From Michael Jordan to Franklin Street, this is what UNC looked like in the '80s

Posted Apr 12, 2019
Picture basketball games in Carmichael Arena, studying in Wilson Library, registering for classes in person at Woollen Gym, buying beer as an 18 year old on Franklin Street. This was UNC campus life in the 1980s. John Blythe, 1986 graduate and assistant curator for the North Carolina Collection, does not remember UNC's campus as it is today. (Daily Tar Heel)

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