Historical Relics Of The Abandoned Bank of Johnston

Uncovering the history of the abandoned Bank of Johnston is an ongoing process! Join me in exploring the old building in search of what was left behind.


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[hemlock]

FYI, The second floor of the building was a dentist office between 1909 and 1911. Dr. F L Parker was the dentist. Ad found in Edgefield Advertiser Newspaper, Mar. 1910.

[joanwilliams]

A suggestion for replacing the tile pieces. Harvest old ones from an obscure place in the floor where furniture may sit and place them in the floor where the broken/missing ones are. Place the newer tiles in the obscure place.

[lgreen]

That floor is going to look amazing. Thank you for restoring that gorgeous building.

[neesr]

It is wonderful you are willing to work so hard to save the floor (and all the other original parts of the bank) because there is so much beauty there. Enjoying your hard work and looking forward to the finished product. Don't forget to hydrate!

[trw_]

Acetone is a very good cleaner but be careful of the fumes

[stuffnetwork-xg]

Omg I can't believe I finally found the person that was restoring that place on the corner in the early 2000s it used to be a laundromat

[Gamerooster]

I lived in Johnston most of my life. Live not far from there still. Never knew there was an apartment in the building. Good luck with the transformation!

[smc]

FYI to anyone using Acetone, it's very volatile. For example on the channel "Barefoot Doctors Sailing" they lost their new 50 ft catamaran to fire cause a worker was cleaning in the stern of the boat and someone started working on the electrical system in the bow. A spark from the bow traveled to the stern on the acetone vapours to the stern and exploded the can of acetone. The workers were injured and two boats were total loss. It seems that the acetone vapour is heavier than air so stayed closed to the bottom of the boat.

[Dakling]

If you took pictures of the names and numbers on the front wall. Enhance them electronically and have a stencil made. Put them back on the wall. It's the area's history

[ninabooker]

The old photo and check is very interesting, awesome to find artifacts related this historic property. It would be cool if you had a coffee shop or juice bar on the ground floor with a display case and memory displays from its past. Even a piece of plexiglass over the pencil markings would preserve them for the future, just a thought. I see you’re working hard, I appreciate your respect for the past.

[DWilliams-cenb]

Pour the acetone - or paint stripper, etc - then cover it with a sheet of aluminum foil. Let it sit and dissolve things for 15 or 20 minutes. MUCH easier to scrape away the goo.

[MoviemaniaNick]

Cool fun facts of the building. The floor tile looked like it was nice.

[cousinjeb]

After seeing that photo, my idea is for a bank themed: coffee shop, museum, thrift store, barber shop? Anything that can make money.

[elrobo]

I am a retired haz mat technician, I would STRONGLY recommend you look up the MSDS for acetone. The recommendations are for air supplied respirator. Please read the possible affects of breathing it. I would like to keep watching your videos, be careful. The metal parts on the doors and windows can be ruined using paint stripper, the best way to clean and remove paint is to get an old crock pot and put them in plain water and "cook" for a few hours. This breaks the bond between the metal and paint by expansion and won't alter the finish. An idea for the front downstairs could be a small museum for locals to bring in area things to show the local history. this would create a little place for local people to show share some of their history for travelers. I don't use social media so I have to say this here. The Waite motor company is on line and may be Waite Toyota now.

[mab]

My mother in law grew up in Johnston in the 1930s. Her family ran a grocery store. She was proud of growing up in Johnston.

[EarleeBrd]

I like to see this man! Keep it up I think Johnston is one of the few towns i have never been to.

[krcb]

From looking at the call sign not a ham station - looks like a business radio license - probably VHF radios mounted in trucks or handheld. Still very cool. Love that old postcard too!

[Fasciseus]

Many of those old 2-story buildings were built so that the people/family that operated the first-floor business could live upstairs 19:17 over their store. I grew up in a small town in the Midwest (70 years ago) and several different grocers, liquor store, couple saloons, hardware store families all lived above their businesses. I was friends with one of the kids living above his father/grandfather's grocery store and would visit the family, they would walk up a long dark stairway entering from the street (also a 2nd stairway inside the building and accessible from the back of the store), and their apartment was so dark because only 3 windows on the front of the building and a couple more facing the back alleyway, interior rooms were without windows. Not an ideal living arrangement by today's standards, but in the day getting to work was just a short distance down the stairs to the back of the store. Many of these stores also had an interesting way to get inventory from the street level down to their basements, there would be a pair of large metal doors in the sidewalk in front of the store building which would open in the middle and a freight elevator platform come up from the basement, the basements would extend out under the store and under the sidewalk. Inventory would be delivered to the front of the store, put onto the elevator in the sidewalk and taken down into the basement and stored away until needed. As I kid I would ALWAYS walk aroung these doors because I was afraid of falling thru them and never be seen again. Another thing I remember is some of these stores had many small (about 3 inches in diameter) purple glass embedded into the sidewalk in front of the store, in a mosaic pattern, as a skylight to let some light from above into these basements. Over the years many of these things were removed when the sidewalks were replaced, but a person might still come across these elevator doors or purple circles of glass in the sidewalks and wonder what they were doing there.

[lindaroyal]

Very cool that someone sent you a photo of the interior of your bank. I like the floors, good they can be saved and part of the restoration process. Hopefully others will find you and have items to share. The upstairs, the front with the awesome window, I'd make that the living room, beautiful space.

[kitebum]

It would be sweet to find an old phone booth and have it just play inspirational/motivational messages for those that pick it up