Satellite Boyfriend: Chapel Hill, Carrboro, & UNC Stuff

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Coming soon: Bynum Commons at the Haw™

The current parking lot will be replaced with luxury condos featuring river-adjacent views of what used to be the Haw.

The historic Bynum General Store will transition into a curated retail experience, anchored by a boutique candle concept and a place that sells $18 toast.

The remaining grounds will be fully paved for convenience, because grass is unpredictable and history doesn’t scale.

We’ve partnered with a developer who specializes in turning deeply rooted, slightly messy, community-driven places into clean, efficient environments with excellent signage and uniform shrubbery.

Honestly, it’s the best thing to happen to the area since Fenton and Sweetwater, finally bringing to Chatham County that same sense of curated charm of Cary and traffic patterns of Holly Springs we’ve all been craving.

We know some folks will miss the old store, the music, the stories, the dust, the weirdness, but progress requires sacrifice, and what better sacrifice than authenticity?

We can’t wait to welcome you to a brighter, smoother, more beige future.

Happy April 1st
 
donbosco said:
I was living in Boone in 1984 going on my second year there and drove down for this show in Chapel Hill with a carload of radical life-time friends (April 6).

www.setlist.fm

The Clash Setlist at Carmichael Auditorium, Chapel Hill

Get the The Clash Setlist of the concert at Carmichael Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, USA on April 6, 1984 from the Out of Control Tour and other The Clash Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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They started up with “London Calling” and concluded with “White Riot,” and played “Rock The Casbah” somewhere around the middle of the show. In 1991 Armed Forces Radio chose to play “Rock The Casbah” for its kickoff of Operation Desert Storm. Joe Strummer wept. Conservatives have embraced the song. The lyrics may have been about the banning of western music in Iran. I cringe to think that trumpists might bring it forward now as yet another attack by the USA has been launched on the region.

Below is the setlist from that Friday night in Chapel Hill.
https://www.setlist.fm/.../carmichael-auditorium-chapel...
London Calling
Safe European Home
Are You Red..y
Rock the Casbah
This Is England
This Is Radio Clash
Three Card Trick
The Guns of Brixton
(In the) Pouring Rain
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
Dictator
Armagideon Time
Police and Thieves
Sex Mad Roar
Janie Jones
I Fought the Law
Ammunition
Brand New Cadillac
Garageland
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
Police on My Back
Tommy Gun
White Riot
 
Unearthed video...scenes of Franklin Street, Carrboro, the railroad tracks and The Pit.




According to Satellite Boyfriend: "As a thousand monkeys banging on typewriters for infinity once wrote in an episode of the Simpsons, “it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.” For Tom Maxwell’s Radio, Television, and Motion Picture class project in the spring of 1986, Tom chose to do a video of our song, “Alicia in the Black Dress.” The tools were relatively primitive in those days but Tom did a great job. The video premiered on UNC’s student television and then disappeared but was salvaged by I‘m not sure whom—Norwood Cheek, Peyton Reed, David Palmer? Tom edited in some bits from the legendary STV’s World of Fun. If you were around back in those days, you’ll see some familiar faces. And of course Stewart Gray steals the show."
 
donbosco said:
Any of y'all remember seeing these on campus?


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I really enjoyed "The Southern Part of Heaven" by Wiliam Meade Prince. Very nice read about a place I never knew but explained things that I hadn't really understood when I was a student. The part about taking his unmarried school teacher to baseball game was a highlight me, particularly how he pre-planned and saved up his anticipated expenses down to the penny
 
mpaer said:
Well when I was kid they were at the Carolina Inn-or was it the little shack snack bar across the street ?
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You're thinking of the Scuttlebutt it sounds like and that is an interesting recollection because I remember them being in a snack bar on the back side of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (aka Jackson Hall/Monogram Club). The snack bar was called The Circus Room.

Here's some infor on that building. There is a photo of interior of The Circus Room with the carvings.
Jackson Hall - Names in Brick and Stone: Histories from UNC's Built Landscape


This mural at this link is certainly reminescent of the Circus carving.


 
05C40 said:
I really enjoyed "The Southern Part of Heaven" by Wiliam Meade Prince. Very nice read about a place I never knew but explained things that I hadn't really understood when I was a student. The part about taking his unmarried school teacher to baseball game was a highlight me, particularly how he pre-planned and saved up his anticipated expenses down to the penny
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That deserves mention on this thread: Off-Topic - Books, Prose, Art, or Music that relates to Chapel Hill

Maybe it has been mentioned there?
 
donbosco said:
That deserves mention on this thread: Off-Topic - Books, Prose, Art, or Music that relates to Chapel Hill

Maybe it has been mentioned there?
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I know you already know this, but I comment on EVERYTHING, regardless of how inane, repetitive, or irrelevant my comment is. And just to demonstrate the whole "repetitive" thing, compare and contrast my previous comment on the thread you mentioned.
"'The Southern Part of Heaven' by William Mead Prince. A book about growing up in Chapel Hill at the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th Century. The carving in the Circus Room is based on an illustration by William Meade Prince. I had a signed copy of the 'The Southern Side of Heaven' that belonged to my grandparents. I loaned it to a younger cousin the summer before he started at UNC. I never saw it again. I actually hope he has it and holds on to it as a beloved treasure. I/R/L, he probably threw it away five minutes after I loaned it to him."
 
I'm got a small collection of books about Chapel Hill that I've accumulated over the years. Used bookstores are so much more uncommon than they once were -- Nice Price in Chapel Hill was a gem as was Rare Books (kind of across from the McDonald's on Franklin Street heading toward Carrboro). Both though are long gone.

Here in Asheville there is Mr. K's (used to be on of these in GSO but I don't know if it is there anymore). At any rate I've got more books scattered along the east coast than I know what to do with.

But that doesn't mean I'm not on the outlook for ones that cover "The Southern Part of Heaven."
 
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