You know you are from Raleigh if... (Boone, Hudson: condos, theatre)

[uncletupelo]

enjoyed both of those activities.

[weluvwakeforest]

Originally Posted by MikeJaquish

I spoke with a nice feller yesterday who told me about there being a "Farm For Sale" sign up years ago.
"106 acres. $50,000"

Everyone said, "Who would be dumb enough to pay that much for that old farm?"

Sometime after that, for quite a while the area was known as North Hills Mall until John Kane got involved...

Gosh, I would love to see some pictures..

[J_Lurk]

Originally Posted by underPSI

You sure you're thinking of the correct intersection? I think I remember Jefferey's Grove School rd. being called Shacktown rd. Jefferey's Grove elem. school is on Creedmore Rd.

Positive. A neighbor of ours was shot on that road when I was a kid, and that kind of thing really sticks in a kid's head. Yes, Jeffrey's Grove is on Creedmoor and always has been. When I attended Jeffrey's Grove in the early 70s it served pretty much everything north of it up to Barton's Creek (north of Norwood), and everything east to Six Forks Road. The entire road that is now Baileywick was called Shacktown Road. I don't remember any roads right around Jeffrey's Grove being called Shacktown, but I lived so far from there that I didn't know that area well. It is possible that there was more than one.

[Francois]

Speaking of country, somebody told me the area we now know as Millbrook road was once Millbrook, NC !!!

Well, you need to be more specific, since Millbrook Rd today is MUCH longer than it used to be. But yes, just east of Falls of Neuse and west of where Atlantic is now, used to be a community known as Millbrook. Many of us recall the tiny post office that remained after the rest of it was there. I used to ride my bike to those railroad tracks and play around there--it was out in the middle of nowhere.

There also was, supposedly, a ghost at that intersection of Millbrook and Old Wake Forest! A woman who would ride in your backseat.

Remember when they carved the giant statue of Sir Walter Raleigh in the mall. I've still got a wood chip from that somewhere.

I do, and I think I kept one, too!

Remember the HO train setup at the back of Colliers Hobby Shop. Man I could look at that thing for hours. There was a little plastic figure of a girl covering herself from two onlookers as she bathed in a stream with her cloths by the side.

Yup, to preteen boys, that was some excitement ;-)

Lock Stock & Barrel was great and I recently read that they've opened in Clayton after all these years. That was the first place I'd ever seen put bacon on a burger!

I had forgotten the name of that place! I remember the self-serve soft ice cream...first one of those I'd ever seen.

Shelly intersected Leesville Rd. just a little ways from there. Leesville continued down what is present day Town and Country Ln.

Well, Shelley, Leesville, and Millbrook all got shifted around a lot when Millbrook was extended around 1987. Leesville used to start at Crabtree, where it's called Lead Mine now, then go up and to the left (what's now Town & Country--Lead Mine split off to the right as it is now), then it took over what is now called Millbrook (wasn't a hard intersection with Town and Country like now) and went past Creedmoor and the Brookhaven neighborhood to where it goes now. Millbrook itself stopped shortly past Sanderson High School. Shelly Road used to go from Six Forks to where part of Millbrook is now, past the lake, to hit Leesville. When they straightened all of that out into "Millbrook", it took a lot of getting used to!

Anyone here ever jump off the steal truss bridge that spanned Crabtree Creek at Lassiter Mill?

No, but every Sunday coming home from church (we rode up Lassiter Mill Rd), my dad would drive through there and cross the bridge, as if it were a "treat". On nice days we'd get out and walk around. And when it flooded, remember how the waterfall was gone, it was just horizonotal across?

Raleighmark, you and I must have had almost identical childhoods--but then everyone who grew up in 27609 in the '70s pretty much did.

[oldcodgette58]

