re: Restaurant history thread - 112 missed restaurants in the history of F-ville

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I rarely went to Dickson except just passing through and I thought of it back then as seedy--it was so much different then than now. Someone got killed at or in front of the Swingin' Door and that's about the time Fayetteville's first curfew got implemented.

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The WAC opened and OBC opened almost at the exact same time in about 1992. I'm not sure when Jose's opened, but my first Dickson Street memory was of going to Jose's with my parents sometime in 1993 or so. Before that, my parents wouldn't ever take us down there when we visited for games. Dickson had gotten seedy. I remember us driving down there and seeing those chicken spike mowhawks the punks wore in the 80s as a child.

When I started school, Emerald Coast had just opened up (later to be renamed CG) and things were full swing turning around. There were still abandoned buildings down there. The laundy was still in operation and Shipley still baked bread. Whole street used to smell like bread.

The rehabbing of Dickson seems like it was an inevitability now, and probably would have happened without the WAC. WAC just moved it forward by about a decade.

Once the city planted trees and widened the sidewalks, rents skyrocketed.