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    • Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

    • Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

    • Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Union Station, N. Fourth Street

    • View of the railroad yards from Fourth Street, looking west toward Union Station. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Wilmington had been a railroad town, beginning with the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which was organized in 1838, and reportedly...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores.

    • Naval Stores, Pine Tree, Resin, Rosin, Turpentine, Tar

    • Workers hack a pine tree to tap for resin. Since colonial times, naval stores were an important industry for not only southeastern North Carolina, but the nation as well. World commerce depended on ships with wooden hulls, tarred riggings and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • AIDS Quilt Displayed at UNCW

    • AIDS Quilt Displayed at UNCW

    • Art exhibits, UNCW

    • Volunteers prepare panels from the traveling Aids Quilt for display at UNC-Wilmington's Trask Coliseum Thursday afternoon. The quilt, made with panels that honor people who have died of Aids opened Thursday night. Crews worked worked most of the...
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    • Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club

    • Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club

    • amateur radio clubs, wilmington, nc

    • Members of the Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club work contacting stations all over the country Saturday afternoon at the club's annual field day operations at the Battleship North Carolina gazebo. Members took turns while calling around the clock....
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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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    • Boating on Cape Fear River

    • Boating on Cape Fear River

    • New Hanover County, Wilmington, Guilford, Randolph, Davidson and Forsyth counties, ships, rivers, tourist attractions, WWII, boating

    • The first boat over 30 feet to be built of fiberglass, the "Knit Wit", which is actually 41 ft, moves up the Cape Fear River in front of the battleship U.S.S. North Carolina. The boat was built by Hatteras Yachts in High Point in 1960.
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    • Boys Club Volunteering

    • Boys Club Volunteering

    • clubs, Wilmington, NC

    • Moving day, boys from the Brigade Boys Club volunteer carrying boxes over from the old building to the new building on Friday. The new facility is to be dedicated on June 14th on Sunday.
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    • Carolina Savings Bank

    • Carolina Savings Bank

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, banks, banking, mergers

    • As the final act of their bank merger, BB&T put its sign up at the former headquarters of the Carolina Savings Bank at the corner of south 3rd and Princess Streets. Wilson based BB&T bought the former savings and loan which was founded in...
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    • Doral Cigarettes Billboard

    • Doral Cigarettes Billboard

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, automobiles, streets, smokers, cigarettes,

    • Naegele sign "new! Doral full flavor, generic prices" located by the Will Rheder florist building where Dawson, Oleander and Wooster merge. Road construction at this site. Across the street is an office furniture outlet with a billboard looming...
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    • Ted Parker Homes

    • Ted Parker Homes

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, Naegele, signs, draw bridges, Cape Fear River, Brunswick County, Robeson County, mobile homes, trailers

    • Ted Parker homes Lumberton billboard saying "we'll beat the pants off any deal!"showing a gentleman with his pants down. Sign is over the Cape Fear Memorial bridge in Wilmington.
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    • West Bank of Cape Fear River

    • West Bank of Cape Fear River

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, waterfront, downtown, Cape Fear Technical Institute, CFCC, Solomon Towers, Murchison building, barges, freighters, Almont shipping,

    • The framework for a billboard looms over the Wilmington riverfront from the west bank of the Cape Fear River near the northeast Cape Fear River bridge, showing river traffic and industry of downtown.
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