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Topic: Belk and Marting’s
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giacomo
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Posted: 2/5/2019 8:10 AM
My wife and I recently strolled the campus and uptown during the glorious warm weather this past Sunday. Does anyone have a link to some old photos of the department stores? My recollection is that Belk was on the corner of Washington and Court and Marting’s was a little farther down on Court St. Is that accurate?
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Posted: 2/5/2019 8:58 AM
Belk was in the middle of a block, across from the current diner on Court Street.
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Posted: 2/5/2019 9:24 AM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
My wife and I recently strolled the campus and uptown during the glorious warm weather this past Sunday.
That is a good day right there!
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Posted: 2/5/2019 10:46 AM
Here are two photos of those buildings. One is Belk's. The other is Altman's,
which is the same building that Marting's later occupied.
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Posted: 2/5/2019 11:06 AM
Awesome! Thank you for posting that photo. It's all coming back to me. The buildings on either side of the former Cat's Den are now gone. I read where lighting struck the Belk building and it burned down.
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Posted: 2/5/2019 2:53 PM
You're welcome. Yes, there's a parking lot where those buildings used to be. That fire was a real shame. As a result, Belk decided not to rebuild. The Athens store was at the time the most northern store in their chain and it was not part of their target area.
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