Chapel Hill/Carrboro History

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Knew a head who got to kmow another couple well enough that they would pay all her expenses while looking after their early teens? 2 week summer head vacation. She would sync her real world job vacation to it.

Poured me a few drinks at the El Mo.
 
grimes70 said:
Knew a head who got to kmow another couple well enough that they would pay all her expenses while looking after their early teens? 2 week summer head vacation. She would sync her real world job vacation to it.

Poured me a few drinks at the El Mo.
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Wow...El Mo.
 
donbosco said:
Are those the ones that were adjacent to Old Well but were entered by way of the bypass?
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Adjacent to what was called Old Well Apartments and is now Collins Crossing are the Carolina Apartments. The entrance is on Hwy. 54 By-pass; the entrance is directly across from the road to the Chapel Hill Tennis Club.
 
mpaer said:
Two entrances
One on MLK up towards city Hall on the other side of MLK
One on a road whose name I can't remember On the top it hits Franklin at the Presidents house On the bottom it hits the mini shopping Center on MLF near the Umstead park road lol my memeory
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The road whose name you can’t remember is Hillsborough Street.
 
05C40 said:
My chief recollection at the time was that the swim test for me--a white male who had been swimming as long as I could remember--a trivial, bordering on laughable requirement. But when I found out how many black males had difficulty even floating, let alone swimming, it took on a different tone. UNC, with equal relevance, could have required a minimum time for the 100 yard dash that I could have never achieved, that would have just as trivial to black students as the swim test was for me.
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When UNC instituted the swim test, North Carolina had a ridiculous number of drowning deaths per capita. It might have been the worst in the nation.
 
donbosco said:
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My brother was coming down from Charlottesville to see the show, with a ticket for me. I wasn't much of a fan, but I thought it would be cool to see them live. He hit traffic, so he went straight to the show instead of picking me up. This was pre-cellphone, so I was just sitting in my apartment in Carrboro waiting for him. Bastard. :)

Seriously though, I was bummed to miss the show but my brother made it up to me later, taking me to see them (with Sting opening) at RFK. Glad I got the chance to see them. I remember how overrun Chapel Hill seemed - also pretty cool.
 
SmilingJack said:
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Stopped by an estate sale on Chicken Bridge and thought about you Don Bosco! It was already sold!
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Mitzi Darden used to live out a road on the right on the Chapel Hill side of Chicken Bridge road just before you got to the bridge. Is this where that went down by chance? Mitzi was an original wait there who became an owner along with Clark Church.

That filagreed board was also part of Fats' but I can't quite recollect where it was.
 
Found the website for the Estate Sale off Chicken Bridge Road...that has to be the home of Mitzi Darden. She also had a second-hand/vintage shop for a while called 'Second Hand Rose,' which would explain all that 'stuff.'

I wonder what became of her. She'd be about 75 years old I guess. She was a tough boss.
 
donbosco said:
Mitzi Darden used to live out a road on the right on the Chapel Hill side of Chicken Bridge road just before you got to the bridge. Is this where that went down by chance? Mitzi was an original wait there who became an owner along with Clark Church.

That filagreed board was also part of Fats' but I can't quite recollect where it was.
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That's the place cool multi story home. Figured you would know who it was. Sad to say it was an estate sale by Blue Moon. It was a lot of interesting stuff and I noticed the multiple framed pictures of banditos but I was looking for a wok.
 
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