King Street

Being from Charleston, SC their are a lot of places to see and a lot of places to visit. Most cities have that one street that everyone knows about well in Charleston we have that kind of street. The name of the street is called King Street. It's a long street with a lot of stores before I get to some of the stores let me give you a break down of what I remember about King Street

I grew up in the 80's going into Charleston was always beautiful. My mom would go downtown often. I would always notice that their was a white side of King Street and then their was a black side. On the black side you would see stores like (forgive my spelling it's been a long time since I have been down there) leon's variety store where I got my first ears pierced and my mom bought endless stockings from there with the designs. Bluestiens where every man from Charleston has shopped for that colorful Easter suit. On the white side you had the Talbot Company where a lot of rich white people would go in and buy fancy digs for work. You also had brooks brother where they sold nice clothes that my mom use to make because she worked in a factory that made the pants. I had heard talk about how black people don't cross the white side and vice versa but my mom being the dare devil that she was took me into talbot company for the first time when I was around 8 or 9. I remember it clearly the white people seemed like they stopped what they were doing and just stared at us. My mom went right in and browsed some sweaters and asked a sale lady if they had a certain size. The lady helped us and my mom ended up buying the sweater. Some years later my mom was able to obtain a Talbot card and that became her favorite store she even sent all of her friends in there to shop. Now I don't know if black people ever went in the store before but this was the experience I had when we first went in.

Through the years King street has grown when I got to high school their was a pizza joint downtown that we would skip school to visit and to this day they are the best pizza I have had. I don't know if any of the stores are still there but I sure do miss that King Street. Last time I was home their were many new stores even my favorite firehouse subs. What do you remember about King street?

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