The little Cajun town of Rayne, Louisiana is known as the Frog Capital of the World, and as such has many murals dedicated to frogs. You can read the history of Rayne here, and a little about the Frog Festival experience from my outsider perspective here.
While visiting Rayne for the festival, I was excited to find an old-time downtown where an independent hardware store, a pharmacy unaffiliated with any chain, and most exciting to me, a five and dime, are still in business.
Worthmore 5 & 10 has been around since the 30s, and looks it. The walls inside are all pegboard and took me back to the McCrory's in my hometown. My Nana used to call it the five and ten, even though it had been a long time since anything cost a nickle or a dime there. (My younger festival-going friend didn't even know the term "five and ten" or "five and dime," making me realize what relics the phrases were.)
In fact, some of the goods for sale in this 5 & 10 were the very same items I bought at McCrory's--a banana clip for the hair, for example. Much of the merchandise inside Worthmore looked like it was new during the Nixon administration, like day-glow acetate nightgowns still in their plastic wrap. LOVED it in there. None of my covert photos in the store came out well, though. (We were already getting eyeballed in the store; I didn't want to heighten suspicion by taking pictures.)
This vibrantly painted women's boutique is the only clothing store we saw.
Behold: a living hardware store!
...with wooden screen doors.
Stumble It!
there is a local hardware store in BR on Perkins Road, at least i think there still was last time I was in town (in January of this year). Perkins Road hardware store I believe it's called. just down the road from the new Chelsea's away from LSU.
or perhaps i have miscontrued your excitement.
Posted by: fuus | 11/20/2009 at 10:57 AM
ok sorry, I just checked google map street view and it appears that there is a For Sale sign in front of it.
what a fscking shame.
Posted by: fuus | 11/20/2009 at 11:02 AM
This is my hometown, and the downtown area you so beautifully depict here is where I grew up....there have been changes, of course, and although they call it progress, for those of us who grew up there...it isn't. There are a couple of books out on the history of Rayne...with pics...you should check them out. Cheryl Richard and Tony Olinger are the authors....great pics of a sleepy southern town. I tell my kids that I grew up in Mayberry....and I sorta did~Thanks for the memories
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My lovely grandparents help run that five and dime and have for as long as i can remember. They were probably eyeballing you cause you looked new! I know had you told them you were interested in some history of the town my grandfather would have told you more than you could remember. The history books are good and they sell them there at whitmores. . .
Posted by: James Faulk | 12/24/2012 at 02:07 AM
OOps. Worthmores. haha
Posted by: James Faulk | 12/24/2012 at 02:08 AM
I grew up a few doors down from Worthmore's, and it was like home to me. The ladies there were family. After being gone for many years, I walked into Worthmore's, totally not expecting to see anyone that I knew. But then, about 3 steps in the door, I heard.."Monique? Monique Domingue?"....And I thought, yeah...this is still home!~
Posted by: Monique Domingue Moreland | 12/27/2012 at 12:52 PM