Suffolk was called "Peanut City" because for years Suffolk was the "Peanut Capital of the World," the World's Largest Peanut Market-- hence the name of Suffolk's radio station, WLPM.
Soon after my sister was married, each Sunday after Sunday School at the First Baptist Church in Suffolk my new brother-in-law Charlie Carr would take me out to Peanut City Inn for a coke and bar-b-que or hamburger. For those who do not remember, it was down North Main Street, over the Nansemond River Bridge, just past the WLPN Station on the left, past where the old Obici Hospital stood, in the center of the "Y" of the road where left you went on to Richmond or right on to Smithfield. As I remember from the last time I was in the area, none of that exists any longer, neither the old bridge, the WLPN radio station, "Obici," nor the "Y" in the road.
