After the Civil War, this area of Charleston, South Carolina devolved into near slum conditions. In the early 1900s, Dorothy Pocher Legge purchased a section of these houses numbering 99 through 101 East Bay and began to renovate them. She chose to paint these houses pink based on a colonial Caribbean color scheme. Other owners and future owners followed suit, creating the "rainbow" of pastel colors present today. The coloring of the houses helped give the area its name.My painting shows the houses as they were in 1959. Parked in front is a 1959 Corvette. It's driver, a Citadel Cadet, is hiding behind his back, a bouquet of red roses for his blond, Southern Belle. http://www.photoworks.com/photo-sharing/shareSignin.jsp?shareCode=AB40EC2C6FF&cp=ems_shr_alb_pml&cb=PW Mark
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