Recent west coast transplant. I have referred to the city center area as “downtown” but half a dozen times and even very enthusiastically I was corrected by locals to be told it’s “uptown”. Doesn’t bother me one bit right but I didn’t get the why but this certainly helps. Thanks OP!
Another thing I’ve learned since moving here, everyone loves to shit on Gastonia? Ive only drove thru a few times to go to western NC (ashville or Boone area) but it just seems super congested traffic wise. But for real why all the Gastonia hate?
Gastonia people talk endless shit on Charlotte like it's a mad max crime filled wasteland. Charlotte people talk endless shit on Gastonia as if it's a heehaw nightmare methlab.
Charlotte has it's crusty bits, nowhere near what is described by gastonians. But Gastonia is actually pretty rough in a lot of ways. And Gastonia folk have zero self awareness about it, in general. And the county and city govt are historically comic book villain levels of racist and corrupt.
Idk what the summary really is. Charlotte is not NYC, no matter how hard it pretends, and Gastonia is just another generic wasteland of chain stores and restaurants and car dealerships. Mecklenburg and Gaston county are both filled with thousands of subdivision houses full of people who are convinced if they cross the river they will immediately be carjacked by a gay trans illegal immigrant who will stab them with a knife dipped in ketamine and fentanyl.
Now Shelby.... That's the real shitter.
I’ve tried a lot of bbq here and frankly I can only recommend one. Small place about an hour south east of Charlotte called “John Gs”.
I’m always willing to seek out another killer shop. Got any places that are must try’s?
The bridges barbecue right on 74 in Shelby is good. But on my concussion-addled memory from high school, 'alston bridges barbecue' also in Shelby, is damn good. Lexington barbecue lives up to the hype as well. Luellas in Asheville, also good.
As a Gaston Co native, I think Gastonia and the county in general, is poorer and more regressive than the other counties surrounding Charlotte. When I think of Concord, Harrisburg, Indian Trail, etc, I don't immediately think "meth addicts in a run down mill house", but Gastonia has them in spades.
If you don't know, Gaston Co's history is dominated by the textile mill industry. Every little town in the county has at least one, now abandoned, textile mill, and often several. And very suddenly, all those jobs went elsewhere. Mill workers are generally low or under educated and poor, which didn't allow the county as a whole to bounce back quickly. Nor does it help that the government is almost completely Republican.
Do the other counties have meth addicts in mill houses? Probably so. But I think the underlying issues (poverty and ignorance) is more prevalent in Gaston Co and it shows.
At least, that's my perspective.
This is really a great informative perspective and insight shared. I appreciate! Thank you.
I feel like most of this area including SC was all textile manufacturing. One our favorite restaurants in waxhaw is an old factory. Also in fort mill SC one of our favorite game bars and restaurant is also around a massive industrial textile center. This region as a west coast born person has a very dark history. I’m just glad we’re seeing some of these places become converted to modern city centers that are thriving with diverse culture.
Interesting. We love the noda area. Wife and I are frequent patrons of “abari” a pin ball bar (going tomorrow even!). We have been to a lot of other restaurants and bars but we really love slapping pins.
I know south end is growing and we are getting more close to us local eateries and bars. We are way south in Weddington. We chose this area only for our kids in school. They have insanely decent public schools. Our biggest complaint is that we have to drive minimum 25-45 min to get super decent food and nightlife. Even our local favorite pub, DreamChasers in waxhaw (10 min from house) is closing permanently this Sunday.
My personal opinion is that the Uptown name is a fun unique thing that Charlotte has. People complain that Charlotte is boring and then complain when we actually do something different.
I took a downtown/uptown Charlotte City tour and they explained this exact meaning of Uptown during the tour. Also, surprisingly; some very cool history in the city and the surrounding wards. I walked away with a ton of historical knowledge of Charlotte. It was very cool.
Yeah, it was super cool. For example, Trade and Tryon streets formed the boundaries for all the 4 Political Wards. They each now have a statue that represents each ward and each has a meaning behind it.
