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Hillsboro Street, Raleigh, N.C. (Redux)

A few weeks ago we published on Flashback Friday an early 20th century postcard view of Hillsboro St. as seen from the Capitol building. This week, we’re in the same time period, but the view is now looking up the street toward the Capitol itself.

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Hillsboro St., Raleigh, N.C.

For Flashback Friday this week we feature a vintage postcard which captures a glimpse of Hillsboro St. which has long since been lost to memory. I love the image of the streetcar rumbling past the elegant mansions on its route up the dusty street.

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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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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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Discuss Raleigh

  • Recent Comments:

    • Liz: I’ve always wanted to stay at the Gables too! One of these days….
    • BC: Is the site occupied by Char Grill now?
    • Curt: I can’t answer the question, but there are some interesting facets to the address side of this postcard, too. -...
    • Brian: At the time, that’s how it was spelled.
    • James: Hillsboro?
    • Sharon Graham Felton: Great pictures. I remember as a girl going to the water garden where my father (Ralph Graham)...
    • Chris: This is right across the street from my apartment, so I wake up to this view every morning. My brother called...
    • NCSU: I’ve often fantasized about checking into this place for a couple of months and writing the great...


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