Charlotte Skyline Shots

[NcSc74]

Avenue taking its place in the crowd.

[Mobuchu]

The construction going on for the South blvd/277 interchange created a new temporary photo op.

9-23-07

And some "bulb" attempts to get the clouds to streak. Unfortunetly the one damn interstate light that actually works is in the way...

60 sec.

127 sec.

[flotown]

Here are some photo's scanned from Pace, a long out of print Piedmont Airlines promo magazine. Issue date is 1983.

[New Name]

Who can tell me about the public housing (assumption) in this photo? Metro, I think you're the old man here...

[1979Heel]

I MUST be the old man. That's Earle Village, public housing new in the late 1960s now demolished to make way for the Garden District (why is it called that, by the way? Where's the garden?)

[cltheel.sdl]

This pic is just depressing:

[Raintree21]

Who can tell me about the public housing (assumption) in this photo? Metro, I think you're the old man here...

[elvigy]

Wow. That takes me back. I graduated high school in 1981 and at the time thought uptown Charlotte was pretty "big city" but looking at these pics, compared to what it is now, is a real eye opener. Look at all the parking lots! Thanks for posting those.

[Raintree21]

Forget the parking lots. Look at all of those MATURE TREES!

[Raintree21]

The Air National Guard unit that is based here did a flyover of downtown yesterday. They were taking aerial skyline shots with one of their C-130's in the picture. Should look pretty cool. They say they give them to VIP's but I hope they'll allow public access also.

[flotown]

Follow the yellow brick road to the land of Oz (well, at least the center line is yellow)

[atlrvr]

The 1st picture appears to be fall 2005, and the second is probably summer of 2001. It's amazing how quick things change.

[Xss]

The 1st picture appears to be fall 2005, and the second is probably summer of 2001. It's amazing how quick things change.

[Sabaidee]

Charlotte Skyline Via Independence Blvd, but urgh at Youtube at its bad compression ratio and it stretched the video up and down.

[MZT]

Yeah, that's Independence allright, I usually am looking at the road too intently to notice... that fork at Belk/Berkshire is fairly quick

[Atlside]

Charlotte Skyline Via Independence Blvd, but urgh at Youtube at its bad compression ratio and it stretched the video up and down.

[New Name]

[NcSc74]

Charlotte Skyline Via Independence Blvd, but urgh at Youtube at its bad compression ratio and it stretched the video up and down.

[Durhamite]

Question? Everybody talks about how urban renewal destroyed some many historical buildings in Charlotte. My guess is the 1960's or 70's. However, I've never seen a skyline shot or picture that shows masses of historic buildings intact in any of the wards. I've seen pictures of the old Brooklyn neighborhood that truthfully, looked like shacks.

Having seen that 70's skyline shot with a sea of parking lots and somebody referring to one area as Earle Village, it made me wonder if anything ever existing on many of the parking lots?

Surely, a 1950ish or 60sih photo skyline shot has to exist in some archive. Just curious as to whether it's fact or urban legend (no pun intended) as to what I-277 and urban renewal destroyed in Charlotte.

[uptownliving]

It is fact...just go take a walk through the Levine Muesem of the New South or check out the 3rd Floor of the Main Library downtown which has lots of pictures of the old downtown. Another good place with old photos is Latta Arcade on S Tryon.

[nowensone]

Durhamite - part of the issue is with your dates, pics from earlier periods really show the difference, there are a few sets in threads here (don't know precisely where without some gruntwork) from the 30's and earlier as well.

Edit - Well, can't find the one I was really looking for that is a great (and old) angled aerial of DT, I believe metro had posted it.

[Spartan]

Who can tell me about the public housing (assumption) in this photo? Metro, I think you're the old man here...

[Mobuchu]

Pink clouds during sunset

10-21-07

And one just before sunset

[cltheel.sdl]

Pretty awesome pics Mo! Did you edit them at all?

[Mobuchu]

Actually, for the first time, I did remove a light pole that was right above the Carillon. Its hard from this site to not get any of the 277 light poles in the pic. I never really do this and dont like using any type of editing software to "fix" pics.

I did however, use a polarizer on the lens to help the clouds pop.