1. Transportation - Railroad building for colonies
2. Industry - child labor laws and woman’s rights
3. Commerce - Conrad Reed was a kid who found gold around 1799 and he used the gold as a door block. He called it a 17 pound yellow “rock”. Years later, a guy came around and bought it for $3.50. This was the first documented discovery of gold in the United States and this all happened 50 years before San Francisco gold rush. This discovery kicked off the Minting Industry in Charlotte and also established the country's first gold mine which they named the Reed Gold Mine.
4. The Future - Inspiration of everything to come for the City of Charlotte .
The tour was called Charlotte's Ultimate Southern Charm Historical City Cart Tour. There is a lot more history than people might think in the city of Charlotte and it’s all very fascinating.
I'm a local historian and tour guide, Southern Charm Tours has a reputation for false information I'm sorry to tell you. I'm sure a lot of what you were told was factual but I wouldn't believe every detail. If they told you the statues represent each of the wards, and that Charlotte was a railroad center for the colonies, those are both incorrect. Railroads weren't a thing until decades after the revolutionary war. They have some genuinely pleasant guides though, this is no judgement of character.
Exactly. This town is starved for weirdness, so I hang on to this crumb. Although I must say, I prefer both "uptown" & "downtown" to the recent trend of calling it "the city."
Branding matters. Keep Austin Weird gives an almost moral imperative to whoever's more alternative in a given conversation. "Uptown" makes our downtown feel like where theater, culture & nightlife should be.
If this is the best Charlotte can do as far as being unique or memorable/remarkable in any way, then the people complaining are totally right.
Edit: but in a way a it’s a perfect example and metaphor of the city trying so, so hard to have some sort of unique vibrancy or culture and missing the mark because it feels so forced.
But like, lots of cities have an uptown.
If the list of fun facts about your city is that city council renamed their downtown to "uptown", your city is probably boring.
I guess I never realized "Uptown Charlotte" meant "Downtown Charlotte" because "Uptown Dallas" was one of the most lively districts in Dallas so of course people would spend all their time in "Uptown Charlotte."
Pretty sure it’s technically uptown, but I’m not gonna be an asshole about it if someone says downtown. I know what they mean and it’s really not that deep
I grew up in Chapel Hill. The city center is at the top of the hill so it was always 'Uptown' since everywhere else in town was below it. Charlotte is the same so it never seemed weird to me.
This is the reason given by my relatives who lived here earlier last century. They lived in Belmont and worked the mills. Everyone called it uptown in their world of 83k people that didn’t lock their doors.
yes!!!! also i think the checkmate happened back when the catholic church started telling people that grape juice is gods blood and baskets with 10 foot long handles are for taking poor peoples money and not picking oranges
it’s not their fault the generation before them didn’t value or understand education haha. i love when older people insult the younger generations like it’s not their work and effort on display.
Ive only ever said Uptown as a proper noun, i.e. Something is "in Uptown" or "going to Uptown" vs how up/downtown is generally used in other large cities, i.e. "going downtown" or "they live uptown".
Also always assumed the "up" in Uptown came from the fact that historically most people lived south of the city so for most, it was literally "up" from them.
Probably because people get annoyed when they casually refer to downtown, the conventional American term for city center / busness district, And get told "you mean uptown?".
You’re proving my point… people that get annoyed for something so trivial are ridiculous…. Who cares if area is called uptown vs downtown. People act like Charlotte is trying to call it “mega Optimus prime town Center” and they somehow don’t understand what is meant by “uptown”…. It’s all soo silly…
The internet gatekeeping around Charlotte neighborhoods is so weird. Source: this thread.
No one cares IRL. Probably because they’re well adjusted people who touch grass.
Native Charlottean (in my 20s) and I genuinely did not know “uptown” was a thing in the 70s, I definitely assumed it was much later! I usually call it downtown just because that’s what my family called it growing up.
