Lexington Avenue Curb Market, Asheville, NC (8-77) #1

In 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)

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) #1A

The 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)A

Tobacco 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)