Lillie Moody Cayton (1893-1982), left, joins her sister Julia Moody Pierce (1886-1965), and brother-in-law N.B. "Bonie" Pierce (1880-1964) for a visit under the oak trees in the side yard of the Reservoir Inn.
Before Moffet Road became the busy major highway it is today, a pleasant day or evening could be spent relaxing in these chairs and watching cars go by. In the evenings, flying squirrels jumped from tree to tree. Bonie built the chairs that they are sitting in.
Notice that Bonie is holding a cigar. He frequently smoked cigars.
In the background is a house owned by the Mobile Water and Sewer System. Except for Bonie's store, the water system had bought most of the property between Shelton Beach Road and Woodley Road on the north side of Moffet Road for the E.M. Stickney Filtration Plant, built in 1944. Water system employees lived in this house and the others that the system bought. This house was occupied by Eddie and Jeanette Phillips.
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