In the early 1980s, when festival marketplaces were all the rage and just
before I got to Raleigh, they had Cranston from Pittsburgh on the hook as
the developer for the 1914 City Market building and environs. Bids came back
to remove asphalt from the cobblestone streets, too high. So the Appearance
Commission (a uniquely NC beast) coordinated a "Street Busting" community
festival, and all the citizens came out on a Saturday with their garden tool
pick axes and pulled up all the asphalt in a day to be slung into the
city-provided front end loaders and hauled away.

At the dedication, the Mayor described his joy at being able to drive down
the streets going "bumpety-bump."

Dan

On 8/26/04 9:41 PM, "John Callan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Not sure.  I have very little information, I'm just trying to be
> helpful...like Ralph.  I think it means that someone wants to make a
> cobblestone street cobblestone again and is looking for folks who know
> how to do it...ie, people who have already done it.  I know I did a lot
> of research and planning for a project like this back when I was a
> public servant.  But my memory vessel seems to have aborted some of
> that information.  When I try to recall the details all I get is that
> old feeling that I've been here before...and I may have been lost then
> too.
>
> -jc
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>
>> John Callan wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone experience with restoration of historic cobblestone?
>>>
>>> -jc
>>
>> Interesting idea...
>>
>> do you mean cobblestone as in the street ballast square stones usually
>> of granite?
>> or cobblestone as in small boulders of glacial till as in Albion or
>> Phelps, NY?
>>
>> sorry for so many questions...
>> in either case, what do you mean be restoration?
>> I may have experience and not know it.
>>
>> ][<
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