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1955-1979
Footnotes
Two Fort Bragg soldiers were fined in 1974 for streaking down Hay Street in their combat boots.
Elvis Presley appeared in Fayetteville in July 1976 and again in August 1976, performing three shows each time at the Cumberland County Memorial Arena. Presley died in August 1977, shortly before he was to make another appearance in Fayetteville.
In 1959, a Fayetteville barber was arrested in his shop and charged with staying open after 6 p.m., in violation of the local closing ordinance.
In 1955, Cumberland County's first television station signed on at 4:30 p.m. and signed off at 10 p.m. The first program each day was "Howdy Doody."
In 1955, the Cumberland County police force and sheriff's office began operating as separate units in the same office.
During the 1950s, the Broadway Theater on Hay Street allowed school safety patrols to see Friday evening movies for free. Members of the school patrol had to show their badges for admission.
When Cross Creek Mall opened in February 1974, the Pet Luv store in the mall boasted that one could special-order a Bengal tiger, giraffe or elephant. The cost of an elephant was $3,500 plus freight, with freight running $2,000 a mile or higher.
Kerr's grand opening sale at the Westwood Shopping Center on Aug. 13, 1974, advertised "200 free watermelons ... to the first 500 customers."
The temperature soared to 103 degrees in Fayetteville on July 7, 1977.
Daily price averages set records at the Fayetteville Tobacco Market in 1974, reaching $107.97 per hundred pounds.
1960 Census
County: 148,418
White: 73 percent
Nonwhite: 27 percent
Fayetteville: 47,106
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1970 Census
County: 212,042
White: 73 percent
Nonwhite: 27 percent
Fayetteville: 53,510
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