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HELLO? If you moved your family here, you aren't FROM Raleigh...
Sure you are....you were born here went to State found an agricultural job in the upper Mid West and got married had 2.3 kids and decided due to the recession that home was the place to roam yet again, and you took the plunge and pulled up stakes, sort of speak and hit the highways to the Raleigh area only to find out no jobs here either. Its the sling-shot theory of relocating! One seems to always come back home if only in ones mind!~
Sure you are....you were born here went to State found an agricultural job in the upper Mid West and got married had 2.3 kids and decided due to the recession that home was the place to roam yet again, and you took the plunge and pulled up stakes, sort of speak and hit the highways to the Raleigh area only to find out no jobs here either. Its the sling-shot theory of relocating! One seems to always come back home if only in ones mind!~
Wouldn't that be the boomerang theory of relocating instead of sling-shot? A sling-shot might not put you in the same spot you started. But a boomerang takes you back to where it was launched. Or so they tell me. My boomeranging has always been off. Maybe that's why when I came back to NC I did not end up near my hometown.
Remember cruising Shoney's on Friday and Saturday nights? Lots of people from good ol' Broughton High School were there as well as friends from Enloe High School. Anyone remember Ronnie McLean of Enloe High School? He was something of a football and basketball star. I was madly in love with him! Wonder what he's doing these days...
I remember when the Outback steakhouse on Creedmore Rd. in Stonehenge shopping center was a Shoney's! I also remember the Harris Teeter being located where the Stein Mart is now and Roses being located where H.T. is now.
It was actually originally an erotic movie theater back in the 60's?.?.
Initially it was the "Varsity Theater". It showed first run Hollywood movies. Around 1970 (maybe a little later) it switched to the XXX movies. Then finally closed and stayed boarded up until McDonald's moved in.
I remember when Lynn Road school was a horse pasture and K-Bar-T was a horse stable where Asbury UMC is now. I also remember Scotty's Chuckwagon and World Bazaar in North Hills. I remember when Quail Corner's shopping center opened.
I remember when Crabtree Valley mall was a quarter of the size and it ended at half the food court with a really awesome arcade. The entrance was where the McDonalds is now.
And i agree with the point where civilization ended at Strickland road. When i drive by Goodberries I can always picture all those trees.
I grew up right behind the old horse farm on Strickland, which i am still really upset about!! Sitting on the rooftop at Rudinos will never be the same!
and it ended at half the food court with a really awesome arcade.
Aladdin's Castle!
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A sling-shot might not put you in the same spot you started. But a boomerang takes you back to where it was launched. Or so they tell me. My boomeranging has always been off. Maybe that's why when I came back to NC I did not end up near my hometown. 
