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UNC and Chapel Hill in 1965
by Charly Mann
Many people think of the 60s as the heyday of non-conformity and social progress. This is Chapel Hill in 1965 when I was 15. As you can see most guys, including myself, wore madras shirts.
Top Ten Songs of 1965
#1 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
#2 I Can’t Help Myself (The Four Tops )
#3 Wooly Bully ( Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs)
#4 My Girl (Temptations)
#5 You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (Righteous Brothers)
#6 Downtown (Petula Clark)
#7 Help! (The Beatles)
#8 Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat (Herman’s Hermits)
#9 Crying in The Chapel (Elvis Presley)
#10 You Were On My Mind (We Five)
If you were a member of a UNC sorority or fraternity this is how you dressed. Male clothes for this group came from Julian’s, The Hub, The Varsity Men’s Shop, or Milton's. These women were probably outfitted at the Fireside. All these stores did a booming business, and were located on central Franklin Street.
Top 10 TV Shows of 1965
● Bonanza (NBC)
● Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
● The Lucy Show (CBS)
● The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
● Batman (ABC)
● The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
● Bewitched (ABC)
● The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
● Hogan’s Heroes (CBS)
The Civil Rights Act ending all forms of segregation, including in college admission, was enacted in July of 1964. As you can see the 1964-1965 University of North Carolina basketball team had no black players, and would wait three more years to have one. Billy Cunningham, #32, was the star of this team.
Facts of 1965
● Average Teacher’s Salary $5,174
● Minimum Wage $1.00
Comments:
edgardo cirera
12:06 AM Thu 8/19/2010
hellow im ed from phillippines
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James
11:26 AM Mon 8/17/2009
I loved the girls in their shetland cardigans - and it seemed like they all wore them all the time.
Woody Rose
2:14 PM Sat 3/21/2009
I would have never believed college students looked like this unless I actually saw these photos - and in the 1960s no less.
Jacky M
7:56 PM Fri 3/20/2009
I think I'll have a party where everyone has to come dressed like the frat guys and sorority gals in your photo.
Ann Laughler
7:39 PM Thu 3/19/2009
I agree that the men were sexier in those days. However, even though I am a woman, I have to admit that the women were much more attractive as well, in their dresses and with their hair done up nicely. And no one is overweight!
Ruth Alcott
1:17 PM Thu 3/19/2009
I can't believe have formal frat boys dressed in those days. Though, as a girl, I think they looked at lot sexier than most men today.
A Tatum
10:47 AM Thu 3/19/2009
This is really fun blog to visit. I hope you do some features on Chapel Hill houses.
Lawrence Denton
8:24 AM Thu 3/19/2009
The turbulant 60s really did not hit Chapel Hill until late 1968, and I do not recall "the 60s" look being very common even then In Chapel Hill. Anti-War protests for example rarely gathered more than fifty people.
Jersey Boy
5:44 PM Wed 3/18/2009
I'm surprised how inane the TV was in those days. My parents have always told me hold much better it was when they were growing up.
Peter Shannon
5:16 PM Wed 3/18/2009
It seems like only yesterday. I wonder where all my madras shirts ended up.
Jack Collins
4:46 PM Wed 3/18/2009
I think I've learned more about the 60s from these photographs that from all the documentries or movies I've seen about that period.
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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I spent Spring Break in both 1964 and 1965 in Daytona Beach, courtesy of my older sister who was married and lived in the area. One afternoon - don't recall which year - while "cruising chicks" on the beach, spotted a tall, very pale guy with recognizable ears walking with a couple of friends towards Miami. Turned out to be Billy Cunningham and entourage, all well into the development of a pretty significant sunburn. I said hi and asked where they were headed. Turns out they thought to the center of town and they could have not been more wrong! Squeezed them into my brother-in-law's VW Beetle and we headed for the beachfront bar they thought was just down the sand - but actually in the opposite direction. Later I stopped by the motel where Billy was staying and met the Van Arsdale twins plus another college basketball player from St. Johns whose name I don't recall. Suspect Billy and friends, with yours truly added, could have successfully taken on any 5 in the area and won handily, with my four new "friends" doing the heavy lifting!