Pine State Holiday ice cream...miss it
The name of Hillsborough street theater BEFORE it was McDonalds..the VARSITY..
Drive In's: hwy 70 Garner the CENTER DRIVE INN, US# 1 -FOREST DRIVE INN,
New Bern Ave-TOWER DRIVE INN.
The Pigeon Man was not called this; He was the PEANUT MAN.
Does anyone rememebr the Jim Thornton show being aired in Cameron Village ...parking lot of Sears-Roebuck store(now HARRIS TEETER). I grew up in West Raleigh..lived on Chamberlain, and Bedford Ave. My grandparents, and 2 aunts lived on Bedford...uncle on Everett Ave. Every Saturday during the summer ,my aunt ..whose house at the corner of Bedford and Oberlin Rd...would string a light bulb to one of her 2 oak trees in the front yard and the adult members of my family would play 'cards' by the light of the bulb, and my sister and I and my cousins would play in the yard. As to the Jim Thornton show...we could sit on my grands or aunt's porch and see the lights and hear the music.
BTW..that was one of my grandfather's shows to watch on WTVD every weekend. Remember Captain 5? Happy the Toy Soldier? Uncle Paul was Bozo the Clown on channel 5 prior to becoming Uncle Paul. Pinky Lee and Howdy Doody. Ruff and Ready show. Mickey Mouse club.
Remember the Christmas Parade being held at night...yes at night on Fayetteville street...about 6pm...we knew the parade was about to start when the lights would come on sequentially down the street.
Ahhh..the Ambassador theater...the balcony, the Saturday cartoon shows for the price of a Coke bottle or cap.
Remember the window decor for Burton's Cameron Village...they alwasy seem 'chic' to me.
Roses, Boylan-Pearce, Federal Bake Shop(best sugar cookies in town!) The VILLAGE theater(now K&W)
YES! there were cows a pasture and a very large lake where Crabtree Valley stands..my grandfather usedto take us riding on Sundays...to the 'country' and Durham and we would alway ride by and count the cows in the pasture.
I remember when Wake Med was a 300 bed hospital (Wake Memorial then).
Championship Wrestling at channel 5 studio.the BOLO"S, The Scott Brothers(George and Sandy), Rip Hawk and Swede Hansen, Haystack Calhoun..(way-way before Rick Flair)..you can get in free if you got in line early. Teenage Frolics ...you could get in free again..get there early.
Downtown: Mother's and Daughters, Mangal's, Betty Gays, Ivey-Taylor's; Hanakah's, W.T. Grant, Fine's, Britain's shoes, Butler's shoes, Brigg's Hardware(thank God it still standing), Woolworths', McClellon's.
As for the tornado on hwy #70...I commuting from Chapel Hill on second shift at UNC hospital...on the way home just before I got to the Kmart the wind was still and dark ..and by the time I got to Crabtree, the rain and torrentail wind was up and by the time I arrived home, the late news was reporting the tornado ...Whoa! God was with me.

[underPSI]

There also was, supposedly, a ghost at that intersection of Millbrook and Old Wake Forest! A woman who would ride in your backseat.

"She" lived in that huge old house that was on the right side of Old Wake Forest Rd just north of Millbrook Rd!

[daveraleigh]

Wow...totally forgot about the time phone number! I was an 80s kid but used to always call it just to use the phone! We'd have a guessing game about the temperature...esp. in the summer.
I still think of the rivalry b/w State and Carolina first...and then Carolina/Duke.
Remember:
Channel 5 was ABC and Channel 11 was CBS?
WPTF was NBC and had a newscast...and Barney's Army!
The Chopper 11 crash (both Sky 5 and Chopper 11 came to my elementary school....awesome!)
Uncle Paul on after Captain Kangaroo...
Frog Hollow
When Channel 22 started up as an independent...and not long after Channel 40 out of Fayett...
The Channel 5 tower crash and using Channel 40 to broadcast
One Life to Live filming at Duke and Miriam Thomas having a cameo

Can you tell I was/am a tv geek...lol...


What was the name of the bar that was somewhere off of Hillsborough...towards downtown. I think its one of the gay bars, now...but it used to be one of the main live music spots when I was in college (late 80s/early 90s)

[Dire Wolf]

The Fallout Shelter

[uncletupelo]

the clock on top of the bank at north hills shopping center(beside the deli king)

[Francois]

Channel 5 was ABC and Channel 11 was CBS?

Yes, and if I'm not thinking, I'll still get these confused, and go to 9 (11) for CBS or 3 (5) for ABC, even though they switched sometime around 1984! And UHF 28 was NBC, pre-cable.

Remember when Crabtree was first built, all the hubbub about it? "Biggest mall between DC and Atlanta!" Those '70s colors on the ceiling (orange, magenta, etc) and the big fountain by the escalators (which would serve as its logo for years)? Anchor stores were Hudson Belk (which hasn't changed on the outside) and Sears, Thalhimer's in the middle. The Cheese Shop that used to be downstairs right by Belk's, forever? The drugstore upstairs on that end and G.C Murphy downstairs on the other end. Both a Waldenbooks and a B. Dalton were there, downstairs. Upstairs by Sears, there was a Wood/Leather store, a pet store, and Lifeway Christian books.

What about Shakey's Pizza over near Creekside, the Pizza Inns at Falls Village and Lake Boone shopping centers. Creekside seafood, as well as the "Flying Cloud", which was shaped like a ship (later became a beach music club?) The Pepsi plant where Costco is now (you gotta be REALLY new not to know that one) and the Keebler plant across from there. And of course, the KMart where Staples/Borders is now, that would flood EVERY time it rained,along with the car dealerships down by Crabtree Creek.

Speaking of cars, Wiygul-Sanders Ford on Downtown Blvd near Peace St., with that weird-shaped building? And the bank sign just as you went under the bridge into downtown, that would change between three different ads?

Field trips to the OLD museum of Natural Science, with all of the poisonous snakes in the first room when you walked in, and that exhibit in the next room about geology where you'd push the buttons to light up sedimentary/igneous/metamorphic? "George" the python upstairs?

When the Rialto theatre was called the Colony and the colony was called the Terrace? (By the way, the Colony theatre is one place you can still feel like you're back in the '70s; that carpet on the walls has been there since then! I used to go to Rocky Horror there almost weekly as a teen, for a while).