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CityViewNC.com | 17 We hope you enjoy this new recurring feature by history buff Weeks Parker, who owns an impressive collection of local memorabilia and photos that he has agreed to share with CityView readers. A former Presbyterian Junior College Band Director, Parker is the author of 12 books on a variety of subjects including "Fayetteville, North Carolina: A Pictorial History." Sponsored by Sandhills Oral Surgery & Implant Dentistry During the Christmas season each year, my sister Vivian and I always greatly enjoyed going to the many downtown stores to see the wonderful displays of toys that were usually on the entire second floor of Belk- Hensdale, J.C. Penney, e Capitol and other stores on Hay Street. e most impressive thing we loved was a life-sized Shirley Temple doll sitting and playing a real organ in one of the display windows in front of Belk-Hensdale department store. e replica of Shirley Temple was so life-like that it was as though she were there in front of you giving a live concert. Another thing that children and adults enjoyed doing was going to the many theaters that were in downtown Fayetteville. ese theaters were the Strand eatre, e Ritz, the Broadway, the Miracle, the Colony, the Carolina, the State and the Haymont eater. e admission to many of these theaters was only 10 cents for children and 35 cents for adults. Popcorn and carbonated beverages were 5 cents each, and you were allowed to bring them into the theaters to eat and drink as you watched the movies. One aernoon, my best friend and I were eating Dr. William Temple Board Certified Oral Surgeon Dr. Gary Jones Board Certified Oral Surgeon Dr. James Turonis Board Certified Periodontist Dr. Josh Berridge Board Certified Periodontist Dr. Mac Worley Board Certified Oral Surgeon YOU ALREADY KNOW DR. JONES…NOW MEET THE REST OF THE SANDHILLS TEAM YOUR DENTAL SURGICAL SPECIALISTS 910.483.9216 1295 Oliver Street, Fayetteville NC www.sandhillsoralsurgery.com f l and drinking as we watched an "Abbot and Costello" movie. We laughed so hard that we spilled our drinks and food all over the seats in front of us. e next time we attended that theater, we observed a large sign that read "NO DRINKS OR FOOD ALLOWED INSIDE." Growing up in Fayetteville was great fun. My wife Myra and I were born on Hay Street in the Pittman Hospital that was later converted into the J.C. Penney Department Store. e City Hall is now on the lot where the old hospital and J.C. Penney Company once stood. If you happen to be a native of Fayetteville, you can probably vividly remember "ose Good Ole Days."

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