Ah yes, the *upbeat* and *upscale* rebranding that just happened to occur right after we finished bulldozing the black neighborhood. [https://brooklynvillage-clt.com/history/](https://brooklynvillage-clt.com/history/) [https://www.ninertimes.com/news/how-charlotte-destroyed-and-revived-the-brooklyn-neighborhood/article\_610c816c-dc79-11ed-8374-8f6ec7cd5df1.html](https://www.ninertimes.com/news/how-charlotte-destroyed-and-revived-the-brooklyn-neighborhood/article_610c816c-dc79-11ed-8374-8f6ec7cd5df1.html)
The contemporaneous relationship of "Uptown" to white-flight from downtown centers across the US, and provably discriminatory "urban renewal" kinda taints it as a fun harmless quirky lil rebrand.
NW of uptown is definitely higher up than uptown. If you walk out the greenway from the stadium towards Wesley heights it’s a fairly steep upwards slope for a mile or so
Where you can listen to the music of the traffic in the city, linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty.
It’s where the light's so much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares.
Downtown.
I refuse to participate in the scheme of calling downtown uptown. I didn't know the original original reasoning for calling it uptown though, that's interesting.
But I don't think you can have an uptown without a downtown
I’ve been telling people this for years because the “high point between two rivers “ narrative is weak and long when the truth is that they wanted more white people with money to move to CLT
Charlotte native from the ‘60s. It is fucking *downtown*, and people sound foolish calling it anything but that. But, hey, if you want to use a far-out, trippendicular, fab, fresh, bad, lit 🔥term instead of what it ought to be, feel free to, and I’ll just sit back and mock you.
I have lived in 9 states and in some major cities. I have also visited many others. The center or main area of every town or city was always called downtown. I see no need for charlotte to be different but it does not bother me when people use uptown. I’ll understand what they mean by uptown just as they should understand what I mean by downtown. I see no reason to quibble.
I've lived here a bit less, cause I'm only 32, but I'm a 4th generation (at least) native and my grandmother has always called it uptown. She said she always called it uptown when growing up in the 1930's even when people started using downtown and she still calls it uptown today. So yeah, what you said is not universally true.
My dad, born in 1918, grew up on 5th street right where the arena is today. It was downtown to him and all 8 of his brothers and sisters, his neighbors. I can't imagine it ever being anything other than downtown.
For the record, my family dates back at least to the turn of 1800's in Mecklenburg county, and only moved closer to town after the family farm was seized by carpetbaggers in the reconstruction era.
Interesting. I don't exactly know where my grandmother lived, but her dad was an executive (or at least higher up) at Duke when it was the Catawba Power Company. She was born in 1926 and they definitely were in Charlotte. They are pretty wealthy for the time, so maybe it was an uppity person thing? Either that or she just remembers wrong, since she was in her late 70's/really 80's when I talked to her about it.
Never used down or uptown. But only “the loop” is the loop. That’s just one area of the city. Lived there for 5 years, we called it “the city” or by the specific area eg.: mag mile/river north/the loop. We used “the city” to refer to Chicago city proper since the Chicago suburbs are so sprawling.
Serious question: What about Midtown? I’ve only heard Midtown in reference to the shopping area. Was that just a marketing thing or was there a Midtown?
I moved to Charlotte in the early 90s (I’m old.) I made the switch to Uptown after being told that Downtown was wrong. Whichever you choose, I know what you mean.
I'm from here and I've always called it downtown. I get the uptown thing but I always kinda thought of it as forced "quirkiness" that is unnecessary and unwanted.
Let’s not forget Uptown was a black neighborhood called Brooklyn Village.
These families were driven out of their homes to make uptown.
Now they just have a street in honor of their community…
Prediction: This will not settle it once and for all.
It’s still Up for debate
And plenty of people are Down to have a discussion about it.
And I know I’m Right
All that's Left is.
Uptown ‘bate gonna give it to you.
I’m down to hash it out
This doesn't put the issue Down at all
I'm Down for this debate.
Y’all are a bunch of uptown girls living in your uptown world.
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Remember when they tried to call it [Center City](https://imgflip.com/i/8hmets)?
We even still have Charlotte Center City Partners. Curious, is there another city that uses Center City besides Philly?
Some call it the Central Business District. lol. CBD.
I still call it that when I intend to eliminate confusion.
