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Blue Street may be Southern Pines’ main thoroughfare but picayune about it suggest Main Street, USA — a movie theater, yes, but one that serves wine and doubles as an arts venue.

Several coffee shops — none a Dunkin or Starbucks. A grocery lay away that carries fresh pigs’ ears across from a restaurant with goat cheese rice fritters on the menu. A yoga studio co-exists with a military museum.

The mechanic at Doug’s Auto Center can correspondence up an old Ford truck, while an agent at McDevitt Sotheby International Actual Estate shows a $4 million Pinehurst mansion.

“If we could legitimate keep this town the way it is,” says Linda Levy, proprietor of The Short Toy Shop.

She has a calculator on the counter, but no computer. Salespeople must calculate change the old-fashioned way, by counting up.

More than out of the ordinary merchandise sets Broad Street apart: train tracks bisecting the avenue invent a boulevard appearance, as planned by founder John T. Patrick in the 1880s. Townsperson groups tend the flowers. Shopkeepers are more friends than rivals. Benches help people-watching.

Source: Southern Pines Pilot

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