A short one this week. I’ve no idea why I went here, but it was probably a matchbook or a motel postcard.

Wikipedia:

Around 1800, an early American settler named Samuel Lambeth opened a store at this junction, and the small community that developed around it became known as Lambeth's Crossroads. The store was located at what has become the modern intersection of Main Street and Stanley Street, just south of the courthouse. By the time a post office was established in the 1830s, the community had taken the name of "Crossville". In the early 1850s, James Scott, a merchant from nearby Sparta, purchased the Lambeth store and renamed it Scott's Tavern.

Interesting pile: that rare Dutch-Romanesque Georgian style, I guess.

There’s a sign post by the courthouse that suggests the town’s name is well-taken.

Fine example of 50s / early 60s stone, with the thin rock suggesting a sedimentary deposits - which, in fact, they were.

Frozen in time and good for it:

Likewise:

People with a strong attachment to balance and order are not advised to compare the windows with the stepped roof:

Dadblammit, if I’m going to have to go outside to smoke, I’m going to make it comfy for the times it rains

The building design embodies the Art Deco and Moderne styles. The exterior is faced with Crab Orchard stone laid in patterns characteristic of Art Deco.” So says wikipedia.

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Huh.

“I don’t get it. I don’t understand it at all.”

“It’s something of a joke.”

“What? What’s funny?”

“Well, I’m from the future. A hundred years from now. There’ll be a ten-year window when the Google Street View cars muck up the stitching from time to time, and things don’t line up. That’s what it’s a reference to.”

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Then and now:

Mitchell’s has not changed that much since 1939. The fountain is there and the pharmacists are on a first-name basis with most of their customer base. People trust Mitchell’s.

Joe Mitchell came to Cumberland County in 1924, making the 50-mile trip from Livingston, and buying half interest in Jackson Drug. The Mitchell-Jackson Drug Store was located a block to the north of their present location, in the building that now houses French’s shows. (sic) There was a shoe store and barbershop in the building as well.

1939. The last year of its kind. He said cryptically.

Uh

So that’s an unusual approach to modernizing; let’s look around the corner . . .

Yeeah, not good rehab.

Finally, a rather interesting Main Street facade:

If you have to ask, you don’t need to know.