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by freddie hassler
Tue January 23, 2018, 3:47 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Boyd's Lake 1960
Replies: 2
Views: 3270

Re: Boyd's Lake 1960

I was there eveyday 7am until dark from age9-18 had season tickets ever year until I was the Lifeguard, got in free then and got paid, with all my earning going to the Concession Stand ran by Paul Boyd*RIP) Paul taught me and my brother Robbie(RIP) how to swim :D [/b]
by freddie hassler
Mon January 15, 2018, 3:03 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - The News Stand
Replies: 1
Views: 3900

Re: IRH - The News Stand

The News Stand, had the best Hot Dog's ever :D
by freddie hassler
Mon January 15, 2018, 2:50 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: 1944 Depot underpass
Replies: 2
Views: 3647

Re: 1944 Depot underpass

First time I went thur the Subway I was6 just playing around with a friend who lived near by until the Station Master ran us off

by freddie hassler
Mon January 8, 2018, 4:36 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - The Ice Storm
Replies: 3
Views: 5239

Re: IRH - The Ice Storm

I was in the USAF stationed at Osan AB during the Ice Strom, but read about it in our local papers and letters from home. My youngest daughter Lisa was born Jan30,1969 and was at her Grandmothers house , no power they kept the house warm with the fireplace and warmed her baby milk there too
by freddie hassler
Fri December 22, 2017, 12:15 pm
Forum: Hamlet Happenings
Topic: CSX CHANGES
Replies: 3
Views: 6893

Re: CSX CHANGES

I'm sorry about his passing, but maybe if it not too late Hamlet Yard will not die
by freddie hassler
Fri December 22, 2017, 12:07 pm
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - WL Haltiwanger
Replies: 1
Views: 3726

Re: IRH - WL Haltiwanger

I only remember talking with Mr. Haltiwanger, but once and that was not in school but on the way back from a baseball game on Park St. with Jimmie Cox Jim lived on Madison Ave. back then and we were walking to his house. We saw him just ahead of us and walked up to him and spoke. He was so nice tha...
by freddie hassler
Fri December 15, 2017, 3:18 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hwy 74
Replies: 1
Views: 2644

Re: Hwy 74

I remember my uncle telling me that he remembered when Hwy74 was a singlepaved lane fromRockinghamthat stopped a Clemmer Rd and the rest of the way to Hamlet was dirt
by freddie hassler
Fri December 15, 2017, 12:56 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - The Hub
Replies: 4
Views: 6767

Re: IRH - The Hub

Frog and Walterbell were the Car Hops, and a Blue Ribbon was 20 cent a Bud .25 sigmore do you remember the Jukebox speaker in the tree behind the Hub :roll: ?
by freddie hassler
Tue August 29, 2017, 4:55 pm
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - Ma Crofton
Replies: 1
Views: 3820

Re: IRH - Ma Crofton

Ma.Cfofton's was also called'' The Purple Top''
by freddie hassler
Tue August 29, 2017, 4:41 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: Oscar Mayer Mobil at WalMart Rockingham
Replies: 1
Views: 5642

Re: Oscar Mayer Mobil at WalMart Rockingham

Bill now you know how Oscar Sellers got his name at the RR ''Hotdog'' :D
by freddie hassler
Sun August 13, 2017, 1:01 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - The Golf Courses
Replies: 2
Views: 5013

Re: IRH - The Golf Courses

I can remember when Bo aka Hobo Frye would hitchhike from Longwood Park down Wiregrass Rd to Caddy at the Golf course on US1
by freddie hassler
Wed August 2, 2017, 7:21 pm
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - Gum Swamp Lake
Replies: 4
Views: 5975

Re: IRH - Gum Swamp Lake

Sigmore that's the way you go to Crawford's Lake. Back in the later part of the 1990's NO SWIMMING sign's posted at all Lakes in the Sandhill Gameland's because of the way people trashed them up[/b]
by freddie hassler
Tue August 1, 2017, 2:54 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - Gum Swamp Lake
Replies: 4
Views: 5975

