tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post7763805839967798049..comments2023-09-09T17:46:58.816-04:00Comments on Retro Charlotte: Uptown Tryon Street over the yearsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-41664552342330257062014-11-06T10:31:22.312-05:002014-11-06T10:31:22.312-05:00I remember my first trip down Tryon. Spring 1963,...I remember my first trip down Tryon. Spring 1963, was moving to CLT from Morganton and remember gazing up the NCNB bank building thinking how tall it was. I think it might have been 12 stories. I was 7 yrs old. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-91863674583483864052014-11-03T10:29:23.740-05:002014-11-03T10:29:23.740-05:00I find it somewhat amusing that people were gripin...I find it somewhat amusing that people were griping about Charlotte tearing down all their old buildings to build new ones 50 years ago. I'm not one of those people that think just because something is 100, 200 or 500 years old, it by definition is superior to anything beng build now, just because it is 100, 200 or 500 years old. As long as history is captured by pictures or portraits so we know where we came from, there's nothing wrong with building new things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089776297392081282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-33915003322095673202014-11-03T10:29:00.857-05:002014-11-03T10:29:00.857-05:00I find it somewhat amusing that people were gripin...I find it somewhat amusing that people were griping about Charlotte tearing down all their old buildings to build new ones 50 years ago. I'm not one of those people that think just because something is 100, 200 or 500 years old, it by definition is superior to anything beng build now, just because it is 100, 200 or 500 years old. As long as history is captured by pictures or portraits so we know where we came from, there's nothing wrong with building new things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089776297392081282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-53237592422405681882014-11-02T10:25:55.957-05:002014-11-02T10:25:55.957-05:00Great picture of the limo shot with the two of the...Great picture of the limo shot with the two of the greatest men who ever lived in America Billy Graham and Richard Nixon.<br /><br />Nixon won 49 states & 63% of the popular vote his 2nd term in 1972 vs lefty McGovern and every bit the icon Reagan was. <br /><br />Nixon, who hated big government intrusion, ended the 12 yr democrat Vietnam War where 70,000 young soldiers died, got the Berlin agreement & visited both communist China and USSR as a first but was politically railroaded by extreme liberal rabid radicals over nothing.<br />He never over rode WE THE PEOPLE with inept hand picked Fed judges. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-38887790351992688952014-11-02T09:20:51.708-05:002014-11-02T09:20:51.708-05:00Yikez. What a dinky lil dump it used to be. Terrib...Yikez. What a dinky lil dump it used to be. Terrible pics.<br /><br />Only recently has it begun to look <br />half way decent like a real city should. <br /><br />Lot of work to do if taxpayers don't keep beating it for the exits like most icy rust belt northern cities. <br /><br />Don't even discuss taxes going up now with liberals in power. Double yikez. Deja vu Detroit and Chicago etc hopefully not. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-37192565827137307382014-11-02T08:14:05.596-05:002014-11-02T08:14:05.596-05:00Ironic to see the construction of the Goodyear sto...Ironic to see the construction of the Goodyear store across the street from the Observer building when just last week it closed its doors forever.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14710093171358728867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-34272207248233545672014-11-01T23:42:22.402-04:002014-11-01T23:42:22.402-04:00Wonderful to see some pictoral history of our city...Wonderful to see some pictoral history of our city! Thank you Maria David! I love old photos. My grandfather told me about coming to Charlotte about 1920.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893706723891655765.post-39112973706139176342014-11-01T22:02:30.983-04:002014-11-01T22:02:30.983-04:00WOW! A little before my time but great photo'...WOW! A little before my time but great photo's. Thanks for sharing.Laceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13993588419167297769noreply@blogger.com