Hardee's Restaurant and the Mount Holly Public Library
Now in Biblioboard
Hardee's restaurants were well-known in the Southeast in the 1980s. They had some of the best and perhaps most popular fast food promotional items during this time. In almost every antique shop and flea market, you will still find vintage Smurf glasses, and those tiny California Raisin figures that sang and danced in commercials to promote Cinnamon ‘N’ Raisin biscuits.
Wilber Hardee, opened his first Hardee's restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, on September 3, 1960, according to Hardee’s website. In the early '80s, the Hardee’s of Mount Holly was located on 200 South Main St., only a third of a mile away from the library branch.
Several photographs from the "Mount Holly Library Branch" Biblioboard collection show Mount Holly children posing with library cards in hand at their local Hardee’s.
https://library.biblioboard.com/content/3b6afad6-e8c7-49b1-8f58-9a6b13ccea9d
The following photo taken at Hardee’s in 1982 or 1983 (Smurf glasses advertisement on the cash registers).
https://library.biblioboard.com/content/4665937e-36b5-4b11-9cc4-0d3766b580a8
Mount Holly library display, October 1989, of 4th grader Greg Jackson’s California Raisin collection. (Read more about his collection in The Mount Holly News)
https://library.biblioboard.com/content/e0282cf6-25da-453a-be0d-988fdd8caa7d
Brian Brown, Librarian, Local History & Genealogy
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