Goodnight Raleigh - a look at the art, architecture, history, and people of the city at night
This week for Flashback Friday we present a ‘natural finish’ real photo postcard of the “Leading Drug Store in North Carolina” — Walgreen Drugs. In this post we also explore the beginning of the civil rights sit-in demonstrations of the early 1960s, and how Raleigh’s Walgreen’s entered the history books.
In recognition of Memorial Day, our postcard feature for Flashback Friday this week depicts the Worth Bagley monument, located on Capitol Square. Most folks these days probably have never heard of him, but at the turn of the 20th century Ensign Worth Bagley, USN, was a highly regarded hero of the Spanish-American War.
This week for Flashback Friday we feature another example in our series of ‘Big Letter’ postcards of the 1940s. On New Years Eve, 70 years ago, an anxious Josephine is looking for her missing fruit.
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