by Billy (Eye) Ingram (Author)
A collection of essays written for O.Henry magazine and Yes! Weekly focused on the history of Greensboro, NC.
When Greensboro, Charlton Heston with a cast of thousands, and a camp filled with Nazis won World War II + Drive-In theatres + Greensboro's own Grey Gardens + Partying with radio legend Bob Poole + State Street's scandalous movie theater + Ballinger School + Judy Garland in Greensboro + A short oral history of Piedmont Airlines + Joan Crawford's Mother's Day armored invasion of the Gate City + Biltmore & Guilford Dairy + I Was a Teenage Scarecrow + GSO's skateboard culture + Who is Bill Boggs and what was he doing Here? + Whatever happened to Jack Murphy? + The day they 'dozed old Dixie down + College Hill's Crunchy Music Stuff + Video Review + My Kenansville summer + Darlene Love + Toot Toot Truck + Restaurants serving diners for over 35 years + Tate Street that great street + What life was like for German POWs in Greensboro + Peaches Records + The lost art of Trick or Treating + Psychic on the corner + A tale of two firehouses and more GSO fire history ...and so much more!