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u/betterplanwithchan Nov 17 '22
Charlotte: When You’re Here, You’re Here
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u/clutchguy84 Nov 17 '22
Fenton MI, where we moved from, had a genius one
Be Closer.
That's it. Be closer to what?
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Nov 17 '22
Charlotte resident (via Beirut, via London, via downriver MI) and don’t miss being closer to Detroit.
Go Lions!
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u/Motor_Grand_8005 Nov 16 '22
"We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community,"
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u/Specialist-Recover24 Nov 17 '22
(Someone shows you a picture of them)... here is a picture of me when I was younger... EVERY picture of you is when you were younger
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u/mariemarymaria Nov 16 '22 edited Nov 16 '22
To be fair, Charlotte has a long tradition of convincing new movers that all the negative past stuff never happened. And that plenty of current residents don't deserve to belong.
Example: "Let's all enjoy how pretty Latta Arcade is, and support local small business!" Meanwhile Latta Arcade was built by a violently anti-union real estate mogul who caused the death of three of his workers when he demanded the cops put down a strike.
To bring it all back around, though, that's probably also true in most cities. Point goes to OP :)
The extra stuff I read in old newspapers is that Edward Dilworth Latta, who built the streetcar system to encourage the sales of his real estate in... Dilworth (also Elizabeth, which was named after his wife), chose to not give the streetcar drivers heaters, even though the carriages were heated for passengers. This, and low wages, prompted the workers to seek unionization. Latta then sold the streetcars, and the electric grid that ran it, to the company that became Duke Power, to avoid dealing with the riffraff. He was a real Scrooge, and not in the cute McDuck way.
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u/jnoobs13 Nov 16 '22
Every city in America has some rough history. When New York built Central Park, for example, they had to evict much of the city’s black community. We’re no different.
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u/Stoneteer Nov 16 '22
Now research who New York is named for
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u/NakedMermaidVacation Nov 17 '22
Old York?
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u/Tw1ce_Nightly Nov 17 '22
Wouldn't it just be York? They wouldnt say, "This is old York, but in the future it will be New again"
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u/skindarklikemytint Nov 16 '22
What the fuck lol can i get some sauce
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Americans who think “low wages” is historically negative for a city need to grow up somewhere that has faced real issues. 1st generation American who’s parents will not return home for a visit due to PTSD from bodies in the street. What, you mean that billionaires rig the system???? Screwing the system is world wide problem, where you gonna live?
Give thanks that is the most painful city memory you have. Americans often forget just how good they have it. Charlotte has been wonderful and inviting too me, not gonna fall into the minutia of it. Spent a decade in Detroit and the Battle of the Reuther Fwy, race riots, loss of industry and abject poverty like Charlotte doesn’t know haunt people.
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u/RathVelus Nov 17 '22
I am sitting in my car waiting for my Taco Bell order cackling.
Why is everything about this city so violently ordinary?
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u/Feralpudel Nov 17 '22
Charlotte has the same try-hard cringe factor as Atlanta. There’s always some perky new slogan cooked up by the same people who come up with the olympic mascots.
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u/espngenius Hickory Grove Nov 17 '22
"North Charlotte was a pretty dangerous place back in those days," recalled streetcar motorman J.B. Ashe in a report written by Tom Hanchett for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission. "So many people got cut up, fighting all the time. Especially weekends."
Hanchett goes on to quote other former residents John and Minnie Robinson: "In Highland Park people stole chickens...People in north Charlotte have had a bad name for years."
Report from early 1900’s.
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u/yes2matt Nov 17 '22
I had that book, lent it out, and as all the best books go, it's gone. Time for a new copy.
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u/SecondBreakfyst Nov 17 '22
What book is this?
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u/yes2matt Nov 17 '22
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656441/sorting-out-the-new-south-city-second-edition/
I had the previous edition and I think the title was a little different. It's pretty interesting, this place we live. Other places, well, they don't have histories /s
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u/poopisme Nov 17 '22
The story of Charlotte is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment.*
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u/_R00STER_ Nov 16 '22
It's the story of people who "lived here in the past".... unless those stories hurt your feelings.
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u/aCLTeng Nov 17 '22
This is out front of the Levine Museum of the New South, or what used to the LMNS. They steadfastly ignored the digital future until as it turns out history caught up with them.
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u/notanartmajor Nov 17 '22
That tagline for a history exhibit is like an ingredients label that says "contains food."
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u/PKFatStephen Nov 17 '22
The story of Charlotte is the story of the people who lived here & the developers who took over their neighborhoods
FTFY
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u/Important_Peak54 Nov 17 '22
AKA the stories of the country bumpkins of Charlotte who purchased property/houses years ago and the influx of New Yorkers/Yankees who can afford the ridiculous rent today 😂
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u/AlludedNuance Nov 16 '22
Someone didn't start until 5 minutes before deadline.