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Malcolm McLellan

It was named "McPhail's Hill" because Dr. McPhail lived at 320 Minturn Ave. at
the top of the hill, corner of Minturn Ave & Marlboro Ave.

Malcolm McLellan

In the 1987 article about Abbie Covington's accomplishments during her 12 years on the city council was
"a gymnasium was built". In David's historical highlights in 1984 "Hamlet Gymnasium Opened. My question is
Where is this gymnasium located?

Malcolm McLellan

The telephone switchboard was on the 2nd floor of the Belk's on Main Street next to the Central Hotel. The building
was demolished about 2000.

Malcolm McLellan

Mrs. Ida Skipper according to the Hamlet News report.

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Fiction ! I saw it all, it did not happen.

Malcolm McLellan

This is the number for the Crew Clerk at Hamlet Yard.

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RUSSELL HAROLD LANCASTER, JR.
August 13, 1941 - February 16, 2017

Malcolm McLellan

WILLIAM HERBERT CREECH JR. died in 2008 at the age of 91.

Malcolm McLellan

F. A. Tuthill opened The Dinette in 1947, I was there. The Dinette is still listed in the 1950 Hamlet phone book. It became The Pink Platter later when Mr. Tuthill sold it to open Hernando's Hideaway, a supper club on US 1. F. A. Tuthill is the father of Ronnie Tuthill, born in 1943, who was a star ...

Malcolm McLellan

I worked for Mr. Tuthill when the Dinette first opened in 1947. It was still the Dinette in 1950.
The Pink Platter came later. I never knew it to be the Dinette again.

Malcolm McLellan

I guess you are thinking about the Quick Lunch which was next door toward the railroad tracks.
It was like a diner and not a part of the Purity Cafe. Other than good food it was known as a
place where train passengers could quickly buy cartons of cigarettes and was open 24 hours
a day.

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In 1925 the Purity Cafe was located on Main St.across from the Union Hotel. In 1942 they moved into the former Post Office space at 4 Main St. across from the Terminal Hotel. The man you remember was called "Louie The Greek" whose name was Louis George Alexakus, Sr.(1909-1994). He came to ...

Malcolm McLellan

The Class of 1935 was the last to graduate with eleven grades.
She then went back another year and graduated in the Class of 1936
the first class with twelve grades.

Malcolm McLellan

Pender Grocery was located on Hamlet Avenue five stores west of Roses 5 & 10. After the end of WW II, Pender moved across the street to a new building constructed between Hamlet Hardware and Enterprise Hardware and became a Colonial Store. Around 1949, Colonial Store moved to west of the bus sta...

Malcolm McLellan

Does anyone remember a Pender store in Hamlet? What kind of store was it and
where was it located?

Malcolm McLellan

A&P in 1935 was located on Hamlet Ave. next to Rose's 5 & 10 (west).

Malcolm McLellan

Bruce, the barber shop you remember on east Main Street was
Kendall's Barber Shop next to Stinson's Furniture Co.

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Sorry, I do not.

Malcolm McLellan

Thanks Freddie. Good information. Do you know who
maintanes the hedges now?

Malcolm McLellan

Must be Fred Case.

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Malcolm McLellan

This is a Frank Marchant picture taken in 1910. As for the post,
my guess is that it was a gas light.

Malcolm McLellan

This picture was taken in the middle of Main Street in 1912 in front of what is now Birmingham Drugs. This picture appears in "More Than A Memory" a Hamlet history published in 1997. It identifys only the same people you listed. The Terminal Hotel would have been east or below where the pi...

Malcolm McLellan

Louis George Alexakos, Sr. (1909-1994) residence at
time of his death was 113 East Main St. (little white house)
phone 582-4591. He had lived in a room at the Terminal Hotel
for 31 years until it was destroyed by fire April 9, 1993.

