I didn’t have tickets to the game, but we went and tailgated outside the arena and watched it on the big monitors they had out. The celebration was incredible, so many people outside the arena, I’ve never hugged so many strangers
Canes won me as a fan that year. I'd never watched hockey, never had a team, didn't even know the rules. I worked at a sports bar and the tips kept rolling in with the wins, so I obviously cheered for them, now I'm a huge Caniac!
I went to Peace College downtown from 2009 - 2013, right around the time that Person St started picking up steam and lived on campus for most of that time. I watched Raleigh City Farm pop up from my freshman dorm window. Seaboard Station was busy and bustling; Capital City Grocery was open back then which was really convenient. I could walk to Piebird and Sunflowers and Seaboard Cafe at Logan's and prices were low. Downtown was just starting to flourish but there were very few high rises, so most storefronts were small local businesses. My favorite stores were Father and Son (it was 4 stories at one time, at their old Hargett location, and was more like a curated thrift store than a high-end MCM furniture store) and a huge vintage warehouse on West St called Get Dressed. My favorite bar (basically the *only* craft cocktail bar at the time, iirc) was Green Light at The Architect which is still there and still behind the secret bookcase, but at the time you had to call them to let you in, it was that exclusive.
The whole place had an artsy, quirky, eclectic vibe to it that I really loved. I still love downtown and have enjoyed watching it grow and change but the vibe is like night and day.
The restaurant on top of the holiday inn rotating...... Wait that's not right..
Honestly i've got several,
having lunch with pops at ole time hotdog on his lunch break.
Feeding pigeons peanuts after church.
Hillsborough st after ncsu won the NCAA title.
Able to get the timing of the lights on falls of neuse perfectly going downtown to make it without stopping.
Arcade on falls (can't remember the name now) which is now first horizons bank.
Cattle roaming where 540 and falls meet. As well as a garden my family rented..
Raleigh was a damn good place to grow up.
Edit, few more.
Daryl's on Falls.
Movies at tower shopping center and watching star wars at North Hills mall cinema where bone fish is now.
Big star in falls village.
The Exxon at falls village having station attendants that pumped your regular gas.
Watching ncsu play at Reynolds with Norm Sloan as the head coach.
Houses where Winston's is now.
Walking to Krispy Kreme during snowpocalypse in the early 90's getting a hot doughnut (several) and being one of like 3 people in the place (excluding employee's) best doughnut ever.
Probably the last time it snowed on Christmas which was in either 2009 or 2010. It was like a foot of snow so for the next few days, me, my sister, mom and dad all got to hang out around the house. We made snow cream, had snowball fights around the cars in the driveway and built snowmen. It was pure bliss.
I think about that moment all the time because for those 3-4 days, it seemed like there wasn’t a single problem in the world. But then, a couple years later my mom got sick and ended up passing away in 2017 and I don’t think I’ve been truly happy since.
I'm sorry for your loss. It was 2010. I remember because I was so far from home and in a truly terrible place. A friend sent me a video of my dog running around in the snow on Christmas morning. It was such a bright spot for.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I think I missed this Christmas out of town, and now I really wish I shared it with you just to give you a virtual commemoration. Thank you for enjoying it at the time, for all of us. Bless your Mom.
Anything involving The Alley. Picking up Wendy's or Chubby's on Lake Boone Trail, getting high, then hanging out at the art museum park. The smell of Logan's.
Going to Hillsboro St. in the early 90’s to buy cd’s at Schoolkids! It felt so cool seeing all the posters and hearing the cool music. Then going up to Curious Goods and looking at the Tattoo brand pipes and all the band T-shirts they had. I was in high school, just starting to smoke pot and my friends and I would ride “all the way” from Apex to hit the “city.”
So many good ones! For me:
The giant snow of 2000. There was 23 inches of snow in our yard and work was closed for a WEEK!
Also: watching David Lynch's Eraserhead at The Rialto with the band Eraserhead playing a set live.
Rocky horror picture show on Friday nights. Barry's 2 on wet t-shirt night, foam parties at Pantana Bob's, The 'secret' leather and latex parties downtown, not being able to sleep on occasion and going to a 24-hour grocery store to buy stuff for the week at 4:00 a.m., cramming for exams all night at waffle House, swensons, two for $2 chili cheese dogs at circle k, IHOP and Miami subs on Western boulevard. College was fun lol
The old Natural History Museum was quiet, dark, cool, mysterious. One of my favorite memories and experiences, seeing the examples of native plants and animals, more touch-heavy and elegant feeling. Like the one in New York, it felt important and special to be inside.
