You know you are from Raleigh if... (Oxford, Clayton: for sale, school)

[underPSI]

......when you remember when Uncle Paul was on TV. He actually has a cheeseburger named after him at the famous Gateway restaurant located at Capital blvd. and Crabtree blvd.

[weluvwakeforest]

Originally Posted by Raleighmark

^ I remember every one of those.

OMG, you remember the time number! I couldn't pull it out of memory, but immediately knew what it was before finishing the sentence.

We were 787 until we had to change when the 872 exchange came around.

I went to Douglas elementary for three years (one of the only schools to be named for a living person, she came and read to us once), then after the merge I went to Poe elementary, Hunter 6th grade center (remember the 6th grade centers?), Carroll Jr. High then Sanderson High.

Who remembers having a teacher wheel in the tv on ACC tournament Friday. No class that day.

How 'bout The Pier across from the Frog and Nightgown. Jimmy Buffet played there in his early days. My wife saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee there. (Blues musicians)

My husband went to Caroll Jr. High and Sanderson High too.

I, too, remember the teachers wheeling in the TV for the ACC Tournament. The first year it happened I couldn't figure out WHAT was going on.. everybody was so excited... no class that day !!!!

[Raleighmark]

Originally Posted by Francois

When Millbrook Park was just a pond in the middle of woods, referred to as "Old Man's Lake". Hickory Hills wasn't there yet, just woods.

That was Eastgate Park. I grew up playing in those woods.

Remember when the woods across Six Forks road from Carroll was called Lazy?

Did you know there is a Six Knives and Six spoons road also.

Who knows where the Six Forks are?

I actually saw Uncle Paul play with a jazz band about ten years ago...that cat could wail on a piano. My brother marched on his show.

[JQ Public]

I was in elementary school in the late 80's and early 90's and they had the tv hanging on the walls, but we definitely tuned in for the games!

My dad told me Lynn and Spring Forest rds weren't connected back in the day. The whole stretch of Spring forest from six forks to falls of neuse was houses and woods...I wish they never connect them

[underPSI]

Did you know there [s]is[/s] [used to be] a Six Knives and Six spoons road also.

Who knows where the Six Forks are?

1 - Six forks rd. to the north
2 - Six forks rd. to the south
3 - Strickand Rd. to the west
4 - Strickland Rd. to the east
5 - Baileywick Rd. to the northwest
6 - Leadmine Rd. to the southwest

[Raleighmark]

^ very good. You win a cookie.
Of course Baileywick and Leadmine don't come near there anymore.

I guess Six spoons and Six Knives were lost to the Ramblewood development.

Here's another...Who knows where the lead mine was on Leadmine road?
That's lead as in pencil lead (Graphite).

[J_Lurk]

Originally Posted by underPSI

1 - Six forks rd. to the north
2 - Six forks rd. to the south
3 - Strickand Rd. to the west
4 - Strickland Rd. to the east
5 - Baileywick Rd. to the northwest
6 - Leadmine Rd. to the southwest

But it wasn't Baileywick! When I was a kid it was "Shacktown Road." I don't know if that was the official name, but that's what everyone called it. I remember school officials at Jeffrey's Grove calling Shacktown Road.

[Francois]

That was Eastgate Park. I grew up playing in those woods.

DUH!! I should know this; I , too, grew up right up the road from there! I knew "Millbrook Park" didn't sound quite right! Were you old enough, the ONE year the pond froze over (Winter of 1977) to go out and walk on it? We were on the local TV news

Remember when the woods across Six Forks road from Carroll was called Lazy?

That I do not--even though I went to St Timothy's for 1-2nd grades.

Did you know there is a Six Knives and Six spoons road also.

Used to be over by the Tara (I think) Apartments that aren't there now.

[Raleighmark]

Originally Posted by Francois

Were you old enough, the ONE year the pond froze over (Winter of 1977) to go out and walk on it? We were on the local TV news

Yes, I remember. That was after the park was established. I remember it freezing over at least once, maybe twice before that. Once about a half dozen of us kids held the person in front of ours feet and shined across the lake between two holes in the ice. Man we were crazy S.O.B.s
We swam in that lake, fished for Bream from the old boathouse, got chased off by the caretaker. Do you remember Old Man's Cabin?

Originally Posted by Francois

That I do not--even though I went to St Timothy's for 1-2nd grades.

I went to St Timothy's in Kindergarten.

[uncletupelo]

anyone remember the old Lakemont pond? the petting zoo at north hills. lock stock and barrel, mayberry at colony, blue laws on sunday, grocery boy jr at the corner of what id now millbrook and the creedmore highway. 70 was called the durham highway beyond crabtree, capital blvd was three roads-us 1, north blvd and downtown blvd, the red lobster was kickin, you had to take your shoes off at Kanki, Oxford Sporting Goods, North Hills Pharmacy, Cheviot Hills was a real good course, Leith Honda(the only Leith one at the time) was on downtown blvd. ACC Tavern, Johnny's Supper Club, Greshman Lake, Wrenn-Farr, woolthworth's arcade,the Orange Bowl at Crabtree, the jr striders, hackney's, sportman's cove, top of the tower sorry if these are repeats. the cameron brown building, ebeneezer church rd was gravel, only the poor were born at wake med, cary was a southern small town, the skateboard park on atlantic ave, the putt putt course off hodges street behind the longbranch. Nantucket was on the brink of being pretty big.