Bill Kirby Jr.: 'Sick to my stomach,' Skenteris says of restaurant's demolition
The whining bulldozer took aim on what would be the final moments of the Haymont Grill & Steak House, and suddenly the picture windows gave way and sent shards of glass cascading onto Morganton Road.The iconic restaurant, circa 1946, was no more.“Yeah,” Jimmy Skenteris was on his cellphone to his mother, “it’s all gone.”Pete Skenteris, 82, watched the demolition Wednesday from the second floor of his adjacent office building.With […]
