UNC, Chapel Hill, and Carborro History

[donbosco]

Hideaway!!

 

[finesse]

I remember that now. I could see it but couldn't recall it either. I'm not sure if I was ever in it.

 

[grimes70]

Very good don. The Hideaway. I bet I at least visited once.

 

[donbosco]

I think there was a bit of shrubbery on that lot in those days and the place was literally a bit hidden away.

 

[finesse]

I think there was a bit of shrubbery on that lot in those days and the place was literally a bit hidden away.

There was. You could only see it from the entrance to the parking lot. There was a wall of bushes more than head high in front.

 

[donbosco]

And "Roy Rogers" was behind it in those days.

 

[mpaer]

And "Roy Rogers" was behind it in those days.

Okay
Now I know where it was !

 

[donbosco]

I probably saw more basketball players late-night in RR's during my undergrad days than anywhere other than the court.

 

[finesse]

I went there a lot. They had good roast beef sandwiches.

 

[mpaer]

I went there a lot. They had good roast beef sandwiches.

Still go one about 3-4 times a year off the interstate in Wytheville in my rides up there

 

[finesse]

Still go one about 3-4 times a year off the interstate in Wytheville in my rides up there

I didn't know they were still around. It's been years since the one on Mallette St. closed.

 

[donbosco]

I too had no idea they still existed.

Howdy Pardner...want a holster of fries with that burger?

 

[Zoo_View]

Folks like to say that if everyone who claims to gave been at this REM show was actually there they’d have needed the Dean Dome.

I really was.

The Station is now an art gallery and tea lounge.

 

[Zoo_View]

Speaking of drinking…

Question. I love The Dead Mule Club, even tended bar there briefly. And I remember Oxbow Music - bought tickets for shows there from time to time. But wasn’t there a beer bar in this little house on Franklin Street before Oxbow?

Pretty certain that when it was The Hideaway it didn’t have a deck…..the bushes were huge and covered the front of the little old house.

 

[donbosco]

Oh yeah...I remember when Dead Mule expanded that deck. It was just a little porch at first.

 

[uncsig]

I didn't know they were still around. It's been years since the one on Mallette St. closed.

Bought and ate many a Double R Bar from that location.

 

[grimes70]

And "Roy Rogers" was behind it in those days.

I went out with a girl who lived in the house next door to the Trigger Burger (as I called it) on Mallette St. God, sometimes the smell was overwhelming. But damn good burgers.

I would try to hit RRs on the NJ turnpikes or wherever once you could only find them up there.

 

[donbosco]

Founded 70 years ago...

Doug Clark's Hot Nuts

Doug Clark's Hot Nuts have changed faces many times since their beginning in Chapel Hill, NC in 1955. The North Carolina Cover band's style has always been the same however and continues to thrive through parties all over the eastern United States.

musicgardenbands.com

 

[05C40]

Founded 70 years ago...

Doug Clark's Hot Nuts

Doug Clark's Hot Nuts have changed faces many times since their beginning in Chapel Hill, NC in 1955. The North Carolina Cover band's style has always been the same however and continues to thrive through parties all over the eastern United States.

musicgardenbands.com

Apropos of nothing, but Doug Clark's mother was a nurse, at the Student Infirmary in NC Memorial Hospital.

 

[finesse]

Apropos of nothing, but Doug Clark's mother was a nurse, at the Student Infirmary in NC Memorial Hospital.

I've about two blocks from them for a while when I lived on the far end of Johnson St. In the 70s. They were in the good part of the neighborhood. I got to admit, I got a little paranoid walking back after the bars closed a few times.