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"WAFFLE HOUSE MARCH"

7/10/2012 4:18:22 PM

I remember going into that shitty club "The Comet" back in the day. My friend (who couldn't dance) got in a dance-off with an asian guy and was losing, so he just grabbed the asian kid's hat and ran out the door.

[Edited on July 10, 2012 at 4:30 PM. Reason : ]

7/10/2012 4:18:33 PM

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/106157/




This was when I was working at PackBackers and we were in the process of moving to the location down the street. On this day we were all at the old location cleaning up the last stuff to move. We were gawking at the flood from the upstairs windows when we realized it was probably flooded down the street at the new location too. We had pallets of books sitting on the floor at the new location and when we got down there the store was flooded. ruined over five figures worth of books and other merchandise.

[Edited on July 10, 2012 at 4:30 PM. Reason : in fact, i'm pretty sure that's me standing under the gelatto place ]

7/10/2012 4:19:10 PM

Damn, ya'll are bringin me back.


Electric Co mall, Mitch's, ACC Tavern, Capporal's, THE 5.0 and THE COMET




Also, I knew PAPA, thanks for the update on him.

We had that vintage store, the coffee place, Manhattan Bagel, Skool Kids, smoke shop, Brothers, 2 Guys

[Edited on July 10, 2012 at 4:30 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on July 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM. Reason : yay]

7/10/2012 4:27:25 PM

Johnny the panhandler. He could be a real asshat.
We had a stray cat that would come into our apt, eat, sleep and leave....we named the cat Johhny because he always wanted something for nothing.

7/10/2012 4:28:04 PM

At one point we lived directly behind North Hall. There was this big black dude that started showing up with things for sale. ONe night he woke me up when I was all alone in the house. I wearily approached the door, and he yelled through the window "you wanna buy this leaf-blower"? Another time he had a book of CDs. He swore he didn't steal them. Another time he asked us what kind of beer we like. 20 minutes later he came back with a couple cases. I think we paid him a few bucks.

[Edited on July 10, 2012 at 4:33 PM. Reason : ]

7/10/2012 4:32:42 PM

I used to live with 3 girls in the first building behind El Rodeo (now something else?) on Chamberlain, and we had an enormous party once with a DJ on the main floor, and a band in the basement. We let a homeless guy who used to always sit on our porch pump our kegs and serve beer for free Doritos and beer.

Holy motherfuck was he drunk. He kept trying to go to sleep on several things, primarily the girls' beds. It took 6-7 people to convince him he was not going to stay there. Sad thing, we didn't see him again for like 3-4 months after that, and we used to see him just about every day.

Turned out, I had a watch stolen, and one of my roommates had her wallet taken. Not that we could prove he had done it, but, fuck you.

7/10/2012 4:34:09 PM

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"its the 98 fsu game where the goal posts were torn down and marched to the waffle house"

I thought it was GTech in 2000?

7/10/2012 4:38:27 PM

^^ We had to kick bums out of our parties all the time.

7/10/2012 4:43:36 PM

we had one that slept inside rolled-up carpet on our porch for a while.

we used to have some crazy parties on stanhope and hope street.

7/10/2012 4:48:32 PM

alpine bagel and caribou coffee where jasmin and global village are now

7/10/2012 5:13:14 PM

Stopping in Amore's when my summer classes let out early and watching old SNLs on the TV.

Foggy memories of a couple crawls.

A standing Thursday El Rodeo night with a group of my friends.

7/10/2012 5:14:56 PM

I restate, it was GT in 2000. 98 was at Florida state.

7/10/2012 10:28:32 PM

I remember the day of the flooding that qntmfred posted up there. I worked in the Hillsborough Building on the third floor at the time, so I had a front row seat to the water rising and to a number of dumbasses trying to drive through it and then looking all confused when their cars stalled out and flooded.

Thankfully I was parked on higher ground near the rose garden.

So I remember Schoolkids being where NY Pizza is now (and Kinko's in the DD/JJ space and the convenience store where Chipotle is). But wasn't there another record store in the late 90's, next to Bruegger's? Was that the Record Exchange?

