Macon buildings pass it on in ‘afterlife’
Businesses come and go. Try to match these current Macon businesses with their previous identity.
My wife and I celebrated our 43rd anniversary last week. We were married at the Newton Chapel on the Mercer University campus, just a block from the offices of The Macon Melody.
I bought her wedding ring at Segall & Son’s showroom on Riverside Drive. (It didn’t serve cornbread and green beans, like the “other’’ S&S — popular cafeteria down the street. Segall & Son’s was one of those catalog showrooms of the 1970s and ‘80s. There was another called Service Merchandise on Eisenhower Parkway.
Businesses come and go, but it has been interesting to watch how many times that Segall building at 2490 Riverside has been repurposed and reincarnated over the years.
It served as Crandall Junior College. It was a Cellular One during the Flood of ‘94, when that stretch of Riverside was almost entirely underwater. It later became a Verizon Store and is now a business office for Atrium Health Navicent.
Another building with a unique history is the Piedmont Urgent Health Center at the corner of Ingleside and Corbin avenues.
It began as a Citizens & Southern (C&S) Bank. It later morphed into Ingleside Mortuary and the Central Georgia Women’s Health Center.
As part of my ongoing series of “Afterlife” quizzes, I challenge you to match this list of current Macon businesses with what they were in a previous life.
AFTERLIFE
(1) Mary Pinson Florist, 1090 Washington Avenue
(2) The Wellness Center, 3797 Northside Drive
(3) Goodwill Donation Center, 1948 Hardeman Avenue
(4) Riverside Storage, 141 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
(5) Ortho Georgia, 3708 Northside Drive
(6) Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia, 6601 Zebulon Road
(7) Yollah Social Kitchen and Garden, 894 College Street
(8) Bashinski Fine Gems & Jewelry, 1126 Riverside Drive
(9) Broadway Lofts Apartments, 698 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
(10) Karsten & Denson Hardware, 2323 Ingleside Avenue
(11) CubeSmart Self Storage, 400 Pio Nono Avenue
(12) Mercer Medicine, 250 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
PREVIOUS LIFE
(A)Mansour’s Department Store
(B) Milady Dry Cleaners
(C) Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
(D) Kentucky Fried Chicken, Lee and Eddie’s Barbecue
(E) Joshua Cup coffee shop, Capitol Cycle, Chichesters at College Hill Pharmacy
(F) Harrison’s Pharmacy, Blue Plate Restaurant
(G) Georgia Music Hall of Fame
(H) Northside Bowling Center
(I) Hephzibah Children’s Home
(J)The Macon Telegraph-News
(K) Kroger
(L) Happ Manufacturing
ANSWERS
(1) E. (2) H. (3) C. (4) J. (5) A. (6) I. (7) B. (8) D. (9) L. (10) F. (11) K. (12) G.
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