Category Archives: Downtown

Blick’s Bowling Center

Posted on Wed 10 August 2016 by newtreeguy

Located in the massive parking structure for the Candler Building, Blick’s Bowling Center had 52 lanes and on the site at Dobbs and P’tree Center Ave is now the massive parking structure (and gallery space) for Georgia Pacific. Then (1949): … Continue reading →

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Centennial Park update

Posted on Tue 9 July 2013 by newtreeguy

I’d always heard there was a good bit of movie industry in Fairlie-Poplar and this building seems to have been in the thick of it. In the 1930’s the first floor was William Dunn’s photography studio and commercial artist Roy … Continue reading →

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Sacred Heart in the late 50’s

Posted on Sun 7 August 2011 by newtreeguy

Sacred Heart had quite a downtown complex with Marist and ball fields not to mentio St. Joseph’s hospital. This photo was in the bulletin today. You can see houses of Buttermilk Bottom in center right. All were demolished for the … Continue reading →

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