Editing Carl Ponder (section)

===== Ponders Ice Cream =====

* 1930s [https://photos.app.goo.gl/aWZfVYMR899sjhKZ6 Exterior photo]
* Early [https://photos.app.goo.gl/uEAEJiu2BUSJfLry5 Interior photo] and [https://photos.app.goo.gl/dAH2XdLRQwreVBQs6 again]
* [https://www.greercitizen.com/columns-letters/salute-mr-ponder A Salute to Mr. Ponder] by Norma Jean Nesbitt Givens; noting it as the only business in Greer which allowed blacks in the front door and treated them respectfully.
* '''LOCATIONS'''
** Greer, '''114 East Poinsett,''' what is now Carolina Upstate Property Management, was the home of Ponders Brothers Groceries.
** Greer, '''107 Trade Street,''' what is now the empty patio of Los Portales Mexican restaurant. Our [https://greerheritage.com/omeka-s/s/museum/item/33 Omeka entry] states that this was Ponders ice cream and bottling some time in the first quarter of the 1900s, though I don't know original sourcing for that. The building was created between 1904 and 1911. The 1911 Sanborn map shows the building, with the front (Trade Street) half holding a butcher shop, and the back half being a bottler, which I assume to be Ponders. The big building/factory on E. Poinsett was built between 1911 and 1922, and Ponders had moved over all of the ice cream and bottling functions by 1922.  The Greenville Daily News Jun 15, 1928, Page 12 reports that Ponders expanded and renovated this building, but every indication is that he was renting out to other businesses.
** Greer, what is now a vacant building at '''127 East Poinsett Street.'''
** Greer, 1940s, approximately '''227 Trade Street'''. Ponders Ice Cream sign is clearly seen in a [https://photos.app.goo.gl/udAYG9Ns5C3nrYBn9 photograph of Trade Street], where CBL is now. It's conceivable that this was a different store advertising that they carry Ponders ice cream, but given the other signs that seems unlikely.
** Gaffney, SC: Gaffney Ledger Oct 1, 1929 p5 reports a new branch location of Ponders Ice Cream and Bottling Company opening October 5, 1929 "with Frigidaire equipment" in the Baker building on Limestone Street, formerly Becker's Bakery. The manager was Miss Vera Westmoreland of Greer, and only ice cream would be sold at this location.
** Anderson, SC: Greenville News May 31, 1932 p5 reports of a fire in an Anderson location of Ponders Ice Cream on West Earle Street.