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Biscuit Station to Become Ruben’s Downtown

The spot on the corner of Person and Edenton Streets was once home to Biscuit Station, a mom and pop greasy spoon restaurant that had been around for about 20 years. It closed last October, and the former service station has sat vacant since.

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Beautiful Day Over Downtown

Downtown Raleigh, almost a year ago, from a parking deck on McDowell Street. The weather then was almost as nice as what we are having today!

Construction Mayhem

The early commute down Hillsborough Street can be a bumpy ride.

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    • Raleigh Boy: There is a very nice collection of ‘Folk Victorians’ in the area roughly bounded by Saint...
    • Trish Laird Dickerson: sorry, meant “The Pier”
    • Trish Laird Dickerson: I so remember the ladies night on Thursday nights at the Skyline Disco! What fun we all had...
    • Hap Willard: I was the Marketing Director for The Pier back in those days. I worked for Tonda and David Smith and was...
    • Dawn Chilton: In 1969 when I was fourteen my friend and I worked as volun-teens in the house next door, which at the...
    • Cassandra: Raleigh Boy — Curious, who is your friend that works in the art department? I’m a 2011...
    • RaleighNative51: My grandfather worked for the Raleigh streetcar company in 1910 and lived, at that tiem, in the new...


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