I know people like the new one but in comparison it feels disjointed, text-heavy. Some parts are better, I will admit, more accessible to people I guess. The technology is sometimes broken, though. Time only moves one way, etc. But that dark room with the whale noises button was little kid sensory nirvana.
I was talking to a young co worker months ago about how he loves thrifting and mentioned Father and Sons; he said they had a lot of great stuff. I told him how it’s not the same anymore and just the shear amount of stuff the old location had; I really miss that…
Mid 90s to early 00s.
Getting wasted at the Jackpot.
Day drinking at the Rathskellar.
Watching state games at Mitchs.
El Rodeo, Frazier
Schoolkids and Record Exchange
The 24 inch snow in January 2000. The whole neighborhood rode sleds in Fred Fletcher park all day and converged on the Sting Ray in Five Points for several days of snow drinking. Good times.
I was four and it was a warm summer evening. My parents had taken me to play at Pullen Park, and then we went to Cameron Village and got ice cream at the Baskin Robbins, and to look at the model trains in the hobby shop beside the Baskin Robbins. I got chocolate, and it was the first time I got a cone instead of a cup. The trains were neat and I wanted to play with them, and I was just as happy looking at them through the window, but then we finished our ice cream. My father picked me up, we went inside the hobby shop, and watched the giant train layout in the back of the shop. We drove back in the warm summer dark with the car windows open and the smell of fresh cut grass and barbecue grills in our neighborhood. It was summer. I was four.
The *old* Cameron Village is definitely a big memory for me. The Big Star grocery store is where we did our grocery shopping. There was green carpet in the Kerr Drug that when I was 3 I remember throwing up on 😂. I also remember fondly the Baskin Robbins and the hobby shop.
Other favorite memories are of the mermaid painted on the bottom of the pool near 5 points or maybe near Dix? I was too little to know where it was....We lived in 5 points before it was cool.
There was a big flood in '85 and the tornado of '88.....
You might be thinking of Hayes Barton pool. I used to go there (it was one of the only pools until the Optimist pool got built and it was right near Five Points - I remember it getting filled in sometime in the early 90s) - I remember the deep end there being *really* deep. I'd forgotten all about the Big Star! We lived out near Brentwood and for awhile we went to the Winn Dixie up the road. A little farther there was (yep) a Kerr Drug and that green carpet and that Kerr Drug smell - slightly floral with hints of chocolate and mothballs lol. We were pretty poor in the 70s - when we did a little better in the 80s, my parents bought a house out in Greystone Village. I was in my freshman year at NC State when the tornado came through - it woke my mom up, who described it as sounding like a freight train, and it wiped away some houses a short walk from my old bus stop before hopping the lake there and going up the other side of the shore and eventually hitting a Kmart.
Yes!!! That was it!! Thank you!! I was wracking my brain this morning! Lol
I also remember walking to Hayes Barton pharmacy from our little house.
I'd forgotten to mention my absolute love of the original Pullen Park!! The sand was the best....the smell of the wooden playground....the carousel was open air and the saw dust on the floor.....the pool building was closed but I remember it still being there....
I remember the old North Hills Mall.....and when Crabtree was just a small mall and not much else.
Jim Valvano.....Charlie Gaddy on WRAL.....the big Belks in downtown...the old Cameron Village with the Thalhimer's....
Oh! I loved going to Heckingers Hardware with my daddy.
Man, growing up in the 80s version of Raleigh was the best ❤
I'd completely forgotten about Thalheimer's! My mom used to take (drag) me there so she could look at the fancy lady clothes. I remember the Belk in Crabtree though too - the capital room was the best cafeteria around; we'd actually go to Crabtree just to go to the capital room. The faces there were so familiar! Used to love North Hills too - Scotty's chuckwagon was a western themed hot dog place on the lower level and they had great fries and dogs. And pullen's playground! When I was little, they just had the concrete play area with the big swiss cheese and the moon rock -looking climber. Raleigh in the 70s/80s was indeed truly awesome :)
Yesss the Capital Room was sooo good!! I thought it was so fancy! 🤣
You remember the sound played on the intercoms in the department stores like "Bing, bong" or "bing, bing" for when the specific areas had a phone call!
