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Union Station celebrates 100

By Catharin Shepard
Published in News on April 2, 2009 1:46 PM

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News-Argus/MITCH LOEBER

Ed Shumate looks at old photographs of Union Station at the station's 100-year anniversary Wednesday in Goldsboro. Shumate says he played on the Pullman cars as a boy of about 9 years old.

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Mayor Al King, left, Skyler Landers, right, and Martha Bryan, far right, blow out the 100 candles on Union Station's anniversary cake.

World War II veteran Ed Shumate grew up across the street from Union Station and remembers its heyday, even though as a child, he was more interested in climbing on the architecture than admiring it. "I used to climb on...

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