Chapel Hill/Carrboro History

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The guy who painted the original sign for Tijuana Fats also painted the sign for a bar that was where the bottom floor of He's Not Here is. Anybody remember it?
 
I remember a couple of places down there - especially ‘Beefy’s Hit Dogs.’

Speaking if ‘He’s Not Here.’

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grimes70 said:
I have an older brother that practically lived there, his wife kept the books there and his baby girl grew up there say some. He considered Kitzmiller one of his closest friends and actually bought a house once that was close enough to walk home to at night
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Kitzmiller was perfect as the owner. An interesting past long before the bar business. Nice guy.
 
05C40 said:
Are you the one with a hand on the cute girl's butt?
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From ‘67 thru about ‘73 or ‘74, I’d have been one of the tow-headed urchins rampaging around the Village Green late in the afternoon many days of the week……my Dad was BY FAR the youngest faculty member in his department (hard science)…..my parents mostly socialized with grad students in those years b/c they were so much younger than the next-youngest faculty member……,Dad was younger than most grad students.

A colleague of Dad’s and a departmental grad student briefly ran a hot dog business in the Village Green in that era.
 
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Zoo_View said:
From ‘67 thru about ‘73 or ‘74, I’d have been one of the tow-headed urchins rampaging around the Village Green late in the afternoon many days of the week……my Dad was BY FAR the youngest faculty member in his department (hard science)…..my parents mostly socialized with grad students in those years b/c they were so much younger than the next-youngest faculty member……,Dad was younger than most grad students.

A colleague of Dad’s and a departmental grad student briefly ran a hot dog business in the Village Green in that era.
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Was that ‘Beefy?’

Kitzmiller’s Obituary - he passed on in 2022: Obituary of David Kitzmiller | Walker's Funeral Home - Chapel Hill
 
donbosco said:
Was that ‘Beefy?’

Kitzmiller’s Obituary - he passed on in 2022: Obituary of David Kitzmiller | Walker's Funeral Home - Chapel Hill
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Let me ask…..one of the two proprietors still lives……and, as families we’re tight.

It was quintessential Chapel Hill - one with his doctorate from MIT and an as-yet-not tenured faculty position at UNC and the other either earning his Ph.D from UNC or had earned it and was seeking a faculty position, but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill……

So, for a brief time, they sold hot dogs in the Village Green (before the Village Green was He’s Not Here.
 
Zoo_View said:
Let me ask…..one of the two proprietors still lives……and, as families we’re tight.

It was quintessential Chapel Hill - one with his doctorate from MIT and an as-yet-not tenured faculty position at UNC and the other either earning his Ph.D from UNC or had earned it and was seeking a faculty position, but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill……

So, for a brief time, they sold hot dogs in the Village Green (before the Village Green was He’s Not Here.
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Man don't I know the finished the PHD but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill sense of things...managed to post-doc it for a few years (even stomached two years at dook) then 15 years commuting to GSO until I finally had to let go and head west (and north).
 
Just finished Tom Maxwell's, " A Really Strange and Wonderful Time.". Very enjoyable.

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donbosco said:
Man don't I know the finished the PHD but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill sense of things...managed to post-doc it for a few years (even stomached two years at dook) then 15 years commuting to GSO until I finally had to let go and head west (and north).
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Walker Brown is still doing roofing work in Chapel Hill (although, I doubt he’s on roofs much these days).
 

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The Pink House was like an underground United Nations. Chapel Hill's aspiring artists, musicians, poets, DJ's, activists, actors, writers, nudists, flutists, knuckleheads, and couch-surfers, all living together in (relative) harmony, united by their common bohemianism. Life inside the Pink House...
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donbosco said:

Pink House Forever

The Pink House was like an underground United Nations. Chapel Hill's aspiring artists, musicians, poets, DJ's, activists, actors, writers, nudists, flutists, knuckleheads, and couch-surfers, all living together in (relative) harmony, united by their common bohemianism. Life inside the Pink House...
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After my time but pretty cool just the same.
 
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