Vintage Greensboro Photos

[cityboi]

Here are some vintage Greensboro photos.

 

Amazing those buildings in this photo are still there.

The Hampton Inn and Suites is currently going up where this Krispy Kreme use to be downtown.

Looking down Davie St which looked a lot like South Elm. A few commercial row buildings still stand. The tall building in the background is the King Cotton Hotel.

The next 7 photos are of the O'henry Hotel 

This building is torn down and now the Tanger Center parking lot is in its place.

Edited July 9, 2020 by cityboi

[jthomas]

Great pictures - thanks for sharing! Would love to have some of those old buildings (and the streetcars!) back.

Seeing those old pictures of Davie Street makes me even more upset about how crappy the Westin project is turning out to be.

[cityboi]

1 hour ago, jthomas said:

Great pictures - thanks for sharing! Would love to have some of those old buildings (and the streetcars!) back.

Seeing those old pictures of Davie Street makes me even more upset about how crappy the Westin project is turning out to be.

I'm disappointed in the downgrade of the deck design. They are keeping the street level retail but the deck design is dated circa late 1980s. I know the city tried to cut cost but they could have dressed it up better than that. It least turn it into a large mural with a mesh type material allowing the deck to remain open air to prevent carbon monoxide.

[tijundonghua60]

The photos are so wonderful. It is steeped in history.

Drift F1

[KJHburg]

Okay not a high rise or prominent building but my grandmother was a border in this house when she was in her 20s and this house was fairly new.  Across from UNCG on Josephine Boyd but this street had another name back in the day when my grandmother lived there.  

[AlmaPinnix]

Yes, since 2016 a street, a school, and a UNCG building have been striped of the name Aycock, who was an advocate of white supremacy and segregation. Aycock Middle school was renamed Swann, after Melvin Swann. The street was renamed after the first black student to graduate from Grimsley, Josephine Boyd, who transferred from Dudley High the year before.