Exile

I don't know anything about living in Portland, but I've stayed in Timberline Lodge and skied on the first day of summer on Mt. Hood. An absolutely beautiful place. And volcanoes are cool (until they erupt, of course).

That tower/pavilion must be a nod to the old train station?

"Greenville Theater". Is it no longer the "Little Theater"?

Just based on its appearance from above, and not any other considerations, my first thought is hospital campus.

When we lived in Orlando, we used to fly Allegiant out of Orlando to go on vacations in other places, e.g., skiing in the northeast. I don't know if that's a significant market for Allegiant or not, but LV has over 2 million people, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a market for cheap flights out of LV to places like Kville and Chattanooga, etc., which are bigger tourist draws than GSP.

Winyah Bay is the official southern boundary of the Grand Strand. I put Litchfield, Pawley's & "Debbuh Doo" up against any residential beach that isn't at the foot of a mountain. As for Hunting Island, I've never been there, but I imagine it's gorgeous, at sunrise especially.

Bocelli is a big deal, but I imagine he draws more women than men.

It was gimmicky from the beginning, because all (as far as I know) First Federal branches were built in the same shape. As if there were no other way to know you were at a 1st Federal branch. I worked in that building for a time, and it was a bit toward the claustrophobic, especially compared to American Federal-now-Prisma, which was (still is?) open and spacious. Idle speculation, but I wonder if they did go for a gutting, if you could cost-effectively build the "missing" superstructure to make it rectangular? Truist across from Haywood Mall is one of those buildings, whose shape has been corrected (note the mismatched brick). But that's just one floor, of course.

There were two other A&P's that I knew of: at the south end of Lake Forest Shopping Ctr and on Easley Bridge Road at White Horse Rd. They pulled out of Greenville all at once by 1973 at the latest. Probably earlier. For years those two buildings were recognizable as former A&P's by the cupola on the roof. Don't know anything about Big Star.

I have a distinct memory of there being a WD and an A&P side by side on the lower level of the Bell Tower Mall, facing the movie theater. This would have been back in the day when grocery stores weren't large. Roughly the size of a current-day CVS or Walgreens.

And nice, high-res drone shots cover a multitude of sins. Though I haven't seen any of late.

Yes. And it's not at all unlikely that there are people in smaller nearby cities who are envying the way Greenville gets things done---Camperdown, One, numerous apt. buildings, etc.--that they want but can't get done.

Other than that Bloom on S. P'burg, this is the last freestanding grocery store I can think of. I imagine nobody does that anymore?? Well, Aldi & Lidl are exceptions. I guess I mean big boxes.

^^^This is correct. It was originally an HT. Built ca. 1996. Our main grocery store till we moved away in '97. Had a humidor and a great beer selection (this was before Total Wine). However, I recuse myself from any Gman controversy.