from Seeing Spartanburg: A History in Images by Phillip N. Racine

This 1965 photograph shows Belk-Hudson with its facade and Woolworth's, which was directly across the street from Kress and Montgomery Ward, making for a treasure of department stores in the same block.

The tum-of-the-century building in the center of the photograph (where the Farmer's Market now exists) looks isolated in the midst of all the sheet metal, glass and ubiquitous signs of the time.