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    • Ladies on Cotton Wagon

    • Ladies on Cotton Wagon

    • crops, wagons, transportation,

    • A group of well-dressed ladies in long skirts and big decorative hats are sitting on bales of cotton that are loaded on a large cotton wagon. One lady sits upon 1 of the 2 mules hooked to the wagon. Three women stand by the back of the wagon. Two...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Autorama

    • Autorama

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, automobile dealers

    • Around 600 cars, trucks, and vans occupy a major part of the Long Leaf mall parking lot as 11 Wilmington area dealerships participate in an autorama.
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    • Azalea Festival Air Show

    • Azalea Festival Air Show

    • Air shows, New Hanover County

    • Stunt pilot Ron Shelly flies over the New Hanover County Airport Saturday afternoon as workers set up booths, planes and exhibits on the ground below. Shelly will perform aerobatics in his Stearman trainer and will give a wing-walking demonstration...
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    • Boat Show

    • Boat Show

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, shopping centers, outdoor activities, camping

    • A gentleman strolls the parking lot at Long Leaf Mall (S. College Rd.) boat and camper show eyeing some large Grady White boats with Evinrude motors.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Brush Cutter

    • Brush Cutter

    • Railroads, New Hanover County, NC

    • A CSX Transportation Inc. bush cutter makes its way up the tracks that parallel Blue Clay Road Tuesday afternoon. The spider-like contraption uses blades on long metal arms to trim foliage off the right-of-way on and near the tracks.
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    • Hill Haven Rehabilitation and Convelescent Center

    • Hill Haven Rehabilitation and Convelescent Center

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, disabilities, nursing homes, long term care facilities, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, patients, residents, parties

    • John Sola, in a balloon decorated wheelchair, is congratulated on celebrating his 30th birthday by UNC-W cheerleaders. His father, Bob Sola, stands behind him. John is a resident at Hillhaven Rehabilitation and Convalescent Center on 16th St.
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    • Liberty Yachts

    • Liberty Yachts

    • North Carolina, Brunswick County, sailboats, boat builders

    • Garry Prater of Long Beach puts the finishing touches on his sailboat, the Rosebud, built at Liberty Yachts in Leland. The yacht company opened in 1976.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • Navy SEAL at Camp Davis

    • training, Camp LeJeune, NC

    • A member of the Navy elite Seals, a commando unit, storms into a "Soviet" camp to free a group of "hostages" in a Marine Corps war game Thursday, 8/9, on the site of Camp Davis near Holly Ridge. The Seal would not identify himself. The Marines...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • POW/MIA Billboard

    • POW/MIA Billboard

    • advertisements, movies, theater, Vietnam, wars, conflicts

    • Billboard "Hanoi release our POW/MIA's" and a Cinema drive-in sign showing Chuck Norris in his two missing in action hits and advertising fleamarket every Say & Sun.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Virgina Slims Sign

    • Virgina Slims Sign

    • Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, advertisements, cigarettes, ladies,

    • Mark Hoge, of Naegele Outdoor Advertising, works from a very tall ladder placing another billboard sign up on N. 23rd St. The message "Virginia Slims- you've come a long way, baby"
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    • Visitors at Old Baldy

    • Visitors at Old Baldy

    • Brunswick County, North Carolina, Old Baldy

    • Louis Compo (left) and his wife, Betty, along with Madeleine Robertson and her husband, John Robertson, were touring the lighthouse grounds on Bald Head Island. The couples from Long Beach were visiting the island for the first time.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Volunteers Sort Food

    • Cape Fear Gospel Mission

    • Volunteers L.E. Boyd (left) and Pete Styron (right) begin early Thursday morning as they sort out several long lines of food stuffs in the chapel at Cape Fear Gospel Rescue Mission. Volunteers gathered to distribute bags of food, turkeys, clothes...
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    • John C. Wessell House

    • John C. Wessell House
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    • Prairie style house built for John Charles Wessell (1877-1960), physician and surgeon; and wife, Isabelle Struthers (1883-1962), native of Columbus County. The New Hanover County tuberculosis hospital was named in his honor for his long service in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Reaves-Hayes House

    • Reaves-Hayes House
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    • House built by William J. Reaves (1861-1917), builder and contractor, as investment property. Hubert Hayes (1895-1982); and wife, Margaret Spell (b. 1900) occupied house from 1934 to 1968. Hayes was a long time member of Wilmington Police...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bagg House

    • Bagg House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Horace Alexander Bagg (1825-1910), native of Gilbertsville, NY; and wife, Julia E. Robitsch (1838-1885), native of Long Creek, Pender County, NC. He was a naval stores inspector and served as city treasurer and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sternberger-Small House

    • Sternberger-Small House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built by Solomon Sternberger (1870-1945), dry goods merchant, for son, Julius Earl "Jinx" Sternberger (1897-1966), World War I veteran, realtor, director of Carolina Savings & Loan; and wife, Sadibel Simon (1904-1983),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Delgado Mill Office

    • Delgado Mill Office
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    • Queen Anne style office building constructed for Delgado Cotton Mill (1899-1930), established by Edwin C. Holt, North Carolina textile magnate. It is the only surviving brick building from the original mill complex. The offices remained here...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Steel Pier at Seashore Hotel

    • Steel Pier at Seashore Hotel

    • beaches, hotels, boardwalks, Wrightsville Beach, Seashore Hotel

    • Shows the Steel Pier with a group of men looking over the railing into the Atlantic. The pier was built in 1910, was 700 feet long, and had a pavilion and an observation deck and was connected to the Seashore Hotel. The pier was badly damaged by...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Lumina 3

    • Lumina 3

    • Wrightsville Beach, pavilions, dancing, ballrooms

    • Dancers on the 2nd floor of Lumina ballroom. Strings of lights hanging from the ceiling, wooden dance floors, a large arched area holds the band and is decorated with potted palms. Men are in suits or sportscoats and women are in long dresses,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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