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Then and now
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The four-way interesection of N.C. 107, Cope Creek and Walter Ashe roads was less hurried in 1956 when the top photo was taken not long after Clarence Cody (pictured) opened his service station. The building in the foreground is the original station, which was torn down in 1967 to make way for four lanes on 107. Cody’s second building was torn down in 1998 to make way for the present station, according to current owner Steve Cody, Clarence Cody’s son. Across the road is Clark’s Auto Parts, which Cash Clark opened in 1949. Clark was joined in that business in 1980 by his son-in-law, Arthur Phillips, who continued the operation after Clark’s 1988 death. Homer Holden’s mother had a cloth shop on the Walter Ashe side of the building for a time, according to Clark’s daughter, Lana Phillips. Subsequent businesses there included a restaurant and Tuckaseigee Mills outlet before John Forrest moved his Smoky Mountain Video operation there around 1993. A few years later, Forrest added tanning beds and expanded his store to take up the entire structure, and Phillips closed his auto glass business. One house visible in the 1950s photo, the second on the right up Walter Ashe Road, is still standing, though it has been remodeled. Macon Bank and its parking lot now occupy the other corner of Walter Ashe and 107, replacing the old F&P Supermarket and the house and shop building that were there in 1956. – J.D. Patterson photo courtesy of Steve Cody (top) and Herald photo by Nick Breedlove |
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