The World's Largest Iced Tea and other oddities

I was at my daughter's house for nine days before I learned that the town she lives in on the outskirts of Charleston had its own little downtown. Prior to that I thought it was just a blink and miss it suburbs kind of place.

Naturally I had to see it, so we left our car at Azalea Park and went walking through Summerville.

Following my daughter's butt around, both literally and figuratively ...

...was a bit of a theme this trip

Yay, finally I get to stop at one of the obscure 'world's largest', it might not be a ball of yarn, but I'll take it!

This is her "I wish I had shorts on" look :)

I had to look this up, apparently Let The Pine Be Sacred became a motto because it was pine trees that first brought settlers to Summerville in the mid-1800's. I also learned, and mentioned before, that the city of Charleston was initially built with pine...seven fires later they started using stone.

Pretty little strip...but a closer look shows some strange things....

Like this- a corridor between a cafe and a convenience store apparently leads to an 'underground' church

We could faintly hear music coming from the far end of the hall, perhaps lit candles are an indication that there's a service going on-

Yep, the music was coming from behind those double doors, and I don't know what instruments were being used or songs being sung,

but it had an eerie quality that prompted us to hurry away-

only to find the next strange thing here...now this window display is about what you might expect from a touristy little place...

Sadly it was closed because I really wanted to know what kind of place has the display shown above on one side,

then CBD products and bed pans on the other...

oh wait, there's one more window around the corner, sitz bath...haha!

Okay. This is more like it.

Now to eat.

We were actually accosted by the owner, a straight 'off the boat' Italian who was hard to refuse.

And I'm so glad we didn't refuse, the complimentary bread alone was exquisite,

and the pizza? To live for!

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