You know you are from Raleigh if... (Durham, Wade: living in, shops)

[jasonmkish]

Originally Posted by JQ Public

MMM! Chi Chi's! My first encounter with fried ice cream!

Anyone go to Camp Ranoca as a kid?

Holy Schnikies,

I went to Camp Ranoca for two years, as a Cherokee and Tuscarora (as I recall the group names).

I remember a cool science counselor named Glen I think with a little science/nature cabin.

I remember learning to swim and getting the coveted American Red Cross swimming card.

The overnight was fun. Hiking around that lake was great.

[jasonmkish]

Originally Posted by Raleighmark

Dr. Church was my Doctor from 1967 'till he retired.

My doctor was Dr. Bean. I think he was in the same practice.

[jasonmkish]

I grew up in Raleigh from 78-89 and 92-94. Did pre-school at Athens High School, K-2 at AB Combs, Lynn Road, W Millbrook, Daniels, and 9th at Broughton.

Lived in Village Grove beside Stonehenge. It was a great place to grow up. Reading the posts brought back very fond memories.

Going out to eat meant Golden Corral, O'Brians, Darryls or basically driving to Glenwood Ave. A special treat was eating at the Capitol Room in the Thalheimers Dept Store (or was it Belk's).

My best friend and I would bike all over North Raleigh and Umpstead Park. No one worried about where we went.

I remember getting all my sports gear at a second hand shop called Double Dribble.

Saturday was a trip to the Flea Market, Rake and Hoe, or Shelly Lake.

Remember Silver Lake with the waterslide?

Eating candy from Optimist Park swimming pool stand: Cherry Chans, Fun Dip?

North Hills Mall sucked.

Could watch movies for 50 cents at South Hills.

Saw Flash Gordon and Superman 2 at Crabtree Valley Mall, there was a Hardees on the other side.

Pullen Park rocked, why was that train so cool?

[Francois]

A special treat was eating at the Capitol Room in the Thalheimers Dept Store (or was it Belk's).

Blasphemy! Anybody knows it was Hudson Belk who had the Capital Room! Both the Crabtree one (the only part of Crabtree that still has the original exterior) AND the downtown one, on Fayetteville St had a Capital Room, though the Belk's one is by far the one I've been to the most.

North Hills Mall sucked.

It didn't always! You are probably too young to remember it in the 1970s-early 1980s, when the "dead" end still had activity down there. Before that (early '70s), there was a big fountain, which became Santa's territory, covered with fake snow and fake candy, at Christmas. Then it became Ragamuffin's restaurant, a "fern bar" (place to get crepes, quiche, pina coladas, and Chablis) in 1979, where I got my very first job.

Poor North Hills Mall did dry up, first at that end and then everywhere, but I guess the Phoenix is rising from the ashes now.

[jasonmkish]

Originally Posted by Francois

Blasphemy! Anybody knows it was Hudson Belk who had the Capital Room! Both the Crabtree one (the only part of Crabtree that still has the original exterior) AND the downtown one, on Fayetteville St had a Capital Room, though the Belk's one is by far the one I've been to the most.



It didn't always! You are probably too young to remember it in the 1970s-early 1980s, when the "dead" end still had activity down there. Before that (early '70s), there was a big fountain, which became Santa's territory, covered with fake snow and fake candy, at Christmas. Then it became Ragamuffin's restaurant, a "fern bar" (place to get crepes, quiche, pina coladas, and Chablis) in 1979, where I got my very first job.

Poor North Hills Mall did dry up, first at that end and then everywhere, but I guess the Phoenix is rising from the ashes now.

I do remember Ragamuffins, but never knew it had a "fern" reputation.

I always ate the same thing at the Capitol Room, Seafood Newburg. Then my Mom would give me the ticket so I could go back and get a dessert. I remember the cashier, a highly groomed black gentleman, had very manicured and polished fingernails. Strange, the stuff you remember.

[Francois]

Originally Posted by jasonmkish

I do remember Ragamuffins, but never knew it had a "fern" reputation. .

Well, remember, that "style" of restaurant (serving things like quiche and crepes, with tables out in the mall--or the "atrium" as we called it--"sidewalk cafe'-style") was new and faddish at the time (though maybe you were too young to be aware of that). It was the HOPPING place in town for a couple of years, and it felt like a coup to land a job as a busboy there when I was in high school. Sadly, after about 2 years, that end of the mall started sagging, the concept wasn't new anymore, and business was declining, but also, the whole mall got sold and they wanted to do something else with that end of the mall, so Ragamuffins closed in 1982, open only 3 1/2 years. It was a wonderful place to have been my first job, appreciated even more when I waited tables at other restaurants after college. To this day (I'm almost 45), I still sometimes dream about working at Ragamuffins!

I always ate the same thing at the Capitol Room, Seafood Newburg. Then my Mom would give me the ticket so I could go back and get a dessert. I remember the cashier, a highly groomed black gentleman, had very manicured and polished fingernails. Strange, the stuff you remember.

Silly question--if you always got the same thing, why didn't your mother just start letting you get the dessert the first time through?

I still remember their gold-colored cloth napkins, of all things.

[frogandtoad]

IF....

whenever people mention they are moving to the Triangle you immediately assume they must want to live in Raleigh.

[jasonmkish]

Silly question--if you always got the same thing, why didn't your mother just start letting you get the dessert the first time through?

I just liked going through the line by myself.

[weluvwakeforest]

If you took your son/daughter to see "Arthur" & friends at North Hills Mall a few weeks before demolition !

[ragdolls4me]

Remember Silver Lake with the waterslide?

Silver Lake is still there and open!