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4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 30, 1984 Local restaurants offer taste of Tar Heel tradition By MARYMELDA HALL Staff Writer History has shown that while college students may sacrifice sleep or study, they will always gravitate toward good food. So in a college town like Chapel Hill, it comes as no surprise that the same restaurants fre quented by true-blue alumni are still attracting students today. The Porthole, Brady's, The Rathskeller, and the Carolina Coffee Shop are four such Chapel Hill tradi tions. The Porthole Located in the alley connecting East Franklin Street and Old Fraternity Row, the Porthole was established in 1942 by Morris Masey Timmons. Timmons, who attend ed UNC as an engineering graduate student in 1929, went into partnership with Willard Marley, also a UNC graduate, in 1941. Marley bought the Porthole building and Timmons served as manager of the restaurant until 1966. Samuel Brown, current manager of the Porthole, said . the average stay of a worker is 15 to 20 years. Two of the waiters have served more than 40 years. "We stress our general staff here," he said. One of the most interesting features of the Porthole is that customers fill out their own order. "We think this is a more effective system," Brown explained. "We have 31 tables, and when it gets really busy the waiter wouldn't have time to take individual orders. This way a waiter can serve 10 or 11 tables, rather than the usual five or six. It's a wav of providing faster service." Wallace Oldham has been a waiter at the Porthole for more than 40 years. He remembers a time when it was the big hang-out. "During the war, until about 1947, we were open until 12 at night," Oldham said. "Dinner was from five to eight, then from eight to 12 it was almost like a beer place; we served beer, wine, and champagne, and there were dances on Friday night. The beer got a little rough though," he said with a grin. Brady's Brady's opened in 1936, but current ownermanager Jim Mask didn't start work there until 1947. "I came to school here in 1947, and became acquainted with Mr. Brady. I helped out some on football game days selling chicken boxes out front," Mask said. After graduating from UNC, Mask moved away to work. "In 1963 1 came through UNC and Mr. Brady said, 'Why don't you come back home and help?' " Mask said with a laugh. "I was in Dillon, South Carolina with a family at the time, but on January 1, 1964, 1 started working for Mr. Brady again." When Brady died on January 17, 1984, he left Mask the restaurant. Brady's hasn't changed much over the years. Most of the staff has worked there for anywhere from 15 to 35 years. And the decor is pretty much the same also. "In 1947, there was a little grocery store and a couple of gas pumpsout front, and two dining rooms," Mask -I rsSJk Shirt fT ? I I.-..? "A ) 'XuKP h ft ' SV , r I - f --:Hv I t wf! 4 h W , . -- "I I iriniirn- 11 -a ,.,),.,., M M -iaiTir1-n , --- Wini-n hi iriliir- imlimil mm it ill nrMm liillii li DTHChartes Ledford Kenneth Mann (left) has been working at the Ramshead Rathskeller since 1949 ... Except for prices, the menu has not changed that much since Mann was hired remembers. "Everybody had to go through the store to pay their check." The gas pumps and the grocery store are gone now, and the last dining room was added in 1957, but alumni visiting Brady's discover that "nothing has changed." According to Mask, Brady's serves a wide range of people, from students to "a lot of local, old-time customers." And many alumni are quick to reminisce about the days gone by and the pork chops at Brady's. Brady's is located at 15Q5 E. Franklin St. and is open 4-10:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The Ramshead RathskeHer Ted Danzig, of German descent, founded the Rathskeller in 19,48, which accounts for its "underground" name. And Kenneth Mann arrived in 1949 as a dishwasher and has worked his way to chef and kitchen manager. Many of Mann's fellow workers have also been at "the Rat" a while the waiters averaging about 22 years and the cooks about 25. "We get customers from everywhere, especially parents and alumni bringing the grandkids," Mann said. "A lot of the athletes come in, like Joe Quigg and 'Rus ty' Clark. Most all the guys come in." And not only did the students come, they carved their names in the walls, the tables, everything. "A lady came in and said she hadn't been here in 28 years," Mann said with a smile. "And the looked and found her name still there in the table." i LATE SHOWS The Rathskeller was one of the first places that was in tegrated at UNC. "It was the first place with a black manager," Mann explained. "One time there were no black cashiers, but we've always been like that." In the 1950s, both Marian Anderson and Louis Armstrong ate at the Rathskeller. Managed by Charlie Smith, the Rathskeller is located at 157-A E. Franklin St. :rn Carolina Coffee Shop hi Opened in 1922, the Carolina Coffee Shop is one. of Chapel Hill's oldest restaurants. "It was first opened by Mr. Levis, a Greek man, and then purchased in 1957 by Byron Freeman," manager Pam