Chapel Hill/Carrboro History

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grimes70 said:
. . .. The Scorboard was about as close as I came to that world.
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If we are talking about the same place, The Scoreboard Bar and Grill, near the intersection of Franklin & Columbia and across Columbia from the Zoom Zoom, IIRC, that was where I had the first legal beer of my life. Back then, the legal drinking age in NC, for beer, was 18. I turned 18 about a week or two before I started at UNC. Once seated at the Scoreboard B&G, I ordered a PBR and wasn't even carded. I looked up at the wall and saw the "Roll of Honor," or maybe it was the "Hall of Fame" accompanied by a list of names. Upon inquiring what that was, I was informed to become one of the immortals on that wall, I would have to register and then consume 100 tall, i.e., 16 oz, PBR's within 7 days of starting. I looked around and saw that I was, by far, the skinniest person in the bar. Then and there I decided that in terms of milliliters of beer per kilogram of body weight, I didn't stand a chance. After finishing my beer, I departed and thereafter frequented places where "lightweights" like me were more common.
 
05C40 said:
If we are talking about the same place, The Scoreboard Bar and Grill, near the intersection of Franklin & Columbia and across Columbia from the Zoom Zoom, IIRC, that was where I had the first legal beer of my life. Back then, the legal drinking age in NC, for beer, was 18. I turned 18 about a week or two before I started at UNC. Once seated at the Scoreboard B&G, I ordered a PBR and wasn't even carded. I looked up at the wall and saw the "Roll of Honor," or maybe it was the "Hall of Fame" accompanied by a list of names. Upon inquiring what that was, I was informed to become one of the immortals on that wall, I would have to register and then consume 100 tall, i.e., 16 oz, PBR's within 7 days of starting. I looked around and saw that I was, by far, the skinniest person in the bar. Then and there I decided that in terms of milliliters of beer per kilogram of body weight, I didn't stand a chance. After finishing my beer, I departed and thereafter frequented places where "lightweights" like me were more common.
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That was the place all right. A guy in my dorm made the list.
 
I used to occasionally eat there. Never had more than a beer or two. I do remember that list, though.

Never went to the Shack much. Wheaties Richardson had it by the time I ever went there.
 
05C40 said:
If we are talking about the same place, The Scoreboard Bar and Grill, near the intersection of Franklin & Columbia and across Columbia from the Zoom Zoom, IIRC, that was where I had the first legal beer of my life. Back then, the legal drinking age in NC, for beer, was 18. I turned 18 about a week or two before I started at UNC. Once seated at the Scoreboard B&G, I ordered a PBR and wasn't even carded. I looked up at the wall and saw the "Roll of Honor," or maybe it was the "Hall of Fame" accompanied by a list of names. Upon inquiring what that was, I was informed to become one of the immortals on that wall, I would have to register and then consume 100 tall, i.e., 16 oz, PBR's within 7 days of starting. I looked around and saw that I was, by far, the skinniest person in the bar. Then and there I decided that in terms of milliliters of beer per kilogram of body weight, I didn't stand a chance. After finishing my beer, I departed and thereafter frequented places where "lightweights" like me were more common.
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Is the Scoreboard where the original Linda’s was and where the Hardback Cafe was?
 
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Is there a Feel About Chapel Hill for you like no other place? On January 2, 1963 the novel ‘Sand Pebbles’ was published by Harper & Row. The author of the war saga set on a gunboat on the Yangtze River in China in 1925 was Richard McKenna who spent the last 11 years, the creative ones, of his life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. McKenna served from 1931 to 1953 in the U.S. Navy. Books caught hold of him at 40 though and he left the sea behind when his captain, seeing the ignited drive to learn new things urged him to go to Carolina because it was good place for “a man with a purpose.” McKenna found something in Chapel Hill that inspired him. Many have. Linked here is a short article from 1962 (It will take 4 minutes to read) about a UNC and a Chapel Hill that was on The Edge. I don’t know as I’ve been gone from “The Southern Part of Heaven” now for over 15 years but maybe that purposefulness still inhabits the place despite the recent strong efforts to level it and make it mediocre. I pray that at any rate.

Education: A Place for Purpose
 
As an ex part-time employee, I never knew IRSS went back so long nor played a part in the creation of the TVA.
 
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