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Number 00836	Scan Date 7/11/02
Time Period late 1800's
Subject Matter Main Street
Location Monroe, North Carolina
Description New York Racket (looking north ) - located at the corner of Main & Morgan. All Belk stores were at one time called "New York Racket"
Photographer (if known)
Notes The first Belk Store opened in Monroe, NC in 1888. From "William Henry Belk: Merchant of the South" by Le Gette Blythe (1950), pages 38-39, Belk recalls the first store: "I opened for business on May 29, 1888. I called my store the New York Racket...The reason I named it the New York Racket, I reckon, was because New York was a big city and I figured that by calling it the New York Racket everybody would think that sounded big..." Notes & location information added 7/2/2010 - pmp
Measurements of original photograph		Height 2 1/16"	Width 3 1/16"
Type of photograph Black and White