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Old 12-01-2008, 08:00 AM
 
Location: At the NC-SC Border
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[quote=uncletupelo;6369549 I think that Hickory Hills was finished before 1970. Plenty of homes in North Hills proper were built in 1964 or before. [/quote]

That's right...Hickory Hills was the first. Most of those homes had their own well and septic tank when new....I believe, or at least was told that by an older HH's resident some time back.

My house was one of the first in North Hills Estates....1960
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Old 12-01-2008, 06:28 PM
 
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Well, that area was developed in the early 1970s...how quickly we forget the Bicentennial in 1976 and the whole "neo-Colonial" decor that preceded it! You're lucky there's no red/white/blue left!

(/Recalls childhood bedroom decorated in red & blue with bedspread and curtains that had eagles and minutemen on them...)
LOL!!! Do you remember the Bicentennial syrup bottles that Log Cabin put out? My Granny had every last one of those... eagles, liberty bell, she had them all. My Aunt had all the Avon Bicentennial cologne bottles as well. I remember a few Eagles in there too.

My parents had a big metal Eagle on the front door... it's immortalized in so many family photos. Ah, the 70s.

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Nor do I like the new "eagle" that seems to be everywhere these days....and, what is the new "eagle"? It's those giant Texas stars that seem to be in every "Rooms to Go" living room and bedroom.
I am such a snob.
Yeah, those giant Stars are pretty passe. The very first home my husband and I sold, the new owners plastered one of those huge, hideous things on the chimney... literally the first day they moved in. I almost died when I drove by. I had a hard time parting with that house and the star was very unsettling. All our neighbors thought the new owners were in a cult or something and were ticked at us for selling our house to cult members. LOL! Turned out they were a really nice couple and everyone loves them. But those Stars remind me of the Dr. Suess' Star Belly Sneetches story. I love the Sneetch story but don't care for the stars.
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Old 12-01-2008, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Francois- Most of North Hills, Lakemont, Chesnut Hills, North Glen and Quail Hollow were built out by 1969. I think that Hickory Hills was finished before 1970.
Many of them were, but Hickory Hills only just got started in 1970; in 1969, Quail Hollow Drive stopped at Pebblebrook and then was just a dirt road through woods. I played in almost every house in HH as it was being built, collecting the workmen's Coke bottles for the 2 c deposit, well into 1974 or so. I lived in Quail Hollow and some of them, as well, were still being built in '71, '72. At the time, Eastgate Park was just a pond in the woods people called "Old man's lake" and didn't have the dam there. I think the dam and the park itself came along around 1975.
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Old 12-02-2008, 05:11 AM
 
Location: At the NC-SC Border
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That's right...Hickory Hills was the first. Most of those homes had their own well and septic tank when new....I believe, or at least was told that by an older HH's resident some time back.

My house was one of the first in North Hills Estates....1960
Correction...Chestnut Hills is the oldest. Sorry. They say the mind is the first to go
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