Nearly perfect weather existed yesterday for a nice, long walk during lunch so I decided to walk through Durham to the old Durham Athletic Park (where the movie Bull Durham was filmed so many years ago (20! 20 years ago!!!). I wanted to snap a picture of the old Bull standing mute over and empty, unused field but I found the old bull missing too. Oddly enough I think I saw the old bull during the last World Beer Festival which was held at this facility but memory from that day is understandably fuzzy.
Below is the picture I snapped yesterday:
As you can see there is no bull. I wonder where he went and when he left.
On an equally sad note King's Sandwich Shop, a Durham landmark going back decades, appears closed forever. It was my hope that I would find King's resurrected following the colder than average winter but I'm losing hope. King's served some fine hot dogs, the best in the area (not including Wilson where you can pick up an aptly named Super Dog at Dick's Dogs). King's looks to be, at best, a parking lot for local businesses. See below:
Goodbye, King's, as a restaurant I shall miss thee.
2 comments:
The original bull that was at the DAP has been at the DBAP since the bulls moved there. Not as the one over the field, though. It's been on the wall down by the concessions facing Jackie Robinson Drive.
BTW, that's my son's elementary school in the background to the right there in your second picture.
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