Amid the bustling pubs, coffee houses, sushi bars and high-end restaurants downtown, a forgotten piece of Raleigh’s culinary history sits shuttered and forlorn on Wilmington Street.

The long-closed Raleigh Sandwich Shop is a relic from an era when family-run grills, luncheonettes and diners were the mainstays of downtown eateries. These small, unpretentious lunch counters were commonplace downtown well into the 1960s. Nowadays only a handful (if that many) are still around.

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Wes Hall, aka Infrared, is the host of the TranceFusion Revolution on Tuesday nights from eight until ten as part of the After Hours segment on WKNC. The show consists mostly of various flavors of electronica including experimental, live trance, dubstep, and space rock. You can find the TranceFusion Revolution on MySpace and Facebook.

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The former Heilig-Levine furniture store has always caught my attention when in the area around Wilmington and Hargett Streets. This building truly is one of the gems of the downtown area. Visible in Mr. Drie’s famous 1872 aerial map of Raleigh, it dates back to around 1870.

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