I've driven from D.C. to Newport News, VA and back at least a hundred times from age 25 to age 61 to visit my parents. I hate the Interstate, so I'd take 17 from Fredericksburg to NN to avoid Richmond and I-64. Horne's was about the only place to eat or buy gas from Fredericksburg until Tappahannock. It appears from either direction along 17 like a mirage. So I'm fond of the place.
I knew nothing of any of this. Thank you for the info!
I did some Horne's-related research on their hotel chain from the 60's. Charlotte actually still has the structures at 1230 Lucky Penny St. You'll see both of the hotel buildings and the structure to the west by the bean pool was the yellow roofed little shop. It's been re-roofed a few times but it's still there. A cursory look at city records date it to 1973 but I was thinking it was 10 years older.
Huh, I think this building is from the 60s, I'd be surprised if these were still getting built as late as 73 but it could be. (I've seen the city records be wrong before.) Cool, I'll check it out on Google Maps!
I didn't realize that was a chain - I stopped there in 2015 traveling to a friend's wedding in Gloucester. It seemed like the most conspicuously "local" place on US 17.
I knew the intersection instantly - I drove that corridor of US301 countless times between my home in Richmond and my in-laws in Southern Maryland. What a great drive.
Absolutely gratuitous question: does Horne's still sell Horne's candy? Second gratuitous question: was Horne's candy exceptional in any way? Madison, I don't want to send you off on a wild goose chase, but I can't seem to stop myself asking questions.
Fact: when I was in Pigeon Forge, TN about 20 years ago, there was a candy store that had a late 19th century taffy pulling machine, Visible through the front window. Based on the technology, it looked like the real deal. One giveaway was that a modern factory machine would have been much larger for mass production. Don't know if it's still there.
I've driven from D.C. to Newport News, VA and back at least a hundred times from age 25 to age 61 to visit my parents. I hate the Interstate, so I'd take 17 from Fredericksburg to NN to avoid Richmond and I-64. Horne's was about the only place to eat or buy gas from Fredericksburg until Tappahannock. It appears from either direction along 17 like a mirage. So I'm fond of the place.
I knew nothing of any of this. Thank you for the info!
I did some Horne's-related research on their hotel chain from the 60's. Charlotte actually still has the structures at 1230 Lucky Penny St. You'll see both of the hotel buildings and the structure to the west by the bean pool was the yellow roofed little shop. It's been re-roofed a few times but it's still there. A cursory look at city records date it to 1973 but I was thinking it was 10 years older.
Oh wow, the restaurant/store building was there up until 2016, too: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2497168,-80.8971975,3a,75y,4.24h,88.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1svuY1BhMlmd8mKC5k_nFKOA!2e0!5s20160301T000000!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDgyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Now it's just the motel and office structures. Too bad, that was previously the whole thing fully intact.
So cool you found something I missed. Bummer it's gone.
Huh, I think this building is from the 60s, I'd be surprised if these were still getting built as late as 73 but it could be. (I've seen the city records be wrong before.) Cool, I'll check it out on Google Maps!
What the heck's a bean pool?
Swimming pool shaped like a kidney bean or similar kind of shape. Concrete pools popular in the midcentury.
I didn't realize that was a chain - I stopped there in 2015 traveling to a friend's wedding in Gloucester. It seemed like the most conspicuously "local" place on US 17.
I knew the intersection instantly - I drove that corridor of US301 countless times between my home in Richmond and my in-laws in Southern Maryland. What a great drive.
Absolutely gratuitous question: does Horne's still sell Horne's candy? Second gratuitous question: was Horne's candy exceptional in any way? Madison, I don't want to send you off on a wild goose chase, but I can't seem to stop myself asking questions.
Fact: when I was in Pigeon Forge, TN about 20 years ago, there was a candy store that had a late 19th century taffy pulling machine, Visible through the front window. Based on the technology, it looked like the real deal. One giveaway was that a modern factory machine would have been much larger for mass production. Don't know if it's still there.