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Thursday, January 19, 2017 / Published in Events, Forgotten People, Friends of the NC Room, Local History

Event: Jon Elliston: Sex, Lies and Snake Oil

Jon Elliston will explore the bizarre odyssey of John R. Brinkley,  one of Western North Carolina’s most infamous figures. From his humble mountain origins, Brinkley rose to national stature as a medical scam artist. He made a killing on sketchy goat gland implants and other oddball treatments, only to die pretty young and totally broke. At the
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016 / Published in Architecture, Buildings, Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Complete series of “Asheville in the 1980s” is now available on YouTube

Throughout this past summer, the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Public Library presented a six-month series exploring “Asheville in the 1980s.”  The series delved into the impetus for, and lasting results of, the City’s transformation during that critical decade.  The programs attracted large and sometimes overflow crowds to Lord Auditorium. Now the entire six-program
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Friday, September 23, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History

Event: “Politics and Civic Engagement” Final Program in “Asheville in the 1980s” Series

  Be sure not to miss this last program of the series! Incredible panelists and an engaging topic, and extremely relevant today. When we were planning this series last winter, we all saw Peggy Gardner’s “The Wrap” as a metaphor for the series. This program hopes to encircle all of the topics of this series.
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Monday, September 19, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History

“The Changing Tide of Parking Needs”

Asheville’s first parking garage was at 11 North Market Street. It was built in 1926 for the Western Carolina Auto Co. Except it was called an Auto Hotel. Historical research on the building for the Urban Trail marker for transportation, found that the building had an overhead bridge connecting the auto house to the Langren Hotel.
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Friday, September 09, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Asheville: A Community That Comes Together To Celebrate

What do these have in common: The Asheville City Parks & Recreation Department, Quality Forward, Community Arts Council and the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, along with thousands and thousands of volunteers? FESTIVALS!  They all worked together in the 1970s and 1980s to create a broad range of festivals that were created in part to bring people
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Friday, August 26, 2016 / Published in Buildings, Events, Local History

“Uptown, Downtown, No Town” by David Mallett

David Mallett was a pioneer of the downtown Asheville revitalization, opening the Weinhaus at 86 Patton Avenue in 1977. It is Asheville’s oldest beer and wine store. In 1985, after 8 years of operating the Weinhaus, David Mallett spoke to the Pen & Plate Club of Asheville, of which he was a member, about the
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Friday, August 19, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History

Buncombe County Television Spreads the Word on “Asheville in the 1980s!”

The staff of the North Carolina Room are grateful to Kathy Hughes, Max Taintor and BCTV (Buncombe County Television) crew for filming all of the Asheville in the 1980s series. They have also provided the North Carolina Room with copies of each program on YouTube which we have on our HeardTell blog site (see tab
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 / Published in Events, Friends of the NC Room, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History

The 1980s: A Vibrant Decade for the Arts in Asheville

A packed house in Lord Auditorium was the scene for the fourth program in the library’s series on Asheville in the 1980s.  Sponsored by the Friends of the North Carolina Room, the July 27 event was a lively retrospective on the vibrant art world in 1980s Asheville. Phyllis Lang, former editor of The Arts Journal,
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Friday, August 05, 2016 / Published in Buildings, Events, Local History, Photograph Collection, Post Card Collection

John Rogers and the Red Cornice on the Haywood Park Hotel

But first some history. E. W. Grove built the new Bon Marche department store for Solomon Lipinsky; architect/designer was W. L. Stoddart, an architect from New York City. Lipinsky had founded the store in Asheville in 1889. The Bon Marche later moved into a new building across the street at 33 Haywood in 1936 (now the
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