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Wilkesboro is (R) and N.Wilkesboro is ( D) County is ( R ).

Gobbled up by the Republicans.

Funny how North Wilkesboro was the star and Wilkesboro just mentioned as " the other town nearby". How has Wilkesboro survived all these years and not been gobbled up by North Wilkesboro?

Every woman in the video had on a beautiful dress. Somebody send me back.

Thanks to republiturd government it still looks the same today :o

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For all you folks that watched the video and liked it. I know a little about it..... It was a promotional video that business had to pay to be in. If you notice the narrator really played up the featured businesses, while failing to mention many more. There are a few more films from that time period that just were filmed in both towns and had street scenes and factories letting out at quitting time.They were silent and were not used to promote anything, just daily life of that time.

Surely there were plenty of drunks around, they just weren't going to feature them in a promotional movie.

You also don't see any thieving methheads

You don't see that many slim folks around Wilkes anymore.

I remember eating in the Parkway Cafe many moons ago before it was turned into a beer joint in the early '60's. Remember the bus garage just down the road from it. Parkway Bus Company, then after Woodie shut the line down, Quincy and Horace Reavis had the IH farm equipment dealership there. Remember the Princess Cafe on Main Street also.

There was a Parkway Caf� in North Wilkesboro at the corner of Armory Road where you turn to go to Reins Sturdivant now. The brick building is still there. The video suggested it was the one on the Parkway, but I think it could be this one. I was 6 years old in 1948, but probably a little older when I first went there, and I knew the people who owned it. I saw some of their family members at one of the dining tables in the video, and recognized the little girl drinking a coke, I'm a few years older than her. Does anyone else remember this caf�?

I've been thinking about what you said Phineas, no doubt it's true, but a good store creates traffic. I believe a Belk or JC Penny would have done twice the volume of business there. Put up a Target and it would take away more than half of Wal Mart's customers.

I love vintage things and antiques. I realize that it has been romanticized too much where people aren't realistic about the hardships of living during that time frame.

Here is a cost of living calculator

http://thecostofliving.com/...id=122&a=1

I am old enough to remember some things about Wilkes in that era. Most of the green grass pastures and hayfields were full of broom straw. The major employer was the American Furniture and Oak Furniture. Sawmills dotted the woods, nothing like you see today. There was no Holly Farms per se or Lowes Hdwe. Most jobs were heavy manual labor, no air conditioning.

You are right BlueRidgeGuy. Sorry about that. I stand corrected.

I wonder who the intended audience was? It is a commercial of sorts trying to bring in residents or business, probably both.

I think the video was exaggerated a bit.

Seemed like it was a commercial.

I skipped through some of the video because I get bored easily. I scanned through and noticed some black folk.

Didn't WWII end in 1945?