Social Life and Popular Diversions

Touring the town. A boy and girl hand in hand tour Confederateland , U.S.A. , a scale model replica of local towns as they appeared fifty years earlier.

Neon Pedro. This 110 foot electrical sign of Pedro is the largest and tallest east of Las Vegas welcomes visitors to South of the Border. This attraction had its start when in 1949 Alan Schafer opened a small hot pick beer stand just over the Robeson County border. A year later to small grill called the South of the Border Drive-In was added when then-Gov. Strom Thurmond sought to stop complaints of North Carolina 's anti-drink forces. Schafer continued to add to his enterprise and the site grew to 350 acres.

High Diving. The lake covers over 100 acres and is fed from hundreds of white-sulpher and iron springs. Advertising from the time market the lake resort as “a clean safe place for clean people”, the lake was known as a wonderful site for fishing and boating.

Bath House and Pavilion. This view shows the beautiful lawn that led to the sandy beach of the lake. The site proved ideal or banquets, picnic and all kinds of outings. Page operated the lake from 1922 until 1951 when he was brutally murder in his lake side store. Archie Blue Tyner of St. Pauls leased the lake from Mrs. Page for a short time but soon decided to focus his efforts on his farming interests.

Elm Street. Sometimes a diversion could be something as simple as a walk down a shady tree lined street like this view of Lumberton 's Elm Street .

Courthouse in Good Old Winter Time. No look at social life or popular diversions could be complete without what every school child craves during the school year – winter weather. This unusual postcard shows the 1908 courthouse in a frosted state the result of a winter storm.