See what Independence Blvd. looked like in the 1990s. (Spoiler: It was worse)
The year was 1995.
Bill Clinton was in his first term as president. Michael Jordan would soon return to the Bulls to string together a second three-peat. The “Trial of the Century” would end in a verdict still debated to this day. And Charlotte was in the midst of its own transformation.
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Traffic crawled at a creep along Independence Boulevard in those days. The road was the backbone of Charlotte’s transportation at the time. But state and local planners devised a way to answer commuter’s growing concerns by converting Independence into a freeway.
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Want to see what Independence Boulevard was like back then? Take a look back at the Observer’s photos from 1990s, pulled from our archives.
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