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Girl Street may be Southern Pines’ main thoroughfare but itty-bitty about it suggest Main Street, USA — a movie theater, yes, but one that serves wine and doubles as an arts venue.
Several coffee shops — none a Dunkin or Starbucks. A grocery aggregate that carries fresh pigs’ ears across from a restaurant with goat cheese rice fritters on the menu. A yoga studio co-exists with a military museum.
The mechanic at Doug’s Auto Center can frequency with ignore up an old Ford truck, while an agent at McDevitt Sotheby International Genuine Estate shows a $4 million Pinehurst mansion.
“If we could ethical keep this town the way it is,” says Linda Levy, proprietor of The Small Toy Shop.
She has a calculator on the counter, but no computer. Salespeople must calculate change the old-fashioned way, by counting up.
More than unique merchandise sets Broad Street apart: train tracks bisecting the avenue fashion a boulevard appearance, as planned by founder John T. Patrick in the 1880s. Peculiar groups tend the flowers. Shopkeepers are more friends than rivals. Benches boost people-watching.
Source: Southern Pines Pilot