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by freddie hassler
Sat August 13, 2011, 10:16 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Austin's Auto Repair
Replies: 8
Views: 10643

I'm thinking that Austin was the man's first name that ran this shop, and it was between the Fire Dept. and Joe's Florist. his last name sounded like ( Deal-ah-hay) Someone help me out :?:
by freddie hassler
Mon August 8, 2011, 2:30 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember Mangum Coal & Oil
Replies: 4
Views: 6062

Jody and Bruce, you both are right about the location. I too remember in the early '50's my mother would get our coal there, and the late '60 when I went to work on the Seaboard Coast Line RRwe would spot coal hoppers & oil tanks there on the Mangum Coal Spur, and pick up any empty cars to brin...
by freddie hassler
Sat August 6, 2011, 7:21 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Buttercup Ice Cream
Replies: 17
Views: 79095

The Very Best Ice Cream, EVER, I have been known to eat 2 quarts at one sitting with the little wooden spoon in my early teen years at the Jot-Em- Down Store :D
by freddie hassler
Thu August 4, 2011, 12:49 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Hamlet Armory Dedication
Replies: 1
Views: 3824

as a young boy, I can remember, when they were located in the old SAL building behind Mary Love, even saw them drive a Tank in the Blackjacks where the Hamlet Projects off Hwy 177 is today :D
by freddie hassler
Wed July 27, 2011, 10:18 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Stewart Gordon Company
Replies: 5
Views: 7341

and his furniture store was on Hamlet Ave with the Neon Sign of a Rockingchair that Rocked. :D
by freddie hassler
Wed July 13, 2011, 9:31 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Gin & Supply
Replies: 10
Views: 12188

I also Remember The Hamlet Gin, Colie Milson worked there as well as his Mom,The man who ran The Gin, I think was Mrs Milson's Dad. I would go there with my step-brother Bruce Peele to buy cartons of cigarettes to sell at the Jot-Em-Down Store in Longwood Park :D