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State Capitol, Raleigh, N.C.

For Flashback Friday this week, we present this beautifully tinted postcard depicting our historic state capitol. The fine finishing work on this card renders it almost three-dimensional in effect. There is a puzzle here, though. Can you figure it out?

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Morning View 122111

Cup A Joe

A long lived landmark in a rapidly changing part of Hillsborough Street.

Fayetteville St., Looking North. Raleigh, N.C.

In several previous installments of Flashback Friday we’ve published vintage postcards depicting Raleigh’s ‘Main Street’. This week, however, the charm of this particular card is not in the visual depiction itself, but in the message written on the back.

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    • NCSU: “that could be said about pretty much everything NC State.” Uh – No.
    • Al: Streaking across the Brickyard was the best in the early 70′s!
    • JR Smith: ha ha ha. that could be said about pretty much everything NC State. “all in all, it’s not much...
    • NCSU: “…all in all, it’s not much but it’s ours.” Mmmmmmm. I was thinking the same thing about our...
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