Chapel Hill, Carrboro, & UNC Stuff
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I had no clue about the first
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Check my post just above...the reason it says that the Dead played twice in Chapel Hill is that they played two days in a row in 1994.
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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.
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.
"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.
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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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."
That was probably the one I went to. I remember less about that night than I might have.
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Remember it well.
Went a couple of times a month the first two years. Got less and less frequent and I almost never ate there the last twenty years they were open.
Still have good memories of their Double Gambler. Apparently there's a place in Pittsboro, the S&T Soda Shoppe , that duplicates it.
Still have good memories of their Double Gambler. Apparently there's a place in Pittsboro, the S&T Soda Shoppe , that duplicates it.
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Does any one remember a guy who everyone called Jesus? I think he thought he was Jesus/ 1960s..His mom was the manager of the Laudromat on Franklin st. Maybe he lived in an apt at Henderson and and Franklin
Tragic suicide end to his life
I get it most of you are not that old-my memories of him are mostly from my older brother
Tragic suicide end to his life
I get it most of you are not that old-my memories of him are mostly from my older brother
I might have but not by that name. I knew them slightly and there was a son that worked as a laborer on a job site with me when I first dropped out of UNC. He had some issues and I wouldn't be surprised if that's who you are talking about. That would have literally been 50 years ago. I can very vaguely recall some faces but not any names