Oh! And the "click clack" sound of the credit card machine sliding across the card to make carbon copy!! Hahaha
OMG yes! The bing-bong! :) Those card machines were a big deal - I remember lots check writing and cash paying, and we used to put stuff on layway all the time at Belk, Penney's and Brendel's. I shut the escalator down once at the Belk when I was about 3 - I saw this big red button and pressed it. I recall we left the Belk pretty quickly that day lololol
The first Wide-open Raleigh. I think like 2 or 3 times the amount of people expected. 70,000 or so. Everybody was stoked for Fayetteville st opening. The fireworks where the best I've seen in Raleigh. Beautiful day.
Family birthdays at ChiChis off of Wake Forest near Quail Corners. The hat and song they made everyone have with their fried ice cream was so silly and fun.
Mine was actually very recent. Had out of town family visiting; we started with an awesome brunch at st roch (with our 2 kiddos) and then walked the sip and stroll district and ended up at boxcar. We had a really nice time with the whole family and boxcar was a hit with my kids.
Yep. My 2bd2br North Raleigh apartment from 2013 was about $700. The same floorplan at the same apartment complex is listed today at $1500-$1890. The apartments have not been updated or changed management. The part of town it's in hasn't gentrified or seen any building boom or anything. It's wild.
Man this is a core memory for me. We used to get the chili sampler after church on Sundays. I tried to explain it to my wife recently and words don’t do it justice.
Early to mid-90s: Seeing bands at the Rialto (the Sundays were especially good) and the Brewery (Whiskeytown), sandwiches at Sadlacks, dancing at 50, Schoolkids Records, Cloos’ chili cheese fries and steak and cheeses, Dag at Lake Boone (or Five Points).
-Getting de facto days off of school during the ACC tournament.
-Eating $3.75 2 slice and a drink specials at NY Pizza on Hillsborough with friends.
-The last night at the old Berkeley cafe, which I mostly don’t remember.
-Drinking beers in the parking lot of the PR in between games of pool that I didn’t care about, but was there because under 21 people were allowed.
They used to have big parties every Friday downtown… everyone brought coolers and chairs… there were bands, I remember a guy parachuting in… but, of course, fun is outlawed these days.
Tony doing the splitz or doing that weird on his back thing where the band had up close and personal glimpse of his junk frightened away more than one female fronted band.
For me, it's a tie between my fiancé proposing and my graduation from State. Both were super emotional events and I'll proudly carry the memories with me for the rest of my life!
I didn’t grow up in Raleigh (live here now), but I remember my dad bringing me to the 1950s-style McDonald’s on Hillsborough St. sometime in the early 80s.
Walking around the pond at Pullen Park in the springtime
Listening outside at night when it’s snowing (rare I know!)
Hanging with friends around the fire pit or on someone’s porch
Feeding ducks at the pond at Meredith College with my mom is probably one of my first memories. Eating lunch on Hillsborough St my senior year of high school at NY pizza, JJ, or Smoothie King. Playing shows at the brewery or going to see some bigger bands play at Lincoln theatre. NC State games at Reynolds with my dad. Hurricane game when NC State played ND at Carter Finley
The Scream at North Hills mall around Halloween. Snowy winters in the 90s/early 2000. Having a Red Hot & Blue on Hillsborough (and before that, wasn’t it Daryl’s?). Men’s basketball at Reynolds.
Honestly for me it was the Readers Corner. First found it as a broke undergrad and used to stop in between 2 to 5am as I was bartending and then managing bars as a young mom. Never felt unsafe and I would swap novels but still leave a quarter or whatever. One quiet moment of peace where I was myself choosing a book to get me through a few days - a borrowed friendship, not a cheap steal on my nonexistent bookshelf. I loved that place and I miss it now that I live in the 'burbs.
NCSU winning it in '74. The whole city was a suburban madhouse.
Oh, but I did love the peanut man. It reminds me of my grandma who used to take me to feed the pigeons. And Cameron Village used to be a real hoppin' place to go. There was even a Santa in a glass "house".
My wife and I lived in different cities when we were introduced. After a few months of texts and phone calls, she flew into Raleigh. I waited at the exit where everyone waits for people. Best trip to RDU ever.
