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by Jody Meacham
Wed December 12, 2012, 4:59 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Who Was This TV Celebrity Who Made Many Trips Thru Hamlet?
Replies: 2
Views: 6675

From the hints I would guess:

1) The TV series was named "Have Gun Will Travel"
2) The star's "movie (character) name was "Paladin"
3) And the star's real name was Richard Boone.

If I'm correct, I had no idea that he used to travel through Hamlet.
by Jody Meacham
Mon November 12, 2012, 2:23 am
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Who was he?
Replies: 10
Views: 14103

I think Bruce Osburn is right about Bruce Hardin. I remember Hardin for attending Hamlet High School sports competitions of every kind and keeping detailed statistics on legal pads. He probably memorized everything he wrote.
by Jody Meacham
Fri November 2, 2012, 2:48 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Old Hamlet Building:
Replies: 20
Views: 26223

I think Malcolm's right. At one time -- documented by photos, not my memory -- there was a string of bars down the main line south from the station to serve railroad passengers as well as local clientele. A lot of people used to change trains in Hamlet. Lackey operated a distillery. In the course of...
by Jody Meacham
Sun October 28, 2012, 1:46 am
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: New category
Replies: 4
Views: 8647

Here's Branch's obituary from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Apr12.html.
by Jody Meacham
Tue October 23, 2012, 3:30 pm
Forum: Hamlet Trivia
Topic: Chewing tobacco for Allan Gaddy
Replies: 8
Views: 12153

That is a great chewing tobacco story. All I remember is that Gaddy worked a lot of games that I played, that he liked to joke with players when he wasn't explaining a penalty call because he knew we were all kids, and that the front of his striped shirt was always stained brown.
by Jody Meacham
Fri October 12, 2012, 5:57 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: Hamlet Depot & City Lake
Replies: 6
Views: 9693

I'd like to but not this year.
by Jody Meacham
Fri October 12, 2012, 2:26 pm
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: Hamlet Depot & City Lake
Replies: 6
Views: 9693

Actually, sigmore, that track with the stop sign is not defunct. There are pictures on the depot's Facebook page and perhaps elsewhere on this site showing rail cars such as the Sperry rail geometry cars spotted on that track. The track is there to park rail cars for a day or two downtown without bl...
by Jody Meacham
Sun June 24, 2012, 1:15 am
Forum: Looking for Information
Topic: Can you help identify?
Replies: 11
Views: 16749

Probably a good guess, David. I think there was a fireplace at one end of the room as in the first picture. Another possibility is Green's Grill. I agree with Bruce on the time frame. Don't recognize a soul.
by Jody Meacham
Sun May 27, 2012, 4:00 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Retouched photo
Replies: 22
Views: 23409

I guessed Pansy Fetner School because it felt like from the angle of the photo, the photographer's position was east of where I remember the hospital and that was the only other tall building that I could think of in that area. I can barely make out what appears to be the peak of the witch's hat bel...
by Jody Meacham
Sat May 26, 2012, 10:55 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Retouched photo
Replies: 22
Views: 23409

Amazing to think you could be looking at Hamlet a century ago.
by Jody Meacham
Fri May 25, 2012, 10:56 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Retouched photo
Replies: 22
Views: 23409

I can help with some of those questions, Bruce. The engine on the left is, as you wrote, turning toward the west and Rockingham. There was a coal and fuel oil place inside that curve for most of the time I lived in Hamlet, and Southern National Bank was put there, too, while it existed. I don't know...
by Jody Meacham
Mon March 5, 2012, 12:11 am
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: 1951 Seaboard Air Line Crews
Replies: 7
Views: 11321

At some point while I was in elementary school, my grandfather H.L. Meacham took Lee and me on the morning train up to Raleigh. We ate at a lunch counter downtown, fed the squirrels on the capitol grounds and then visited the museum with the whale skeleton before catching an afternoon train home. My...
by Jody Meacham
Sun March 4, 2012, 8:03 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: 1951 Seaboard Air Line Crews
Replies: 7
Views: 11321

That looks like the platform in Raleigh. It was built in a curve.
by Jody Meacham
Fri March 2, 2012, 11:32 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: April 1960 Presbyterian Church
Replies: 2
Views: 4406

I remember that. $107,000. Wow.
by Jody Meacham
Thu February 16, 2012, 5:14 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Main St 1962
Replies: 20
Views: 20695

I don't think they were that dingy, Bruce, but the black & white photos give them that feel.

