on South Court, ancient and decrepit –but still vibrant. It was the centerpiece of Folmar & Flinn’s vast Cloverland Housing development of the late 1940s –a stunning achievement for that era. Of course, the sidewalk covers were added later. The TruValue hardware store you see was the Cloverland Grocery anchor store back in 1952 when, as a bachelor, I lived in the upscale Prado Apartments ten blocks back up Court, and did all my food shopping here. And, would you believe it, the small dish tower rising above the store belongs to WSFA-TV, whose sprawling studios are right behind this center at the foot of Perry Street.
-Charles Humphries
I well remember Cloverland, as a child in the sixties I recall us driving by there often; even then it had a rather decrepit appearance. There was a grocery store (Piggly-Wiggly?) and laundromat across the street. I occasionally used a barbershop on the south end and there was a small hardware store roughly on the right side of the above photo. Folks my age probably best remember Cloverland in the early seventies for the large waterbed outlet store on the back side.
It is odd to think that large upscale places like Normandale and Montgomery Mall have died and Cloverland soldiers on.