December 27, 2018|admin@westmetro_news|Comments Off on Vintage photos from City of West Columbia, SCDOT|NEWS
Highway Department maintenance forces mark the center line on (Meeting Street) U.S. 1 in West Columbia in April 1951. SCDOT photo
The City of West Columbia has been posting vintage photos of West Columbia on the city’s Facebook page, and asking for information regarding the events and people in the photos. There are also some photos from days-gone-by posted on the SCDOT Facebook page. Here are some of those photos. Click on photos to enlarge.
Do you recognize anyone in this picture? A luncheon, in the 1940s, held in the old City Hall and Fire Department building at 426 Center Street. Pictures provided by #wecosc Fire Department archives.
S.C. 12 (Jarvis Klapman Boulevard) construction over the Congaree River on April 21, 1975. (SCDOT File Photo
Parade on State Street West Columbia. City of WC photo. Date unknown.
Contractors working on the Jarvis Klapman Bridge (S.C. 12) pour concrete into a pier form on the west bank of the Congaree River in February 1974.
The Dixie Theatre in New Brookland / West Columbia was a silent era theatre that operated on the second floor of the building at left. City of West Columbia.
West Columbia Fire Department in front of the old City Hall on 430 Center Street.
The West Columbia Firemen pose next to a wooden slatted boat behind the old #WeCoSC jailhouse around the 1950s. What could be in the “Emerson Resuscitator” box? The boat is made from wooden slats
The view of Charleston Highway at Airport Boulevard.
West Columbia’s What-A-Burger prior to 1990. It was in that time period, the owners purchased the lot behind them, removed the building pictured, and built the existing restaurant further back from the road for additional parking
Old Court House Fire Station in the 400 block of Center St.
The Howe Fire Engine purchased by #wecosc in 1956. Engine still on display!
Meeting Street, West Columbia 1951.
Grading I-26 in County of Lexington near Dixianna on Jan. 5, 1959. SCDOT
Motorists travel on a newly resurfaced U.S. 1, just east of Lexington, on June 17, 1953. . SCDOT
U.S. 378 over a recently graded section of I-26 in County of Lexington on Feb. 2, 1959. This location is now home to the busy urban diamond intersection near Lexington Medical Center. SCDOT