Re: IRH - Gum Swamp Lake

The best way to get to Gum Swamp Lake is get on Boyd Lake Rd and keep on going Straight until you see a Lake on the Left :roll:
by freddie hassler
Thu May 25, 2017, 1:36 am
Forum: I Remember Hamlet
Topic: IRH - Hamlet High
Replies: 3
Views: 4493

Re: IRH - Hamlet High

I didn't know either Eagle one. So Sad to hear the News about Russ
by freddie hassler
Sun April 23, 2017, 12:34 am
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: Hamlet Hump Bowl
Replies: 1
Views: 5035

Re: Hamlet Hump Bowl

I had heard they weren't a single car in the Bowl, and this picture proved that :|
by freddie hassler
Fri April 21, 2017, 2:12 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: 1962 Water Ski Contest
Replies: 1
Views: 3042

Re: 1962 Water Ski Contest

I remember that Water Ski Contest, they had a Ski Jump too, and when I went to work on the RR I got to know Bill Martin, he was a Yard. Conductor working the 11:59pm. yard job :roll:
by freddie hassler
Sat April 1, 2017, 6:14 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: 1962 Hamlet
Replies: 2
Views: 4447

Re: 1962 Hamlet

Anyone old enough to know the location of the Hamlet Natonal Gaurd Amory was before they built the one on Boyd Lake Rd. :?: and who ran the Family Dollar Store :?:
by freddie hassler
Fri March 17, 2017, 6:45 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hamlet Post Office
Replies: 4
Views: 5710

Re: Hamlet Post Office

Sunny is the 3rd. one down from top :roll: [/b]
by freddie hassler
Fri March 17, 2017, 6:43 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hamlet Post Office
Replies: 4
Views: 5710

Re: Hamlet Post Office

Sigmore I to remember Mike Carnes on the job and at the Hub, drinking Miller[ and SunnyGreen(aka Donald )from LongwoodParkRIP Sunny/b]
by freddie hassler
Mon February 27, 2017, 10:12 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hamlet Jail 1973
Replies: 2
Views: 3955

Re: Hamlet Jail 1973

Sigmore what was your reaction, when you heard about them shutting down your Hangout on the weekend :?:
by freddie hassler
Sat February 11, 2017, 4:12 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: 1958 was the year
Replies: 1
Views: 3023

Re: 1958 was the year

About the Hamlet Water Rates, in 1950, when we moved from School St. in E.Rockingham to Longwood Park our water bill was $2.00 a month for the longest time The Office was on Front St. next to the Ball Room now Who knew that the Ball Room building once was the 4th. Family Dollar Store in the State :...
by freddie hassler
Sat February 11, 2017, 3:55 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Freeman family
Replies: 25
Views: 45449

Re: Freeman family

Wayne, what was Chief Freeman's real first name :?: Chief lives where Wes grew up on East Hamlet Ave.by the old Hub Grill
by freddie hassler
Thu February 9, 2017, 2:42 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Freeman family
Replies: 25
Views: 45449

Re: Freeman family

Wayne, I did know where David and Betty lived on Hylan, I think a sign is still at the driveway saying David Freeman,wasn't Gail Wise their daughter?
by freddie hassler
Thu February 9, 2017, 1:03 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Freeman family
Replies: 25
Views: 45449

Re: Freeman family

Betty, I think I may have the wrong Bettie Freeman in mine, the Bettie Freeman I knew in Hamlet, was married to David FreemanRIP. I was thinking she remarried, but I'm thinking she may have passed now get me straight on this matter
by freddie hassler
Wed February 8, 2017, 11:09 pm
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Freeman family
Replies: 25
Views: 45449

