Category: North Carolina

In Which We Take a Quick Whirl Through Wilson’s Whirligigs Before we even finished walking through the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Wilson, North Carolina, I was making plans to come back. I’d added the park to our agenda at the last minute and only budgeted about 45 minutes for the visit because we had… Continue reading Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park

A Vintage Gas Station Worthy of Venus Wouldn’t you have just loved to fill up here? This 18-foot-tall shell-shaped Shell station was built in 1930 to generate buzz for Shell gas in Winston-Salem. (Shell Oil was still new to North Carolina at the time.) There were once eight of these beauties—seven in Winston-Salem and one… Continue reading Shell Gas Station