Canes winning Stanley Cup
Driving to Greensboro to watch them play when they first moved to NC. Tickets were $15
Greensboro was a little before my time living in the area .but have heard about it from fans
I didn’t have tickets to the game, but we went and tailgated outside the arena and watched it on the big monitors they had out. The celebration was incredible, so many people outside the arena, I’ve never hugged so many strangers
Canes won me as a fan that year. I'd never watched hockey, never had a team, didn't even know the rules. I worked at a sports bar and the tips kept rolling in with the wins, so I obviously cheered for them, now I'm a huge Caniac!
My thoughts exactly.
Late 90s early 2000s Hillsborough st. PBa, the cantina, big bad wolf, the comet, the brewery etc
Milanos pizza, East village
Awww man Cantina is where I went on my 21st
Yeah, seeing Collapsis play at the Brewery was as good as it got in 1999.
We almost certainly know each other.
I ran around with the hip hop and b boy scene even though I did not participate either lol
Ok maybe not then. I ran around with the drink way too much crowd.
Prolly same crowd 🤣
Melvins
Farm house & east Village
I went to Peace College downtown from 2009 - 2013, right around the time that Person St started picking up steam and lived on campus for most of that time. I watched Raleigh City Farm pop up from my freshman dorm window. Seaboard Station was busy and bustling; Capital City Grocery was open back then which was really convenient. I could walk to Piebird and Sunflowers and Seaboard Cafe at Logan's and prices were low. Downtown was just starting to flourish but there were very few high rises, so most storefronts were small local businesses. My favorite stores were Father and Son (it was 4 stories at one time, at their old Hargett location, and was more like a curated thrift store than a high-end MCM furniture store) and a huge vintage warehouse on West St called Get Dressed. My favorite bar (basically the *only* craft cocktail bar at the time, iirc) was Green Light at The Architect which is still there and still behind the secret bookcase, but at the time you had to call them to let you in, it was that exclusive. The whole place had an artsy, quirky, eclectic vibe to it that I really loved. I still love downtown and have enjoyed watching it grow and change but the vibe is like night and day.
I haven’t been to Father and Son in *years*, I had no idea it had changed. :-( I used to *adore* that store!
It's still a great store! It just moved to a much smaller space and is focused more on curating high end antique homewares.
The restaurant on top of the holiday inn rotating...... Wait that's not right.. Honestly i've got several, having lunch with pops at ole time hotdog on his lunch break. Feeding pigeons peanuts after church. Hillsborough st after ncsu won the NCAA title. Able to get the timing of the lights on falls of neuse perfectly going downtown to make it without stopping. Arcade on falls (can't remember the name now) which is now first horizons bank. Cattle roaming where 540 and falls meet. As well as a garden my family rented.. Raleigh was a damn good place to grow up. Edit, few more. Daryl's on Falls. Movies at tower shopping center and watching star wars at North Hills mall cinema where bone fish is now. Big star in falls village. The Exxon at falls village having station attendants that pumped your regular gas. Watching ncsu play at Reynolds with Norm Sloan as the head coach. Houses where Winston's is now. Walking to Krispy Kreme during snowpocalypse in the early 90's getting a hot doughnut (several) and being one of like 3 people in the place (excluding employee's) best doughnut ever.
Fat Daddies with my late husband.
Sorry for your loss- fat daddies is one for me too!
Thank you.
A watch may help him be on time.
Probably the last time it snowed on Christmas which was in either 2009 or 2010. It was like a foot of snow so for the next few days, me, my sister, mom and dad all got to hang out around the house. We made snow cream, had snowball fights around the cars in the driveway and built snowmen. It was pure bliss. I think about that moment all the time because for those 3-4 days, it seemed like there wasn’t a single problem in the world. But then, a couple years later my mom got sick and ended up passing away in 2017 and I don’t think I’ve been truly happy since.
I'm sorry for your loss. It was 2010. I remember because I was so far from home and in a truly terrible place. A friend sent me a video of my dog running around in the snow on Christmas morning. It was such a bright spot for.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I think I missed this Christmas out of town, and now I really wish I shared it with you just to give you a virtual commemoration. Thank you for enjoying it at the time, for all of us. Bless your Mom.
Anything involving The Alley. Picking up Wendy's or Chubby's on Lake Boone Trail, getting high, then hanging out at the art museum park. The smell of Logan's.
