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- Thu March 8, 2018, 7:25 pm
- Forum: I Remember Hamlet
- Topic: IRH - The Sanitary Laundry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5700
Re: IRH - The Sanitary Laundry
I worked for John Evans during the summer, holidays, etc. in 1964 and part of 1965 until I moved to Atlanta. Great family and I thoroughly enjoyed working for the Evan's. I drove the commercial truck picking up and delivering to a number of motels, the RC Hospital, and the most interesting was the o...
- Fri August 5, 2016, 12:10 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: CABOOSE
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8308
Re: CABOOSE
The purpose of the caboose was, and is, to park them in Columbia so the Gamecocks can enjoy a beer as the football team beats the Cheating Holes!!!!
- Mon June 20, 2016, 9:06 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Laurinburg mummy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8014
Re: Laurinburg mummy
Beachum knows! Gosh, Spaghetti may be an honorary Scotsman with a kilt!
- Fri June 17, 2016, 10:21 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Laurinburg mummy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8014
Re: Laurinburg mummy
Spaghetti..met the fellow, but he is now buried.
- Fri April 29, 2016, 9:00 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: 1957 items
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3425
Re: 1957 items
I keep telling people that my memory is very well preserved and this is another example...I remember the morning I read this first release of batting statistics. Without even seeing this, I could remember Roper was hitting .714 and wondering, "does he ever walk"? The Cubs were probably get...
- Tue December 1, 2015, 9:44 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Check out this site on Camp Mackall.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6040
Re: Check out this site on Camp Mackall.
Duplicate...deleted
- Tue December 1, 2015, 9:43 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Check out this site on Camp Mackall.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6040
Re: Check out this site on Camp Mackall.
My Mom worked up there with the telephone company during WWII while my Dad was away. We drove through there several times in the early 50's, but I don't remember much except for seeing deer which was an oddity!
- Mon April 27, 2015, 10:26 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: HAMLET SIREN'50-60'S
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8410
Re: HAMLET SIREN'50-60'S
Seems like they also blew it at noon on Wednesday and most of the town shut the doors and took the afternoon off.
- Tue January 13, 2015, 9:48 pm
- Forum: Melvia Holt items
- Topic: Misc Items 21
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7958
Re: Misc Items 21
I think I've got a picture of me, Larry Mills, Ricky O'Brian, and several others wearing those same Babe Ruth All Star uniforms a few years before that. Think they were new that year...
- Thu September 11, 2014, 9:54 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Phone book 1950
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8589
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Neat...Darn, I would have never remembered the home number, but the "office number" was 65! I knew it was a 2 digit number, but was stumped!
- Tue September 9, 2014, 10:16 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Phone book 1950
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8589
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Could be a tablet issue,Sig, so I,ll try the right click suggestion on my other computer. I remember "Michael Otis" moved to thenew house when we were very young, but saw Clem' s phone number Our's was A 300 number, but danged if I can remember Dad's shop. I do remember 222 though... The H...
- Tue September 9, 2014, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Phone book 1950
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8589
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Could be a tablet issue,Sig, so I,ll try the right click suggestion on my other computer. I remember "Michael Otis" moved to thenew house when we were very young, but saw Clem' s phone number Our's was A 300 number, but danged if I can remember Dad's shop. I do remember 222 though... The H...
- Mon September 8, 2014, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Phone book 1950
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8589
Re: Hamlet Phone book 1950
Can you fix the picture so I can read the numbers on the right side of the page. I have beat my brain to death trying to remember our home phone and my Dad's business number back then....Thanks if you can....
- Thu August 7, 2014, 7:12 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Kids
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7432
Re: Kids
Yep, David Adeimy clarified for me today...it didn't make sense to me if it was first grade cause we got separated by alphabet at Fairview Heights. A number of us(the same age were missing), but it's because we didn't go to Mrs. White's kindergarten...Those of us who missed the cutoff on age, went t...
- Sun August 3, 2014, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Kids
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7432
Re: Kids
I think Cherly Dennis or Bill posted...they will probably respond..BTW, how do I send you some pics????
- Sat August 2, 2014, 10:46 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Kids
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7432
Re: Kids
Isn't Ginny Barlow next to Adeimy?? What grade was this? First?..I recognize most of my classmates although I didn't join them until the second grade.
- Mon July 7, 2014, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Railroad Crossing:
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9758
Re: Railroad Crossing:
Hamlet Gin & Supply was around back in the 40's and 50's, maybe earlier.
