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is is the Dean dome?

(figgered you wouldn't mind the topic title change)

I'd say you should start with Old East and Old West, the Y, and go from there. Much more history rooted around central campus.

Vid's right...the oldest area of buildings and the like is between South Building and Franklin Street. One of my favorites is



La dona and I wanted to get married in that building but campus authorities said no can do...

The oldest historical item on campus would have to, however, be...



The Davie Poplar

Legend has it that it was on this spot that the founder of the university, William R. Davie, chose the spot...he tossed a switch he was using as a riding crop on the ground there and the tree sprung forth from the ground...

I wonder if a Frisbee tree has sprouted on the roof of Venable hall then?

donnie, any pics to be found of those cool lab windows on top? If not, maybe i can hire Vidz to do the job, eh? At one time, i had heard that it was coming down or would be greatly modified.

My favorite Frisbee golf hole ever... #4 on my campus course... you walk on the sidewalk from the Navy gun to the side of the Navy bldg and directly ahead of & below you is the service drive and the entrance to Venable which forms an arch over the service drive. The key is to try and position your tee shot on the drive as you must go thru the arch to play the hole. From there you have the choice of trying to skip or slide or make a regular throw under the arch. Next, the option is between throwing back up the steep incline to the sidewalk or continuing down the drive and going back up on your next shot.

I guess it's Gardner Hall directly ahead once you reach the sidewalk. The side door is the "hole" and it's a par 5 (very tough to par-- many other obstacles include trees along the sidewalk and the large ac unit and pit along the service drive). Several times i overthrew by hanging onto the disc too long and had to scramble onto the roof of Venable and even up ON the windows high above the classrooms below. Not sure i'd want my fatazz up on those these dayz. Liquor or Guinness is a must for this game.

that's some history, just not people in leggings and wigs-type history

Working on it...

From the other end...

Excellent!

the arch-passageway is a bit in shadow but that's where you go and then beyond, and up, past the shingles, the roof goes down to the lab skylight windows (pretty well re-inforced, but still high up)

maybe we'll turn this into the History/Frisbee golf challenge thread.... you game donnie?

I lived in Old East before it was restored. What a dump. But it sure was nice waking up at 7:50am for an 8:00am class!

Aren't they tearing Veneable down? I thought I read that they are. I got lost in that building the first time I tried to pass through it.

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That about sums it up for Venable. That building is/was a monster.

kidC: Do you play any of the disc golf courses in the Charlotte area? I've taken up the sport in the last year or so, and it's become a bit of a pastime for me. I'd be interested to get someone else's opinion of the courses in this area.

Go for it Kid...

I don't think Venable is long for this world...I taught in that building 2-3 years ago and they were doing zero repairs...

Hallway in Venable anyone?

eequalsmcsquared Wrote:I lived in Old East before it was restored.  What a dump.  But it sure was nice waking up at 7:50am for an 8:00am class!

I lived in it AFTER the renovation (131 - the window with the brick frame that sticks out on the parking lot side aka, the smallest double) and it was fantastic. Such an awesome experience and way too many memories.

That year, they had to re-do the hot water pipes and ripped open holes to the "basement". I never went down, but friends said it was pretty cool (some passages and old brick work probably as old as the bldg.).

Quote:October 12, 1793: The day the cornerstone of Old East was laid ...

"General William Richardson Davie, Revolutionary patriot, governor of North Carolina, and recipient of the University's first honorary doctor of laws degree, laid the cornerstone ... Sealed into the cornerstone that day by Davie's silver trowel was a commemorative plate reading 'The Right Worshipful William Richardson Davie, Grand Master of the most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Freemasons in the State of North Carolina, one of the trustees of the University of the said state ... assisted by the other commissioners and the Brethren of the Eagle and Independence Lodges, on the 12th day of October in the Year of Masonry 5793 and in the 18th year of the American Independence, laid the cornerstone of this edifice.'

The cornerstone was vandalized sometime between 1865 and 1875 and the commemorative plate was stolen. In 1916 it was discovered in a pile of scrap brass destined for melting at a foundry in Tennessee. The foundry's owner, who was an alumnus of UNC, recognizing the name Davie, had the plate cleaned and returned to its rightful place. The plate may be seen in the North Carolina Collection of the Louis Round Wilson Library."