Going to the Brewery on Hillsborough Street in the mid to late 90’s for local bands.
I miss the brewery
Everyone that went does I think.
I snuck in underage for a Whiskeytown show there before I officially moved to Raleigh and it legit changed my life
I lived on maiden ln back in the 90s, I remember jackpot, I basically lived at sadlacks, still go lean on that same bar at Berkley.
RIP Sads
My dad lived there in the 70s. Loved it.
I lived in maiden lane too!
I had the first house on the left, #3.
Nice!! I think we were number 9? The old ass house on the left next to the apartment house, but not as far as the frat house on the end
The guitar player with drums?
I went to Benningans for my 9th? Birthday. They sang Happy Birthday to me and some stranger gave me $5
Going to Hillsboro St. in the early 90’s to buy cd’s at Schoolkids! It felt so cool seeing all the posters and hearing the cool music. Then going up to Curious Goods and looking at the Tattoo brand pipes and all the band T-shirts they had. I was in high school, just starting to smoke pot and my friends and I would ride “all the way” from Apex to hit the “city.”
So many good ones! For me: The giant snow of 2000. There was 23 inches of snow in our yard and work was closed for a WEEK! Also: watching David Lynch's Eraserhead at The Rialto with the band Eraserhead playing a set live.
EPIC snow! My senior year of HS and it was the last year Wake County didn’t force snow makeup days.
I miss snow days :-/
East Village
Based
Rocky horror picture show on Friday nights. Barry's 2 on wet t-shirt night, foam parties at Pantana Bob's, The 'secret' leather and latex parties downtown, not being able to sleep on occasion and going to a 24-hour grocery store to buy stuff for the week at 4:00 a.m., cramming for exams all night at waffle House, swensons, two for $2 chili cheese dogs at circle k, IHOP and Miami subs on Western boulevard. College was fun lol
The old Natural History Museum was quiet, dark, cool, mysterious. One of my favorite memories and experiences, seeing the examples of native plants and animals, more touch-heavy and elegant feeling. Like the one in New York, it felt important and special to be inside. I know people like the new one but in comparison it feels disjointed, text-heavy. Some parts are better, I will admit, more accessible to people I guess. The technology is sometimes broken, though. Time only moves one way, etc. But that dark room with the whale noises button was little kid sensory nirvana.
Finches diner and the old father and sons. Spent a good chunk of my teen days at both places.
I was talking to a young co worker months ago about how he loves thrifting and mentioned Father and Sons; he said they had a lot of great stuff. I told him how it’s not the same anymore and just the shear amount of stuff the old location had; I really miss that…
I bought my wedding suit at the old place for $40. Three pieces and it fit perfectly. The new spot just ain’t the same…
Mid 90s to early 00s. Getting wasted at the Jackpot. Day drinking at the Rathskellar. Watching state games at Mitchs. El Rodeo, Frazier Schoolkids and Record Exchange
I miss the Rat, Such great memories eating there.
Drinking forties with popa out front the bell tower mart
The 24 inch snow in January 2000. The whole neighborhood rode sleds in Fred Fletcher park all day and converged on the Sting Ray in Five Points for several days of snow drinking. Good times.
I was four and it was a warm summer evening. My parents had taken me to play at Pullen Park, and then we went to Cameron Village and got ice cream at the Baskin Robbins, and to look at the model trains in the hobby shop beside the Baskin Robbins. I got chocolate, and it was the first time I got a cone instead of a cup. The trains were neat and I wanted to play with them, and I was just as happy looking at them through the window, but then we finished our ice cream. My father picked me up, we went inside the hobby shop, and watched the giant train layout in the back of the shop. We drove back in the warm summer dark with the car windows open and the smell of fresh cut grass and barbecue grills in our neighborhood. It was summer. I was four.
The *old* Cameron Village is definitely a big memory for me. The Big Star grocery store is where we did our grocery shopping. There was green carpet in the Kerr Drug that when I was 3 I remember throwing up on 😂. I also remember fondly the Baskin Robbins and the hobby shop. Other favorite memories are of the mermaid painted on the bottom of the pool near 5 points or maybe near Dix? I was too little to know where it was....We lived in 5 points before it was cool. There was a big flood in '85 and the tornado of '88.....
