Efird's, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Exterior façade on Tryon Street with wall sign, circa 1955 (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Belk, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Aerial view of exterior façade on Tryon Street with wall sign on former Efird's building, 1966 (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Belk, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Exterior façade on Tryon Street with wall sign on former Efird's building, circa 1974 (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Belk, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Exterior façade on Tryon Street with wall sign on former Efird's building at left, 1979. Taken from corner of Tryon & 5th St. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Belk, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Exterior façade on Tryon Street (looking north) with Overstreet Mall connection to Ivey's, screenshot from video taken in 1986. (courtesy Pat Richardson)
Belk, downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Exterior façade on Tryon Street (looking south) with Overstreet Mall connection to Ivey's, 1985. (courtesy Pat Richardson)Previously on LiveMalls
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to go back in time and walk down Tryon in 1955?
ReplyDeleteLove the Ivey's sign on the left-side of photo.
It would have been cool to see downtown Charlotte in full commercial bloom.
ReplyDeleteThe desolation of the street shown in the picture from two decades later is very telling.