Festival in the Park in Freedom Park
Aerial view of Festival Park which takes place in September in Freedom Park which is located in Myers Park. This postcard captures the activies in 1966, which was the first year the festival was held.
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Golden Eagle Motor Inn
The Golden Eagle Motel was located at 601 North Tryon St., at the corner of Tryon and 9th Streets. The back of the card contains the following inormation:
"150 attractively decorated rooms and suites, each with T.V., room controlled air-conditioning and heat, direct dial phones, wall-to-wall carpeting and tile baths. Restaurant and swimming pool. Comfortable rooms...reasonable prices...friendly atmosphere."
Aerial View of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County's Municipal Buildings
Aerial view of local government buildings in Second Ward along East Trade Street in Charlotte.
Fifth Mecklenburg County Court House
The The fifth Mecklenburg County Court House is located at 700 East Trade Street. Built at a cost of one million dollars, it first opened in 1928.
A "natural finish" card made by Gray and Thompson, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
El Rancho Motel
The El Rancho Motel was once located at 4815 Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte. They offered central heat and air conditioning. televisions in the room and a color television in the lobby.
East Trade Street from the Square
East Trade Street from the the Square.
Charlotte Speedway
Charlotte Speedway in 1929.
YWCA Building
The YWCA in Charlotte was first organized in 1902 by the Charlotte Woman's Club. Helen Sherman Ogden Liddell (1863-1961) served as the first President. This picture is of the second YWCA building that opened in 1914. It was located at 406 East Avenue, now Elizabeth Avenue.
Cover packet of Postcards for Tourists
Cover of a packet of postcards of Charlotte from circa 1929.
Cramer, Alexander and Hawley Houses
This postcard captures three of the most fashionable homes in Dilworth. Only one still stands. They include from left-to-right the home of Stuart Warren Cramer (1868-1940) (postcard mistakenly has a "V"), the Hawley and the Robert O. Alexander home. Stuart Cramer was one of the south's leading textile architects and engineers. His massive Victorian residence in Charlotte was built between 1903 and 1904 was located at what is now 401 East Morehead Street. The Francis O.