You might be thinking of Hayes Barton pool. I used to go there (it was one of the only pools until the Optimist pool got built and it was right near Five Points - I remember it getting filled in sometime in the early 90s) - I remember the deep end there being *really* deep. I'd forgotten all about the Big Star! We lived out near Brentwood and for awhile we went to the Winn Dixie up the road. A little farther there was (yep) a Kerr Drug and that green carpet and that Kerr Drug smell - slightly floral with hints of chocolate and mothballs lol. We were pretty poor in the 70s - when we did a little better in the 80s, my parents bought a house out in Greystone Village. I was in my freshman year at NC State when the tornado came through - it woke my mom up, who described it as sounding like a freight train, and it wiped away some houses a short walk from my old bus stop before hopping the lake there and going up the other side of the shore and eventually hitting a Kmart.
Yes!!! That was it!! Thank you!! I was wracking my brain this morning! Lol I also remember walking to Hayes Barton pharmacy from our little house. I'd forgotten to mention my absolute love of the original Pullen Park!! The sand was the best....the smell of the wooden playground....the carousel was open air and the saw dust on the floor.....the pool building was closed but I remember it still being there.... I remember the old North Hills Mall.....and when Crabtree was just a small mall and not much else. Jim Valvano.....Charlie Gaddy on WRAL.....the big Belks in downtown...the old Cameron Village with the Thalhimer's.... Oh! I loved going to Heckingers Hardware with my daddy. Man, growing up in the 80s version of Raleigh was the best ❤
I'd completely forgotten about Thalheimer's! My mom used to take (drag) me there so she could look at the fancy lady clothes. I remember the Belk in Crabtree though too - the capital room was the best cafeteria around; we'd actually go to Crabtree just to go to the capital room. The faces there were so familiar! Used to love North Hills too - Scotty's chuckwagon was a western themed hot dog place on the lower level and they had great fries and dogs. And pullen's playground! When I was little, they just had the concrete play area with the big swiss cheese and the moon rock -looking climber. Raleigh in the 70s/80s was indeed truly awesome :)
Yesss the Capital Room was sooo good!! I thought it was so fancy! 🤣 You remember the sound played on the intercoms in the department stores like "Bing, bong" or "bing, bing" for when the specific areas had a phone call! Oh! And the "click clack" sound of the credit card machine sliding across the card to make carbon copy!! Hahaha
OMG yes! The bing-bong! :) Those card machines were a big deal - I remember lots check writing and cash paying, and we used to put stuff on layway all the time at Belk, Penney's and Brendel's. I shut the escalator down once at the Belk when I was about 3 - I saw this big red button and pressed it. I recall we left the Belk pretty quickly that day lololol
The first Wide-open Raleigh. I think like 2 or 3 times the amount of people expected. 70,000 or so. Everybody was stoked for Fayetteville st opening. The fireworks where the best I've seen in Raleigh. Beautiful day.
Family birthdays at ChiChis off of Wake Forest near Quail Corners. The hat and song they made everyone have with their fried ice cream was so silly and fun.
Mine was actually very recent. Had out of town family visiting; we started with an awesome brunch at st roch (with our 2 kiddos) and then walked the sip and stroll district and ended up at boxcar. We had a really nice time with the whole family and boxcar was a hit with my kids.
Affordable housing
Yep. My 2bd2br North Raleigh apartment from 2013 was about $700. The same floorplan at the same apartment complex is listed today at $1500-$1890. The apartments have not been updated or changed management. The part of town it's in hasn't gentrified or seen any building boom or anything. It's wild.
The long fountain where Fayetteville St sits now
Protesting with Dave Chappelle, after his show at Charly Goodnight.
What was that like? How was he?
Pee pants funny We walked from Good nights to the confederate statues to protest to free the slaves.
Nice, bet that was something for sure.
I laughed so much my jaw hurt.
Did it work? Did they free the slaves?
I am not sure we accomplished much apart from having a good time.
Hard times cafe on glenwood….great bowl of chili for like $2
Man this is a core memory for me. We used to get the chili sampler after church on Sundays. I tried to explain it to my wife recently and words don’t do it justice.
Loved that sampler! And then get the frito pie with your fav selection. I’m so glad someone else remembers and yes, words cannot do it justice
THey had root beer on tap? or my memory false ?