[Edited on July 11, 2012 at 12:22 AM. Reason : records]

7/11/2012 12:18:37 AM

There's a Cipotle on Hillsborough now?! I really need to at least drive through there sometime.

7/11/2012 7:38:29 AM

Yep. Where the convenience store (Gopak Bazaar, and whatever it was called before that) used to be, between I <3 NY Pizza and the former El Rodeo (now Chile Bomba).

7/11/2012 8:49:17 AM

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"But wasn't there another record store in the late 90's, next to Bruegger's? Was that the Record Exchange?"

oh yeah, i think that was the name... we had a sticker on our foosball table. they'd have bands play in there sometimes. i had forgotten about that.

7/11/2012 9:24:30 AM

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"the convenience store (Gopak Bazaar, and whatever it was called before that)"

zippy mart!

7/11/2012 9:25:20 AM

Getting wasted in Mitch's after nailing a presentation, then stumbling into the student media office and being belligerent.

Getting wasted on margaritas at El Rodeo between classes.

Eating a bunch of mushrooms and going to Cup a Joe. ("memory" might be generous for that one)

7/11/2012 10:16:06 AM

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"playing Jax behind Baxleys"

I always wondered what that sign by the Western Lanes side door on HBorough was about. It said "Cloud and Fire Express." Was that an old bar?

Also, I worked with a guy after college that said he used to spend his Friday nights at the theater on Hillsborough St. throughout the 70s and early 80s. I don't think he knew that I knew that the theater in question was a porno at that time.

7/11/2012 10:29:39 AM

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"I always wondered what that sign by the Western Lanes side door on HBorough was about. It said "Cloud and Fire Express." Was that an old bar?"

I, too, wondered about that. I think so. From inside the bowling alley, it was the darkened room to the right of the restaurant. Never saw it open but it looked like it was fitted out as a bar, as best as I could tell through the windows.

Speaking of which, the bowling alley restaurant in its original incarnation belongs in this thread now. Kind of miss the Western Burger and crinkle fries, and those two ladies who always worked there. Did they ever go ahead with the plans to move Melvins' into the bowling alley?

7/11/2012 10:33:45 AM

7/11/2012 10:42:09 AM

One of my professors for an upper level spanish course wanted to hold class in Mitch's. So, we did our presentations on whatever it was every week sitting around a table upstairs eating hummus.

7/11/2012 10:43:50 AM

The coppertop table at Mitch's is definitely one of my favorite places to post up and drink in Raleigh.

7/11/2012 10:48:54 AM

I remember Maanjri being a terrible bar.

7/11/2012 10:52:19 AM

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"At one point we lived directly behind North Hall. There was this big black dude that started showing up with things for sale. ONe night he woke me up when I was all alone in the house. I wearily approached the door, and he yelled through the window "you wanna buy this leaf-blower"? Another time he had a book of CDs. He swore he didn't steal them. Another time he asked us what kind of beer we like. 20 minutes later he came back with a couple cases. I think we paid him a few bucks."

YOU WANNA BUY THIS LEAF BLOWER? Oh shit that made me laugh.




In more recent memories: the panhandler in front of Brueggers named Slim. He would always be talking on his cell phone, and would turn to you and yell at you for money without putting down the phone, then call you a bitch if you walked past him. REALLY PLEASANT GUY.

7/11/2012 11:46:38 AM

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"The coppertop table at Mitch's is definitely one of my favorite places to post up and drink in Raleigh."

ESPESCIALLY for ACC/NCAA tournament games. that's where we watched every game of the 05 Sweet Sixteen run. best weekend ever

7/11/2012 12:22:56 PM

Bartenders at Mitch's were the best because sometimes they'd be so slack and distracted by friends up at the bar that they'd forget to charge you for stuff.

7/11/2012 3:56:00 PM

oh man, i just remembered the jersey mike's where the (inexplicable) shanghai express now is

damn that was a fine sandwichery, i guess jimmy john's is okay though

there was also a 2-screen movie theater in the electric company mall, like if you went downstairs where the tattoo place is. they showed foreign and independent films.

[Edited on July 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM. Reason : -]

7/11/2012 5:06:56 PM

Is Golden Dragon still around?