- Thu June 26, 2014, 9:57 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: John Brittingham - Hamlet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10381
Re: John Brittingham - Hamlet
JB mentioned Stutts, but forgot some others:
Jerry Clark
Joel Blakley
Earl Case
Jimmy Case
Lee Fetner
Lee O-Don't even ask me to spell her last name
Jimmy Penegar
???? Penegar, Jimmy's sister
Joe Pete Robinson
Jerry Clark
Joel Blakley
Earl Case
Jimmy Case
Lee Fetner
Lee O-Don't even ask me to spell her last name
Jimmy Penegar
???? Penegar, Jimmy's sister
Joe Pete Robinson
- Thu June 26, 2014, 6:15 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: John Brittingham - Hamlet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10381
Re: John Brittingham - Hamlet
Wasn'it is "Uzzel", Ronnie??
And don't bring up that mean freakin' pony, Bill!!! He took off with me one day near the Gulledge's house and dumped me when he got to the barn at your house!
And don't bring up that mean freakin' pony, Bill!!! He took off with me one day near the Gulledge's house and dumped me when he got to the barn at your house!
- Thu June 26, 2014, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: John Brittingham - Hamlet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10381
Re: John Brittingham - Hamlet
Ok, Bruce...here's a partial list of the females... Lydia Case Ilene Gunter Carolyn Ormsby Lucy McNair and her two sisters Nancy Hitt Saundra McCracken(and I still have a dent in my chin bone from one of her kicks) Sissy Campbell John's Sister Ellen Brittingham Jane McManus Vicky Winters Carol Clark...
- Mon March 24, 2014, 10:46 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: The Old Red Caboose
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9794
Re: The Old Red Caboose
Wonder if that caboose is now parked outside of the football stadium in Columbia?
- Fri March 21, 2014, 12:06 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Fairgrounds???
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15372
Re: Fairgrounds???
Lynn,didn' t Mike Stogner get in there with him one night???
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- Fri February 14, 2014, 6:44 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17836
Re: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
How many times did many of us "climb up the chained front door of the gym" and let ourselves in on the weekends to play basketball? Nancy, you may be a little young to remember, but we had some basketball battles in your yard...the biggest being the Barbour-Cade two on two against Butch Ad...
- Mon January 13, 2014, 8:03 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rockingham Raceway
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21603
Re: Rockingham Raceway
Lynn, Junior taught Cale a lot! About driving and "telling tales". If you ever get a chance, read the book that Cale wrote. I'm not sure where to find it though because I read a "borrowed copy". When I transferred to Florence in 86, he was winding down his driving career, but our...
- Sun January 12, 2014, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rockingham Raceway
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21603
Re: Rockingham Raceway
You win, Lynn! Cale can really tell some stories too!
- Wed January 8, 2014, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rockingham Raceway
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21603
Re: Rockingham Raceway
I think it was the first race at "the Rock" and John Sears was the local running in his first big time race..Curtis Turner put him in the wall inTurn 1 of the first lap! I told that story to a fellow named Yarborough from Sardis,SC who was a client of mine for a long time several years ago...
- Sat December 28, 2013, 11:54 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: HHS 1952 Locker room
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8189
Re: HHS 1952 Locker room
Bet we were still drinking from that water bucket in 1963 too.
- Wed November 13, 2013, 7:26 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: WWII Soldiers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6360
Re: WWII Soldiers
The end of war brought the boys back home from the far places of the world that the call of duty had sent them. The servicemen from our church are as follows: Hoyt Terry; Hilliard Terry; Loyce Terry; Detreese Latham; Laurence Dick; Leon Williams; W. C. Long; Mike Byrd, Jr.; Eugene Ussery; Bill Smit...
- Wed November 13, 2013, 7:16 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Boyd Lake Season Pass
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12467
Re: Boyd Lake Season Pass
BTW, Sigmore...Nice to finally meet you at the VFW..
- Wed November 13, 2013, 7:16 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Boyd Lake Season Pass
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12467
Re: Boyd Lake Season Pass
One of the folks gave me one of these during the Seaboard Days a couple of weeks ago...
- Tue November 5, 2013, 7:25 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Re: Dink
You may have the "answer" to Dink...Sounds exactly like him...He was famous for the hat...
- Thu October 31, 2013, 10:35 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Re: Dink
To put some "finality" on this question, I talked to a number of the pool room regulars from the early 60's this weekend in Hamlet. Everyone remembers him, but no one knew his last name!
- Sat July 13, 2013, 5:49 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Class of 1931
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10790
Re: Class of 1931
Looks like evidence of "global warming" to me...those gals are wearing some very heavy coats...
