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Shopping & Dining
in Raleigh
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1960s
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Raleigh's first shopping center on Austin Peay had
Kroger, Thrasher's Fabrics, Shainberg’s, Kress,
Walgreen’s, and Western Auto.
It was torn down and replaced with a K-Mart. |
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Dr. Walter Verner was a popular family doctor in
Raleigh across the parking lot from the Rexall
Drugstore. |
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There was hand dipped ice cream in
Raleigh in the sixties. There were 2
drugstores in Raleigh. There was
also Raleigh Drug Store owned by Boots
Matthews that had a full soda fountain.
It was located at the corner of Stage
and Austin Peay. The other drugstore was
Grubbs, it was down next to Raleigh
Baptist Church. One of those was
the Rexall and both of them had a very
busy soda fountain. The Raleigh
Drugstore was on the corner in front of
where the library was. It was there
until the roads were reconstructed and
then it moved down on Stage Road toward
Bartlett. It was on the right and was a
small store. No soda fountain. Mr.
Matthews sold it to his son-in-law
either before it moved or shortly after.
It is no longer there, it is a
pediatricians office. Grubbs was
originally across the street from
Raleigh Drug Store on Stage. It was
later moved down by Raleigh Baptist. A
lounge opened up for awhile in the
original site. It was a big deal
and very controversial while it was
open. |
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The old Raleigh Jail was on Stage Road
where the transmission shop is now.
It was torn down later. |
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Shakey’s
Pizza, The Minute Man. |
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1970s
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Other Raleigh businesses:
Rexall Drugstore, Shakey’s Pizza, The Golden
Rooster, and Exline’s Pizza. |
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McDonald's was the main
cruising spot. Wendy's opened around 1974. |
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Remember the little Putt-Putt
Golf place directly across from the Raleigh Library?
Didn't last long. |
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And, of course, Skateland on Stage, which is still
there today: |
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Submitted by: Barbra Tucker Luna : 05 Jan 2008, 15:05
Minute Man
In the late 1960's and early 1970's across from where the Raleigh Springs
Mall was later built on Austin Peay Hwy. was a great little hamburger place
called THE MINUTE MAN. Besides hamburgers and "radar pies" you could play
a game of pool and hang with your friends from school!
Barbra
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