What’s in a Name? Our Streets. Part 1.
We drive over them, around them, put their names on our address labels, cite them in giving directions, and hear that they are closed or under construction or backed up. With the correct app...
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The Name Game: Burke Street
In the 1891 “Bird’s Eye View of the Twin-Cities,” shown above, Burke Street was called Shallowford Street, an extension of the street that is known today as First Street. In the foreground of the...
Then & Now: Dalton-Hege Inc.
The Dalton-Hege Company needed an official address. For years, the radio and electronics supply business was described as being located “in the alley off Brookstown,” or the rear of 914 West Fourth Street.” The...
June 15,1930: Shell Station Opens on Burke Street
Readers of the Winston-Salem Journal on this day in 1930 were treated to a photo of the first “Shell” service station in Winston-Salem. In fact, it was the first “Shell” station that Quality...