Greetings from Raleigh, N.C.
Greetings from Raleigh! For our first Flashback Friday post of the new year, we feature another of the popular ‘Big Letter’ postcards of the 1940s.
State Hospital, Raleigh, N.C.
Our Flashback Friday postcard this week features an early view of Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Hospital. Once known as the state ‘lunatic’ or ‘insane’ asylum, Dix Hospital cared for North Carolina’s mentally ill for more than 150 years.
An Epic (Facade) Fail on S. Wilmington St.
Rhodes Furniture building, 301 S. Wilmington St., as it appeared in 1945. (North Carolina State Archives photo)
“I read the news today, oh boy … A crowd of people turned away, but I just had to look…”
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