Durham 2008 Official Visitors Guide - Where Good Things Happen - (Page 16) Brass Ring Carousel 1058 W Club Blvd, Northgate, I-85 Exit 176-A Full-size Americana carousel located in Northgate Mall. $1 per ride. � Bull City Dart League Jeana Lee Tahnk/DCVB THINGS TO SEE & DO Chuck E. Cheese 3724 Mayfair St, Beacon Ridge Plaza Shopping Ctr, 4936084, www.chuckecheese.com Pizza restaurant with video and arcade games for all ages. Open M-Su, 10am-10pm. � Durham Bibliography Durham’s history, architecture, and famous families have been penned by authors in over 50 books. Capture childhood memories, take in social and political history, or get lost in a fiction story set in Durham. A complete list of authors has been compiled by the Durham County Library and can be accessed at www.durham-nc.com/ about/durham_bibliography.php Lists are also available in the North Carolina Collection at the Durham County Library’s main branch in Downtown. Durham County Wildlife Club Immerse yourself in the experience of one of Durham’s many nature and science places. Mardi Gras Bowling Lanes 6118 Farrington Rd, 489-1230, www.mardigrasbowling.com Twenty-four lanes, video games. Open M-Th, 9am-11pm; F-Sa, 9am-1am; Su, 11am-11pm. 3616 Hopson Rd, 544-1306, www.dcwc.net Trap, skeet, and clay shooting for members and guests. Pistol and archery range. Sa, 11am-3pm; Su, 1pm-5pm. � GameFrog Café 16 1058 W Club Blvd, Northgate, I-85 Exit 176-A, 286-0200, www.gamefrogcafe.com Networked gaming stations, complete with high-speed connections and over-sized monitors, enable PlayStation 2, XBOX, and PC gamers to try out the latest games and play against each other. � The Little Gym Jump Shots Billiards Studio 2501 University Dr, Ste 8, 403-5437, www.thelittlegym.com/gym/default.aspx?gymid=65 Fully-equipped gymnastic facility specially designed for kids up to 12 years of age. Call for class information. � Festival Centre, 3405 Hillsborough Rd, Ste E Thirteen pool tables, videogames, and air hockey. Open M-Su, 12pm-2am. Triangle Paintball Legacy Studios, LLC 7312 Wake Forest Hwy, 598-5000, Three wooded playing fields and one speedball field. Walk-on or call for group reservations. 608 N Duke St, Downtown Durham, 680-4363, www.legacystudios.info Offering ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, modern dance, yoga, Pilates, and Feldenkrais. Call for class information and fees. Vertical Edge Climbing Center 2422-D US Hwy 70 East, 596-6910, www.verticaledgeclimbing.com 10,000-square-feet of wall-to-wall faux cliffs, caverns, overhangs, and mountainous terrain. � Research Triangle Park Back in the 1950s, predictions that Durham would be the hottest spot for scientific research in the United States would have been hard to find. Today, Durham-based Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the most recognizable and largest park of its kind in the world. The 7,000-acre namesake for the entire Triangle region is two miles wide, eight miles long, now partially extending into Wake County toward Cary and Morrisville. Encompassed by the City of Durham, nearly 8,000 lodging guest rooms, and over 400 restaurants, RTP was originally named for its affiliation with three major research universities: Duke University in Durham, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The Park, developed by Research Triangle Foundation in 1959, now includes over 160 companies and a total workforce of more than 40,000. It continues to surpass the two major goals proposed by its creators: to attract research to the area, which in turn would lead to growth of industrial/production facilities, and to end the “brain drain” (intellectual emigration) in North Carolina. Today, RTP is surrounded by a variety of other Durham business and corporate parks in the fields of pharmaceuticals, microelectronics, biotechnology, telecommunications, textiles, and many others. Along with the original three universities, Durham’s North Carolina Central University (located less than two miles from RTP) now plays a major role in the park as well, and has introduced its Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise (BRITE) Center for Excellence. Although not a city, Research Triangle Park has a special Durham postal substation—Research Triangle Park, NC 27709—and is serviced by Durham utilities. The Durham metro area now ranks first in the nation for percent of its workforce in the creative class, but 50 years ago, before the RTP idea came to fruition, few would have believed any of this was possible. www.durham-nc.com Research Triangle Institute/DCVB Stewart Waller/DCVB Various sites around Durham, 392-2171, www.thebcdl.org 21-team amateur and professional dart league. Tournaments held weekly at various locations around the city, open to visitors. Email ec@thebcdl.org for membership information. http://www.thebcdl.org http://www.chuckecheese.com http://www.dcwc.net http://www.mardigrasbowling.com http://www.gamefrogcafe.com http://www.thelittlegym.com/gym/default.aspx?gymid=65 http://www.durham-nc.com/about/durham_bibliography.php http://www.durham-nc.com/about/durham_bibliography.php http://www.legacystudios.info http://www.verticaledgeclimbing.com http://www.durham-nc.com
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