Welcome to the Retro Charlotte blog!

If you've landed here via my Twitter account (@ObserverArchive) thanks for your enthusiastic following! If you're new here, welcome. I hope you'll visit often for glimpses of Charlotte's past, much of which is long gone. I'll mix it up: people, restaurants, NASCAR, street scenes, buildings, stores and the occasional just-plain-weird picture. Some photos do not have captions or dates ... maybe we can connect the dots together.
And let me know what you'd like to see!

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1960, Park Lanes Bowling Alley on Montford Dr. "Here's the $750,000 Air-Conditioned Park Lanes".

Want to buy a photo? Stay tuned!