Re: Freeman family

Thank's Betty, sure miss seeing you around and about here in Hamlet[.I went to Robert's funeral, we were classmates HHSclass of'64.I called Bonnie, when her Mother died, she told me her brother Willie had also passed away, but he wasn't at Mary Love, can't remember where she said his resting place ...
by freddie hassler
Mon February 6, 2017, 6:07 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Freeman family
Replies: 25
Views: 45449

Re: Freeman family

As you go into Mary Love the Main Gate, to the Right is the Freeman section, Robert Brown, and his Mother are there, she was a Freeman. the man who gave the Land for Mary Love was a FreemanI'm thinking I read that here on Our Hamlet.
by freddie hassler
Thu January 19, 2017, 3:53 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Main St. aerial
Replies: 3
Views: 4743

Re: Main St. aerial

Sigmore, the Water Tank, was a better view than in front of the Pool Room Face down on the side walk :D
by freddie hassler
Sat January 14, 2017, 11:06 pm
Forum: Years ago in Hamlet
Topic: News Messenger 4
Replies: 1
Views: 3325

Re: News Messenger 4

The Excepts from News Messenger 20 years ago in Hamlet(dated Thursday Feb.11,1943 )about Joe Balock and Paul Boyd , I did know about, Paul Boyd told me himself about the two going into the Navy together, Paul said Joe was the smartest man he had ever known. I bet everybody in Hamlet knew both of th...
by freddie hassler
Thu January 12, 2017, 10:56 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: 2016 Seaboard Festival
Replies: 9
Views: 12957

Re: 2016 Seaboard Festival

Tiz, is that Sidney Hodges, talking to Robert Maynard under the tent :?:
by freddie hassler
Wed December 28, 2016, 4:06 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hub Grill 1948
Replies: 8
Views: 9305

Re: Hub Grill 1948

Fishbone, I don't think there is a person in Hamlet could tell you unless Earl Bradshaw can, we are just to young to known anyone before Mr. Quinn
by freddie hassler
Wed December 28, 2016, 8:17 am
Forum: Hamlet Happenings
Topic: New Library landscaping
Replies: 2
Views: 5516

Re: New Library landscaping

In the Basement of the old Library, they would have Birthday parties etc. :roll: and when they build the new part they took up that part of Minture Ave. that ran beside it from Rice St to Main St.
by freddie hassler
Tue December 27, 2016, 9:39 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: 2016 Hamlet Christmas Parade
Replies: 5
Views: 8523

Re: 2016 Hamlet Christmas Parade

Sigmore, I though you were already my friend :roll:
by freddie hassler
Mon December 26, 2016, 7:15 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: 2016 Hamlet Christmas Parade
Replies: 5
Views: 8523

Re: 2016 Hamlet Christmas Parade

The Orange Hot Rod Pickup is a 1934 chevy owned by my brother-in-law Buster Jones
by freddie hassler
Sun December 11, 2016, 7:07 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: 2016 Seaboard Festival
Replies: 9
Views: 12957

Re: 2016 Seaboard Festival

Lynn, that is your sister First Row far right and Johnnie Robbins to the Left of Dianne
by freddie hassler
Fri December 9, 2016, 6:10 am
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: 2016 Seaboard Festival
Replies: 9
Views: 12957

Re: 2016 Seaboard Festival

The man beside Jay Robinson, sure looks like Ricky O'Brien and the picture below it look's like my brother Robbie, in the chair
by freddie hassler
Mon December 5, 2016, 2:22 pm
Forum: Years ago in Hamlet
Topic: News Messenger
Replies: 1
Views: 3370

Re: News Messenger

10 years ago in Hamlet about the Wall falling down on Donald Smith, it was the wall that ran down the side of Washington st. when we moved to Hamlet in 1950, it hadn't been long that it happened. we moved to LongwoodPark across from his Mom and Dad. his Mom Edna Smith gave me lots of his stuff Bert...
by freddie hassler
Tue November 22, 2016, 3:18 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: OK Bowl 1960
Replies: 10
Views: 10339

