UNC, Chapel Hill, and Carborro History

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Chapel Hill / Carrboro Business Hall of Fame

Edward and Theodore Danziger

The Danziger family brought a taste of the Old World to Chapel Hill and launched a fine-dining empire that educated local palates and championed civil rights. Edward Danziger was a noted...

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Their string licorice was my go to if by chance as a 12 yr old I was on Franklin Street

 

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The 'Uncommon Garden" House on 107 Silo Drive in Chapel Hill.


https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article296123339.html


Great video here

UNCOMMON GARDEN | Floating Stone Productions

floatingstone.com

 

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From Late August, 1994. Stay Tuned.

 

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1994

 

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May 9, 1970.

 

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This photograph hung in a popular Chapel Hill restaurant. I know which one. Do you? Guesses are also welcome.

 

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From Late August, 1994. Stay Tuned.

That was probably the week I started my freshman year of college.

 

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This photograph hung in a popular Chapel Hill restaurant. I know which one. Do you? Guesses are also welcome.

No clue.

Pepper’s had a lot of older photos hanging; so, I’ll go with Pepper’s.

 

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No clue, either but the vintage seems right for Harry's.

 

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Danziger’s?

 

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Pepper’s Pizza is correct.

 

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Shakin Sherman Tate of The Blazers,the great frontman and good friend passed last night. I wanted to get this out to all. Sherman we all love you and will miss playing music with you. Rock on Shakin

~Ron Taylor

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RIP. I knew Sherman but not well at all.

 

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Sherman fronted this band...maybe more prominently he ran the Chapel Hill Franklin Street Record Bar during the 1980s and was a "man about town."



The Blazers were a 1980 Chapel Hill, NC area band featuring Rick Miller and produced by Don Dixon. Rick has had many musical lives including Rick Rock and later P.Hux (Parthenon Huxley).

 

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May 12, 1970.

 

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From 2015.

 

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From 2015.

University Square (or its ruins).

 

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The back of University Baptist Church in the upper left corner…..University Methodist’s steeple in the left background.

That’s the remains of the bank’s drive-up “windows” on the left….was it a BB&T?

So, it’s the “finishing” up of the demolition of that part of University Square.