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 web posted October 4, 2007 Below: A Trac-hoe stands where the landmark store stood for over 60 years  MERRIWETHER – A
multi-generational
landmark disappeared from the landscape in Merriwether on Wednesday as
demolition crews removed Sportsman’s Corner’s footprint on the
community. The closing of the store came on Monday and preparations for
the demolition soon began. Owner Greg Kenrick said he expects to have
the new store open for business by Thanksgiving. “There’s never a good
time to close,” Mr. Kenrick said but making way for the new 4,000
square foot replacement store was long overdue.Mr. Kenrick said the old store with the narrow parking area and only a single two gas pump island has long been outdated, “It was either tear down the building and make changes or someone else was going to come in and build next to me.”  The original store was built, depending on whom you talk
to, between
the late 1930’s and early 1940’s and faced what is now called Woodlawn
Road. The old dirt floor building was remolded in the 1960’s when it
was known as Taylor’s Grocery. Annie Whatley ran the store beginning in
1976. The store changed hands several times and expanded before Mr.
Kenrick purchased the property in 1997. The new store will feature more conveniences and additional types of fuel including multiple grades of gas, on and off road diesel, racing fuel, and kerosene. Mr. Kenrick said the number grocery items would also increase in line with a “small grocery store.” The store will also house a Hunts Brother’s Pizzeria. The store will continue to cater to the hunting and fishing clientele the location is famous for by carrying hunting, fishing, and boating supplies. The new store will carry the same locally famous motto - “Where more fish are caught, more game is shot, and more lies told than anywhere in South Carolina.” For all
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