At one point in the life of this stately old building, it was a high school, according to a reader who sent in the photo. But where is it? Send your guess about the location of this photo to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
The subject of our May 3 mystery, “Now, this is some kind of shrubbery,” elicited lots of guesses that it was in Pearl Fryar’s topiary garden in Bishopville. Except that it isn’t. Longtime photographer Chuck Boyd of Hanahan spied the shrub-car in Walterboro outside of a body shop on U.S. Highway 17 and sent us the picture to be a mystery.
Congratulations to those who correctly identified the photo: Alta Mae Marvin of Walterboro; Tray Hunter of Bluffton; Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; James Gainey of Conway; and Jay Altman of Columbia.
Graf tells us he went to some lengths to locate the photo, first looking up “unusual South Carolina topiary sculptures,” which came back with several results, including the shrubs at Bishop’s Body Shop in Walterboro.
And then he got curious: “ O called Bishop’s today to get the lowdown on the car hedges. Lindsay, who works there, told me that there are three of these “hedge cars” on the property — one on each side of the driveway and one near the building. She said they were made on purpose for the business.”
Thanks for the hard work, George, and for the great photo Chuck!
- Send us a mystery: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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