Malcolm McLellan

Hamlet:
1. east to Wilmington
2. east (brakes of at east junction) to Charleston & Savannah
3. north to Raleigh
4. south to Columbia & Savannah
5. west to Atlanta & Birmingham

Malcolm McLellan

Swift & Co. is a food processing Company. This
building was used for the distribution of meat
products in the area. This building was built in
1924 by the Lackey estate to house Swift & Co.
and Star Fruit Co. and had, for the day, modern
refrigeration.

Malcolm McLellan

This is the building on Main Street that the city converted
into a museum to house the "Tornado" engine. Across the
street from the new Welcome Center (Stinson's Furniture
building).

Malcolm McLellan

The land on the southeast corner of Raleigh & Charlotte streets
after the Seaboard Annex Hotel was demolished in 1925 was
named Warfield Memorial Park in honor of the Seaboard president.
Southern National Bank (now BB&T) was built on this property.

Malcolm McLellan

Jody are you saying the fact that Wallis' uncle S. Davies
Warfield (1863-1927) chairman & President of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway from 1918 to 1927 might have had some
influence on her choice of the Seaboard?

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King Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 in order to marry a divorced American socialite named Wallis Simpson in 1937. Upon his abdication he was given the title Duke Of Windsor and she became the Duchess Of Windsor. They lived in retirement in France for most of the rest of their lives. During W...

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Crew clerk SCL Hamlet yard

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Police 222
Fire 76

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The pink elephant grave stone in Mary Love cemetery marks the grave of Joseph W. Mitchell (1904-1969). It was done by Cohen Ludwig, a noted master carver and eredted in 1970. Mr. Mitchell was a committed convervative and requested the Republican Party symbol for his headstone. His wife Elizabeth Bea...

Malcolm McLellan

(1)
(2) The area known as Sandhills was known in 1872
as Shorteidge Mills and in 1873 named Hamlet.
(3) Sycamore Tree

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Louie The Greek's name was Louis G. Alexakos.
When he died he was living in the little house between
the Post Office and Dr. Cloniger's office on Main Street.

Malcolm McLellan

In 1905 the Happy Houligan Resturant (saloon) was at
that location. Although I am probabily the oldest member of
this site, I was not a customer of Happy's.

Malcolm McLellan

Frederick Clinton Branch (1922-2005) was the first
African American officer to be commissioned in the
US Marine Corp. in 1945.

Malcolm McLellan

My guess is 1947-48 at the country club. The boy dancing
with the girl in the plaid skirt & dark blouse is Buck Knotts.
The boy smiling over the girls head is J. S. Nolan.

Malcolm McLellan

For those that have a copy of the Hamlet history published in 1997, More Than A Memory. On page 42, there is a picture taken in 1904 from the Express Co. looking west from the depot area, which shows a clear view of both the school and the hospital. I agree with Jody that the school is the better lo...

Malcolm McLellan

This a view from Hamlet Hospital about 1912.
Photo by Frant Marchant. From th General
Negative Collection, N.C. State Archives, Raleigh, NC

Malcolm McLellan

Mrs. Jernigan's book of Hamlet history says 1948.

Malcolm McLellan

I think it was moved after the end of Word War II about 1946 0r 47.

Malcolm McLellan

Does anybody know when Dr. Williamson Closed the Hamlet
Theater?

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According to the Library Of Congress records it
ceased operation on Jan. 18, 1995.

Malcolm McLellan

Paper was sold in 1976 to the publisher of the Richmond
County Daily Journal and ceased publication as The
Hamlet News Messenger in 1993.

Malcolm McLellan

Belk's was on Main Street from 1932-1950 when they purchased
W. R. Land Department Store and moved to Hamlet Avunue. If
they were ever on Hamlet Ave & Bridges it was prior to 1932.

Malcolm McLellan

The Moncure Hospital was built during World War I by Col. William Moncure, Sr., who was Chief Engineer (Civil) and General Manager for the railroad in Raleigh, NC He built the hospital in Hamlet for his son, Dr. William M. Moncure, Jr., who operated the hospital after he returned from military servi...

Malcolm McLellan · The First Baptist Educational Building was dedicated May 6, 1962.

The First Baptist Educational Building was dedicated May 6, 1962.

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