Charlotte Photo of the Day

[Bikeguy]

[Bikeguy]

[Madison Parkitect]

These are great pictures! Where is the one with the flowers and the Esso station? It seems familiar but I can't place it.

[MilZ]

These are great pictures! Where is the one with the flowers and the Esso station? It seems familiar but I can't place it.

Reminds me of 3rd St just east of 277.

 

Edit: a guess btw.

Edited February 7, 2014 by MilZ

[CLTProductions]

Those are cool pictures for sure, but wow is uptown so much better today.

[RVA2CLT]

awesome yet kind of heart breaking...  So many early 20th century 2/3 story brick buildings If only more could've survived urban renewal.
I would all love to have back as small businesses, bars cafes, shops etc scattered in between the vertical glass, steel and concrete of today.
 

[49er]

These are great pictures! Where is the one with the flowers and the Esso station? It seems familiar but I can't place it.

Wow, I've never seen older photos of downtown from a tower perspective. This photo looks to be Queens/Hawthorne looking up towards Presbyterian. 

[Bikeguy]

^ Queens Road looking toward 4th 

[New Name]

Someone put some labels on these photos! 

[Guest]

This is Old Convention Center now Epicentre and the LIght Rail is on the right. Ritz across from Dirt lot, and Arena on other side of tracks from that and bus shelter towards the camera on other side of the tracks.

Edited February 7, 2014 by Guest

[Guest]

Big honkin ugly buildling in the top left is the Bell South Building that is still there now.

[tozmervo]

I think this is looking south with South Blvd (Hwy 74 at time of photo) on the left and S Tryon on the right. 74 turns right in the photo where what is now Carson Blvd is. You can see the Charlotte Housing Authority tower near that curve that was just renovated across from World of Beer.

 

What I can't figure out is what looks like a railroad truss crossing College (?) Street, or the giant building in the foreground.

 

You'll be hard pressed to see these two names in the same photo anymore...

 

 

 

[Guest]

I think this is looking south with South Blvd (Hwy 74 at time of photo) on the left and S Tryon on the right. 74 turns right in the photo where what is now Carson Blvd is. You can see the Charlotte Housing Authority tower near that curve that was just renovated across from World of Beer.

 

What I can't figure out is what looks like a railroad truss crossing College (?) Street, or the giant building in the foreground.

The Charlotte OBserver...? The Rest would have been lost to 277

Ignore that I'm all turned around with this picture. I think you are right that this would be college st. 

you can see where the spur wentover here. Looks like it didn't go anywheres.

Charlotte_Main_Business_District_of_Charlotte_NC_1958.jpg 

Edited February 7, 2014 by Guest

[TheBigShamrock8]

I think that is part of the line that went over to the Observer building and up into wesley heights.

 

I think this is looking south with South Blvd (Hwy 74 at time of photo) on the left and S Tryon on the right. 74 turns right in the photo where what is now Carson Blvd is. You can see the Charlotte Housing Authority tower near that curve that was just renovated across from World of Beer.

 

What I can't figure out is what looks like a railroad truss crossing College (?) Street, or the giant building in the foreground.

[28202]

Wonderful collection of photos.  The Carolina Room likes to archive copies like this if you have them.  I have seldom seen such a good,  comprehensive set like this. Thanks for posting.

[ah59396]

These are amazing. Thank you for sharing.

[Bikeguy]

^ you're welcome.  These were among several boxes of slides that I had digitally converted.  They were taken in 1971 when I was doing a environmental project for my 10th grade science class.  I got access to the roof of NCNB and the First Union towers.  There were a lot of changes occurring during that era as Urban Renewal was in it's heyday.  I-77 was being extended north from Woodlawn, and the first vestiges of inner loop ( now the Brookshire) was being poured from Independence to I-77 & further up to I-85.  What I find interesting are the major game changing  projects that were being built ( the Odell designed Civic Center and the private/public Trade Mart on College,) both of which were mere memories within 20 years...

[MazzoMedia]

This is a timelapse of the incoming snowstorm in Charlotte, NC on 2/12/14.  The video starts at about 8:40am, and captures frames up until about 3pm.  Sorry for the poor quality, I used my balcony webcam for this one.

http://youtu.be/8DU1J38raJU

[Guest]

This would be BY FAR THE BEST SKYLINE IN THE SOUTH #iWISH

[HopHead]

^The city of North Carolina. Awesome!

[DCMetroRaleigh]

Love city snow pics/video!

[Madison Parkitect]

Not exactly a photo of the day, but I saw this linked on twitter: drone video of some of uptown yesterday 

[Bikeguy]

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Care to guess the locale ?

Edited February 20, 2014 by Bikeguy

[birky]

^ 85 & Concord Mills??

[Bikeguy]

^ 85 & Concord Mills??

 

just a bit further back in time... think 1971 ish..