Shine’s Service Station with Shine Crawford and Cassy

First Photo: Here’s a view of some notable buildings on George Street, circa 1955. In the foreground notice Jumpin’ Jim’s barber shop and the Rio Theater, and above that are Walt Coleman’s pool hall (now the Shipwatch Inn) and Sydney (Shine) Crawford’s service station. Can you recognize other buildings?

Second Photo: This is Shine Crawford with Cassy, posing in front of Shine’s icehouse, circa 1950.

Postell’s Newsstand, with Janet Pyle

First Photo: This building was owned by Mr. Lupher at one time, but when I was a boy it was a newsstand, soda shop, and small grocery store run by Luther Postell. “Postell’s Corner” was where we know-it-all teenage boys used to hand out whenever we could. The building is now the very popular, “Bohemia Café.”

Second Photo: Here’s an inside view of Postell’s, with pretty soda clerk, Janet Pyle, who, with me, graduated from Chesapeake City High School in 1954. I remember jumping up there on the stool to order a cherry coke or milkshake. I think the milkshake was about 15 cents then.