My home town of Cowpens, SC in 1952 and 1953 -
pictured just before I was born in 1955 at Dr. Crow's Clinic.
Things seemed so much simpler then, but life was not a bed of roses. We did not have a telephone until the early 1960's. Mom used a wringer washer outside to wash our clothes (I was one of many kids who had their arm get stuck in the wringer trying to help I am sure) There was no air conditioner, but lots of fans, one for each room it seemed.
When I was born , we lived in a house below the railroad crossing , then later moved to an apartment near Gospel Baptist Church (my Dad's first pastorate). By the mid 1960's we had moved to a house which we called the Coyle's House. Mr. Don Edward Coyle used to run a grocery store (Coyle's Supermarket) where the ice cream shop is today. This house was located on the street behind where Hardee's is today. Of course, there was no Hardee's back then, and we had to drive to Spartanburg to enjoy those .15 cent burgers!).
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