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and so many of them married Hamlet men and made Hamlet their home

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Thank you David

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How did they get Bill Dennis in this picture All the food must be Gone maybe, and who took the picture since Bill is in itLOL

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I was born in Hamlet Hospital 1945 Dr WD was my doctor

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Sigmore the Grill was in the part of the building they called the News Stand

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You are right Eddie it was called The Subway

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Couldn't see David McCall, but do see Oscar Sellers aka ''Hotdog'' with his white shoes

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I wish I had been around just to eat at the ole Seaboard Hotel

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his snowballs were so good after football practice

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those of you who don't know Fred Case planted those shrubs, when he worked for the Seaboard AirLineRailroad as a Yard Conductor. I helped him trim them in the early '50's

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My Question is what was he going to store that small

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that's Wes Sig

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maybe skeet

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the boy's name was Skit or something like that, and they did live on Hylan Ave in a gray home on the right before you got to the cruve

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Looks like Robbie Clark on left HHS64

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I was thinking that building was like the School where class was held, Dr. WD was my birth Dr. 5-31-45 in Hamlet Hospital on Vance St.

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he may have spanked Vance Norton AKA Porthole on 6-1-45 RIP

freddie hassler · Re: Dr. W. D. James **Dr. W.D. James was the first to spank my bottom 5-31-45**

Dr. W.D. James was the first to spank my bottom 5-31-45

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If you would like toread about a Faithful Dog look up Old Shep Fort Benton, Montana

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Think you are right TR4, I remember Mr. Austin Zero's Dad won a brand new 57 Ford there ever how much money you spent there you got X amount of ticket's he had the wining ticket and with 6 children he spent alot[, they had a fairly new 56Ford at the time/b]

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Freddy Jolly was the one who painted the cop, never knew Steve helped, but he just lived down the street on Hamlet Ave, about a block on the south side headed east so they must have took him there to repaint him, Freddy lived on West Ave. too far to travel with Cop in tow[/Freddy was a great artist...

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Wayne, I remember when David got killed ,I'm thinking his brother BT was working Yard B at the time and helping shove out the Double Over to be rehumped while the Hump Engines were pulling on the North End

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Concur

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the picture of the man with only one arm showing sure looks like Oscar Sellers, what did he do ? take it out of the sleeve and put it behind his back?

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Tiz was the Hub Grill allway's Off Limits to the girls

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Bruce, I remember being at the Poolroom back in the 60's and when a passenger train stoped in Hamlet, young guy's headed to FortJackson would come in the poolroom and ask the Oldman for3% beer, ofcourse he didn't sell beer, so they moved on

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The only time I drank beer underage was when I was in the USAF stationed at Malmstrom AFB Mont. where the age was 21, but you could drink in the Airman's Club if you were 18, I was 20
had to wait 5 months to go downtown Great Falls to drink at a Bar.

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My first trip to CityHall was back in1950 to get my Pink Sugar Cube on the 2nd Floor in the room Far left facing Main St.

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The only place remember the A &P was was in the '60's on Main St. about were Café on Main is now

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@ Donnie, Sherwood, was a classmate of mine, his Dad kept moving from Cayce,SC and back to Hamlet, he was a RR man, Sherwood worked for the RR on Cayce Yard where he got killed

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I now live beside the Stewart Gordon House on Hylan Ave. when I first moved here, I found an ole Horse Shoe, now hanging on my storeage building that had to have came off a horse of his, he also had a small stable behind his house, still standing

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I remember this pool too my Uncle took Robbie and I there once, I'm thinking it was built to honor the 2 brothers who drown at the spillway

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You are so right Wayne, now the siren is on top of the water tank and they only blow it once a week, on Sat. at noon I can also remember that the firemen only got $2.00 per call

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Where was it and who blew it and for what reason

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Jody, I don't remember who won or the date, but I went to see Carolina and[Duke play at Durham in football and at halftime Duke released the Carolina ram shaved except for a blanket size area on its back with a Duke ''D'' painted on it, Even had a fight over the Bell before the game was over/b]

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Jody, I remember seeing you at a football game in Chapel Hill, ASOIII told me you were from Hamlet, You had a better job than the Star Quarterback[This was in the early '70's, I had just gotten out of the USAF in Oct.'69 and was working for the RR I don't recall who won, but do recall your name and...

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Nancy, Robbie is home now and doing Great

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I bet Sigmore has drank more than a case of beer at the Red Caboose(Bar on HWY74 before you got to Revels

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Sally Boyd Long mailed me two Basket pins, because I told her they always gave me basket42 my football # she couldn't find 42 so she mailed a 4 and a2

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@ Nancy it was Bob Boyd Jr. who gave me some

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I only remember Coach Caskey calling one play while I played for him and that was in'63 against Raeford when we were down 6 to 0 just before halftime 4th down and 8 to go he called timeout came on the field told O'Brain to throw the ball to me in the End zone for a TD Touchdown it was Robbie Clark ...

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I would say that it was more like coal cinders than a fine coal ash, It was stacked up in a bank about 8' tall[ surly it came from years of SAL RR dumping it there from the steam engines after :: a hard days work /b]

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These same men that you have been talking about, had a Little League Boxing Club at the Old SAL Yard Office behind Mary Love[ Veep your Uncle Paul taught me how to make the Speed Bag Sing, :D They had me and little Eddie McGee paired up since we were the same size and ageWe were gong to Box at a Go...

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Wayne, do you remember when it would flare up from time to time and catch the woods on Fire and the Hamlet Fire Dept. would go put it out That area would stay green all year.

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it was located behind the Old Roundhouse and the overflow was next to Boyd Lake Road

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Where was it located, Who put the Ash there[ /b]

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I know Jody went to UNC, so did he go on a Morehead

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Jody was a smart young man,

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was that wreck between a mixed Fright and a coal train head on

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Thank's Jim, Jerry was my classmate

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