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# 1, We always just called it "Falls"... no one ever said the whole name of the road!
"take the inner beltline past North Hills and exit right onto Falls"
Do people actually say "Midtown" if they don't work in marketing? I've heard most people (native and non) refer to it as "North Hills".
Some people do and it really grinds my gears. Heck, even the N&O (somewhat unsurprisingly) calls one of their special "local" inserts the "Midtown Raleigh News" which is included in my newspapers even though I live downtown....
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Originally Posted by lamishra
# 1, We always just called it "Falls"... no one ever said the whole name of the road!
"take the inner beltline past North Hills and exit right onto Falls"
Us too most of the time! I remember seeing signs without the "the" a little while ago and wondering why they'd do that unless it was just to save space...
lived here 32 years (all my life). never heard anyone refer to capital as downtown blvd or north blvd.
maybe its an older thing... real olderrrrr
Not that much older--it changed in 1989. Previously, it was "Downtown Blvd" inside the Beltline (or at least once you went under the bridge where Wake Forest Rd comes in) and "North Blvd/US 1" outside the Beltline (and before there WAS a Beltline). You may have been been too young to notice the difference--but most people who had previously said "North/Downtown Blvd" continued to do so. Ask your parents what they call it
lived here 32 years (all my life). never heard anyone refer to capital as downtown blvd or north blvd.
maybe its an older thing... real olderrrrr
Well for all practical purposes it would have been 10 or more years later before you started paying any attention to road names. I moved here in 84' and Downtown Blvd and North Blvd were what that stretch was called and stayed that way for quite a while. I still find myself referring to Downtown Blvd.
Well for all practical purposes it would have been 10 or more years later before you started paying any attention to road names. I moved here in 84' and Downtown Blvd and North Blvd were what that stretch was called and stayed that way for quite a while. I still find myself referring to Downtown Blvd.
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Totally true about North and Downtown Boulevards. I'd also note that the whole inner and outer Beltline wasn't even a thing before they completed its loop. A real Raleighite remembers when it was just a 4 lane northwestern arc that came up from Cary as US1 bypass and ended at 64 East. There was no need to even talk about inner and outer and it wasn't designated part of the Interstate system. However, like 540 today is called the outer loop while incomplete, it was called the Beltline while incomplete.
Another term that didn't come around until 40 was put through Raleigh is "Wade Avenue Extension". It was simply 40 once one crossed under the Beltline from Wade Ave. I still consider it as such.
Despite what official records say, we ALWAYS called it Falls of The Neuse and I know that there were signs indicating it as such near our house in North Ridge.
Ask a non-Raleighite to explain the name "Six Forks Road" and see if any come close to its origin.
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