"taught in that building 2-3 years ago and they were doing zero repairs..."

I taught in it 30 years ago and they were doing zero repairs. ;-)

LOL...

I couldn't even show a film or use an overhread projector because it was an afternoon class with the sun streaming in the window...but the blinds were shredded and some wouldn't even raise or lower.

Venable was born with progeria. By the mid-fifties, it seemed old.

Quote:I wonder if a Frisbee tree has sprouted on the roof of Venable hall then?

lol

JD: I have played at Kilborn a few times... also, several years ago over near the old Coliseum.. bit of a jungle that one. Apparently we also have on here on the Battlestar now as well. let's play; e-mail me if you still have it.

i play old skool (big surprise i know) with a 175g Ultimate disc, never cotttoned to those heavy little discs. I also enjoy making up courses if there is a big enough area to do that in.. have done some of that over in Latta Park in Dilworth. one thing that is interesting is being able to have targets that vary instead of baskets all the time.

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alrighty, don; away weeeeee go.

HOLE #1: starts at sidewalk just outside of KA house on Cameron (manhole cover) and the target is the sign (sign only, not pole) at the main driveway for the Carolina Inn, near the dining room. (Holes #1,2,3 and 18 are very traffic-oriented.) Made it a Par 4 for easiest birdie hole on the course.

accball1 is a big frisbee golfer ... he needs to see this thread ...

not a frisbee golfer, but very cool to hear what the 18 "holes" are made up of around campus, kidC. thnx

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alrighty, don; away weeeeee go.

HOLE #1: starts at sidewalk just outside of KA house on Cameron (manhole cover) and the target is the sign (sign only, not pole) at the main driveway for the Carolina Inn, near the dining room. (Holes #1,2,3 and 18 are very traffic-oriented.) Made it a Par 4 for easiest birdie hole on the course.

Is that the sign you're talking about Kid?

All this history, and no mention of Troll's bar?

Just started a thread just for you Doc...

my bad Don, incomplete description... you throw up Pittsboro Stree and the sign is hanging on a pole right past the Exit for the U entrance. the sign you posted is prbly officially at Main entrance on front lawn, i meant the parking/valet entrance.

HOLE #2 has likely been modified due to recent construction but you tee from the brick sidewalk immediately in front of Hole #1 and throw up Pittsboro St again.  The target is a telephone pole across (Raleigh? i don't think it's McCauley until it crosses?) road.  I think recently there was parking and maybe another building put there but I assume that the pole is there. Its not on the corner, about 15 yds down toward campus so you can get off the road with your second et.seq. shots into a grassy area. Can't recall the building there. :doh Miller Hall, accdg. to yon^ mappage (what's there?)Birdieable, but not easy, fairly long. Par 4.

Since Whitehead dorm is also shown i'll proceed with Hole #3. From Hole #2, cross back over the road to the brick sidewalk across from the pole. Looking down Raleigh[?] Rd. you have Whitehead Dorm down to the left, parking/construction? and ChiPhi house down to your right. Fairly major intersection at corner (Rt. to Pittsboro and HOspital area). You throw down the road or sidewalk and then have to deal with the trees, telephone wires and traffic and signals when you cross over the road to try and hit the Navy gun in front of the NROTC bldg. Very birdieable par 4 but many obstacles noted can make it much harder as well.

At least now, Holes 4-17 (the BEER HOLE, doc!) are on campus proper and the traffic only interferes on 8,9, 10 (Swain hall pkg lot) and 17, but much less so than on 1-3. You want to be 1/2 under after 3 b/c birdies are scarce until 12. if you can play the front 9 even or better, you've done pretty dang well.

OK this picture here is closer to your goal...



We'd need to back away some for you sign to appear...



Or get some altitude...

http://www.fpc.unc.edu/images/Constructi...290036.JPG

http://www.fpc.unc.edu/Construction/Proj...010007.JPG

Check out those two images there Kid...your pole may just be shown

They are big pictures though

The construction there is the new Global Education Center...woulda been my building if I hadn't left

The only pictures I can find of Hole #3 are rather political. I'll leave them off. None of them showed the Gun at any rate.