Re: OK Bowl 1960

The Blue Angels are good too and a young man from Rockingham was one(a Major Leatherneck) can't remember his name, but my daughter Dana went to school with him They were at Seamore JohnsonAFB just this year , but couldn't make the trip, maybe one day I will get to see them show their stuff in perso...
by freddie hassler
Mon November 21, 2016, 2:13 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

Malcolm, you remember those stores right behind the Puritythat had small windows sidewalk tall that you could look in. they had booths like you find in Diners, maybe they were a Café, Grill, Diner, etc. :?:
by freddie hassler
Sun November 20, 2016, 11:42 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: OK Bowl 1960
Replies: 10
Views: 10339

Re: OK Bowl 1960

Sigmore, the USAF Thunderbirds will be at your town this coming March 11-12if you have or haven't seen them, I would make plans to watch the best pilots anywhere,I've seen em about 6times while in the Air Force at Malmstrom AFB Great Falls, Mont. and even when I got out at Pope AFB2 times and Myrtl...
by freddie hassler
Sun November 20, 2016, 11:26 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: OK Bowl 1960
Replies: 10
Views: 10339

Re: OK Bowl 1960

Sigmore, I think Butch gave them to the one who could drink the most beer, how many did you wear out LOL
by freddie hassler
Sun November 20, 2016, 9:32 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

is he the one that died in that house and wasn't found until days later?
by freddie hassler
Sun November 20, 2016, 2:06 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: OK Bowl 1960
Replies: 10
Views: 10339

Re: OK Bowl 1960

Sigmore, that's the same way you drank em at ''The Midget''
by freddie hassler
Sat November 19, 2016, 10:50 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

Jim, we would drink the Blue at the Purity Café, but I'm sure he would bag it for the road, and they had some great Burgers and Hot Dog's too :D
by freddie hassler
Sat November 19, 2016, 3:04 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

Purity Café could sell Beer after 12>00
for some reason and the Hub Grill couldn't so when
the Hub closed at 11:45 we would go there for another Blue :!:
by freddie hassler
Sat November 19, 2016, 2:55 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

lYNN the Diner you mentioned was called by those names, the last one there was George Little, called George's Diner, who moved and opened The Little Bo Club in one of the Old Cabins at Ledbetter Lake
by freddie hassler
Fri November 18, 2016, 10:27 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Purity Cafe ad 1936
Replies: 16
Views: 15767

Re: Purity Cafe ad 1936

@Bruce it was facing the RR tracks about where the Depot is now, it was there during the 60's so at least 30years since this Ad was in 1936[ :roll: /b]
by freddie hassler
Sat November 12, 2016, 10:56 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: OK Bowl 1960
Replies: 10
Views: 10339

Re: OK Bowl 1960

Sigmore, I think you misspelled Booze :roll:
by freddie hassler
Sat October 15, 2016, 10:41 am
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: Hamlet Freight Yard Opening 1954
Replies: 1
Views: 5507

Re: Hamlet Freight Yard Opening 1954

The best Retarder Operator I ever worked with was RT.Boan (aka Country)She was Great, made it easy on the Hump Conductor at Yard A :D
by freddie hassler
Sat October 1, 2016, 10:11 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: George Whitfield resigns 1968
Replies: 3
Views: 4501

Re: George Whitfield resigns 1968

Lynn, my understanding that Carson Oldham was the Baseball coach for the Red Ram's, and had moved to Sanford to coach baseball there, and Whitfield took his place
by freddie hassler
Wed September 21, 2016, 12:00 am
Forum: IRH-Bill Creech
Topic: IRH - Bill Creech - Memories of Rockingham
Replies: 1
Views: 3497

Re: IRH - Bill Creech - Memories of Rockingham

about the football games between Hamlet, and Rockingham I was never on a team that beat them Rocket's My Dad told me when he played for Rockingham in his day Rockingham never beat Hamlet :wink: