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MYSTERY PHOTO: Where it looks like Halloween all of the time

Here’s a spooky picture for a sun-splashed June. Where is it in South Carolina? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery: More people correctly guessed the location of our June 18 mystery than any mystery in recent memory. For serious history buffs, it was a little easier than usual. The photo was a closeup of Drayton Hall along Ashley River Road in Charleston.

by Charleston Currents · 06/25/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: A house that may look familiar

Here’s a house that may look familiar to Lowcountry residents and visitors. But what, pray tell, is it and where? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery: The June 11 mystery, a photo by Bill Segars of Hartsville, showed an old guard house and police station in Barnwell, S.C.

by Charleston Currents · 06/17/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: A gazebo or maybe something else?

This week’s mystery surely looks like a gazebo, but it’s probably something else. What and where? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery
Avid reader and photographer Bill Segars of Hartsville snapped the photo of the June 1 mystery, which is Temple Sinai in Sumter. It’s been in the news recently because its social hall and educational center have been converted into a new Jewish History Center.

by Charleston Currents · 06/11/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Red brick building stands out on sunny day

This week’s mystery is a tidy brick building resplendent on a sunny day with a bright, blue sky. It’s not in Charleston. Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery: Few guesses came in for the most recent mystery photo thanks to (&#@!%&*!) technological travails related to an email address that was down for the week. That’s been fixed (thank goodness!), but many of you may be frustrated that your guess didn’t get to us.

by Charleston Currents · 06/04/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Rural and rustic

Here’s a rustic, rural-looking photo provided by a loyal reader and photographer. It’s in South Carolina, but where? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to charlestoncurrents@gmail.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery: Before we identify the May 21 mystery, let us apologize to any of you who tried to send a guess for much of this week.

by Charleston Currents · 05/28/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Impressive brick building

You’ll be well out of the Lowcountry to find this impressive South Carolina building. So where is it? Send your guess to charlestoncurrents@gmail.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The May 14 Mystery Photo literally was a mystery inside a mystery. Unfortunately because of email problems, we can’t share the names of those who correctly guessed it. (Sorry, we’re working on the issue.)

by Charleston Currents · 05/21/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: A mystery inside a mystery

What better than a mystery photo that is already labelled “mystery?” What is this and where is it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: In the May 7 Mystery Photo, we showcased an “extreme close-up” that turns out to be part of the marquee at the American Theater, which opened as Charleston’s premier theater in 1942. Located on King Street north of Marion Square, it is an event facility these days.

by Charleston Currents · 05/14/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: Extreme close-up

This is a close-up photo of a place in Charleston that readers should frequently see. Where is it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: In the April 30 Mystery Photo, we showcased the top of a building and asked where it is. Answer: Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, a top-quality, luxury hotel on, well, Wentworth street.

by Andy Brack · 05/07/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: At the top of the building

This week’s mystery focuses on the top of a South Carolina building. That’s the only clue you get. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The April 23 Mystery Photo, scrubbed by us of the identifying name carved in stone, showed the J. Waites Waring federal courthouse annex near the Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.

by Charleston Currents · 04/30/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: You might have seen this before

Here’s a mystery that many residents and visitors to Charleston might see. (We’ve slightly altered the picture to make identification more difficult.) Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The April 16 Mystery Photo showed First Scots Presbyterian Church on Meeting Street in Charleston. Hats off to photo sleuths Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Tom Tindall of Edisto Island for correctly identifying it.

by Charleston Currents · 04/23/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos