Bob Windsor and his paper was The Landmark. His office was upstairs above the grill at Starpoint. That same building now sports a Dean Smith mural.
GOVERNOR HUNT GETS APOLOGY (Published 1984)
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@heelinhell SAID:
@SmilingJack Said:
I once lived next door to the grill at Starpoint. A fellow named Percy ran and cooked at the grill and fixed the best ribs I ever put in my mouth
I think the building you are referring to was a building that housed a business for washing and drying clothes.
I lived in many different Chapel Hill/Carrboro places back in the day and challenge folks to match or surpass my record:
1) Ruffin Dorm
2)Kingswood Apts
3)University Garden Apts
4) double wide at the top of Wave Road
5)Park and Stay Trailer Park
6)Estes Park Apts
7)trailer park on Airport Road (can't remember the name)
8)house on Barclay Road
9) house on Justice Street
10)Apt under a house on MT Carmel Church Road
11)Gatewood Apts
12)duplex on Hillsborough in Carrboro
13)Sharon Heights Apts
14) house at Starpoint
And since 1982 I have lived in two homes in Carrboro as a semi-responsible adult with my wife and family
That was a party house for many years.
I think the building you are referring to was a building that housed a business for washing and drying clothes.
I lived in many different Chapel Hill/Carrboro places back in the day and challenge folks to match or surpass my record:
1) Ruffin Dorm
2)Kingswood Apts
3)University Garden Apts
4) double wide at the top of Wave Road
5)Park and Stay Trailer Park
6)Estes Park Apts
7)trailer park on Airport Road (can't remember the name)
8)house on Barclay Road
9) house on Justice Street
10)Apt under a house on MT Carmel Church Road
11)Gatewood Apts
12)duplex on Hillsborough in Carrboro
13)Sharon Heights Apts
14) house at Starpoint
And since 1982 I have lived in two homes in Carrboro as a semi-responsible adult with my wife and family
ok, you forced me to derail one last time
Did you rent your apt. from Lee and Lori Graves ? If so then I was your next door neighbor
I'm done now for good...I promise nycfan...I really really do !
It’s funny but we were vacationing at LongBeach when we’re drove up to to Maco to seethe light…Back in the 1960s and '70s heading back home to Chatham County from Long Beach late on a Sunday meant night driving for Deddy. It also meant that as we drove old highway 87 homeward that we passed over the railroad tracks at Maco. So we had to slow way down and look look look down the track as we crossed the railroad there at Maco on the way back from the beach to spy the light of Old ‘Joe’ Baldwin’s lantern as he searched for his missing head. I’m sure I saw it at least once. In college once I even trekked down the trail there in pursuit and on another occasion some very peculiar things transpired along that desolate stretch of highway.
On January 4, 1856 Conductor Charles Baldwin was mortally injured in a train accident near Wilmington. From this tragedy was born the Ghost Tale of The Maco Light and headless ‘Joe’ Baldwin a-searching along the tracks, light in hand. The clipping below is from ‘The Wilmington Daily Journal’ January 11, 1856.
Origins of Maco Light Legend Date to 1856
On January 4, 1856, a train accident on the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad occurred near Wilmington, giving rise to an enduring North Carolina legend. In the neighborhood of Hood’s Creek, about 8 miles outside of Wilmington, the locomotive on the night mail train was using steam faster than...www.dncr.nc.gov
