Aycock Cafe

Here's an Uptown landmark and a view most photographers never catch. Nicknamed the Aycock Cafe by the teens who eat there, it's really the cafeteria at Aycock Middle School just off of East Bessemer Ave on Cypress Street. It's without a doubt, one of the oldest buildings in the Uptown and brings back all sorts of horrid memories of the awful foods served to myself and other alumni of Aycock Jr High School.

Aycock Middle School was named for North Carolina Governor, Charles B Aycock who, while generally thought of as a great education proponent, was also in-part responsible for the Wilmington Massacre in 1898 before being elected governor 1901-1905.