2509 REEVES RD. / TERRACE VIEW SUPPER CLUB

Built 1942-1943 for/by Efthimios Mariakakis. The Mariakakis family owned and operated several restaurants/businesses in the Chapel Hill area in the 1940s through 1970s. Mariakakis (a.k.a. "Ptomaine Tommy") moved to Chapel Hill in 1940, and owned and operated the Marathon hot dog stand until he started the Terrace View Supper Club.

This building was the Terrace View Supper Club from 1943 to 1950. It was a "couples only" dance club and dining spot and a location for private parties.

View south, 1945

Its neon sign, 1948

1945 ad

1947 ad

1948 ad, showing interior

April 1950 ad

Staring in late 1950, the property was offered for sale (because of excessive debt), and in 1951 Mariakakis sold the property (with "all equipment now contained in the buildings") to the trustees of the North Carolina Church of God Ministerial Campground Association.

Sometime thereafter the terrace was removed and a second story added (likely in 1979). It now kind of looks like 1950s military housing (is that an architectural style?).

View south, June 2019 (via Google Streetview)

View east, June 2019 (via Google Streetview)

View north, June 2019 (via Google Streetview)

The property is currently owned by the church Iglesia Poder de Dios.

Interior views can be seen in the 1948 film This is Chapel Hill (starting at ~46:05). Here's a 1946 ad for Willie Collins and His Royal Serenades playing.