J. Weiland, Photographer
86 Sugar Creek Road, Weaverville, NC 28787
828 626 4274
![]() 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) | ![]() Day's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (1-84) |
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![]() Tobacco Curing, Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (10-82) | ![]() Preparing for Market, Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (11-83) | ![]() Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (6-83)Tobacco Warehouses spent a large part of the year empty. |
![]() Day's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (12-88) | ![]() John McCurry Eating Lunch, Riverside Flea Market, Asheville, NC (10-81)Off season occupants of Day's Tobacco. | ![]() Robert Wilson & Gene Garrison harvesting tobacco (9-11)Tobacco was a mainstay of small family farms in the mountains. |
![]() Teague's Used Furniture, Asheville, NC (4-82)Building razed for Grainger Industrial Supply building. | ![]() 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) |
![]() Plaza Tap Room, Asheville, NC (1-82)This space is now Curate tapas bar. | ![]() Joe's Motorcycles, Broadway, Asheville, NC (c. 1982)Now Carleton-Edwards architect's offices. | ![]() Blue Ribbon Grill, Eagle Street, Asheville, NC (1-82) |
![]() 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. | ![]() Warehouse, Asheville, NC (c. 1982) |
![]() 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. |
![]() Sand Dredge, French Broad River, Asheville, NC (c. 1980)This dredge was at a location that is now a river access park. | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (6-78)The mill burned in April 1995. There are plans for a hotel on the site. | ![]() Interior, Asheville Cotton Mill (9-88) |
![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (9-80) | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (c. 1980) #2 | ![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (6-79) |
![]() Asheville Cotton Mill (c. 1980)The only part of the mill to survive the fire. Now artists studios. | ![]() Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (9-88)Burned April 1995. | ![]() French Broad Food Co-Op, Earle-Chesterfield Mill (9-88) |
![]() Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (3-85) | ![]() Bucket Belt, Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC #2 (3-85) | ![]() Pulley Room, Earle-Chesterfield Mill (3-85) |
![]() Ducts, Earle-Chesterfield Mill, Asheville, NC (3-85) | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe, Vinnings, GA (4-82) #2Nellie Mae Rowe was a multimedia artist living in the Atlanta area. She died in 1982. | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe's dolls (2-77) |
![]() Nellie Mae Rowe with Dolls (2-77) #1 | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe (11-77) #2 | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe (11-77) #1 |
![]() Nellie Mae Rowe (6-78) #3 | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe with David, Scott & Andy (2-77) | ![]() Nellie Mae Rowe's house (2-77) #2The site is now an Aloft Hotel. |
![]() Card Players, Cranberry Iron Mine, Avery Co., NC (7-78)This abandoned mine's cool air works as the neighborhood air conditioner. | ![]() The Hub Cap Barn, Raleigh, NC (2-84) #2 | ![]() The Hub Cap Barn, Raleigh, NC (2-84) #3 |
![]() Blowing Engine House, Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Ala. (11-74) | ![]() Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Ala. (3-74) | ![]() Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Ala. (11-75) |
![]() West Shed, Sloss Furnaces, Birminham, AlaBirmingham's "downtown furnaces" ceased operations in 1971. It is now an historical museum. |
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. 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. These are places and people in Asheville and the South that have been lost and I mourn. Some died, some burned and most were lost to government deregulation, urban renewal and neighborhood gentrification.
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