I wonder if the new 440 project will have an impact to that old stretch of South Wilmington St. It’s been a long time it handled a lot of heavy traffic.
NCSU
12/13/2013
It used to be quite a happening place: Hardees, a Pizza Inn where you could eat in a caboose, Ponderosa Steak House, Gardner’s BBQ and Seafood, Planters Peanuts, the Belvidere Motel and, just inside where the beltline is now, O’Neal Chrysler Plymouth and an ABC store.
Brian
12/13/2013
If memory serves me right, there was also a Shoney’s Big Boy restaurant down there too. Times have changed.
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12/12/2013
I wonder if the new 440 project will have an impact to that old stretch of South Wilmington St. It’s been a long time it handled a lot of heavy traffic.
12/13/2013
It used to be quite a happening place: Hardees, a Pizza Inn where you could eat in a caboose, Ponderosa Steak House, Gardner’s BBQ and Seafood, Planters Peanuts, the Belvidere Motel and, just inside where the beltline is now, O’Neal Chrysler Plymouth and an ABC store.
12/13/2013
If memory serves me right, there was also a Shoney’s Big Boy restaurant down there too. Times have changed.