Small town pleasures

D.E. Turner Hardware over 110 years old.
Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird.

On the way downtown.

The Moor.

Our town was once a mill town where most of the people worked in a textile mill that manufactured towels and later manufactured denim. It's interesting that the town has as its logo a "Moor" although the town's name is derived from a fellow named Moore. The Moor logo was originally adopted in the 1930's as a symbol of the mill and the Turkish towels it manufactured. I would imagine that Mooresville is among very few towns in America that has a dark complexioned, likely Muslim fellow on a horse as the centerpiece of its logo. In recent years, the town has gotten away from the use of this logo, which is a little sad. The mill is long-gone and the town economy evolved into one based on motorsports, the Lowe's corporate headquarters and quick commutes to Charlotte for those employed there. The town grew and lost some of its history but a visit to the still intact downtown brings back memories of that history. We can ride our bikes there and did so today and got to enjoy a car show. In order to participate, the cars must be more than thirty years old. Anyway, it was a treat to go downtown and check out the cars and the people and kind of throw back to the old days.