Chapel Hill, Carrboro, & UNC Stuff

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Way back in the day my older brother and a partner opened what I think was the only, first, water bed store in the area. It was in some strip mall in Durham. My parents were in town and wanted to see it-so he had to hide all the pipes he was selling before they got there.......
 
mpaer said:
Way back in the day my older brother and a partner opened what I think was the only, first, water bed store in the area. It was in some strip mall in Durham. My parents were in town and wanted to see it-so he had to hide all the pipes he was selling before they got there.......
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That must have been the late 60s. I know Lilypad (?) was on W. Franklin in 70.
 
donbosco said:
Did/do you know them?
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I knew her daughter Debbie real well-same age as me -we hung out with the same folks a lot as young teenagers
I knew the Jorgensen boys -in the sense that it was a small town
Paquita was a lot more exotic than your average Mom!
 
IIRC, that site was once home to an Adam and Eve store, maybe even the first. That was when another Phil Harvey enterprise, IPAS, also had a home in downtown Carrboro.
 
I was trying to recollect the previous homes of the PTA Thrift Store…I think it may have once been right along Franklin near The Cave and maybe even in the Local 506 spot?
 
Back in the day my wife (now ex) was a school teacher Thrift shop money was real
Then they decided to build a multimillion dollar building and instead of relying primarily on volunteer workers-to hire a bunch of paid staff
I never understood that
It literally took $ out of the classroom
 
mpaer said:
Back in the day my wife (now ex) was a school teacher Thrift shop money was real
Then they decided to build a multimillion dollar building and instead of relying primarily on volunteer workers-to hire a bunch of paid staff
I never understood that
It literally took $ out of the classroom
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Yeah. I volunteered some there when I had three in the school system. The whole family did. I saw people there who didn't have and didn't ever expect to have kids volunteering. Well, I say that because her ex-wife was our maid of honor but I think it's a safe assumption.
 
When I was doing the white shirt/black pants service world The PTA Thrift Store clothed me and pretty much everyone I worked front with.
 
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