Know the Year and Address? Win this photo.
First person to guess the year this photo of Ivey Taylor was taken, along with the street block, wins an 8x10 sepia print. (If you’ve won one of these before, you can’t win again)
Info about the businesses to follow the winning of the photo… their bios would give the answers away.
Image courtesy of the Raleigh City Museum
UPDATE: Mwyatt wins… the correct answer was the 100 block of Fayetteville in 1950. (The actual address was 123 Fayetteville).
The Raleigh City Museum’s book, the Businesses That Built Raleigh, had this to say about Ivey Taylor:
Taylor Furnishing Company was incorporated in 1914 by John T. Taylor and two other investors. The company offered dressmaking and tailoring as well as dry goods and other items. Taylor gradually added multiple departments and in 1922 moved from its initial site to 123 Fayetteville Street. As Taylor’s Inc., its numerous departments stocked ready-to-wear clothing, toys and gifts. The widely-known Ivey’s of Charlotte merged with Taylor’s in 1949 to become Ivey-Taylor, and relocated to North Hills Mall in 1956. The downtown store remained open for a few months but closed in 1968, and the building was demolished the following year. After the Marshall Field Company bought the Ivey’s chain in 1980 and later merged with Dillard Department Stores, Ivey-Taylor in North Hills took its present name, Dillards.
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cw
05/19 11:58 AM
1948-1949
Hillsborough St - 700 Block
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JP
05/19 12:02 PM
100 block of Fayetteville (east side), probably around 1948
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German Sterno
05/19 12:49 PM
2512 hillsborough st - 1945
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JLV
05/19 12:49 PM
100 block of Fayetteville, west side, 1942.
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cw
05/19 03:32 PM
After doing a little more research, it does appear to be late 1940’s, but definitely on Fayettville St, where the courthouse annex now stands. I did happen to discover that Ivey Taylor’s was owned by Phillip Taylor, who, strangely enough, is/was relative of mine. Small world.
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nt
05/19 04:17 PM
123 fayetteville st in maybe 1947?
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roi
05/19 05:03 PM
It’s the 100 block of Fayetteville St. After I got out of the Army, I moved to Raleigh in March 1960. If I am not mistaken Ivey’s Dept. Store was still there, and a few stores down there was a theater…. the Ambassador? If I am not mistaken Ivey’s moved to Cameron Village a few years later. It was located where the Fresh Market is now located.
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roi
05/19 05:05 PM
Oh, as for the year I would say the photo is around 1948.
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mwyatt
05/19 05:14 PM
100 block of Fayetteville Street. I’ll venture 1950.
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mwyatt
05/19 06:14 PM
or 1951.
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Ladye Jane
05/20 11:44 AM
mwyatt wins! The right answer was 100 block of Fayetteville in 1950.
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mwyatt
05/20 02:15 PM
As far as estimating the date: The third car from the left looks to me like a 1950 or 1951 Plymouth (or possibly a Dodge), so I didn’t think the picture could be earlier than 1950. And I knew that Stephenson’s Music moved to Cameron Village soon after Cameron Village opened, so I guessed the picture wouldn’t be much later than 1951.
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NCSU
06/09 09:15 AM
Must be a typo in the description of the business. North Hills did not exist in 1956.
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