Past to Present Images

12/20/2025

Now picture taken in 2017.

Wilmiingtonians said that the George Davis statue was pointing to a popular ABC store at 225 Market Street that was destroyed in 1961, then 1945 and now.

12/19/2025

Once stood on the corner of Princess and Third Streets, then 1974 and now.

12/18/2025

Third Street, then 1925 and now.

12/17/2025

A crowd gathers to watch and videotape from the fountain at 5th Ave. and Market St., as a slate and copper clad 40-foot high section of a steeple is raised into place on First Baptist Church early Thursday morning. Three more 20-foot sections will be added to complete the steeple, which was topple by Hurricane Fran in 1996. Then 1997 and now.

12/16/2025

Old Court House on Third Street, then 1964 and now.

12/15/2025

123 Harper Avenue, Carolina Beach, then 2021 and now. Old building was torn down and another one built.

12/14/2025

Operation Bumblebee Observation Tower #6 aka Ocean City Pier, Topsail Island, NC.

From 1946 to 1948, Topsail Island was the home of the US Navy's Operation Bumblebee, a secret military project to develop a supersonic guided missile. This is observation tower #6. In the 1950s, the tower was incorporated into the Ocean City Pier, which was mostly destroyed during Hurricane Fran in 1996, then 1959 and now.

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

Hurricane Fran damage, N. Carolina Beach Avenue North, Carolina Beach, then 1996 and now.