G.W. MacKinnon owned and operated the Carolina China Market which was located on Highway 29 in Charlotte. It offerred the largest selection of fine china, crystal, pottery and other novelty items. The store carried 200 patterns of earthenware and china.
Physical Description: Black and white postcard
Publisher: National Press, Inc. North Carolina
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A&P Store, 210 N.Caswell Rd, Charlotte, NC. April 15 1932.
Physical Description: 3 x 5 inches, glossy, black and white
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Over a 100 years ago, Charlotte held it’s own Renaissance Festival at the Charlotte Fairgrounds. The Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company (the 4 C's) headed by Edward Dilworth Latta, leased a large track of land to the Mecklenburg Fair Association in 1902. The latter opened a fair in September of that year. The fairgrounds were located on the south side of East Boulevard about where Park Road and Dilworth Road West are today.
The uptown arena opened as Charlotte Bobcats' Arena in 2005 and was renamed Time Warner Cable Arena in 2008. Physical Description: .jpg, 2592 X 1456 Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
North Tryon Street was decorated with flags and banners in honor of Mecklenburg Declaration Day which was celebrated on May 20-22, 1902. This photograph was labeled as man No. 905, published by the International Post Card Company in New York. The card stock was made in Germany.
Physical Description: color postcard
Publisher: International Post Card Company
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A&P Store located at 1401 Parkwood Ave, Charlotte NC 1929 in the Belmont neighborhood.
Physical Description: 4 x 3 inches Black and White
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Located in the 400 block of North College Street, this series of buildings was a former automobile service station and paint store. Since the mid 1990s, it has been a restaurant and bar. This shows the original bricks getting a coat of paint.
Physical Description: .jpg, 2592 X 1456
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Charlotte Municipal Airport
Physical Description: black and white postcard
Publisher: Observer Printing House
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Claude Felix Biggers (1880 - 1937) was the manager of the A&P Grocery Store on South Church Street where the Charlotte News building was later built. - N.W. corner of Church and Fourth Street.
Physical Description: 5 x 7, glossy, black and white
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This building opened as a Ford Motor Company plant in 1924. In World War II it served as a Quartermaster Depot, and as a missile plant and warehouse in the years since. Physical Description: jpg, 1135 X 815 Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
