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What’s Not in This Photograph?

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The photographer only had about 30 days to get the above interesting picture. This is what’s missing. The building above as it appeared in 1909 as the Asheville Library building at 4 Pack Square South. It was for many years before that known of as the First National Bank Building. In 1889 the bank purchased two small brick buildings that predated
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Complete series of “Asheville in the 1980s” is now available on YouTube

Throughout this past summer, the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Public Library presented a six-month series exploring “Asheville in the 1980s.”  The series delved into the impetus for, and lasting results of, the City’s transformation during that critical decade.  The programs attracted large and sometimes overflow crowds to Lord Auditorium. Now the entire six-program
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“The Changing Tide of Parking Needs”

Asheville’s first parking garage was at 11 North Market Street. It was built in 1926 for the Western Carolina Auto Co. Except it was called an Auto Hotel. Historical research on the building for the Urban Trail marker for transportation, found that the building had an overhead bridge connecting the auto house to the Langren Hotel.
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Asheville: A Community That Comes Together To Celebrate

What do these have in common: The Asheville City Parks & Recreation Department, Quality Forward, Community Arts Council and the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, along with thousands and thousands of volunteers? FESTIVALS!  They all worked together in the 1970s and 1980s to create a broad range of festivals that were created in part to bring people
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A Very Popular 19th Century Post Card Returns Again!

If you are familiar with early postcards of Western North Carolina, you’ve probably seen this image before. But which one did you see? There were numerous variations. The photograph is titled “Above the Clouds” (title slightly visible at left lower corner in box) published by Lindsey & Brown, Land of the Sky, Views of WNC,
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