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The Bland Hotel, Raleigh, N.C.

Our Flashback Friday postcard this week features — ta-dah! — The Bland Hotel. The name alone compels you to check right in, doesn’t it? Or maybe not? More than that, this postcard poses many more questions, as well.

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Insurance Building, Raleigh, N.C.

This week’s Flashback Friday postcard features Raleigh’s iconic art deco Durham Life Insurance Company office building, or as I always used to refer to it — “the Superman Building.”

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Johnny’s Drive In Grill — Raleigh’s First and Finest, Raleigh, North Carolina

This week on Flashback Friday we feature a dual-view ‘linen’ postcard depicting Johnny’s Drive-In Grill and the adjacent Johnny’s Supper Club. Raleigh’s first and finest.

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    • hollywoodgirl: I was thinking about the downtown hotels and how their purposes had changed over the decades, and how...
    • jayare: A lunchtime internet search for Ed V. Bedney resulted in the fact that he was a collector of matchbooks and...
    • jayare: LOL that message typed on the post card sounds like an international drug deal!
    • Raleigh Boy: Hollywoodgirl — Thanks for sharing your recollections of the Andrew Johnson Hotel with our...
    • Jimmy G: Moved to Raleigh in 1956. worked at Chiips 1966 later Hardee’s, Emma Conn to Morson to Enloe. Lived in...
    • Debbie McGhee Saelens: I went attended Hugh Morson the first part of the 9th grade (1965) before we moved to Aycock....
    • Matthew Brown: Another great article, Raleigh Boy! Thank you
    • Curt: Interesting post, Raleigh Boy. I wonder if the flag in the postcard was artistic license. Here are two Flickr...


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