Chapel Hill, Carrboro, & UNC Stuff

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donbosco said:
"Between 1971 and 1995 the Grateful Dead played 27 shows in North Carolina — that’s Charlotte (12), Greensboro (7), Durham (5), Chapel Hill (2), Raleigh (1).
This concert flyer isn’t fancy, but it’s packed with useful Charlotte-specific info for itinerant Deadheads, including North Carolina’s ban on nitrous oxide."

New in the collection: Grateful Dead flyer – NC Miscellany

I'm not familiar with the first Dead Show in Chapel Hill. Very aware of the one in 1994.
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I had no clue about the first
 
Not sure if any of you fellow olds have been there, but Lapin Blue in Chapel Hill is a pretty awesome little spot. Live jazz most every night, and you can bring food in so we get Als and sometimes IP3 to munch on.

The owner (Mike) grew up here and is a really nice guy. Stop by if you have the time, good to support local biz.
 
Oddball said:
Not sure if any of you fellow olds have been there, but Lapin Blue in Chapel Hill is a pretty awesome little spot. Live jazz most every night, and you can bring food in so we get Als and sometimes IP3 to munch on.

The owner (Mike) grew up here and is a really nice guy. Stop by if you have the time, good to support local biz.
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I certainly haven't been there enough. Mike's certainly been around and all about over the years. Great photographer.

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"I was told this was Ramses II from the 1925 UNC Football season. This hung in the Rathskeller for many years. Finally back up… at Lapin Bleu!" ~ Mike Benson, owner of Lapin Bleu.

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Illustrious, majestic and highly contested: a complete history of the live Rameses | UNC-Chapel Hill

The Rameses that graces Kenan Memorial Stadium today is the latest in a long line of celebrated ovine royalty. But every royal family has its secrets.
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Rememberings: The UNC Class of 1985 sponsored a piece of sculpture titled, “The Student Body.” Created by the artist, Julia Balk, it was not dedicated until 1990 and was originally located at the entrance to Davis Library. I was on campus at that time and admired the piece. This was not the case with everyone, and in retrospect I see that this was another situation where my own eyes needed sharper historical and cultural vision, i.e., to learn better to see what other’s see and feel when they view. From the website, “Commemorative Landscapes” (which I cannot recommend highly enough, Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina | The Student Body, UNC (Chapel Hill)) I quote: “The Student Body monument originally stood outside Davis Library; however the subject matter sparked immediate controversy. The monument contains seven small copper statues of students engaged in representative student activities: an African American man spinning a basketball on his finger, an African American woman balancing a book on her head, an Asian American woman carrying a violin, and a white woman holding an apple and leaning on the shoulder of a man. The student body reacted to the depictions, labeling them as cultural steroetypes.” Continuing from “Commemorative Landscapes,” “Despite the claims by Julia Balk, students felt the sculpture presented a series of stereotypes that should be fought, not displayed on campus. The UNC Community Against Offensive Statues was founded in order to create petitions lobbying for the removal of the monument. A few months after the monument was unveiled, it was vandalized; the figurines were covered with mud and red paint and the basketball was stolen. The University then decided to move the monument to a less prominent location. The basketball player and violin player were later removed without explanation. This installation now stands in a little park between Pauli Murray and Manning Halls (closeby Bynum Gymnasium/Hall). I have always wondered where the basketball player and the violinist ended up.

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donbosco said:
"Between 1971 and 1995 the Grateful Dead played 27 shows in North Carolina — that’s Charlotte (12), Greensboro (7), Durham (5), Chapel Hill (2), Raleigh (1).
This concert flyer isn’t fancy, but it’s packed with useful Charlotte-specific info for itinerant Deadheads, including North Carolina’s ban on nitrous oxide."

New in the collection: Grateful Dead flyer – NC Miscellany

I'm not familiar with the first Dead Show in Chapel Hill. Very aware of the one in 1994.
Click to expand...
The December 8, 1973 show in Cameron Indoor at Duke, I was there, in the Upper Deck. During the intermission, recorded music played and all these beautiful girls down on the Floor Level were dancing in the aisles as spotlights periodically switched from one beautiful girl to the next. I just sat there, in the Upper Level, thinking, "I should have saved more money so I could have purchased a Floor Level ticket."
 
05C40 said:
The December 8, 1973 show in Cameron Indoor at Duke, I was there, in the Upper Deck. During the intermission, recorded music played and all these beautiful girls down on the Floor Level were dancing in the aisles as spotlights periodically switched from one beautiful girl to the next. I just sat there, in the Upper Level, thinking, "I should have saved more money so I could have purchased a Floor Level ticket."
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That was probably the one I went to. I remember less about that night than I might have.
 
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