Seen the cable show "American Pickers"? I've watched it a couple times, but I'm not much of a fan of reality TV shows. As is the case when traveling "had some time to kill" between checkout and load-in (Newberry Opera House) this past February, so I ambled around the town of Newberry, SC to see what I could..see.
As suggested by the Visitor Center desk-lady in a much expected southern drawl, I paid a visit to C.T. Summer Hardware Store, which was indeed featured on an episode ("Possom Trot") of "American Pickers" on the History Channel.
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| With Bill Shull, grandson of Clarence Summer, store founder |
Meet Bill Shull, proprietor and character-extraordinaire. During our nice and hugeley humorous chat, not only did I hear about the visit by the "Pickers" Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, I learned that his dad, Clifford Shull, was a historical recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1994!
He gets a lot of visitors in his store due to his Reality TV celebrity-hood, so he was ready to share his articles and photos about his dad.
Established in 1928, C.T Summer is no Home Depot, but it's dripping (or, spilling over) with character. This is what you see when you first walk in. Where's Bill!?
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| Newberry Opera House, Newberry, SC (Why I was in town in the first place) |
That's all, folks!
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