. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. of Old Wilmington keeps regular office hours in the local history room. If you arrive before Fales does, the librarian can point out exactly where he'll sit. He arrives dressed in a suit and sweater vest. Once seated, he talks for hours about the town. The native Wilmingtonian has studied the history of this region for 25 years. He started out collecting informa- tion about doctors who practiced here during the past century. "As the work went along, I found I could not separate it from the town itself
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. of Old Wilmington keeps regular office hours in the local history room. If you arrive before Fales does, the librarian can point out exactly where he'll sit. He arrives dressed in a suit and sweater vest. Once seated, he talks for hours about the town. The native Wilmingtonian has studied the history of this region for 25 years. He started out collecting informa- tion about doctors who practiced here during the past century. "As the work went along, I found I could not separate it from the town itself," says Fales, who has written two books on Wilmington history. "My father ran a wholesale at 116 South Water Street, and when I was not in school I was down there with him," he says. "The only paved street we had then was ; The cobblestones came from wooden ships that sailed into the harbor, casting overboard the stone ballast used to stabilize the empty vessels. The ships left with a cargo of cotton or turpentine; the townspeople salvaged the material to surface their streets. "When I was a child, everything was downtown, but scattered all around the neighborhoods. Chinese laundries, we had lots and lots of them," says Fales. Back at the shoeshine parlor, a thin, black man in sunglasses leans against the wall, listening. He is exasperated because Floyd and Haywood aren't telling stories as vividly as they usually do. He's not as old, but he recalls 4th Street in the 1940s as a center of activity. "On a day like today, this place would be just like the mall," says the man, who declines to identify himself. "There were gypsies telling people's fortunes for money and medicine men peddling medicine for ; An electric streetcar served the hustle and bustle in the city from 1893 to 1939. There was five cents in it for you if you helped the driver change direction when the trolley reached the end of the line, Ha
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