Fort Bragg
New Choices in Daily Life
Entertain. Changes
Going Places, on New Roads
Potpourri
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What famous Airborne unit is stationed here?
82nd Airborne
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“Rural non-farm”
families who still lived in the country but who did not spend all of their time farming.
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minor league baseball teams
North Carolina had more than any other state.
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Grandfather Mountain
was opened to visitors in the 1950s
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Bill Friday
1956 became the president of UNC
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Fort Bragg is located here
Fayetteville
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The new brick ranch houses
Houses had carports on the side and one long hall down the middle.
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the Great Depression
Movie theaters multiplied in every town after the Great Depression.
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Biltmore Estate
was opened to the public in 1956
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“Dixie Dynamo.”
National Geographic magazine called North Carolina a
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COSCOM
Corps Support Command
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high schools
Twice as many what in 1950s as there had been in the 1920s
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Channel 3
In 1949, WBT of Charlotte, broadcast the first television show on , WBTV.
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Newton and Hickory
North Carolina invested in multilane highways. One of the first went between Newton and Hickory.
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“Variety Vacationland.”
Carolina advertised itself as
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40,000
How many Americans are here to work, live, and do their duty for their country?
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consolidated high schools.
Schools were centrally located. The newer high schools had more teachers and more courses to choose from.
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Wire aerials
the antennae needed to receive the broadcasts
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Interstate 40
It was later extended past Morganton and Marion to Old Fort, at the base of the Blue Ridge. Originally called Highway 70, it gave way eventually to .
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Frank Porter Graham“Dr. Frank”
He was appointed president UNC in 1930 by Governor O. Max Gardner.
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32 hrs
North Carolinians were putting up a new building every
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1960s
UNC and NC State more than doubled in size during the 1960s
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Atlantic Coast Conference.
1953, Wake, Carolina, Duke, and State helped establish the
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Old Salem
In the Piedmont, people could visit here, set up in 1950 to tell the story of the early Moravians in Wachovia.
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Plessy v. Ferguson.
Ruled that states could require separate facilities for African Americans if equal to those used by whites.
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