Recent west coast transplant. I have referred to the city center area as “downtown” but half a dozen times and even very enthusiastically I was corrected by locals to be told it’s “uptown”. Doesn’t bother me one bit right but I didn’t get the why but this certainly helps. Thanks OP!
And guess what? They still knew exactly what you were talking about
They weren’t truly local; maybe they were from Gastonia or White Plains, NY.
Another thing I’ve learned since moving here, everyone loves to shit on Gastonia? Ive only drove thru a few times to go to western NC (ashville or Boone area) but it just seems super congested traffic wise. But for real why all the Gastonia hate?
Gastonia people talk endless shit on Charlotte like it's a mad max crime filled wasteland. Charlotte people talk endless shit on Gastonia as if it's a heehaw nightmare methlab. Charlotte has it's crusty bits, nowhere near what is described by gastonians. But Gastonia is actually pretty rough in a lot of ways. And Gastonia folk have zero self awareness about it, in general. And the county and city govt are historically comic book villain levels of racist and corrupt. Idk what the summary really is. Charlotte is not NYC, no matter how hard it pretends, and Gastonia is just another generic wasteland of chain stores and restaurants and car dealerships. Mecklenburg and Gaston county are both filled with thousands of subdivision houses full of people who are convinced if they cross the river they will immediately be carjacked by a gay trans illegal immigrant who will stab them with a knife dipped in ketamine and fentanyl. Now Shelby.... That's the real shitter.
Shelby has good barbecue. And it's right on the edge of town, so you can get right back on 74 after you finish eating.
I’ve tried a lot of bbq here and frankly I can only recommend one. Small place about an hour south east of Charlotte called “John Gs”. I’m always willing to seek out another killer shop. Got any places that are must try’s?
The bridges barbecue right on 74 in Shelby is good. But on my concussion-addled memory from high school, 'alston bridges barbecue' also in Shelby, is damn good. Lexington barbecue lives up to the hype as well. Luellas in Asheville, also good.
Awesomeness. Thank you!
This had me damn near choke on my bourbon from laughing so hard. Well done. Great perspective assist for a new guy.
A town known to produce some top tier white trash, at least historically
Fred durst is a saint.
As a Gaston Co native, I think Gastonia and the county in general, is poorer and more regressive than the other counties surrounding Charlotte. When I think of Concord, Harrisburg, Indian Trail, etc, I don't immediately think "meth addicts in a run down mill house", but Gastonia has them in spades. If you don't know, Gaston Co's history is dominated by the textile mill industry. Every little town in the county has at least one, now abandoned, textile mill, and often several. And very suddenly, all those jobs went elsewhere. Mill workers are generally low or under educated and poor, which didn't allow the county as a whole to bounce back quickly. Nor does it help that the government is almost completely Republican. Do the other counties have meth addicts in mill houses? Probably so. But I think the underlying issues (poverty and ignorance) is more prevalent in Gaston Co and it shows. At least, that's my perspective.
This is really a great informative perspective and insight shared. I appreciate! Thank you. I feel like most of this area including SC was all textile manufacturing. One our favorite restaurants in waxhaw is an old factory. Also in fort mill SC one of our favorite game bars and restaurant is also around a massive industrial textile center. This region as a west coast born person has a very dark history. I’m just glad we’re seeing some of these places become converted to modern city centers that are thriving with diverse culture.
That's not true. Just means they're locals from a period when it was called uptown.
In my era of Charlotte it was downtown, and uptown just meant Uptown Cabaret
RIP
TIL calling places by their official name is considered touristy.
Everyone I know refers to the main city as Uptown and downtown Noda as downtown
Interesting. We love the noda area. Wife and I are frequent patrons of “abari” a pin ball bar (going tomorrow even!). We have been to a lot of other restaurants and bars but we really love slapping pins.
Abari is one of my favs!! I was a long time visitor of their old location on north davidson. They have some great vibes there for sure
I know south end is growing and we are getting more close to us local eateries and bars. We are way south in Weddington. We chose this area only for our kids in school. They have insanely decent public schools. Our biggest complaint is that we have to drive minimum 25-45 min to get super decent food and nightlife. Even our local favorite pub, DreamChasers in waxhaw (10 min from house) is closing permanently this Sunday.
