It’s difficult to tell in the photo, but there is a set of ghost railroad tracks in the foreground. That yellow patch of grass running diagonally marks one of the tracks. If you were to follow it straight in the opposite direction, you’d run in to the Clarion Tower.

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The building at Hillsboro/Morgan is the old Staudt Bakery. The Staudts began operating a bakery in Raleigh in the 1910s. This building was put up ca. 1940 and was very “modern” for its time. (It’s been vacant for decades.) The Staudt family home, a substantial brick house, stood up on the corner @ Hillsboro St. where a small parking lot is now. It was demolished in the late 1970s when when Morgan St was converted to one-way and the traffic connector put in, usurping the old Harrison Ave., which once occupied this route. You can still see a small section of Harrison Ave. down by the tracks at Charlie Goodnight’s building (which was originally built as an ice plant and ice cream factory)

(information supplied by Raleigh Boy)

This topic has come up several times at work between people on my team, so I thought I should finally create a post about it.
Beer enthusiasts far and wide know of Peace Street Market. I don’t know of another shopping outlet in the area that has the diverse array of beers that they have. The 6-12 in the Mission Valley Plaza comes close, but a couple of years ago I got burned by getting stale beer. Could have been bad luck, but Peace Street is closer. It is now where I go to get something out of the ordinary. It received an A- from Beer Advocate too. Check it out sometime if you’ve never been. The phrase on the sign has been unchanged for as long as I can remember:

BIG ENOUGH TO TO SERVE U – SMALL ENOUGH TO KNOW U

804 W Peace St
Raleigh, NC 27605
(919) 834-7070
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