The Moore Walk

Little Folks Studio to E. L. Moore's apartment

After a day at the studio battling the "other children mothers bring along", he slips on a pair of gloves and steps out with a long certain stride on the mile-plus walk home. 

"Only when it's handy" does he take the bus. If he misses one, he walks the whole distance.

from David Hayhow's article about E. L. Moore in The Charlotte Observer, 19 January 1958.

That post about E. L. Moore's books got me thinking again about the Hayhow article, so I re-read it. The article mentions E. L. Moore's home address was 712 N Pine, and his photography studio, Little Folks Studio, was at 1702 E. 4th St.. Naturally I went to Google to see what today's walk between those two addresses would look like. It's a bit more than a mile - twice as much actually - and the two endpoints aren't what they were.

Today 1702 E. 4th St., where Little Folks Studio was located, appears to be some sort of parking lot.

And 712 N Pine looks like it has been redeveloped into a professional offices park.

Moore's Baby Studio to E. L. Moore's apartment

In the 1940's E. L. Moore's studio, then called Moore's Baby Studio, appears to have been located on S. Tryon Street, only 0.9 miles from his apartment. Maybe the rent on the S. Tryon Street location got too high necessitating a move to somewhere further out. Also, I think in one of these businesses Mr. Moore had a partner. I need to look into that.