OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

 

 

 

 

 

Saluda School Class of 1939                                                                Saluda School First Grade 1945

(Left) 1950′s-Era Drug Store

(Right) Sally McMurray of Green River Cove
Heads to Saluda to Trade Goods

Fun at Ward’s Grill: At left, a “gathering of the gals” with Patricia Rhodes and Sandy and Brenda Gilbert in the front booth; Susanne Staton, Brenda Gail Johnson, and Hilda Holland in the middle booth; and Janice Anderson and Sherry Staton in the near booth. At right, Roy Eargle slips behind the counter at Ward’s in 1983.

Saluda’s depot was the center of activity in town from the late 1800s until the passenger trains stopped running in the 1960s.

(Left) Apple Festival King and Queen, 1938. The NC Apple Festival was held in Saluda until World War II put most such frivolities on hold. When the festival resumed after the war, it was moved to Hendersonville.

(Right) A game of miniature golf at the park.

 

 

 

These photographs from Clark Thompson chronicle two Saluda snowfalls, showing downtown in 1947 and Pot Shoals thirty years later.