TODAY: YESTERDAY: FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO: Harry’s Cadillac Pontiac Company, seen here on the right, is first listed at 68 Haywood Street in the 1938 Asheville City Directory. Harry Blomberg had opened Harry’s Motor Inns across the street in 1930, shown in this later view as Worth’s Fashion Mart, the present-day site of Pack Memorial Library. Mr. Blomberg
Note: Click here for an indepth online photograph exhibit detailing Exum’s life. Then click on the first picture to start the slideshow. Lillian Exum Clement Stafford (1886-1925) is quite worth remembering, especially as we celebrate remarkable women in Buncombe County. “Exum,” as she was known, was the first woman in Buncombe County to receive a license to practice
I joined the staff at Pack Memorial Library in 1990 when I took the position of Special Collections Librarian. Lewis Buck was my closest associate in the North Carolina section. As I studied to get up to speed on Asheville history, he steered me toward the brief histories of Asheville and Buncombe County in Cabins
The first time that I revisioned a different Asheville, one with horses, was when I read Pauline Moore’s diary she wrote in 1916 at the age of 19. In May, Pauline wrote, “Frank Netherland & I went for a long horse back ride this afternoon. Up by Beaumont Lodge by the Battle Bungalow through Kenilworth
I have looked at lots of nineteenth century portrait photographs, but have never paid much attention to the backdrops used by most photographers during this era. Apparently, this is a common oversight. Photographers were given awards at exhibitions for backdrops, props and accessories. They had become so popular that they became a part of every
Joe Newman lives on Soco Street in Asheville’s historic Montford neighborhood. He is the editor of the Montford Newsletter. He sent us these photographs and note: “This beautiful crane is off his migratory course. He’s been in Montford for a couple of days now. I first spotted him on Ross and Trudy Terry’s roof yesterday, but it was
Rolling through the microfilm one day I came across a small notice in the Asheville Daily Citizen of July 26, 1894 which said: ”Chinatown’s inhabitants are delighted over the return of Hop Wo, the laundryman, after an absence of several years. Hop Wo has been, since leaving here, in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati and
Uva Shipman aka Uva Kimmey aka Uva Minners aka Bobbie Kimmey Daredevil! Stunt Pilot! Wing Walker! This article appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times in July of 1930. An image of a woman pilot standing on the wing of a plane in a skull and crossbones sweater…anachronism anyone? Did Uva succeed at her solo trip across the