The Boyer Papers include especially complete drawings and photographs for the S&W Cafeteria in Greensboro, which displayed a modern style. In the 1970s, as new shopping centers pulled away business and investment from downtown, the once prestigious and popular cafeteria was one of the casualties. An article in the Lumberton, NC, Robesonian of June 21, 1976, reported that Greensboro’s Thalhimer’s, Belk, and Sears stores had gone to the suburbs, and the S&W Cafeteria “folded its napkin and stole sorrowfully away.”