{"id":47,"date":"2015-01-01T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:37:05","slug":"agnew-seed-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Agnew Seed Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-818\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-818\" src=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S2680007-2-300x420.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright Larry Johnston\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S2680007-2-300x420.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S2680007-2-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/S2680007-2.jpg 1553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Agnew Seed Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Roanoke, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite Art Festivals took place in the park in Roanoke, Virginia. As I returned for the annual festival, I brought new paintings of the area.\u00a0 One of the paintings was, at the time, the oldest seed store in the state of Virginia.\u00a0 The store was handed down through family since its opening in 1897.<\/p>\n<p>The store was located at 301 Market Street, in Roanoke and sold Seeds &amp; Bulbs for wholesale and retail growers.\u00a0 The inside of the store, had shelves, drawers and displays that took you back in time. Bird seed was a popular item along with feeders for the bird lovers.<\/p>\n<p>After the owners death in 2009, business closed and the building was sold to a couple who owned several other businesses in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The other paintings that I painted over the years from Roanoke, were the Texas Tavern, Roanoke Weiner Stand and Billy&#8217;s, located in the Market District. I eventually sold them as a print set of 4, I called my Roanoke Set.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3459\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3459\" src=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-Va-Verticle-157x439.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright Larry Johnston\" width=\"157\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-Va-Verticle-157x439.jpg 157w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-Va-Verticle-366x1024.jpg 366w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-Va-Verticle.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3458\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3458\" src=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-VA-Horizontal-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright Larry Johnston\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-VA-Horizontal-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-VA-Horizontal-1024x368.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-VA-Horizontal-768x276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Roanoke-VA-Horizontal.jpg 1451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love Roanoke and could live there! It is such a cool town.\u00a0 Here are a few of my favorite places around town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=51\"><strong>Hot Dog King<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=45\"><strong>Billy&#8217;s on the Ritz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=49\"><strong>Texas Tavern<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=47\"><strong>Agnew Seed Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agnew Seed Store Roanoke, Virginia. One of my favorite Art Festivals took place in the park in Roanoke, Virginia. As I returned for the annual festival, I brought new paintings of the area.\u00a0 One of the paintings was, at the time, the oldest seed store in the state of Virginia.\u00a0 The store was handed down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,52,46,6],"tags":[649,651,870,647,650,417],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-x-12","category-roanoke","category-stores","category-virginia","tag-agnew-seed-store","tag-agnews-roanoke","tag-larry-johnston-nostalgia","tag-roanoke","tag-seed-store","tag-store","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}