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August 8, 2007 Staff Photo by Takaaki Iwabu
Phoebe Andrews, left, and Jeremy Clos clean up dressing rooms at Raleigh Creative Costumes on the store's last business day. The 32-year-old theater costume business on Hillsborough Street closed July 30. Andrews, 18, who had worked at the store since she was 14, first as a volunteer and then as a part-time worker, described herself as 'really bummed out.' Her father worked for N.C. State's University Theatre when she was a child, Andrews said, and 'I grew up in the back of Thompson Theater.' Clos, another longtime employee of the store, runs The Tudor Shoppe, which specializes in Renaissance costumes.
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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