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Blog (03/14/2018):Please update the progress on your research and what you have done in the past week on your past/present committee/group work.

 Regarding the research I have done this past week, I have tried to work diligently on finding a way to contribute to the Timeline/ course of events of Hollins Market throughout the 1940s. I realize that the goal of this research project is to focus on the past (or the do historical research on one's specified decade) and the present which has to do with any potential interviews, photos, and documentation that a student will find.

The reason why it was kind of hard to find information on my decade of 1940-1950 was not only was most of the city's local businesses converted to places devoted to the Naval War effort in the Pacific Theater during World War II, but Hollins Market itself was enclosed in the year 1940. This ultimately caused the market to be vacant for quite a while and "normal customers" who usually came to the market pretty often did not start coming back until the end of World War II. I believe this may have been the case because most of the men who were in the age range of 18-25 were overseas in either the Pacific Theater or the European Theater. These are people who might have shopped or hung-out at the Market from time to time who all of a sudden just had this new sense of Patriotism when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and they for one reason or another, wanted to be a part of the War Effort.....wanted to try to make a difference.

I believe that once I do some more research when I have time to this upcoming week (since it will be Spring Break), that I will find all of the necessary information that I need in order to develop a good picture on what Hollins Market might have looked like during the 1940s.

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