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Carolina Memories: Gone But Not Forgotten

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Post your pix, recollections, or stories of "The Lost Carolina" here! 

Here's a pic from 1980 I found online, 3 years before I moved in to Douglas, of the crucial real estate right across the street; all are gone now. 7-11, The Big Bird (and DSP), and Stuffy's.

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Pappy's was another spot right across from the Towers in the `1980s. Pappy was a great guy and sponsored  our intramural softball team, Pappy's gophers. A former career Navy man, he was notoriously rough on anyone trying to pass off a fake ID; he collected them and pinned them to his kitchen wall, then publicly shamed the offender, who was of course greeted with hoots of derision from the gathered crowd. He played movies on his big screen all day but also hosted bands. Here's a pic from '86 of a Hootie gig at Pappy's I found online; I am 99% sure I was there, somewhere.

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Greenstreets in 5 Points! Notable on this bill: Tootie & The Joneses, which places this in the mid-late '80s. at that time, there were two dominant local bands made up of USC students: Hootie and Tootie. A buddy of mine was the drummer in Tootie.

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Rockafellas: Saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers here in, oh, 1985 or '86? 

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The Talley-ho club is on Facebook. I can't find any pics from the Opus Lounge and its FVUCK COMMUNISM black light wall.  Same with Gantt's lounge which was in the grease pit of an old gas station on the walk back to my room at the former Columbia Hotel.  There was the 24 hour Capitol Restaurant too. Hell, I don't know of anyone else who ever heard of it.  Here is a pic of the UFO Coffee House.  I frequented it both before and during my Carolina years. 

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The old Capitol Newsstand.

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I was a frequent customer back in the late 1980s.  I remember buying a book on Intel's quality and management processes before I, or most anyone else, even knew who Intel even was back then.

All of the books I bought smelled like cigarette smoke.  LOL

Would usually drop by there at night during the week after working out at the YMCA, then sometimes swing by Bojangles for a Boberry biscuit/chicken on the way home.

 
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