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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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 Barnett's Barbershop, Lexington Ave. Asheville, NC (7-80) |  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) |  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. |  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)A |  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)ASmall feed stores can't compete with chains. This building is now artist's studios. |
 Rabbits,Williams Feed Store, Asheville, NC (11-81)B |  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 |  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)A |  Cam Metcalf, 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. |  Fishing Hut, River Road, Asheville, NC (c. 1979) |
 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) |  John McCurry Eating Lunch, Riverside Flea Market, Asheville, NC (10-81)Dixie-Big Burley's off season usage. |
 Tobacco Curing, Big Burley #2 , Asheville, NC (9-81) |  Tobacco Curing, Big Burley #2, Asheville, NC (10-82) |  Farmer's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (12-90)#2 |
 Dixie-Big Burley Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (1-84) |  Heavy Rain, Dixie-Big Burley, Asheville, NC (1-82) |  Preparing for Market, Farmer's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC (12-90) |
 Tobacco Market, Asheville, NC (12-88)After deregulation of the allotment system tobacco growing for small farms died off. Asheville no longer has a tobacco market. |  Day's Tobacco Warehouse, Asheville, NC #2 (12-88) |  Watching the Sale of a Year's Work, Tobacco Market, Asheville, NC (1-89) |
 Demolition, Dixie-Big Burley, Asheville, NC (3-24) #5 |  Demolition, Dixie-Big Burley, Asheville, NC (3-24) #1After years of sitting empty this warehouse is being removed to make way for a new expressway bridge. |
This section's name comes from a line from Asheville native Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel". "O, 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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