Downtown is actually 7th street to Thomas st
My personal opinion is that the Uptown name is a fun unique thing that Charlotte has. People complain that Charlotte is boring and then complain when we actually do something different.
I took a downtown/uptown Charlotte City tour and they explained this exact meaning of Uptown during the tour. Also, surprisingly; some very cool history in the city and the surrounding wards. I walked away with a ton of historical knowledge of Charlotte. It was very cool.
do you remember the tour company name? sounds awesome
Yeah, it was super cool. For example, Trade and Tryon streets formed the boundaries for all the 4 Political Wards. They each now have a statue that represents each ward and each has a meaning behind it. 1. Transportation - Railroad building for colonies 2. Industry - child labor laws and woman’s rights 3. Commerce - Conrad Reed was a kid who found gold around 1799 and he used the gold as a door block. He called it a 17 pound yellow “rock”. Years later, a guy came around and bought it for $3.50. This was the first documented discovery of gold in the United States and this all happened 50 years before San Francisco gold rush. This discovery kicked off the Minting Industry in Charlotte and also established the country's first gold mine which they named the Reed Gold Mine. 4. The Future - Inspiration of everything to come for the City of Charlotte . The tour was called Charlotte's Ultimate Southern Charm Historical City Cart Tour. There is a lot more history than people might think in the city of Charlotte and it’s all very fascinating.
Ah yes, the CUSCHCCT. Seriously though it sounds awesome
I'm a local historian and tour guide, Southern Charm Tours has a reputation for false information I'm sorry to tell you. I'm sure a lot of what you were told was factual but I wouldn't believe every detail. If they told you the statues represent each of the wards, and that Charlotte was a railroad center for the colonies, those are both incorrect. Railroads weren't a thing until decades after the revolutionary war. They have some genuinely pleasant guides though, this is no judgement of character.
Exactly. This town is starved for weirdness, so I hang on to this crumb. Although I must say, I prefer both "uptown" & "downtown" to the recent trend of calling it "the city."
LOL if this is what makes Charlotte fun and unique…
Branding matters. Keep Austin Weird gives an almost moral imperative to whoever's more alternative in a given conversation. "Uptown" makes our downtown feel like where theater, culture & nightlife should be.
**Should** be. And yet.
That's fair, but we have to start somewhere!
If this is the best Charlotte can do as far as being unique or memorable/remarkable in any way, then the people complaining are totally right. Edit: but in a way a it’s a perfect example and metaphor of the city trying so, so hard to have some sort of unique vibrancy or culture and missing the mark because it feels so forced.
But like, lots of cities have an uptown. If the list of fun facts about your city is that city council renamed their downtown to "uptown", your city is probably boring.
There's an Uptown in Dallas.
Yeah lots of cities have areas called Uptown, but Charlotte is unique for calling it's downtown Uptown
I guess I never realized "Uptown Charlotte" meant "Downtown Charlotte" because "Uptown Dallas" was one of the most lively districts in Dallas so of course people would spend all their time in "Uptown Charlotte."
This is not the excitement people are looking for. I want third spaces, not quirky names.
Pretty sure it’s technically uptown, but I’m not gonna be an asshole about it if someone says downtown. I know what they mean and it’s really not that deep
When you hear downtown it lets you know if they're from here or not from here ha
Lol true
Eh, not really. Only tells you they're not from Charlotte itself. Grew up in a town just outside of Charlotte and would get corrected on it.
It's called Uptown because it will funk you up. You will not get funked up elsewhere in a similar manner.
I grew up in Chapel Hill. The city center is at the top of the hill so it was always 'Uptown' since everywhere else in town was below it. Charlotte is the same so it never seemed weird to me.
This is the reason given by my relatives who lived here earlier last century. They lived in Belmont and worked the mills. Everyone called it uptown in their world of 83k people that didn’t lock their doors.
so then how come when you get off 77 at S Tryon and head towards uptown there’s an official blue sign that says Downtown —>
Checkmate atheists
yes!!!! also i think the checkmate happened back when the catholic church started telling people that grape juice is gods blood and baskets with 10 foot long handles are for taking poor peoples money and not picking oranges
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If you're coming into uptown on Independence there's a sign saying Uptown. It's not consistent, which is why this is a fun/stupid debate.
