Goodnight Raleigh - a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
New LED street lighting on Hillsborough Street
If you’ve driven down Hillsborough Street at night within the past week or so, you may have noticed some new lighting. What makes this lighting noteworthy is that it is LED (right), as opposed to fluorescent or the more common sodium vapor lamps (left).
But before we dive into why this is important, let’s take a look at the history of municipal lighting of streets, buildings, and sidewalks at night.
Not all visitors to Raleigh take the R-Line. Sunset means the end of another day of conventioning for this group of Freddy Krueger fans.
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The Piedmont #76, Charlotte to Raleigh route, is the Amtrak line that serves only North Carolina. From Charlotte it makes stops in Kannapolis, Salisbury, High Point, Greensboro, Burlington and Durham. It ends is Raleigh. The reverse route is a part of the Carolinian line, train #79.
Tuesday saw a large gathering of Conan fans at The Players Retreat. I haven’t been keeping up with all of the latest news about the late night lineup switching, but I do know that Conan O’Brien is the only late night host that I find to be funny. Nearly every TV in the place was tuned to NBC to catch his show.
Want a tiny physical reminder of Raleigh? City-Blox are 2"x3" photographic prints mounted directly to wood blocks. You can support this blog by buying them at Etsy.
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