Recalling city landmarks from decades long gone
Billy Coore, a senior in high school and author of this topic in the May 9 News & Record Counterpoint, is too young to really know what this city has lost.
A short list from my life, which is much longer than Billy’s and to which I am sure others can add: Campbell’s, Monroe’s, Bob Petty’s Oakwood Drive-In, Boar & Castle, Hot Shoppes, Robinson’s, Alpat, California Sandwich Shop, Jim’s Lunch, Gus’, and Plaza at Lawndale and Battleground (Lawndale Drive’s pavement ended here in the late-1950s).
Also, Meredith’s outdoor skating rink and miniature golf. Griffin’s Skating Rink, Pickwick, The Palms. Greene’s Supper Club and Greene’s downtown, White Star Laundry, Plantation Supper Club, Sedgefield Steak House, the O. Henry and King Cotton hotels, Phipps Hardware, Circle K at the Carolina Theatre, Guilford Dairy Bars, Star Theatre, Roosevelt’s Barbershop.
Also, Browning’s Shoeshine, Bob’s Hatters, Planters Peanuts, Crystal Burgers, Friendly Road Inn, GI 1200, National Theatre, Elvis in 1956 for $2, Alexander Motors (became Rice Toyota), Center Theater, Vanstory’s, Younts DeBoe, Johnson & Aulbert, Wright’s, Cornatzer & Mock, Tom McCann, Prago Guyes, Jerry’s Pub, Yelverton’s BBQ, Lotus, Myers Department Store and Tea Room and S&W Cafeteria.
The mall about which he is so nostalgic is a major reason why so many of my favorite places no longer exist.
Jerry Weston
Greensboro
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A little "UNCG in the '70s and '80s" specific stuff:
Fridays, The Hong Kong House and Aliza's Nightshade Cafe, Danny's, which later became Lit Knights, The Corner (when it still had a lunch counter where a poor student could get a $0.75 chicken salad sandwich), Spring Garden Bar and Grill (same owner as Friendly Road Inn), the Cinema Theater (later Wings after Ham Bennett bought it) and all-the-myriad-businesses-in-the-space-just-North-of-New-York-Pizza over the last 30-odd years.
Posted on May 16, 2009 8:44 PM