On the Street: Lie Down with the Dogs
(photograph taken on Lloyd & Main outside Leo Gaev Metalworks in Carrboro)
Read On
Always open. No card required.
The free micro-libraries are scattered on/off Franklin Street in the once-vacant bins. Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership initiated the shared book collections to build community and foster reading.
Books are free to all. Take a book. Drop a book. Leave a note between the pages...
Downtownfreelibrary2
(photograph taken on Franklin between S. Roberson & Kenan, near the Med Deli)
What's with the Orange Bikes Around Chapel Hill?
Looks like the construction-orange bikes mysteriously appearing throughout town are part of a marketing campaign by Orangetheory Fitness to generate buzz about the new fitness center opening next month in Chapel Hill. It's a similar tactic used in other cities (from Tampa to Seattle) to get folks talking and stimulate interest in the international fitness chain.
Here in Chapel Hill, the folks at Orangetheory Fitness hope people will take photos of themselves next to the painted bikes and post them on social media. The two-wheelers have been seen in odd locations including the median strip on US 15-501/Highway 54 around Brandon Road, and the corner of Highway 54 & Finley Golf Course Road.
(photograph taken on the corner of Highway 54 & Finley Golf Course Road)
Kill the Queen
(photographs taken at 419 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill - Yates Motor Co. Bldg)
Past Gas
The vintage Pure Oil sign in Chapel Hill is a footprint of the former Pure Oil Company gas station and garage which is the same building that currently houses Fed Ex Kinkos. Prior to current tenants, the building housed a Pizza Hut. Records indicate that Pizza Hut kept the building's original structure in tact, in lieu of tearing it down, as a result of protests.
(photograph taken at 114 West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill)