Corchiani's

Cazadores

Rockola

Police substation

GO!

7/11/2012 8:15:40 PM

every time we walked into los calzadores the main wiater dude would yell "TEQUILLLAAAAAAA"

[Edited on July 11, 2012 at 8:17 PM. Reason : me and Biofreak70 drank them out of tequila once]

7/11/2012 8:17:24 PM

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"Corchiani's"

this. i always ordered their pizza for delivery over gumby's when in the dorms...unless i wanted pokey sticks.

7/11/2012 8:18:07 PM

Carvel ice cream

that place that replaced them sucks ballsacks

7/11/2012 8:19:39 PM

Damn, when/where was Carvel I don't remember that?

Oh and remember when Pearl was a plane Jane, now they got whole ecosystems and flat screens in the dining room, I'm glad the microphone hasn't changed though.

7/11/2012 8:22:26 PM

^its now bada bar

7/11/2012 8:23:33 PM

lol Mr Tequila man... hahaha I couldn't believe it that day they ran out!


and there are waaaaay too many memories from Avent ferry to list here (many I probably don't want to admit too).

7/11/2012 8:28:24 PM

sledding at avent ferry complex during snow storm '04

7/11/2012 8:33:52 PM

jake

7/11/2012 8:36:04 PM

There's two guys that have been at that post office forever, one is tall and named Romeo and the short guy with the high-pitched voice that kind of looks like Herb Sendek, his name is escaping me at the moment

7/11/2012 8:36:30 PM

Rock-Ola was good in its prime. I remember going there with my parents as a high school senior, spring 1998, after being on campus all day for scholarship interviews, and watching NC State beat UNC (who were in the top 10 at the time). 86-74 with stellar play from C. C. Harrison.

Also many times going to Blockbuster to rent DVDs.

7/11/2012 8:44:20 PM

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"sledding at avent ferry complex during snow storm '04"

oh man we went sledding in the neighborhood behind AV, sled was a baking tray pulled by an suv

7/11/2012 9:16:49 PM

i was at a party in those shitty houses on the low side of the road near the crest intersection when fran was rolling in. the power went out, but the host had plenty of candles.

7/11/2012 9:32:11 PM

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"AVENT FERRY REVERSE"

7/11/2012 9:37:37 PM

I was in sullivan for fran, that shit was nuts, throwing pennies off the walkway and they went straight up

7/11/2012 9:38:02 PM

i ended up passing out in a house on maiden. my friend woke up in a car in the driveway with a huge tree down right beside it.

7/11/2012 9:41:31 PM

I went to Rockola for the first time in probably 1989. My dad loved the onion rings.

I remember sitting in a booth there and watching Micheal Jackson's "Leave Me Alone" video.

It's also where I saw Tom Suiter a few years later. I was in awe at the time, but looking back, it's pretty dumb that I somehow was surprised to find him eating at a place next door to his office.

7/11/2012 11:34:49 PM

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"There's two guys that have been at that post office forever, one is tall and named Romeo and the short guy with the high-pitched voice that kind of looks like Herb Sendek, his name is escaping me at the moment"

hahaha, both are definitely still there. can't remember that other guy's name either but he is always way too happy about being at the post office.

7/12/2012 8:03:25 AM

Rockola had great wing sauce. used to kill those wings

7/12/2012 8:20:07 AM

Indian dudes getting hit by cars trying to cross back to the apartments from Centennial

7/12/2012 11:59:05 AM

Cloos' Coney Island.
Good burgers. Not a fan of the dogs with the skin, but other people seem to like them.

7/12/2012 12:12:03 PM

As the TWW resident Rockola waitress, I definitely have to say Rockola is my best memory of Avent Ferry! I was thinking of it this morning on my run even, I passed a girl who looked like she was walking to work at Chipotle, and it reminded me of all the times I would walk to work at Rockola.

Onion rings, yes!

Buffalo sauce, oh yeah! Chicken wings rolled in buffalo, then refried, then rolled again... mmmmmmm

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"It's also where I saw Tom Suiter a few years later. I was in awe at the time, but looking back, it's pretty dumb that I somehow was surprised to find him eating at a place next door to his office."

oh how I miss working Tom's table. Every night he'd come in a get the same thing, the "Suitor" burger, atleast that's what I called it. He was a vegetarian, so we'd nix the patty and replace it with mushrooms and veggies. Best tipper ever and hardly no work. Some nights he'd leave $30-45 bucks for a tip. that's good money for The Rock.

"As the Rock Turns"

7/12/2012 12:14:20 PM

I remember going to Rockola with a couple of friends, and the waitress was having a shit day. Like, other customers were treating her like ass, the boss was being a dick, etc. She was on the verge of tears. Awkward.

