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The store's name was a reference to the "Land of the Sky," a nickname for the city of Asheville that was popularized in the 20th century. Sky City was founded in 1962 by retail executive M.C. Peterson as an evolution of Bowers department stores, a regional chain founded in 1919 in Knoxville, Tennessee .
Asheville is the largest city in the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Asheville-Waynesville-Brevard, NC Combined Statistical Area, which includes Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania counties, which had a combined population of 513,720 in 2023, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [79] [4]
WHNS operates on the oldest active television station license in the market, though the connection is indirect. WISE-TV launched in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 2, 1953. Broadcasting on channel 62, it was a primary NBC affiliate which also carried programs from ABC, CBS, and DuMont. [2]
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Don Davis (April 10, 1933 – February 4, 2016) was an American gun retailer, the owner of Don's Guns and Galleries, a firearms retailer in Indianapolis, Indiana.He claimed to be the largest independent gun dealer in the United States, [1] and his store has been called the largest public display of firearms in America. [2]
Diatribe’s hours are 3-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 3-10 p.m. Friday, 12-10 p.m. Saturday and 12-8 p.m. Sunday. More Asheville brewery openings and closings
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County).
While Indiana Jones' most iconic weapon is the archaeologist's handy whip, it's Harrison Ford's "gun vs. sword" scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark that's considered by most fans to be the funniest ...