APB: Relocating Dean Smith Mural

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donbosco said:
I didn't arrive to party until 1976...I think most of my partying in that house took place in '80-'82 or so.

Starpoint was a party marker of sorts for me though. Being from the next-door dry county of Chatham that county line gas station was one of the first places to buy beer. I very clearly remember when coming back to Chapel Hill from visiting my folks down in #DeepChatham that I could stop at Starpoint and buy two Tall Boys, in those days either Schlitz or Bud, and if I hustled I could drink both by the time I got to my dorm (Everett). That exercise would generally get me caught up with the rest of the reprobates in that place.
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I don’t remember buying beer at Starpoint.

I do remember the ABC Store.

Glassed in. Money (cash) and liquor passing through the drawers. No ability for “customers” or employees to touch one another. Definitely a theft prevention method. To this day, either the Carrboro Police or an Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy is outside the ABC Store in Carrboro from 8:30 pm or so until after closing.

Memory/rumor tells me that that ABC Store was the highest volume (or 2nd highest volume) store in the State.

Memory also tells me that Chatham becoming “wet” was GRADUAL.

Beer first. Warm beer.

Then wine. Warm wine.

Then cold beer.

Years later. The ABC Store.
 
They did that "warm" thing in Pittsboro which also had a liquor store long before any other part of the county...it actually preceded other alcohol in Chatham. It was there for the Saturday football crowd heading to Raleigh and Chapel Hill more than anything. I remember going to Horton gym once to play hoops and buying a case of warm beer somewhere in Pittsboro and icing it down so that it would be cool when we quit playing.

Ever hear of a Deacon Wall?
 
donbosco said:
They did that "warm" thing in Pittsboro which also had a liquor store long before any other part of the county...it actually preceded other alcohol in Chatham. It was there for the Saturday football crowd heading to Raleigh and Chapel Hill more than anything. I remember going to Horton gym once to play hoops and buying a case of warm beer somewhere in Pittsboro and icing it down so that it would be cool when we quit playing.

Ever hear of a Deacon Wall?
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Deacon wall? No.

I remember rumors that for a few years, Pittsboro convenience stores sold more ice and styrofoam coolers per capita than anywhere in the state (USA?).
 
Free standing brick wall somewhere around an ABC Store behind which ‘deacons’ and other “respectable” folk can park when making their purchases so tee-totalers and gossips won’t see their cars.
 
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