JAMES C. (JIMMY) GREENE JR.

Happy birthday again, J the B. Ironically I recently just ran across for the first time Cheerwine brew, which plays right into my prior post here with our inaugural venture into the brew scene all those decades ago. Just think, your creation then was the precursor to Cheerwine brew!

Hey a great one Bill. Summer of ‘25 will be here before we know and maybe you can be celebrating your next back here in Raleigh

Posted on: Mar 05, 2024 at 5:33 PM

Whatever we drove for drivers ed, it was ideal for moving from that bomb to another, being my first. A pewter gray ‘59 Chevy Biscayne 3 speed column style. Ugly was being complimentary. Recall Curt Ellis or Alex Allen’s first one though may have even been one better!

Thanks for the well wishes and the ale commentating. Had several myself overeating at Cheesecake Factory. Hope to see you in ‘24.

Posted on: Nov 13, 2023 at 4:33 AM

Posted on: Aug 03, 2023 at 2:58 PM

Jim the bartender has yet another, my o my. Saddle up one for me. I remember those cherry smash brews you fashioned from your soda fountain tutelage at Johnson’s Drug Store, and we snuck into Dorton with to see The Supremes in late ‘64. Heck of a way to break in the taste of brew but it worked.

Hope you had a great one and don’t be a stranger in these parts..

Hope you a great one m, Ray. Hey, we should have somehow managed to hold on to those Dover Rd and McDonald Lane properties as both worth in the high six figures or more now. Real estate in Wake County and especially ‘inside the beltline’ is absolutely insane. But then hear same in other regions too. Oh well, be well my friend.

Posted on: Aug 27, 2020 at 5:53 PM

Johnny ‘Do Damage’ War’ren. There have been many ‘do damage‘ knockoff pretenders since but only one legit, deservingly so. Have a great one and don’t be a stranger till 8/21.

Hope you had a great one. Looks like 8/21 for our next gala.

Craig, was not aware either but best wishes on a complete recovery. Will be August before we know it and look forward to seeing your smiling face then. But in the meantime hope we’ll be crossing paths again at our monthly ‘primers’ at the High Park.

He and I only had one class together, Mrs Harkin’s 12th grade college algebra, above the Holliday Gym fittingly enough. Had the distinct impression he was as misplaced in that class as I was, along with a few others I knew. Saw recently where his LSU freshman tennis shoes sold at auction for 16.5 K, though those infamous ‘floppy socks’ wern’t included! Obviously his fame lives on though everything I’ve seen since indicated he was as unassuming about his stature as was the case when he lit up the scoreboard at Broughton and area others. His superlative ‘65 Latipac comment said as much. Last time I saw him was the summer of ‘66 or 67 at the Jolly Knave on Hillsborough by himself, when he nodded a parting acknowledgment jesture as did I in return. And then he was gone.