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This publication was first produced in the winter of 1991 as The Guide to Black Charlotte and was the first distributed magazine targeting African-Americans in Charlotte, NC, and first publication across-the-board to feature singles advertising. Back then the city of Charlotte suffered from the old holier-than-thou complex and people looked down on folks advertising themselves for dates and likened it to prostitution. In fact, it was so bad that a local church cancelled their pending subscription order because we featured a model in swimwear. My God! Ooops! I occasional read some of our old editions and wonder what happened to the folks and businesses that we covered back then in the early 1990's when Charlotte did not even appear on the national weather map and people would confuse it with Charleston, SC, or Charleston, WV.
The Mayor of Charlotte back then (1991) was the honorable Sue Myrick who is now a former North Carolina State Congresswoman. By the way, she was the first female Mayor in Charlotte history,and was nice enough to provide us with a signed welcome letter dated January 11, 1991. I wonder what it would fetch on eBay today? That first edition in the winter of 1991 featured an article on the old Charlotte Coliseum which was still new -- Opened 1988 -- and had replaced the Independence Arena -- Now Bojangle's Arena -- as the venue for basketball, most big concerts, and shows like the Ringling Brother's and Barnum and Bailey Circus. In addition, it was the first home of the Charlotte Hornet's NBA (National Basketball Association) men's professional team. That edition also featured an article -- written by myself -- on First Fridays which I have heard is still functioning, and articles on the now defunct Ubiquitous (art) Gallery on 7th Street; the defunct West Fest, Clinton Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, and the late Mr. John McDonald of the now defunct McDonald's Cafeteria on Beatties Ford Road. Madam C.J. Walker (Black millionaire cosmetics manufacturer, 1869-1919) was the featured inventor.
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