So I tipped her 50 bucks, and left a note that said "things always get better."

7/12/2012 12:23:32 PM

I always enjoyed the food there. I went there more often than I go to the Mexican place there now.

7/12/2012 12:29:31 PM

One time this one waitress was stiffed so I hid a fiver under a glass to make it look like the table was just cheap... She was a good waitress, no reason for them not to tip her

after awhile the people who came to rockola were crap. Most of the best tables were at lunch time during the week, the evening and weekend crowd, slowly stopped coming in. The food never changed.

7/12/2012 12:32:44 PM

Pearl
Mission Valley
UA basketball court.

7/12/2012 12:34:08 PM

Almost plowing face first into the back of a Honda near burger king when my brakes locked up

7/12/2012 12:36:55 PM

Champions.

Used to spend a lot of time in that place. Smoke was so thick it seemed like you couldn't see the back wall.

7/12/2012 12:37:12 PM

One time I watched a tractor trailer jackknife on avent ferry during a snow storm from inside Rockola. I was contemplating going home early because of the snow then saw that and decided, yep it was time to just leave the car and walk home no one was going to come in now anyways

Champions was where I went for my first TWW meetup.

7/12/2012 12:40:22 PM

Rockola cheese fries were the best food available in the City of Raleigh for under $10

7/12/2012 1:17:11 PM

drunk burger king at 4 am, smoking with the manager because he was bored

7/12/2012 1:49:39 PM

Mega Bite Pizza

long walks home from North Shore at Centennial Campus.


trying to warn a girl to get home safe, but sounding like the "you gone get raped guy" instead and making her run in fear.

7/12/2012 2:24:54 PM

Mega Bite Pizza
Pearl
Jax
Blockbuster in Mission Valley
Police substation

7/12/2012 3:09:36 PM

There was a cool "indie" video store in mission valley a while ago that we went to all the time instead of blockbuster. They always had a rack of employee suggestions that were usually pretty cool.

7/12/2012 3:11:15 PM

I'm pretty sure the Varsity didn't card a single person during the summer of 1996. I used to get drunk up their underage and help the waitresses with their summer school math homework.

7/12/2012 3:13:06 PM

Food Lion, oh how i miss thee.....

we used to hit on the lady at pearl all the time, so she tried to hook my bud up with her daughter lol

7/12/2012 3:18:02 PM

i really thought i was the only person that liked that rockola. it's good to hear that more people also liked it.

7/12/2012 3:28:41 PM

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"There was a cool "indie" video store in mission valley a while ago that we went to all the time instead of blockbuster. They always had a rack of employee suggestions that were usually pretty cool."

That was a North American Video, wasn't it? Up in the top row somewhere between Cloos' and Ruckus?

7/12/2012 4:21:55 PM

ya, it was a small chain, there was another in the shopping center off western by the sonic

[Edited on July 12, 2012 at 4:23 PM. Reason : I think thumper used to work there]

7/12/2012 4:23:25 PM

My first night on campus included dinner at Rockola.

7/12/2012 4:25:08 PM

^^^yep, that was it. knew a few people that worked there.

I remember mountian biking around the trails on centenial campus back when there were only a few buildings out there.

7/12/2012 4:44:38 PM

The smell of curry in the air, and the sharp crack of the cricket bat

7/12/2012 5:45:49 PM

^LOL

7/12/2012 5:47:45 PM

Re-stealin 36 beers from a party because people were BITCHES running all the way back to campus.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

7/12/2012 5:50:10 PM

what part of avent ferry did people steal beers from and run back to campus?

7/16/2012 11:55:37 AM

The asian lady who got fucking smashed by a truck near Varsity. She got like 100 yards in the air.

[Edited on July 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM. Reason : Walking from campus to Lake Dam during the 05 ice storm. Stopping at BK on the way and getting a Hoo]

[Edited on July 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM. Reason : tie sandwich]

7/16/2012 12:00:00 PM

All-County Band at Athens Drive HS

7/16/2012 1:17:55 PM

i miss rockola too. we used to go there in college (I lived in wood hall, so we'd walk over to mission valley).

I remember MinkaGrl01 working there ... I also remember go there with her back when i was new on Tdub!

I think the burger i always got was the "sloppy jose" burger... then they changed the menu and it was gone

7/16/2012 1:31:52 PM

Hardee's special for students where you buy a burger, get free fries and drink.

This memory comes with memories of the longest-running diarrheathon in my life.

7/16/2012 3:08:10 PM

^ yessssss. It was like 2.65 and you got a whole value meal. I used to destroy that deal.

7/18/2012 1:05:58 PM