You know you are from Durham if................ (Chapel Hill, Apex: house, school)

[Francois]

Originally Posted by joe530

He was probably an extra in The Staircase Murder. A made for T.V. movie about the trial. I guess. So, what did you mean Francois.

No, actually I thought this was the house in Forest Hills where large portions of The Handmaid's Tale were filmed, in 1989. I was an extra in the movie (though not in any house scenes).

[Poggly Woggly]

Originally Posted by Francois

No, actually I thought this was the house in Forest Hills where large portions of The Handmaid's Tale were filmed, in 1989. I was an extra in the movie (though not in any house scenes).

OK....I got it now I remember now that there was an ealier film partially made in the Peterson house...at 1810 Cedar St. in Forest Hills. It's a very nice section of Durham too.

[DanielleNC]

Originally Posted by jshallen

you must have graduated in the 94-99 year range....wheels was the hotness. esp their cookie cake.

Mmm, the cookie cake! I believe that was the first time I had ever had one. Yes, I graduated in '99. As a matter of fact our 10 year reunion was just last night.

[polyester64]

I think of the Durham Bulls. I grew up on Washington Street right up from the old Durham Bull's baseball park. I could sit on my grandmother's front porch and listen to the games and announcements in the evenings.

[michgc]

My husband was in the stadium scenes in Bull Durham - not sure we can pick him out though.

[Special_Guest]

I was thinking about making this thread tonight! Great minds think alike! Here's a repost of a post I made a while ago.

You know you are from Durham if you remember:

*Skate-Inn skating rink--over near where South Square Mall used to be. It's now an office building.
*A&P grocery store--also near South Square. It's an office supply place now (Stapes or Office Max).
*Piggly Wiggly grocery store over in Forest Hills.
*The TWO cow stores--one near Lakewood, and many people forget there was another one on Roxboro road. Due to a city ordinance, I think the cows were required to be taken down.
*Godfather's Pizza on Chapel Hill Boulevard
*The "Dollar" movie theatre on Chapel Hill Boulevard. I forget the name right off hand, but it's across from Shrimp Boats.
*The Lakewood movie theatre--they used to show kids' movies during the day in the summer time (Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Herbie the Lovebug, Pippi Longstocking, Parent Trap, Swiss Family Robinson, stuff like that).
*When the area that is now Southpoint was barren and not even in the city limits.
*The sweet smell of tobacco when driving through the Brightleaf Square area
*Durham High School
*When Southern High School was on Ellis Road
*DAVIS BAKERY!
*North Duke "Mall"--such a POOR excuse for a mall if I've ever seen one. There were like five stores in there. SMH
*When most of the stuff at the Museum of Life and Science was ACROSS the street from where it is now, and there were a couple of REAL airplanes on display out front. I think one of them you could actually climb in. I haven't been in years, do they still have that display of the moon landing? I thought that was so cool as a kid.
*Not a Durham memory per-se, but I remember when the town of Morrisville was an absolute JOKE, just a rural, one-horse town. Cary wasn't far behind. I also remember when North Hills Mall was basically a dead mall, which is why I refuse to pay the exorbitant rents on the condos they've slapped up over there. I remember the area BEFORE they brought in all the cool stuff!

[Bull City Rising]

Originally Posted by Special_Guest

*The "Dollar" movie theatre on Chapel Hill Boulevard. I forget the name right off hand, but it's across from Shrimp Boats.

As you probably know, they tore down that theater about five (?) years ago. Too bad -- I thought, albeit having never gone inside, that that would have made an awesome place to convert into something like the movie theater/brewery/restaurant in Asheville. But now it's just an empty lot.

[polyester64]

Originally Posted by ncsualum2004

I totally laughed at this. Now I want to go to Honey's

This was from an old email I got a while back:
-You love Randy's pizza
-You're either a Duke or UNC fan..but you have weird friends that go for NC state..
-You've been to a Durham Bull's game
-you agree that the cookout has yummy milkshakes
-school gets canceled if theres even a chance of snow
-You've at least heard of the movie 'Bull Durham' and 'Welcome to Durham'
-you know about the 'pickle' building down by southsquare
- wynsong theaters are gross, but you know you can get in a R rated movie underage
- You remember the CCB building downtown, before it was suntrust..
- you've sat at the Infinity/Roxboro stoplight FOREVER
- you go to 9th street and see atleast one person you know..including the homeless people
- you went to hillsborough sportsplex to go ice skating
-DATA busses...not the safest place to be..
-you have eaten at either/all of these places: Elmos Diner, georges garage, waffle house, honeys, the dog house & italian pizzeria
- you remember durham high
-one of your relatives probably worked in one of the tabacco warehouses
- you've probably ridden on the merry-go-round at northgate
- starlight drive in?
-the cow stores!
- when you watch important carolina or duke games during class
- you have heard of/been to camp kanata
- you know about the festival for the eno, always july 3-5

- you are probably from Durham if you have ever eaten at King's Hotdog Stand or Amos and Andy's.

[underPSI]

Nevermind. We all know how about Durham.

[JQ Public]

You remember exactly where you were when you heard about the Duke Lacrosse scandal