On Dec. 19, 2010, predawn customers at a Wilmington restaurant kept their routine.
They fetched their own coffee. They returned empty plates to the kitchen. Sat at the captain s table and discussed politics. This table can run the government a whole lot better than Washington, said Marvin Johnson, who filled a chair at the table for 34 years, told the StarNews in 2010.
Ten years ago on this date marked the end of Whitey s Restaurant, which served the community for 56 years at the corner of Market and Kerr and run by Horace Lee Whitey Prevatte.
For many in the Port City, it was a home away from home, a place to meet old friends and create new ones over menu favorites such as country-style breakfast, stew beef and rice and homemade vegetable soup.