Huggins, Vic: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
Vic Huggins posed at Huggins Hardware in an undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Local figure
Vic Huggins
Leonard Victor "Vic" Huggins entered UNC in 1920, led its cheerleaders and is credited with creating the Rameses mascot. He and his wife Rebecca opened Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street in 1944 and ran it until 1968. He was president of the Merchants Association and the Chamber of Commerce and founded the Chapel Hill Rose Society.
Source: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Vic Huggins
On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Leonard Victor Huggins → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person.
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Huggins, Vic: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
Portrait of Vic Huggins as a cheerleader at the University of North Carolina, undated. One print from the UNC Athletics binder in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.
Life and Orange County connections
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- Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina Head cheerleader Vic Huggins won athletic department approval and $25 to buy a ram as a mascot. Rameses first appeared at the football game against the Virginia Military Institute, which Carolina won 3-0.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Illustrious, majestic and highly contested: a complete history of the live Rameses
- Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968.Search the index · Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Vic Huggins
- Vic Huggins sells his East Franklin hardware store but lets it keep his name Huggins sold the store he had owned since 1944, and Huggins Hardware ran on under new owners until Miami Subs replaced it between 1989 and 1993.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 335
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- Chapel Hill Public Library (opens in a new tab) Public library in Chapel Hill
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- UNC Libraries (opens in a new tab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 672 Orange County pages naming Vic Huggins DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Vic Huggins NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
Picture: Vic Huggins, Yackety Yack, 1925. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1925 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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