Patterson said. When Freeman bought the Carolina Coffee Shop, he went back to the original brick walls of the restaurant. The wainscoting and the wooden booths are also original, Patterson said. "We don't intentionally keep the restaurant this dark," Patterson added. "But we don't get any southern exposure. The darkness and the high booths give an air of privacy to the restaurant though." An "old" new item is about to be added to the Coffee Shop menu, also. "Years ago, the restaurant served toasted poundcake "with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce," Patterson said. "We decided to add it to the menu simply because so many people still come in and ask for it." The Carolina Coffee Shop, located at 138 E. Franklin St., is open 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. EAST FRANKLIN STREET 942-3061 FRI. & SAT. COUPS AND CHAOS! weedy aliens 3LGPj COLOR 11:15 yUSTs ah SEATS sc:.:!KCFurjST rrrrrir" nil. CHEVY CHASE RODNEY DANGERFIELD Caddyshack ( 11:30 Guadalcanal Diary indescribable CAROLINA CLASSIC SERIES Hsre Tby Gens! THE UISH1S O'l HIE LOOSE! let ff I Ml ilitriMfe MX, l j ThaKtter-EBWdach 2:45 5:05 ALL SEATS S2.25 " "rtr f THIS IS THE STORY OF A SMALLTOWN THAT LOST ITS DREAMS. f V I A PARAMOUNT TfZ A PARAMOUNT PICTURE 7:30 9:30 It made me laugh i 'animal house' walks the beat!" -Joel SlegeL GOOD MORNING AMERICA. ABC-TV "Outrageous 1" -Vincent Canby, N.Y. TIMES Just don't call them when you're in trouble. S ' - CSX l r 1 " ' ' f r. f I) 5 K - : I', " - . b in k - a y EMM What an Institution! uuunuwLni a caul Binoiiiuki rnuLAA.iiun : n 3TM8WG STEVE GUTTENEERG HM CATTRALL BUBBA SMITH and GEORGE GAYNZS as count. ussAsc STOn BT MAX uoAIL A FAT FBOfT SCREENPLAT BY NEAL ISRAEL 4 FAT PROFT AND HUGH WILSON , pboduced bt PAUL MASLANSXY dducted bt HUGH WILSON . HELD OVER Discount Tickets Are Accepted 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 ENDS SOON! By LOUIS CORRIGAN Staff Writer Described as indescribable, Guadalcanal Diary has no apparent musical limits and has a fixation for bizarre and absurd themes. Tribal rhythms and ringing guitars will be pro minent in the potpourri the band will serve Saturday night at Cat's Cradle. The band, which takes its name from a book by a World War II veteran, is a pro duct of life iriiMaettifc 3&.t a:bistorjpi good-old-boy fowrf en6wvery"muci a suburb of Atlanta. Guadalcanal's diary began in June of 1981. The band includes Murray Attaway on vocals and guitar; Rhett Crowe, sister of Pylon drummer Curtis, on bass; John Poe on drums; and Jeff Walls on vocals and guitar. Attaway and Walls write most of the songs. Marietta, Ga. isn't particularly strange. Guadalcanal Diary is. Listen to the four songs on Watusi Rodeo, the band's EP, which was releas ed in August 1983 but recorded nine months earlier. "Michael Rockefeller," inspired by the man lost in New Guinea, is musically the best of the four. As with other songs on the EP, Attaway's vocals are outstan ding. Drummer Poe pounds out the beat while Walls rings his Rickenbacker guitar leads with a vengeance. For a frail-looking girl with big glasses, Crowe's steady bass playing is an integral part of the band's sound. The song ends with hauntingly cold, quiet passages. FILM . . . Carolina Union Film Com- -yr mittee Applications avail- 1 y able at Union Desk. Inter- f x views through Friday, JrT March 30. Apply now. ss "A-"" "Liwa Wechi," a cover of Miriam Makeba's dirge, creates the mood of wat ching a fiery, red sun fall under a horizon of rice fields! This is Siddhartha with bass and bongos. Sung more or less in Con golese, "Wooah, . wooah, wooah, wooaooh" is the most recognizable line. "It woulcj probably be some obscenity if someone! speaking Congolese could hear it," Walls said. "Dead Eyes" sounds like a raw mix of punk and tribal music and is reminiscent of The Gm-.S'fTV1? -chorus is suDeay?' Perhaps Guadalcanal Diary's best known song is the black-humored "John Wayne." It is a ballad, of sorts, told through the point of view of a downtrod den gunslinger: . I used to be the top notch gun in this town. That was before the Duke started hanging around. I wish I'd killed John Wayne. " . Music to the refrain comes straight out of the Monkees' "Stepping Stone." As Walls 'explained, this was a song he wrote before Guadalcanal was formed, when the actor was still alive. "We wouldn't even be doing it if that wasn't what (had) taught on," he said. The band plans to play all originals at the Cradle, but with a little coaxing, it has been know! to play an assortment of oldies. Included in Guadalcanal's reper toire are "Kumbaya, My Lord," "The Ballad of the Green Berets" and an astonishingly slow version of "Johnny B. Goode," performed in a low key. Whatever Guadalcanal Diary plays, it promises to be interesting. Manwatchers can identify finds with help of 'Livingston 's Guide ' By KATHY HOPPER Staff Writer It's high noon in Chapel Hill and a warm wind blows from the west. They are wearing camouflage fatigues complete with binoculars, safari hats and butterfly nets. With good luck they will be able to observe the species in it's natural habitat the Student Union. Cheryl Moffit, a