I saw Crowded Sky on TV once.
by Jody Meacham
Wed February 15, 2012, 11:05 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Main St 1962
Replies: 20
Views: 20695

I remember that.
by Jody Meacham
Thu January 19, 2012, 4:47 pm
Forum: Hamlet Happenings
Topic: WRAL Hamlet has historic railroad history
Replies: 4
Views: 8414

The woman is Jeanne Holland Newton, who does a lot of volunteer work at the depot.
by Jody Meacham
Sat December 31, 2011, 4:45 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Boyd's Lake
Replies: 18
Views: 24780

I think Jim's onto something. They could have played music from the beach house on loudspeakers.
by Jody Meacham
Fri December 30, 2011, 9:36 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Boyd's Lake
Replies: 18
Views: 24780

I wondered the same thing as Sigmore. Obviously there was a wooden diving platform out there before the cinder block one I remembered. And it looks like a light pole to me, too, which would seem to indicate there was night swimming at the lake at one point.
by Jody Meacham
Sat November 26, 2011, 6:18 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Train to Monroe October 1967
Replies: 6
Views: 8842

Mike Caskey, who was my eighth-grade general science teacher, resigned as Hamlet's football coach in February 1965, two seasons before this game was played. He died of cancer in September 1966 a year before this game. One of the changes in football over the years is that back then, quarterbacks -- n...
by Jody Meacham
Fri November 25, 2011, 2:08 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Train to Monroe October 1967
Replies: 6
Views: 8842

I played in that Monroe game and I remember it as the hardest-hitting game I was ever in. I was one of the eight players hurt in that game mentioned in the caption on the picture of Coach Bishop and Ricky Rasette. I was tackled returning a punt and hurt my knee. I finally had surgery on it in 1980 t...
by Jody Meacham
Wed November 16, 2011, 1:20 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red & White 1963
Replies: 16
Views: 16981

Thanks, Bruce. Joe Liles was a classmate of mine and went to my church. I remember when his father was mayor.
by Jody Meacham
Mon November 14, 2011, 10:08 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red & White 1963
Replies: 16
Views: 16981

Is that where the Liles' store used to be?
by Jody Meacham
Mon November 14, 2011, 8:44 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red & White 1963
Replies: 16
Views: 16981

Where was that store? I remember the chain but not the Hamlet location.
by Jody Meacham
Sun September 11, 2011, 12:27 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Hamlet Coca-Cola
Replies: 14
Views: 16661

The only place I remember the Coke plant was where Bruce said on 74 east at 381. When did it move?
by Jody Meacham
Sun August 14, 2011, 1:15 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Austin's Auto Repair
Replies: 8
Views: 10641

Austin Dillehay. I don't know if I'm spelling his last name correctly, but he lived a block behind my house.
by Jody Meacham
Wed August 10, 2011, 5:12 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: When Was The Hamlet Theater Closed?
Replies: 14
Views: 16435

The theater was actually closed twice. "Crowded Sky" was the last flick before the first closure, which lasted several years, and Crowded Sky remained on the marquee. Then Dr. Williamson bought and renovated the theater for its second life. So "Jaws" could have been the movie tha...
by Jody Meacham
Wed August 10, 2011, 1:10 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: When Was The Hamlet Theater Closed?
Replies: 14
Views: 16435

Malcolm, I don't have an answer to your question, only a lot of interest in it. My father worked nights at the theater for several years when I was in high school, and I worked for him Fridays and Saturdays popping pop corn, running the concession stand and occasionally filling in to run the project...
by Jody Meacham
Mon August 8, 2011, 12:51 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember Mangum Coal & Oil
Replies: 4
Views: 6061

I remember the same coal and oil place that Bruce does. My mother used to work at Southern National Bank, which was built next to it in the 1960s.

What I remember about it was that there was a spur track to the place that often had a coal hopper sitting on it that brought the coal to the place.
by Jody Meacham
Sun August 7, 2011, 12:29 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you remember??? Buttercup Ice Cream
Replies: 17
Views: 79092

What I remember most was seeing Buttercup signs when we'd drive places and my father reminding me that the only place in the world it was made was Hamlet, N.C.
by Jody Meacham
Sat August 6, 2011, 11:08 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Do you know them??? 1968 HHS Cheerleaders
Replies: 9
Views: 14013

mwj, I think that picture was made in 1968. Could have been '67, but Betty James, Patsy Phifer, Diane Jernigan and Claire Williamson are the oldest girls in that picture, if I remember correctly, and '68 was their graduation year.
by Jody Meacham
Thu March 3, 2011, 10:53 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: Runaway Train 1964
Replies: 1
Views: 5663

