Into the night the Milky Way
You'll hear me call as we ascend
I'll say your name then once again
Thank you for being a
Thank you for being a friend (I want to thank you)
-Andrew Gold, THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND
 

 

 

The Florentine

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SILVER METEOR MAGIC     FLORENCE STATION Hi CHARLES PEARSON, We wanted to let you know that train #0098, scheduled to depart Florence, South Carolina on Wednesday, July 31st, has been delayed. The estimated arrival time is now 11:58pm...   "Building your dream Has to start now There's no other road to take You won't make a mistake I'll be guiding you You have to believe we are magic Nothing can stand in our way -Olivia Newton John, MAGIC   Florence Station WAIT ROOM Amtrak is a beautiful experience no matter where you're heading.  But after Florence, the internet goes out somewhere between Florence and Fayetteville in the darkest Carolina wood. The most beautiful town with its Main Street lit up was Lumberton we flew past before the black wood returns and one tired traveler en route to Albany having had enough of his stay of the South and Savannah is snoring when I fall into a deep sleep comforted by the echo of a train whistle and the train racing with a gentle rock along rails. Fayetteville (NC) Station In Fayetteville, I finally had something to drink after mentioning my thirst and dismay that the cafe to buy water was closed. The woman sitting by me in seat 43 pulled out a pineapple juice from her bag and offered it to help ease my thirst. That was very kind of her because I needed it. She was traveling from Charlotte to her home in Boston where her mother and sister still reside. I didn't think I would like her at first because she took up so much space being a big woman with thunderous thighs, but I ended up liking her a lot after we chatted about so many things we had in common. At 3:00 a.m. I woke up as I usually do at 3am and I thought about Caleb and April and Draper and Swifty (my fish) back in my apartment. I missed them terribly that moment but figured my neighbor, who calls them her nephews and nieces, would take good care of them while I was away as I watched a woman in the row ahead of me tear into a piece of chicken thigh in the hungriest way I have ever seen...

Edited August 1, 2019 by Charles Pearson

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philadelphia, pa   My first memory of Philadelphia goes back to childhood when I was a little boy and I went there by train with my grandparents to visit relatives--Uncle John "Jakie" Jr.., grandfather's firstborn son. At the time everything seemed bigger to me in Philadelphia than they were back home at my grandparents place in South Carolina where...there was a snail pace movement. Nothing seemed to move very fast or at all back in Florence county, SC.   "I heard the voices of friends, vanished and gone, At night I could hear the blood in my veins, It was just as black and whispering as the rain, On the streets of Philadelphia. -Bruce Springsteen, The Streets of Philadelphia                             T

Edited August 6, 2019 by Charles Pearson