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Triangle Home Movie Day — 2012

Do you have old home movies stashed away in your family vault? Ever wondered what’s on them, their condition, or how to take care of them? Then bring your family’s 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm home movies to the 10th annual Triangle Home Movie Day, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. Just what might have been filmed by our parents with their old movie cameras back in the day?

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Greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina

This week’s Flashback Friday feature is a so-called ‘Big Letter’ postcard, popular with the American traveling public of the 1930s and ’40s. And, quite by coincidence, we revisit with it the ‘Ronson Twenty Questions’ radio show of the 1940s.

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Hotel Sir Walter, Raleigh, N.C.

For Flashback Friday this week, we feature this fine ‘linen’ post card of Raleigh’s famed Hotel Sir Walter. The card depicts a dramatic view of the hotel — I love that huge neon sign and the twin radio towers mounted on the roof. However, the message written on the back reveals a hint of peril.

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