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Soon after we started this and we were encouraging stores to improve the facade of the buildings and upgrade the interiors and so on. And as this was being done for the first few years, people said, well, nothing's being done. And those of us that were familiar

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with it knew that things were being done. And, and to prove a point, I started taking pictures of before and after on the different buildings in downtown and I started doing this in the mid fifties and have continued it even into retirement as changes take place.

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And that's what we're looking at today. The first thing that came out of this was a downtown development plan which included what would be called the CBD of the central business district. And the proposal was this was the railroad and Peabody Street, Pettigrew Street, Dillard Street,

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Foster Street, uh Morgan Street, and Great Jones Street. And that was to encourage people to come downtown. And the, the thinking was put parking lots around the perimeter so that the shopper could park and then walk to the stores which were on Maine and Chapel Hill

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Street. And this plan after a few years was modified somewhat and was adopted and then it took a number of years to bring it in to completion. So we're going to look at some of the changes that took place and, and where they were and when

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they were.