I remember seeing the wreckage from this accident in the cut behind the hospital when I was young, and it was the inspiration for the fictional train wreck in my book.
by Jody Meacham
Wed February 2, 2011, 3:36 pm
Forum: Railroad items
Topic: Seaboard Yards 1955
Replies: 4
Views: 8261

As further confirmation of just how big the opening of Hamlet's yard was, CBS did a half-hour national segment on it on one of its Sunday morning news shows from New York. I think the show was called "Camera Three," but I'm not sure.
by Jody Meacham
Sun January 16, 2011, 10:36 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: My Book Report by Jody Meacham
Replies: 2
Views: 4886

Bruce, the depot does have some copies. People can also order directly at http://www.jodymeacham.com
by Jody Meacham
Sun January 16, 2011, 5:26 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Peachtree 1972
Replies: 14
Views: 25212

Thanks, Bill. I created an excuse for myself if the book doesn't reach best-seller status by leaving a couple of copies at the Hamlet library. If book sales fall short, it's because people read the free copies.
by Jody Meacham
Fri January 14, 2011, 5:34 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Peachtree 1972
Replies: 14
Views: 25212

I wasn’t at Peachtree, and I don’t doubt Bruce or Bill’s accounts of what happened there. But if public intoxication, child endangerment and unruly crowds were all it took for a county to ban the events that spawn that behavior, NASCAR would never have been allowed to run a lap at the speedway. Nor ...
by Jody Meacham
Thu January 13, 2011, 10:19 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Crowded Sky
Replies: 2
Views: 4827

I believe what went up in place of Crowded Sky was a campaign message for Dr. Bill. What was really funny was that after the election was over, Crowded Sky went back up.
by Jody Meacham
Wed December 29, 2010, 11:00 am
Forum: Hamlet Pictures
Topic: Jody Meacham Book Signing at The Historic Hamlet Depot
Replies: 7
Views: 11036

I missed you, Joe. Next time just get the car moving down hill, lock up the brakes and you'll hit dry pavement about Hickory or so.
by Jody Meacham
Thu November 11, 2010, 11:17 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: 1971 HHS No Hitter
Replies: 1
Views: 3476

That is truly rare.
by Jody Meacham
Tue November 9, 2010, 2:50 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Newest Hamlet published Author
Replies: 3
Views: 5733

The first customer review of my book has been posted on Amazon.com by a reader in New York that I don’t know: http://www.amazon.com/Through-Heart-South-ebook/dp/B0047742MY "I really enjoyed the book! I was moved to (good) near-tears many times. "I appreciate the effort the author made to '...
by Jody Meacham
Fri October 29, 2010, 3:36 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Newest Hamlet published Author
Replies: 3
Views: 5733

Thanks for posting this, David.

Henry Kisor, the retired book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, has written about the book on his blog at http://henrykisor.blogspot.com/2010/10/ ... novel.html
by Jody Meacham
Wed October 27, 2010, 1:37 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Woody Wright
Replies: 1
Views: 3872

That guy could score points back in the day when basketball was played in shorts.
by Jody Meacham
Sun October 24, 2010, 10:22 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Please tell me about old Moncure Hospital
Replies: 13
Views: 19056

I have a copy of a Hamlet history book published by the town's centennial committee in 1997. It confirms the previous story and adds some later history of the hospital and the Moncures. The building apparently was no longer a hospital by 1943, and it was rented by the U.S. Army as a headquarters for...
by Jody Meacham
Thu October 7, 2010, 2:02 pm
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Bradshaw's
Replies: 7
Views: 11292

Actually this is the "new" Bradshaw's in the late '60s and early '70s. You can see the lighted menus over the counter through the windows. Before it became a hamburger joint, Bradshaw's was a tiny grocery, but Mr. Bradshaw followed what his customers -- mostly school kids from across the s...
by Jody Meacham
Sun September 19, 2010, 2:04 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Red Ram State Champions 1968
Replies: 4
Views: 6511

If I remember correctly, starting catcher Buddy Coble (No.3) had a home run in each of Hamlet's victories in the best-of-three championship series against Wadesboro Bowman.
by Jody Meacham
Fri September 10, 2010, 12:03 am
Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
Topic: Old aerial photo of Hamlet
Replies: 11
Views: 13922

The new Sunday School buildings at First Baptist, First Methodist and First Presbyterian all appear to be there, but the Presbyterian parking lot is still dirt and the gas station on Rice Street near the library is not yet built nor is the A&P. Also, somebody needs to water those roses in the wi...