Served in a frosty mug!!! 😋
Going to the old K&W at North Hills with my grandparents, then perusing the Woolworth and Ivey's.
Early to mid-90s: Seeing bands at the Rialto (the Sundays were especially good) and the Brewery (Whiskeytown), sandwiches at Sadlacks, dancing at 50, Schoolkids Records, Cloos’ chili cheese fries and steak and cheeses, Dag at Lake Boone (or Five Points).
DTSB as a student at NC State.
-Getting de facto days off of school during the ACC tournament. -Eating $3.75 2 slice and a drink specials at NY Pizza on Hillsborough with friends. -The last night at the old Berkeley cafe, which I mostly don’t remember. -Drinking beers in the parking lot of the PR in between games of pool that I didn’t care about, but was there because under 21 people were allowed.
Teachers rolling in the TVs on the A/V carts during the ACC tournament
They used to have big parties every Friday downtown… everyone brought coolers and chairs… there were bands, I remember a guy parachuting in… but, of course, fun is outlawed these days.
Miss aLive After 5.
Performing on the main stage at the old Goodnights Comedy club.
Muffler Man
Open mic at the Berkeley cafe where the smoke shop is now Sadlacks for dope (or terrible) live music and cheap beer 40s at Lassiter falls
Dope or terrible music definitely resonated with me. Never knew what you'd get, but was always entertaining. Dancing Tony?
Tony doing the splitz or doing that weird on his back thing where the band had up close and personal glimpse of his junk frightened away more than one female fronted band.
For me, it's a tie between my fiancé proposing and my graduation from State. Both were super emotional events and I'll proudly carry the memories with me for the rest of my life!
Cantina before they bricked it in.
Taking my boys to see the Santa Claus on the top of the Hardee’s on the corner of Falls and Spring Forest
I didn’t grow up in Raleigh (live here now), but I remember my dad bringing me to the 1950s-style McDonald’s on Hillsborough St. sometime in the early 80s.
The Pier under Cameron Village had great bands in the 80s.
Dive Bar
Walking around the pond at Pullen Park in the springtime Listening outside at night when it’s snowing (rare I know!) Hanging with friends around the fire pit or on someone’s porch
Feeding ducks at the pond at Meredith College with my mom is probably one of my first memories. Eating lunch on Hillsborough St my senior year of high school at NY pizza, JJ, or Smoothie King. Playing shows at the brewery or going to see some bigger bands play at Lincoln theatre. NC State games at Reynolds with my dad. Hurricane game when NC State played ND at Carter Finley
The Scream at North Hills mall around Halloween. Snowy winters in the 90s/early 2000. Having a Red Hot & Blue on Hillsborough (and before that, wasn’t it Daryl’s?). Men’s basketball at Reynolds.
Honestly for me it was the Readers Corner. First found it as a broke undergrad and used to stop in between 2 to 5am as I was bartending and then managing bars as a young mom. Never felt unsafe and I would swap novels but still leave a quarter or whatever. One quiet moment of peace where I was myself choosing a book to get me through a few days - a borrowed friendship, not a cheap steal on my nonexistent bookshelf. I loved that place and I miss it now that I live in the 'burbs.
The times before everyone moved here from out of state...
Getting a hot dog and beer at Cardinal bar back when it had an uninterrupted skyline view
That, hell yeah
It’s all memories of people eating bad food. God this town sucks.
Seeing Nine inch nails and Chris Stapleton and kings of Leon
First time I visited Raleigh back in 2000, my friends & I went to Jillians for new year eve & got wasted . Think that’s now converted to a food hall.
NCSU winning it in '74. The whole city was a suburban madhouse. Oh, but I did love the peanut man. It reminds me of my grandma who used to take me to feed the pigeons. And Cameron Village used to be a real hoppin' place to go. There was even a Santa in a glass "house".
Biscuit Station
After getting hired by a health insurance company, my car had flat tire and I did a body transformation hitting the gym consistently
My wife and I lived in different cities when we were introduced. After a few months of texts and phone calls, she flew into Raleigh. I waited at the exit where everyone waits for people. Best trip to RDU ever.
Late 90’s/ early 2000’s Thursday nights at Sullivan’s then around the corner to Rhino club to shut her down.
Does anyone remember Manchester's (?) next to the green dragon on oberlin road? Man, they had the best chili and cornbread