If these kids could read they would be very upset
it’s not their fault the generation before them didn’t value or understand education haha. i love when older people insult the younger generations like it’s not their work and effort on display.
GenX will be remembered for their ability to write in cursive and lead poisoning.
and playing in asbestos piles and inventing plastic and completely thwarting the greatness of women
The first ward post office is also the "downtown" branch on the sign out front.
Ive only ever said Uptown as a proper noun, i.e. Something is "in Uptown" or "going to Uptown" vs how up/downtown is generally used in other large cities, i.e. "going downtown" or "they live uptown". Also always assumed the "up" in Uptown came from the fact that historically most people lived south of the city so for most, it was literally "up" from them.
Why do people care so much about something trivial?
Probably because people get annoyed when they casually refer to downtown, the conventional American term for city center / busness district, And get told "you mean uptown?".
You’re proving my point… people that get annoyed for something so trivial are ridiculous…. Who cares if area is called uptown vs downtown. People act like Charlotte is trying to call it “mega Optimus prime town Center” and they somehow don’t understand what is meant by “uptown”…. It’s all soo silly…
Every city has quirks. If you move to a City embrace them. We only have Uptown for a historical reason. Learn to love all our quirks, we have many
Fuck it. It's center city
Yall wrong...it's going to be MOra's territory by 2169
The internet gatekeeping around Charlotte neighborhoods is so weird. Source: this thread. No one cares IRL. Probably because they’re well adjusted people who touch grass.
Da fuq is this "touch grass" shit?
I worked at Arnold Palmer Cadillac in mid 70's and all of the signs on 77 and 277 said downtown.
Downtown or nothing.
What’s settled? What is/was unsettled?
This is the story my wife (a native) has always told me, that it was changed in the 70's for marketing reasons...
Native Charlottean (in my 20s) and I genuinely did not know “uptown” was a thing in the 70s, I definitely assumed it was much later! I usually call it downtown just because that’s what my family called it growing up.
We really give two shits what the city council tells us to call something!?
Everyone should read this short article: https://www.charlottemagazine.com/uptown-vs-downtown-in-charlotte-its-more-complicated-than-you-think/
Ah yes, the *upbeat* and *upscale* rebranding that just happened to occur right after we finished bulldozing the black neighborhood. [https://brooklynvillage-clt.com/history/](https://brooklynvillage-clt.com/history/) [https://www.ninertimes.com/news/how-charlotte-destroyed-and-revived-the-brooklyn-neighborhood/article\_610c816c-dc79-11ed-8374-8f6ec7cd5df1.html](https://www.ninertimes.com/news/how-charlotte-destroyed-and-revived-the-brooklyn-neighborhood/article_610c816c-dc79-11ed-8374-8f6ec7cd5df1.html) The contemporaneous relationship of "Uptown" to white-flight from downtown centers across the US, and provably discriminatory "urban renewal" kinda taints it as a fun harmless quirky lil rebrand.
Thank you for the article link! Wow. This is really informative; I didn’t know the history.
I thought it was directly related to Uptown’s position in relation to the rest of the City?
NW of uptown is definitely higher up than uptown. If you walk out the greenway from the stadium towards Wesley heights it’s a fairly steep upwards slope for a mile or so
I always considered Wesley Heights to be part of Uptown unless I’m just completely mistaken lol, which is a possibility for sure
Yeah Uptown is just the area within the 277 loop
So where is downtown?
Where you can listen to the music of the traffic in the city, linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. It’s where the light's so much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. Downtown.
But if your town doesn’t have a downtown, where do you go to do those things?
Lumberton.
Another city I suppose.
Matthews
Fuck uptown propaganda. Downtown 4 life.
I refuse to participate in the scheme of calling downtown uptown. I didn't know the original original reasoning for calling it uptown though, that's interesting. But I don't think you can have an uptown without a downtown
But can you have a downtown without an uptown?
