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On The Day Before Lucky’s Doughnuts Opened On Main St., Five Years Ago This Week

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Five years ago this week I tried my first ever Lucky’s Doughnut. I remember it well. I was taking a look inside the Mt. Pleasant location of its parent company, 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters, which was opening the very next day on the southeast corner, when a variety box of veritable beauties was put in front of me. Though I can’t recall which doughnut I bit into first (because you better believe I went to town on the whole box), I do remember thinking that the place wasn’t going to suffer a lack of customers. Great coffee and killer doughnuts…I mean, who knew? Anyway, these shots are from that sugary afternoon, the first of countless since…

  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • Luckys Doughnuts on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • Luckys Doughnuts on Main
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.
  • 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters on Main St.

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