We drove down Hidden Lane and I pointed out where the first Mrs. We turned in at Melrose Circle and around so Carrol could see some of the other houses. “I was never at the Mazzy’s, but remember them talking about it.” Carrol said on the way. We turned around in the Miller house driveway and drove back down Glengarnock and around to Melrose. Miller lived and where Carrol’s mother, Kate Waymon worked during the years Eunice was taking piano lessons with “Miss Mazzy.” Across the street and up a ways is where Mrs. We followed the road and stopped in front of the old Mazzanovich place that has now been entirely remodeled without much of the original structure remaining. Glengarnock is a steep road that winds up to a ridge with direct view of the mountains.
Melrose Avenue is the route Eunice walked while taking piano lessons from Muriel Mazzanovich who lived on Glengarnock Road in Gillette Woods.
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Carrol was seeing Melrose Avenue with the eyes of a child, but with the full experienced of his eighty years. Beyond the Inn and down Melrose Avenue a ways is the Holy Cross Episcopal Church followed by the Congregational Church. Carrol had few memories of the building, but remembered his father talking about it. We turned in and drove down behind the building to see the back side. Across the street from Art Center is the Melrose Inn where John Waymon worked. Next to the Lanier Library stands the Tryon Fine Arts Center built the late 1960’s. I asked him if he wanted to stop and go inside, and he said, “No.” It wasn’t the black children who were invited only the white children,” Carrol told the story as we made the turn from Chestnut onto Melrose. Just across Chestnut from the site of the Oak Hall Hotel is the Lanier Library where at the age of nine, Carrol said he and a friend read in the Tryon Daily Bulletin that, “children were invited.” The Hotel was torn down in the late 1970’s to make room for condominiums, which are there today. At the end of Melrose Avenue at Chestnut Street once stood Oak Hall Hotel, a rambling numerously roomed building that had a commanding view of Tryon and the mountains. Luke’s Hospital” which overlook lower Trade street south of town.įrom the hospital we headed to Melrose Avenue where Carrol wanted to see the Melrose Inn where his father once worked. Above the old entrance carved in the lintel in high relief are the words, “St. The stone and timber building has the feel of a Craftsman Castle. The sight of the hospital from the road below must have been impressive in the 1920’s and 30’s. US 176 is a NC Scenic Byway as it passes through Tryon, up the Valhalla Valley, and through the City of Saluda, NC. Tryon is a North Carolina/ South Carolina border town and Highway 176 is the old Asheville-Spartanburg Highway, which was the easiest way up the mountain until 1979 when I-26 from Spartanburg to Asheville was completed. The building sits on a bluff overlooking Highway 176 as the road enters Tryon from the south. Luke’s Hospital that has now been converted to a senior meeting place and is where the Polk County Department of Social Services is located. When we finished breakfast, our first stop was at the old St.
Luke’s Hospital (where his brother Sammy was born), Gillette Woods, Melrose Avenue, the Train Depot, the Hollow behind the Depot, Mill Spring, Green Creek, and Little Africa. Carrol said he wanted to take a drive to see the town as well as some of the surrounding communities he remembered from his childhood. The diner had a few other customers, but was quiet as we began to plan the day.
She waved as she sat down in the booth behind us. The breakfast was leisurely and while we were there Phoebe McCabe stopped in for a while as the repaired shop across the street was finishing up on her car. Carrol Waymon's second day in Tryon began with a breakfast at T.J’s Diner on Trade Street just south of town.
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