- Fri June 14, 2013, 1:27 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Maxim & Rowland Fire Engines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3609
fire engine
I rode with my Dad and Phil to pick up one of those new Hamlet fire engines about 1953 or so.
- Wed February 27, 2013, 8:38 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Country Club 1928
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4303
RCC
Boy, times have changed! I need to send this to a few Club Managers I know..They'd croak if they turned over the operation of the golf course to the Greens Committee! We'd be broke in a month! I just wonder if they could have gotten a 501(c)(7) tax exemption with those by laws if it was today..Inter...
- Wed February 27, 2013, 8:34 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hub Grill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12710
The Hub
Driving to the "High Spot" to get a beer when Frog wouldn't sell you one...then driving back to the Grill!
Sitting on Coke crates!
Sitting on Coke crates!
- Wed February 13, 2013, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Nope
Not him..This guy would be 80 years old or more by now..
- Mon January 14, 2013, 7:43 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17578
Bill
I need to go digging through some of the things my Mom had which included the hospital bill from Hamlet Hospital for the both of us in 1945. The entire bill for 11 days(try that now) was $55.
- Mon January 14, 2013, 2:01 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Lillian D James
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6573
Dr. William C. Terry
Ronnie Crooke asked me if the Dr. William C. Terry mentioned in the article was related to me.. Yep, his great grandfather and my great great great grandfather were brothers..Since I "hit the gold mine" in family tree history a few years back, I've been able to unravel the story of the Ter...
- Thu December 27, 2012, 6:56 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Dink
No kidding, Jody... Glad someone posted Ronnie Singletary's pic though...Recognized him immediately.. I'm gonna have to check with some of my contemporaries although Sigmore might check with "Uncle Otis" cause I'm sure he'd remember him...If not, we've got our 500th(or is it the 50th) reun...
- Wed December 26, 2012, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Nope
Still not the right person. "Dink" the Painter was much older than me...Probably older than Bobby Atkinson back then...
Ronnie was younger than me and too my knowledge, no relationship to the "Dink" I'm talking about...
Ronnie was younger than me and too my knowledge, no relationship to the "Dink" I'm talking about...
- Thu December 20, 2012, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Water Tank
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7805
Ronnie
In the Fall of '65, we were HHS Seniors sitting in Mrs. Lina Bauersfield's English class. The windows were open. Fall was in the air. The class was discussing the topic "symbolisms." Mrs. B asked the class, "would anyone like to illustrate an example of the topic?" Twin brother,...
- Thu December 20, 2012, 6:55 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Dink
As I said, I cannot remember his last name.. Final hint(actually it's a dead giveaway).. All I ever knew was they called him "Dink the Painter" as he wore a painter's hat. How much he actually painted is still a mystery to me.. Never knew there were than many "Dinks" in Richmond ...
- Wed December 19, 2012, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Nope
Nope..nothing right yet...
He was a good bit older that the graduates of 1963 if that helps with the age.
He was a good bit older that the graduates of 1963 if that helps with the age.
- Tue December 18, 2012, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Dink
He used to come in the pool room...
I remember the profession, but cannot remember his last name either. He was always just "Dink"...
Hint: and he wore special hat that was not RR...
I remember the profession, but cannot remember his last name either. He was always just "Dink"...
Hint: and he wore special hat that was not RR...
- Mon December 17, 2012, 7:44 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 26034
Dink
1..What was Dink's last name?
2. What was Dink's profession?
2. What was Dink's profession?
- Mon December 17, 2012, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10807
Re: Yemassee
The train that stopped in Yemassee dropped off a bunch of young fellows headed to Parris Island... Wayne , the train carrying the Army recruits from NYC and the big northern cities to Ft. Jackson. came thru Hamlet. It was train #9, the southbound "Palmland." I worked this job for 3 months...
- Sun December 16, 2012, 8:59 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10807
Yemassee
The train that stopped in Yemassee dropped off a bunch of young fellows headed to Parris Island...
- Sun December 9, 2012, 2:43 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Hamlet PD Phone Number
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6952
Bingo
You're a winner!
- Sat December 8, 2012, 9:05 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Hamlet PD Phone Number
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6952
Hamlet PD Phone Number
Ok, Grady, here's one for you.. Prior to rotary dial systems in Hamlet, we all had to call "Balk Bullock's wife's crew at Southern Bell and they would respond with "Number Please"... If you had to call the Hamlet Police Department, what was the phone number? You shouldn't even have to...