Chapel Hill/Carrboro History

[Zoo_View]

I should attend one of the tributes of Dex Fest…….problem is I have never liked the music.

 

[Zoo_View]

The Open Eye Cafe...it is still there. Long ago it was, I believe, Scott Rent-All.

Dex was the best. I could always count on him...if I could track him down...to play a benefit for whatever I was fighting back in those days. He washed dishes sporadically at The Hardback Cafe when I worked there too. I've got some good Dex stories like you. Crow has become a mystery. Do you know anything about him these days?

There really are Big Doings in Chapel Hill/Carrboro over the next few days...

Dex Fest celebrates the life and influence of a local legend

Dex Fest 2025 is happening across four nights at four different venues in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. The festival is a celebration of the life and legacy of local musician Dexter Romweber.

www.wunc.org

You’re correct on it being Open Eye and being Scott Rent-All. I just never can remember the name, Open Eye.

 

[finesse]

You’re correct on it being Open Eye and being Scott Rent-All. I just never can remember the name, Open Eye.

I went there a lot more when it was Scott than Open Eye.

 

[donbosco]

Crow is in the area………well, he was……..he might still be.

My brother and Crow attended the AA meetings at the building off Smith Level together for a while. They were “reasonably close” - as close as two addicts can be - Crow is sober at times…..but, unfortunately not long-term.

Crow’s younger brother and I talk on the phone every 3-6 months….keeping track of our siblings…..your question reminds it’s been 6 months…..I need to call him.

Have you ever seen Athens, GA: Inside-Out?

 

[Zoo_View]

Have you ever seen Athens, GA: Inside-Out?

No.

I’m guessing I should.

Is it on-line or in a library? I should buy it.

My aunt lives in Athens (her husband was the long-time Dean of UGA’s School of Education; an academic psychologist); and, her granddaughter is a FR in the limited admission honors program at UGA.

I should buy it and watch it and send it to them.

 

[donbosco]

No.

I’m guessing I should.

Is it on-line or in a library? I should buy it.

My aunt lives in Athens (her husband was the long-time Dean of UGA’s School of Education; an academic psychologist); and, her granddaughter is a FR in the limited admission honors program at UGA.

I should buy it and watch it and send it to them.

Unfortunately it only viewable by purchase. I have the dvd but ways of viewing it are diminishing all around.

 

[Zoo_View]

Unfortunately it only viewable by purchase. I have the dvd but ways of viewing it are diminishing all around.

I’m looking online and wondering if I want to spend $30-40 on a DVD that is scratchy as hell.

Gonna check at the library.

 

[donbosco]

“In 1941, Crook opened Crook’s Corner, a fish shop in a former filling station at West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road in the town’s historically Black business district. Crook lived in the back of the store, where she also sold fabric remnants from a nearby cotton mill, flowers and pecans.”

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article308738100.html#storylink=cpy

 

[donbosco]

I may have posted this before - unsure.

Chapel Hill Segregation Policies-1964. This document/image was gathered from Home | Open Orange

 

[mpaer]

I may have posted this before - unsure.

Chapel Hill Segregation Policies-1964. This document/image was gathered from Home | Open Orange

I was 10 in 1964
So some progress in my life-I don't want to forget that........

 

[finesse]

I was 10 in 1964
So some progress in my life-I don't want to forget that........

Yep. By the standards of that day, all three of my children would be disgraced by their relationships. My older son is married to a Chinese woman, my younger to a multiracial woman and my daughter and her partner are not married after 20 years and a 14 year old son. I think that relationship has some long term potential, btw.

 

[donbosco]

 

[donbosco]

“When you think of something that ties all Tar Heels together, #UNC's first student organization may not be the first tradition that comes to mind.

Dedicated to critical thinking and lively discussion, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies helped establish the University’s libraries, school colors, magazine, yearbook and Carolina Alumni.

Learn more about DiPhi's legacy DiPhi celebrates 230 years of dialogue and debate | UNC-Chapel Hill “

Chancellor Lee Roberts reading the cue cards like a pro.

 

[donbosco]

Posted Before but Perhaps Missed By Many...

"A Walk Down Franklin Street -- 1979"

https://www.carolinaalumnireview.com/carolinaalumnireview/1979march/MobilePagedReplica.action?fbclid=IwY2xjawLMcPdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTWTk1QnN4amZMY0NqbzJBAR6VUEq8xszROR1mIDUwJmJhA_rq4HlWrN4-AiCwGeETLQk7xJwBhF0pZ-z-LQ_aem_h3cNWUFw24b68xQB6PNwag&pm=1&folio=11#pg13

 

[mpaer]

“When you think of something that ties all Tar Heels together, #UNC's first student organization may not be the first tradition that comes to mind.

Dedicated to critical thinking and lively discussion, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies helped establish the University’s libraries, school colors, magazine, yearbook and Carolina Alumni.

Learn more about DiPhi's legacy DiPhi celebrates 230 years of dialogue and debate | UNC-Chapel Hill “

Chancellor Lee Roberts reading the cue cards like a pro.

The diversity of the student body in those days must have led to rigourous debate

 

[donbosco]

#OTD in 1905 Moonlight Graham got in the game - as related through the film, ‘Field of Dreams.' He played baseball at Carolina (and Maryland) and was the brother of Dr. Frank Porter Graham. Chasing Moonlight

 

[donbosco]

I should attend one of the tributes of Dex Fest…….problem is I have never liked the music.

Another local music man died a while back. Sherman Tate was once ‘all over it.’ From The Blazers to The downtown Record Bar…