Chansky’s Notebook: The Fabulous Four Corners

Posted Aug 8, 2019
Forty years ago this month, Chapel Hill went to Four Corners. Remember when Woody Durham intoned, “Dean Smith has raised four fingers, and the Tar Heels are going to Four Corners”? Those were the days. So a year after liquor by the drink passed in North Carolina, a group of us got together and opened Four Corners, the first sports bar in Chapel Hill. (Chapelboro.com)

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