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Clock Tower and Chimes, War Memorial, N.C. State College, Raleigh, N.C.

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Flashback Friday makes a flyover of the NC State campus this week. The year is 1919, and we’ve just discovered something right out of ‘The Twilight Zone’ — a campus landmark, the Memorial Bell Tower, contrary to what the card depicts, has not yet been built!

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Pullen Park showing Swimming Pool, Raleigh, N.C.

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For Flashback Friday this week, now that summer 2014 is winding down, we thought we’d take a nostalgic dip in the old Pullen Park swimming pool.

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Soldiers Home, Raleigh, N.C.

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Our Flashback Friday postcard this week features a now largely forgotten Raleigh landmark — the North Carolina Confederate Soldiers’ Home.

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