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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