7/11/2012 5:08:10 PM

yup, that place has not changed too much

also inflation doesn't seem to have affected it much. still real cheap.

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7/11/2012 5:09:23 PM

might gonna have to take a trip.

7/11/2012 5:09:52 PM

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"When we beat FSU on a Daniel Evans heave, and they drug the goalpost down Hillsborough St. (I actually only have very vague memories of this, i was wasted)"

you're confusing years and games. the BC game was the Daniel Evans heave (though he did beat FSU the same year). also no goalposts went down for either of those games.

PeeWee was legitimately hilarious. RIP Pee Wee

the homeless woman that can't talk seems to have relocated to New Bern Avenue because I see her everyday

7/11/2012 5:18:34 PM

well, i just remember the goalpost being dragged down to the waffle house. i was too drunk to remember the game, apparently.

7/11/2012 6:05:44 PM

No goal post dragging from ~2002 on, when they made them retractable.

7/11/2012 6:14:16 PM

obviously it was prior to 2002 then. i saw the goalpost in the waffle house parking lot!

7/11/2012 6:26:23 PM

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"there was also a 2-screen movie theater in the electric company mall, like if you went downstairs where the tattoo place is. they showed foreign and independent films."

It was a porno theater in the 70s. My dad admits to having seen Flesh Gordon there.

In the early 2000s, it showed foreign films, I know. It's where I saw Princess Mononoke.

7/11/2012 11:38:08 PM

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"I restate, it was GT in 2000. 98 was at Florida state."

incorrect, fsu in 98 was at home and I was there

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/north-carolina-state/1998-schedule.html

I was also at the GT game and the fsu game is where the goals were tore down and taken down hillsborough st

7/12/2012 12:02:24 AM

Brothers

7/12/2012 12:04:21 AM

AxlBonBach:

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"Is Golden Dragon still around?"

TallyHo:

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"yup, that place has not changed too much also inflation doesn't seem to have affected it much. still real cheap."

I remember they changed management or something though, and the flavor of the lo mein changed then too. I don't dislike the place, but I remember enjoying it more in undergrad than during grad school. I miss Sylvias too, but Hotbox isn't a terrible replacement. And I got so many free breadsticks out of them any time we'd win a game.

7/12/2012 1:01:30 AM

The owner of Sylvia's was such a nice guy though. That's what I liked about it, even more than the pizza itself. It was everything that I <3 NY isn't.

I was at that FSU game in '98 too. First NCSU game I ever went to, actually. A start of great promise...that didn't pan out.

7/12/2012 2:35:04 AM

7$ blowjobs from that toothless old hag on Maiden Lane.

7/12/2012 2:56:26 AM

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"I remember Maanjri being a terrible bar."

yeah but when they first opened it was $1 any bottle on Thursdays. No one knew about it for like 3 months. It was nice to have your own place with friends and drink $1 beers on a Thursday. Then it turned into a DJ/Dance club and the mentally handicapped guy would go with his sweat bands and dance his ass off

7/12/2012 8:25:29 AM

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"yeah but when they first opened it was $1 any bottle on Thursdays. No one knew about it for like 3 months. It was nice to have your own place with friends and drink $1 beers on a Thursday."

To add on to that, EVERY beer they had was $1, not just the usual shit domestic beers. So I would get Sierra Nevada. Not that I'm saying Sierra Nevada is awesome, but I went for the better deal.

7/12/2012 8:28:55 AM

i always got newcastle. guinness was the only beer that was not $1 but... it was only $2

7/12/2012 8:32:20 AM

I think the change from KFC to Snoopy's was a good thing.

7/12/2012 10:45:36 AM

Damn, I had forgotten about that being a KFC. I'm not sure if I ever went there before it switched over...maybe once...because I do seem to remember finding it strange that there was no dining room, just carryout.

7/12/2012 10:52:42 AM

Arby's Penis Hat

7/12/2012 11:57:28 AM

There was definitely a game where the goalpost was dragged down Hillsborough St. during my years at State (Fall '99 - Spring '04). I remember a friend of mine was in the crowd that carried it.

It was the Georgia Tech game in 2000.
http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/timelines/this-month-in-nc-state-history-september?date=2000

7/16/2012 4:09:32 PM

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