Fire on Fidelity: Chapel Hill, Carrboro, & UNC Stuff

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Oddball said:
That fits the time frame -- my dad was at Duke 67-71 and one of his best friends was a DKE at Chapel Hill same years
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Also, Rusty Clark (class of 1969) was a DKE, so it would make sense if basketball players hung out there. Hmm.
 

Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery*​

Goodfellows* (This was once Harrison's -- it was known as an English major hang-out in my day)​

Might As Well Bar and Grill​

Sup Dogs​

Max’s Tin Can​

Pantana Bob’s* (I remember this was known as a good place to buy drugs)​

Carolina Coffee Shop* (Timelessly ancient)​

One40 Social​

Spicy 9 Sushi Bar & Asian Restaurant​

Blue Horn Lounge* (Once Jeff's Confectionary -- had a beer or three there too)​

Rams Corner​

The PITCH​

Dead Mule Club**​

Zog’s Art Bar & Pool Hall* (Upstairs above Henderson Street Bar -- once owned by Tim Kirkpatrick, blocking back to All-American Don McCauley)​


14 bars listed here...stars are beside ones where I have had at least had a beer (I don't really drink distilled spirits). The Dead Mule Club gets two stars because I actually tended bar there once many years ago.

During my 25 years tending bar in Chapel Hill/Carrboro I never enjoyed Bar Golfers...at The Hardback Cafe they could be very much in the way and by the time they got to Tijuana Fats/Henry's Bistro they were usually so lit as to either be unservable or true pains in the ass. Back in those days The Dead Mule was a private club so it was not on the circuit. Local 506 was the same. I do not ever remember Bar Golfers at The Cave, I think it was too scary. Bar Golf was not played at The Orange County Socialist Club -- too, too far from campus.

The article linked in the post above does have some interesting observations about what drinks are popular and the nature of some of the clubs.
 
I played bar golf once - in Spring 1988 as a freshman.
There was one guy in the group I didn’t previously know. He didn’t talk much and I don’t think I ever spoke directly to him.
His name was Wendell Williamson.
 
ChileG said:
I played bar golf once - in Spring 1988 as a freshman.
There was one guy in the group I didn’t previously know. He didn’t talk much and I don’t think I ever spoke directly to him.
His name was Wendell Williamson.
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Wendell now leaves his facility for up to 12 hours unsupervised multiple times per week.
 
We were at Proximo (highly recommend btw) last Thursday and kids were lined up in huge line for 4 Corners... had no clue what the "event" was, so assumed it was for the NFL draft.

Asked one of the kids and he was like, "no man, this is senior Bar Golf"... did not realize that was such a big item now, but these kids don't do bars on the regular like we did, so at least glad they still get out to Franklin st on occasion
 
I don't remember bar golf on last day of class as an event in my undergrad days as it is now. As luck would have it, I have been in Chapel Hill for that specific night, hanging out at Top of the Hill. Once I even bought a round of beers for some of the seniors (there was a Latin American kid in the group).
 

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Top of the Hill*

Goodfellows* (Once Harrison's)

Might As Well Bar and Grill (206 West Franklin Street -- almost completely transformed block in recent years)

Sup Dogs (This is the old Pepper's Pizza spot I believe)

Max’s Tin Can (At 201 East Franklin Street...seems like nearby the old Linda's spot -- Linda's is gone right?)

Pantana Bob’s* (The only stop on Rosemary Street)

Carolina Coffee Shop* (Timelessly ancient)

One40 Social (140 West Franklin Street)

Spicy 9 Sushi Bar & Asian Restaurant (140 West Franklin Street Area)

Blue Horn Lounge* (Once Jeff's Confectionary I believe -- had a beer or three in the little back bar there too)

Rams Corner (Vicinity of, or the old location of Pyewacket)

The PITCH (462 W Franklin St -- The Avid Reader/Across from Pyewacket)

Dead Mule Club**

Zog’s Art Bar & Pool Hall* (Upstairs above Henderson Street Bar (Now Rougarou) which was once owned by Tim Kirkpatrick, blocking back to All-American Don McCauley)
 
Very first bar I went to in Chapel Hiil was during freshman orientation and it was on Franklin Street, upstairs. IIRC, it was "The New E." My older brother was good friends and a room-mates with several band members. The band was named, IIRC, "One Night Stand." They had just finished a tour that had fissiled out about half-way through. There were about 12 people in the bar. The band was composed of all good musicians, but no original material, just covers. But there I was, drinking a beer in the bar, the lead singer's girlfriend sitting beside me trying to convince me to rent the other half of the duplex she owned, and to ditch dorm life. Life was good that afternoon.
 
Kirkpatrick's on Rosemary Street for me as freshmen arrived a week early in my day and went through "orientation" which involved keg parties and placement tests mainly as I recall. Kirk's was owned by Tim Kirkpatrick (mentioned above regarding Henderson Street Bar) and was super basic -- cheap beer and a good jukebox. The orientation counselors marched us there on our first night on campus noting that this was the bar where ROGAH's hung out (nickname for denizens of Everett dorm).

My brother also called Kirk's his home bar in those days and realizing that I was a potential pipeline to co-eds he introduced me to his friends, including Kirk himself and his two best bartenders, Mike Rogers and Mike Bledsoe. So I was set from the get-go with a bat that provided pretty much the atmosphere of a den of friends immediately. Tough first semester but I did not flunk out.
 
The Barbee-Hargrave Cemetery is located near the Greenwood subdivision of Chapel Hill on land that once belonged to members of the Morgan, Hargrave, and Strowd families, early inhabitants of the area.

Mark Morgan was among the first settlers in the Chapel Hill area and owned land in an area called the ‘Chappel tract.’ Mark Morgan’s son, Hardy Morgan, inherited the land and received additional land grants from the state of North Carolina in 1779 and 1788. Much of this land was later donated for the establishment of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Barbee-Hargrave Cemetery was part of Hardy Morgan’s land holdings. The land passed from Hardy Morgan to his son, Lemuel Morgan. However, Lemuel Morgan was forced to sell the property at auction in 1845 in order to pay off a debt he owed his cousin, William Barbee.

At the auction, Jesse Hargrave bought the property for $4300. The Hargraves owned the property, including the cemetery, for about 30 years before selling it to Robert Strowd. In 1928, the land was divided into sections and sold.

The cemetery is located at the end of the Greenwood Road and is thus part of the Greenwood subdivision, a neighborhood conceived by Paul Green and his wife Elizabeth Lay Green in the 1940s and 50s. Green gave the cemetery portion of the land to the Town of Chapel Hill in 1958.

There is more information at the link.

www.chapelhillnc.gov

Barbee-Hargrave Cemetery

The Barbee-Hargrave Cemetery is located near the Greenwood subdivision of Chapel Hill on land that once belonged to members of the Morgan, Hargrave, and Strowd families, early inhabitants of the area.Location and Land OwnershipThe Barbee-Hargrave Cemetery is located near the...
www.chapelhillnc.gov www.chapelhillnc.gov
 
CRHeel94 said:
I don't remember bar golf on last day of class as an event in my undergrad days as it is now. As luck would have it, I have been in Chapel Hill for that specific night, hanging out at Top of the Hill. Once I even bought a round of beers for some of the seniors (there was a Latin American kid in the group).
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I remember being in the Dead Mule one night a few years ago and it appeared to be Bar Golf night.

The Mule seemed to be an unwilling participant.

I remember Bar Golf as being more of an impromptu event back in the ‘80’s.
 
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