MYSTERY PHOTO: Close-up mystery

This is a photo of something outside of South Carolina once visited by many in-state residents.  Just look at recent headlines and you should figure out why it is this week’s Mystery Photo.  Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our Jan. 18 photo, “Empty field,” shows where a new library is supposed to be built and ready for readers by now.  The old library, which continues to be used, is the cramped brick building at the right as the old Navy Hospital looms in the background.  Here’s a look at what the long-delayed new library is supposed to look like.

Several readers, including some new to the Mystery Photo, correctly answered, including James McMahan of Charleston; Jay Altman of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Denis Blyth of Mount Pleasant; and Don Clark of Hartsville.  Others who answered correctly, but didn’t give their town (as requested for ID purposes) were: Nathan Henigan, Colette Wilkerson, Zoe Butler, Yvette Williams and Vernon Barnett.

Graf noted, “The new one-story, 15,000-square-foot facility with a brick and metal exterior will go behind the existing library site at 3503 Rivers Avenue.  A green space will separate the new library from Rivers Avenue, and there will be 80 parking spaces on the Dorchester Road side.  Seems this project has been in the design phase for quite some time.  However, in my opinion, you want the initial design to be as flawless as possible, since the cost to make changes later can be really expensive.  On the other hand, the longer you delay, the cost of construction always rises over time.”

Peel added, “While I am sure that they exist somewhere in the bowels of the Charleston County’s Public Library files, I have not found any specific information on when the new branch of this library will be completed and open to the public.”

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.