Pinkie's Corner in Chase County, Nebraska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is an example of an early rural auto roadside business.
Pinkie's Corner | |
Location | Southwestern corner of the junction of U.S. Route 6 and 323rd Ave.,[1]Imperial, Nebraska |
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Coordinates | 40°32′14″N 101°49′08″W / 40.537222°N 101.818889°W |
NRHP reference No. | 11000885 |
Added to NRHP | December 7, 2011 |
It was the 1920s–30s business site of handyman and inventor C. Roy Elvis "Pinkie" Hedges.[2][3][4]
Pinkie became known as a "Supreme Do-It-Yourselfer", including in generating and using electricity before rural electrification became general. The site is a monument to resourcefulness during the hard times of the Great Depression.[4]
References
edit- ^ Hedges, Waydeen, and Jessie Nunn. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pinkie's Corner. National Park Service, 2011-08-29, 3.
- ^ "Nebraska National Register Sites in Chase County". Nebraska State Historical Society. June 27, 2008. Archived from the original on April 10, 2000. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Susan Doak (April 3, 2015). "Historic places in SW Nebraska". McCook's Gazette.
- ^ a b "Nebraska National Register Sites in Chase County". Archived from the original on April 10, 2000. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
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External links
edit- More photos of Pinkie's Corner at Wikimedia Commons