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02-11-2009, 09:52 PM
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Triangle Area Explorer!
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: North Raleigh, NC
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Pictures of "Old School" Raleigh
Here are a few pictures of Raleigh from the late 1800's and early 1900's that have been posted online by the North Carolina State Archives. You can find the rest of the this public photo collection here. 
Raleigh Times newspaper carriers, no date.
Bowle's Esso service station, Raleigh, NC June 25, 1941.
West Martin Street in front of the Raleigh News and Observer Building, Raleigh Hotel on corner, Raleigh, NC.
1200 Block South Side Hillsborough Street, looking west, Raleigh, NC, about 1928.
City Market, Raleigh, NC, about 1914.
Citizens National Bank Building, Martin Street, Raleigh, NC, probably 1914.
Capital Coca Cola Bottling Company, Raleigh, NC, 1941.
'Forty and Eight' Parade, Fayetteville Street, downtown Raleigh, NC.
Peebles and Edwards Store, Raleigh, NC, Daddy Rabbit Shoe Sale, 1912.
200 Block of Fayetteville Street, Looking North, Raleigh, NC, 1950.
Commercial National Bank under construction, Raleigh, NC, mid-September 1912.
North Carolina State Capitol from the west with ox cart in front, c.1880's
Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, NC, c.1910's.
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02-11-2009, 10:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Cute pics. I spy "Greenshields" in one of them!
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02-11-2009, 10:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Holly Springs
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Very cool! I love historic pictures. |
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02-11-2009, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Efland
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Great pics! That must have been some shoe sale!
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02-11-2009, 10:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Wake Forest
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NRG great pics. Take away some of the people and the trolley car and waaalaaa it looks like Wake Forest today! ...and that is not a bad thing! Thanks for sharing! |
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02-11-2009, 10:26 PM
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Real Estate Agent
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Wow, NRG...I didn't realize you had an ox!
Vicki
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02-12-2009, 05:44 AM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middle Creek Township
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Prime examples of old buildings that should always come down to make way for new buildings or at least be renovated into something good. I do enjoy seeing how things used to be, so that's what pictures are for. So we can say "remember when North Hills (or any other place) used to look like this?
Thanks for the pics NRG.
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02-12-2009, 06:15 AM
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Practice What You Preach
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Thanks for the pics, NRG! I think that pic of the Raleigh Times is up in The Raleigh Times now.
Last edited by SunnyKayak; 02-12-2009 at 09:24 AM..
Reason: personal attack
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02-12-2009, 08:55 AM
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NC Native
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Thanks, N_R_G! Though I've lived here a long time, even *I* don't remember these sites
Can't rep you yet 
I need to post these in the Facebook group for "You Know You Grew Up in Raleigh When..." |
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02-12-2009, 09:02 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Sanford, NC
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Great photos! It is always so wonderful to see where we've come from and how we got there
It really gives one a sense of history and place.
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