The Tin Can

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1. November 14, 1929 The United States Marine Band plays in Kenan Stadium and the Tin Can Brought by the Y.M.C.A., the Marine Band under Capt. Taylor Branson gave an afternoon concert in Kenan Stadium to about 2,000 schoolchildren and college students and an evening concert in the Tin Can, moved there because Memorial Hall was closed. Editor Louis Graves wrote a week later that both audiences had been small. People: Harry F. Comer The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1929, p. 1
2. May 1, 1930 Chapel Hill clubwomen hold their annual flower show in the Tin Can The annual Chapel Hill flower show filled the Tin Can with more than 1,000 entries, 114 of which won prizes given by merchants in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham and Greensboro, along with a room of Colonial furniture, table settings and folk dancing. The Weekly judged it the best on record. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 3
3. April 29, 1933 Kay Kyser's band closes the May Frolics dances in the Tin Can Kay Kyser and his orchestra, made up of former UNC students, played the formal dance that closed the fourth annual May Frolics in the Tin Can. The band also gave a benefit concert in Memorial Hall the next afternoon. The Daily Tar Heel: Fourth Frolics dances set ends, April 30, 1933
4. October 10, 1941 Chapel Hill opens a Soldiers' Center in the Graham Memorial for troops on the Carolina maneuvers A University and village committee headed by Harry F. Comer set up a Soldiers' Center in the Graham Memorial, with its own telephone, to match visiting soldiers with families offering meals, drives and beds. On the first weekend, October 11 and 12, four to five thousand soldiers came for the Fordham game and more than 600 stayed the night, 300 of them in the Tin Can and others in Graham dormitory, the Institute of Government building, fraternity houses and village homes. People: Harry F. Comer, John M. Foushee The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 10, 1941, p. 1
5. November 2, 1960 Fire damages the University's Tin Can athletic building An early-morning fire destroyed a section of flooring about the size of a basketball court at one end of the Tin Can, the corrugated-iron building put up as a temporary structure about 35 years earlier and then used for intramural athletics. Police Lt. Jack Merritt saw the fire about 1:30 a.m., every fire truck answered, and crowds of students hampered the firemen. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 3, 1960, p. 3

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