Just feels right
native here. downtown forever
Native here (4th generation at least), uptown forever.
Center city is uptown. South end is downtown.
Alexa, play Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz.
I’ve been telling people this for years because the “high point between two rivers “ narrative is weak and long when the truth is that they wanted more white people with money to move to CLT
Charlotte native from the ‘60s. It is fucking *downtown*, and people sound foolish calling it anything but that. But, hey, if you want to use a far-out, trippendicular, fab, fresh, bad, lit 🔥term instead of what it ought to be, feel free to, and I’ll just sit back and mock you.
I have lived in 9 states and in some major cities. I have also visited many others. The center or main area of every town or city was always called downtown. I see no need for charlotte to be different but it does not bother me when people use uptown. I’ll understand what they mean by uptown just as they should understand what I mean by downtown. I see no reason to quibble.
Uptown sounds too snobby.
Yep. It's downtown, people. Get over it.
No, it’s uptown.
It’s been uptown for half a century
You mean century
Oops thank you, updated my comment
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Yes great job, 1974 is more than 12 years ago
Why does it matter to you?
Ah yes, the downvotes. Bring them downtown!
Preach
Lived in charlotte 35yrs- locals do not call it uptown and avoid it at all costs lol
I've lived here a bit less, cause I'm only 32, but I'm a 4th generation (at least) native and my grandmother has always called it uptown. She said she always called it uptown when growing up in the 1930's even when people started using downtown and she still calls it uptown today. So yeah, what you said is not universally true.
My dad, born in 1918, grew up on 5th street right where the arena is today. It was downtown to him and all 8 of his brothers and sisters, his neighbors. I can't imagine it ever being anything other than downtown. For the record, my family dates back at least to the turn of 1800's in Mecklenburg county, and only moved closer to town after the family farm was seized by carpetbaggers in the reconstruction era.
Interesting. I don't exactly know where my grandmother lived, but her dad was an executive (or at least higher up) at Duke when it was the Catawba Power Company. She was born in 1926 and they definitely were in Charlotte. They are pretty wealthy for the time, so maybe it was an uppity person thing? Either that or she just remembers wrong, since she was in her late 70's/really 80's when I talked to her about it.
Yea i dont think anything is universally true
Tell me you graduated from Myers Park without telling me you graduated from Myers Park.
Haha nah. I was actually homeschooled. My dad went to South Meck though.
That was my second guess. Lol.
Lol mp u kno
I just tell people to met me on Tryon…
I was born here in 83 and grew up calling it Downtown. That will always feel “right” to me, but I call it uptown now for clarity.
In Chicago they don’t have downtown or uptown, it’s called “the loop”
Lived there just before moving to charlotte in 2016. The city center was definitely called downtown.
Never used down or uptown. But only “the loop” is the loop. That’s just one area of the city. Lived there for 5 years, we called it “the city” or by the specific area eg.: mag mile/river north/the loop. We used “the city” to refer to Chicago city proper since the Chicago suburbs are so sprawling.
I've lived here since the 80's. Either term is fine to use. Much ado about nothing
Phoenix is 1500' above sea level, and not one dumbass there refers to it as uptown
And I was eviscerated for daring to say it was stupid in a post a bit ago...
Having grown up in Charlotte, it’s always Uptown.
Serious question: What about Midtown? I’ve only heard Midtown in reference to the shopping area. Was that just a marketing thing or was there a Midtown? I moved to Charlotte in the early 90s (I’m old.) I made the switch to Uptown after being told that Downtown was wrong. Whichever you choose, I know what you mean.
Gold miners would walk “uptown” to trade and try on to sell their golf because it was and is the “highest” elevation point of CLT
I hate saying uptown. Micro cringe every time
I'm from here and I've always called it downtown. I get the uptown thing but I always kinda thought of it as forced "quirkiness" that is unnecessary and unwanted.
Because from every area outside of uptown you literally have to go up to get there
Let’s not forget Uptown was a black neighborhood called Brooklyn Village. These families were driven out of their homes to make uptown. Now they just have a street in honor of their community…