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Outside of the Oyster Bar

One of the first few posts on this blog was a few of the images I took of downtown Raleigh in 2004, when I first moved here from Asheville. The first image is of the back side of the Oyster Bar, and this image is the side near the rail road tracks.

2008 Goodnight, Raleigh!

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