self-proclaimed pro fessor of manwatching, and Peter Liv ingston claim they can place any male in his appropriate species using their book Livingston's Guide to North American males. . The guide uses the same method bird watchers use to classify birds, but they have adapted it to the art of manwat ching. They identify various species of men by listing their general appearance (description), clothing (plumage), hair styling (feathering), common phrases (song) favorite hang-outs (habitats) and sexual relations (courtship and mating). "It's really like bird watching," Moffit said. "You just sit in a cafe and watch the men fly by." Moffit won a national award for her non-credit manwatching course in Denver, Colo. She approached Liv ingston, a free-lance writer and literary agent, about doing a book on how women openly observe men. They decid ed to use the bird watching format as a satire. The book begins by noting the special charm of manwatching. "Pollution may threaten to overwhelm our cities, acid rain our forests, and inflation our sav ings, but until the bomb flattens us all, the male will still greet the dawn with his sweet familiar song, "What's for breakfast." "It's not funny unless it's accurate," Livingston said. They talked to over 1,000 men to get the 40 species that were used in the book. Each category of males is accompanied by a photograph of a man who typifies the species. Where you or your friends fit in may stir up some controversy. In many cases, the more a man rejects his inclusion in a particular category, the more likely he is to belong there. But it's hard to admit to being a Slob or Boggle Brain, Livingston said. Species easily spotted on campus in clude: . the Frat homo clone) the Jock (homo sweatsocks) the Punk (homo canine) and the Slob (homo porkus).' rv VP" S t - I .it' A '- S X fa' 1 ft fi The Slob The Slob wears whatever is handy and easy to put on and take off typically an ill-matched, frayed assortment. Zipper may be inoperative. His song is "Don't worry about it," followed by "Don't touch that dial." His habitat is where ever there is a TV, and he is surrounded by a sea'of litter and food. His track is an un mistakeable trail of beer cans, Twinkie wrappers, Spam and baloney. The Frat (homo clone) These men flock together and often wear smug ex pressions. Their plumage varies but will usually have display colors and insignia identifying the flock. The feathering can be used to differentiate the outsiders in a fraternity. This means finding incon sistences like long side burns in a preppie frat. The common song is a vague refrain of obscure origins, such as "Let's ram the jam tonight." They nest in large hives with impoverished furniture with a beer can pryamid in the window. They court in groups with kegged refreshments. Livingston said it is common to spot hybirds (men combining traits of two or more species). But what about the men without any noticeable traits qr characteristics? Livingston nodded and said "Homo zero the generic." The book says these men are "as common as sparrows and as widespread as weeds. They marry and have 2.3 kids, and their song is "have a nice day." The three authors are traveling down the East coast tracking the migratory pat terns of men during spring break. With any luck you'll be able to catch them during the height of the spring mating season. Livingston 's Field Guide to North American Males. By Julia Runk Jones, Milo Trump, Peter Livingston and Cheryl Moffit. 1 124 pages. DoubledayDolphin. $4.95. Noon i I I Today CAMPUS CALENDAR Director of Admissions, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will answer questions about Hopkins and medical educatiprv in general in 204 Steele Bldg. t A free film will be shown in room 201 of the Health Sciences Library which examines at titudes, expectations and the definition of "health". 7 p.m. Environmental Seminar: Elizabeth Brown on "The Politics of the Clean Air Act-1984," in 231 Rosenau. The Navigators will meet in the Union. The Granville chapter of IVCF will meet upstairs in Chapel of the Cross. The speaker will be Richard Rhodes. Northeast Chapter IVCF Meeting at Chapel of the Cross. Long From page 1 To reverse the insurance department's poor record in failing to prevent in surance companies from getting rate hikes successfully appealed in court under Ingram's tenure, the department has lost 41 out of 44 Long said he would hire actuaries to gather the necessary research needed to prevent com panies from overruling a commissioner's refusal of a rate hike. "The problem the department has had so far is that they've just been outgunned. "The department should have representa tion at least as good as the people com panies have in those hearings." And when given the details of a pro posal by Dr. William McRae, director of student health services at UNC Greensboro, which would allow the state's college students to apply their stu dent health fees toward medical insurance policy deductible, Long said he didn't see why the proposal should not be accepted by a commissioner. "My basic reaction is yes, I would sup port it," he said. 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