APB: Relocating Dean Smith Mural

[Zoo_View]

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.

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.

 

[donbosco]

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?

 

[Zoo_View]

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?

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?).

 

[donbosco]

Eli Whitney was closer to me as was Sanford.

 

[Zoo_View]

What’s a “Deacon Wall?”

 

[donbosco]

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.

 

[donbosco]

 

[donbosco]

What's going there now? Did the other building and the house behind it get torn down as well?

 

[Geisterfahrer]

Did they save it?

 

[SnoopRob]

Did they save it?

No.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UNC/s/ykNWv8XeMG

 

[Geisterfahrer]

No.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UNC/s/ykNWv8XeMG

Too bad, but on the other hand think of it like a Mandala, here for its moment and then gone.

 

[donbosco]

 

[ChapelHillSooner]

Drove by yesterday and noticed it was gone.

Anyone know what they are building there?

Holding out hope that the developer has plans to put it back together and feature it. I mean that would IMO be a cool architectural feature and elevate both the mural and the project in a kind of old/new way.

 

[Zoo_View]

Drove by yesterday and noticed it was gone.

Anyone know what they are building there?

Holding out hope that the developer has plans to put it back together and feature it. I mean that would IMO be a cool architectural feature and elevate both the mural and the project in a kind of old/new way.

Pretty certain it’s going to be a boring-as-hell convenience store AND the Dean Smith Mural is now in a dump somewhere.

 

[Granville]

Drove by yesterday and noticed it was gone.

Anyone know what they are building there?

Holding out hope that the developer has plans to put it back together and feature it. I mean that would IMO be a cool architectural feature and elevate both the mural and the project in a kind of old/new way.

Circle K , I think

 

[mpaer]

Circle K , I think

Gross...........

 

[BubbaOtis]

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.

I remember going to that ABC store before a UNC football game. I asked the clerk for a pint of Jim Beam and he reached down under the counter and handed me one from the case he kept handy. Apparently it was a big seller.

I saw the bluegrass band, Boone Creek, at tiny Starpoint Tavern. It included a young Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skagga and Terry Baucom, all of whom went on to bigger things in the music world

Good times..

 

[finesse]

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.

Long standing joke was that the biggest difference between Baptists and Methodists is that the Methodists would say hi in the liquor store.

 

[donbosco]