This building might look familiar to some readers in the Lowcountry. What and where is it? (Note: We blurred part of it to make it a little harder to identify.) Send your guess to mailto:editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our March 25 mystery, “Not for climbing purposes,” got two kinds of guesses. Some folks thought the pink and gray elephants were at South of the Border near Dillon on Interstate 95. Great guess. Unfortunately, they were wrong – although a pink elephant really is the kind of thing that should be at the attraction. Others correctly guessed Papa Joe’s Fireworks in Hardeeville near the other end of the interstate (exit 5) in South Carolina. Thanks to Charles Boyd of Hanahan for sending us the photo.
Congratulations to those who correctly identified the elephants: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.
Graf provided this information on the elephants from atlasobscura.com: “They are nicknamed Thelma and Louise and they’re a well-known landmark on US 17. Papa Joe himself purchased the pair in Alabama and had them shipped all the way to South Carolina. The two matching elephants, one pink, the other gray, regularly receive new coats of paint so they can beckon roadtrippers to Papa Joe’s wares.”
Segars said the pair also were named Big Al and Lizzie. Whatever their names are, they’re fun!
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 it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
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