This Date in History

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On this date in 2004, Indiana Pacers star Metta Sandiford-Artest (Ron Artest) jumped into the stands to confront a Detroit Pistons fan who had thrown a drink on him, igniting a brawl between fans and players that came to be known as the “Malice at the Palace.”
On that same night, eventual men’s college basketball national champion UNC Tar Heels lost its season opener to Santa Clara.

I watched both the UNC game and “Malice in the Palace” while sitting at the bar at Picasso’s on East Boulevard in Charlotte. I have been told that the bartender serving me that night was Roy Williams’s nephew. I don’t know if that’s true, but he definitely looked like him.
 
On this day in 1977 Anwar Sadat personally traveled to Israel to present a peace plan to the Knesset. This act ultimately cost Sadat his life, which he must have known it would before he ever left Egypt. And now Isreal is ruled by Benjamin Netanyahu, who thinks starving and bombing civilians will somehow cause Palestinians to suddenly embrace the "Freedom" Israel offers.
 
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#OTD (November 19) in 1958 one of the most famous Tar Heel-related tunes hit #1 on the Billboard Charts — “Tom Dooley” as sung by The Kingston Trio. Lots of us can sing that one and quite a few know the sad and too common backstory of love and violence it tells. But what else is ‘Out There’ that mentions North Carolina or a place, event, or person with Old North State connections? “The Wreck of the Old 97,” sung by many but made most famous by Johnny Cash names Spencer, NC in the opening stanza. Ben Folds Five’s “Where's Summer B?” laments the downfall of Chapel Hill’s beloved loon magnet The Hardback Cafe. Townes Van Zandt once looked up from Texas at a “Greensboro Woman” - a song for driving if you ask me. What Other Songs Can You Name (or link below to a YouTube or Lyrics site?) Kingston Trio Hits the Top of the Charts with “Tom Dooley” in 1958

This could have its own thread...perhaps it did so before I arrived.
 

Key concept: The city needs to acknowledge what they did and apologize for what they did.

People who know exactly what the city did are still alive. The problem is not that this is ancient history. The problem is many people in the area think the protestors got what they deserved and the only thing the city needs to apologize for is that Klan/Nazis didn't kill more. Until the attitude that the protestors got what was coming to them changes, the city will never apologize.
 
Downtown and Cameron Village. Where to shop 50s and 60s.

The upper building close to Oberlin housed my pediatrician's office along with a bunch of others. The Hobby Shop a long tine tenant was the home of model trains, model kits and all kinds of neat shit kids and some adults loved.

I've posted before on IC that the Sears store (where HT is - both up and downstairs) had the White and Colored drinking fountains. My brother and I would wait for the blue/white haired ladiies to come by and drink from the Colored. Shocking! We said the water always tasted better from that one. If mom was nearby she would agree and sometimes take a gulp herself. Our little form of Civil Rights protest.

Knew a couple girls who worked in the "mod/hip" clothing stores in the Subway and waited at the Pier as well. Later a friend lived in one of those townhouses right behind the Subway. Spent quite a few nights on the couch there... Buffet decided he needed a regular backup band while hanging around the Pier one night after a show; thus the Coral Reefers. Cafe Deja View was a more jazzy place. Many memories and even more lost from the fog and haze of the times.

Now weekend nights might find you driving around a while trying to find a parking space if you want to dine there.
Don't think I've ever heard that Buffett story before. That's pretty awesome.
 

I was dating a UNC Law student that was "clerking/interning" for a Law firm on the "good side " in this case . She reviewed video tapes for hours of the goons pulling out guns and shooting the folks killed. It was very clear to her it was premeditaded muder
 
On November 20, 1947, (then) Princess Elizabeth married Phillip Mountbatten. On November 20, 1992, Windsor Castle nearly burns down. Coincidence? Traditional 45th Anniversary gift - A Fire Sapphire.
 
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