Changes on the street from 1929 to present
Another old picture from Head's Bunker. This one shows the street in front of the old mill and the old General Merchandise store. From what I’ve heard, the company paid employees in company Script (as shown below) and the script was used in the company store to purchase supplies and groceries. Looks like we’ve got trees and a parking area now where the old store once stood. 
ca. 1929 Imperial Mercantile Co. 
Changes on the Street 
Imperial Mercantile Co. script for purchasing goods at the company store.
As a point of interest and to credit the source(s), the old pictures are scanned from the book "Fort Bend County Sesquicentennial 1822-1972" Published in 1972 by the Fort Bend County Sesquicentennial Association, Richmond, Texas. The newer pictures were taken by me with an Olympus D-460 Zoom 1.3 magapixel camera. I noticed that the City of Sugar Land used the Mercantile picture above on their home page too.
posted by John at 4:20 PM
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2 Comments:
Man this is so cool to see the now and then pics, really awesome! Make you want to get the old metal detector out when they start ripping up sidewalk where that general store used to be!
There is a security gaurd that hangs out in that area. I may stop and ask him about detecting in around those trees. I need to take a better photo anyway and pay more attention to keeping that front corner of the char house vertical.
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