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J. Weiland, Photographer
86 Sugar Creek Road, Weaverville, NC 28787
828 545 4451
![]() Lexington Avenue Curb Market, Asheville, NC (8-77) #1In the late seventies the market was moved to new buildings outside of town. | ![]() Lexington Avenue Curb Market, Asheville, NC (9-77)A | ![]() Store Window, Lexington Ave., Asheville, NC (6-80) |
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![]() Federal Building, Asheville, NC (3-78)The building has been restored to it's original use and name, The Grove Arcade, with shops on the ground floor and apartments above. | ![]() Lexington Avenue, Asheville, NC (4-78) | ![]() Clay Hogan, Watch Repairman,Asheville, NC (4-78) |
![]() Bill Hughes, Dealer in Herbs and Furs, Asheville, NC (9-78) | ![]() Beva Lusk's Boarding House, Asheville, NC (4-81) | ![]() James Clark, Valley Street, Asheville, NC (11-80)Valley Street no longer exists. It is now a four lane thoroughfare called South Charlotte Street. |
![]() Blue Ribbon Grill, Eagle Street, Asheville, NC (1-82) | ![]() Plaza Tap Room, Asheville, NC (1-82)This space is now Curate tapas bar. | ![]() Henry's Barbershop, Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC (10-83)This space is now an olive oil tasting room. |
![]() Barbershop, Eagle Street, Asheville, NC (11-80)This space is now Limones Tequila Bar. | ![]() Eagles Bingo, Asheville, NC (6-85) | ![]() Tops Filling Station, Asheville, NC (11-80) |
![]() Rat Alley, Asheville, NC (1-84)This subterranean alley is under the Wall Street sidewalk. | ![]() Joe's Motorcycles, Asheville, NC (c. 1982)This building is now architect's offices. | ![]() The Demolition of North Pack Square, Asheville, NC (7-78)This side of the square is now the Biltmore Co. corporate offices. |
![]() Warehouse, Asheville, NC (4-81)This building is being renovated as a boutique hotel. | ![]() Teague's Used Furniture, Asheville, NC (4-82) | ![]() Williams Feed, Asheville, NC (11-81)Small feed stores can't compete with chains. This space is now artists' studios. |
![]() Rabbits, Williams Feed, (11-81) | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (6-78)A major employer in Asheville until 1953. The building was destroyed in in a 1995 fire. | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill, Asheville, NC (9-78) #2 |
![]() Asheville Cotton Mill, Asheville, NC (4-79) | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill, Asheville, NC (9-78) #1AThe only part of the mill to survive the fire. It is now artists studios. | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (6-79)A |
![]() Asheville Cotton Mill, Asheville, NC (2-80) #2A | ![]() Interior, Asheville Cotton Mill (9-88) | ![]() Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (9-88)Burned April 1995 in the same fire that consumed the cotton mill. |
![]() Loading Grain, Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (3-78) | ![]() French Broad Food Co-Op, Earle-Chesterfield Mill (9-88) | ![]() Bucket Belt, Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC #2 (3-85)A |
![]() Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (3-85) #3 | ![]() Pulley Room, Earle-Chesterfield Mill (3-85) | ![]() Drive Belts, Earle-Chesterfield Mill (3-85) |
![]() Ducts, Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (3-85) | ![]() WNC Livestock Market (9-88) | ![]() WNC Livestock Market #2 (9-88)The livestock market is now in Rural Haywood Co. The space is now the New Belgium Brewery |
![]() New Asheville Speedway (9-88)Due to it's noise, a local hotel's owners bought the race track and had it converted to a bicycle velodrome. | ![]() Setting Tobacco Plants, Democrat, NC (6-09)Tobacco was the mainstay of many small farms in the mountains. | ![]() Robert Wilson & Gene Garrison harvesting tobacco (9-11) |
![]() Robert,Junior & Gene Loading Staked Tobacco, Democrat, NC (9-04) | ![]() Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (6-83)ATobacco warehouses spent most of the year empty. | ![]() Day's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (12-88) |
![]() Tobacco Curing, Big Burley #2 , Asheville, NC (9-81) | ![]() Tobacco Curing, Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (10-82) | ![]() Dixie-Big Burley Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (1-84) |
![]() Heavy Rain, Dixie-Big Burley, Asheville, NC (1-82) | ![]() Preparing for Market, Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (11-83) | ![]() Tobacco Market, Asheville, NC (12-88)After deregulation of the allotment system, tobacco growing for small farmers died off. Asheville no longer has tobacco markets. |
![]() Day's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC #2 (12-88) | ![]() Watching the Sale of a Year's Work, Tobacco Market, Asheville, NC (1-89) |
This section's name comes from a line from Asheville native Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel". "Oh lost and by the wind grieved. Ghost come back again. "
These are images from a lost world. Most of these photographs were done 30 to 40 years ago. Asheville wasn't quite as tourist crazy as today and was more a part of the surrounding area. I mourn these places and people in Asheville that have been lost. Some died, some burned and most were lost to government deregulation, urban renewal and neighborhood gentrifacation.
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