Signs of the Times,

Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, 2002.

c. Brian Brown

This business owner is obviously a collector of antique signs, as am I, and has chosen to share his wonderful collection with the people of Sylvester. Particularly interesting are brands that were once common, and now all but forgotten in South Georgia: Royster Fertilizers, Double Cola, Piedmont Tobacco, and Darsey Oil Company. (Darsey, based in Albany, is still around, but you rarely see an old DOC Gasoline sign anymore) It is really a shame that businesses have forsaken tin advertising signs. They truly were works of art. The building in the left background of the photograph is the Neoclassical Revival Worth County courthouse, built in 1905 and substantially remodeled after a fire in 1982. Sylvester bills itself the peanut capital of the world, and their annual Georgia Peanut Festival is coming up.

LINK

www.gapeanutfestival.com provides good back-ground on the importance of peanuts to Worth County, and South Georgia.