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- Mon February 24, 2014, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Jody Meacham 1968
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4645
Re: Jody Meacham 1968
Freddie, I did not get the scholarship. My parents and I paid my college expenses. I worked for the Seaboard two summers and one Christmas break, the state highway commission one summer planting grass and cleaning up highways and rest stops, and one summer as a surveyor's helper for some federal age...
- Fri February 14, 2014, 6:51 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17826
Re: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
I did the gym thing. Apparently the double doors didn't lock, so they were chained together but there was enough slack in the chain that both doors would partially swing outward. All you had to do was get to the top of those doors and there was room to drop down between them and the door frame. Also...
- Fri February 7, 2014, 3:05 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Football 1968
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10483
Re: Hamlet Football 1968
Freddie, I remember my freshman year when practice started in August, there was a big pile of used shoes in the middle of the dressing room underneath the gym. Everybody tried to find a pair that fit. Mine didn't, and in the first morning practice I got huge bleeding blisters on the backs of my heel...
- Thu February 6, 2014, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17826
Re: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
Jim Sr lived at the corner of Boyette and Rollins
- Wed February 5, 2014, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Football 1968
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10483
Re: Hamlet Football 1968
Remember some about that game, which was my last, but don't remember how we got our touchdown. The Red Ram defender in the top picture who "vainly tries to break up the play" is me. I remember the play, and I was the only player on our team with that model of Riddell shoes.
- Wed February 5, 2014, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17826
Re: Aerial Hamlet pictures by Jim Barbour
I believe David is right about the top shot being a reversed negative, and I say that because what looks like the old Cinema is at the top right of the parking lot. Really like the clarity of the second shot over the train station. The decline in passenger train travel is evident in comparison with ...
- Wed January 29, 2014, 12:11 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Football 1968
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10483
Re: Hamlet Football 1968
Veep's right. It was Doug. I apologize because he had a great half.
- Tue January 28, 2014, 7:23 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Football 1968
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10483
Re: Hamlet Football 1968
I think the Honda dealership owner is the same Steve Jones, but not sure. Jones played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League, most of them with the (then) St. Louis Cardinals. I did tackle him once way downfield and was fortunate my helmet did not split open. In the 1968 game...
- Mon January 13, 2014, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rockingham Raceway
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21568
Re: Rockingham Raceway
Lynn, Foxfire is a community and golf course farther north and near Pinehurst. Go north on 177 or 1 past the current speedway and drag strip to Hoffman. There's a county road that turns off to the left there that runs to Foxfire. Last time I used that road -- maybe a year ago -- there was a sign on ...
- Wed January 8, 2014, 3:37 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Rockingham Raceway
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21568
Re: Rockingham Raceway
Lynn, you're right about the general location of the track. Take Wiregrass Road -- which is not far out of the photo on the left -- toward the bottom of the picture and you're headed toward Hamlet. Go toward the top of the picture and you're headed to Ledbetter Lake. U.S. 1 runs across the top of th...
- Sat December 28, 2013, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: HHS 1952 Locker room
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8182
Re: HHS 1952 Locker room
This is a high quality photograph, an excellent view of what it was like in a real game locker room. Part of it is because it's from an original, not a newspaper photo, so it's in sharp focus.You can see the dust on the floor, on Coach Pruitt's shoes, the chalk on dark uniforms and the shadow behind...
- Mon October 28, 2013, 10:50 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Gulledge Motors 1958
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3856
Re: Gulledge Motors 1958
I don't think they sold many British cars, either. But I know Dr. Wingate Williamson owned a Morris Minor, which is the car on the left in the photo, as did my father (it may have been the same car sold used). I learned to drive a stick shift in that car. The funny part of the ad, though, is that th...
- Mon September 16, 2013, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Train Scchedules
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8327
Re: Train Scchedules
Lots of station stops were the biggest factor in slowing the trip -- the trains to Wilmington were locals, after all, not express trains. But that trip was also over a branch line, and even though it was straight and flat, those trains just ran at a slow speed when they were moving. The line had lig...
- Fri August 9, 2013, 12:44 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1st TRAIN ON N. & S.C. R.R... HAMLET TO GEORGETOWN, ..1912
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6138
Re: 1st TRAIN ON N. & S.C. R.R... HAMLET TO GEORGETOWN, ..19
One thing I learned from the second story is the Baltimore origins of W.R. Bonsal, who owned(s) the gravel pits served by the Seaboard (now CSX) on the Anson County side of the Pee Dee River.
- Tue July 30, 2013, 12:50 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3715
Re: E.A. LACKEY ADVERTISEMENT... NOV. 20, 1901
One of the things that turned up in great abundance when the foundation was dug for the Seaboard depot's new location were liquor bottles -- many of them from Lackey's distillery -- that were from the lineup of bars along the railroad right of way. The bars thrived because of the large number of rai...
- Thu June 20, 2013, 3:51 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5303
Re: SIGNIFICANCE OF "air line".
In railroad terms, which predate the Wright brothers, an air line was the straightest, flatest railroad route. Before air travel became possible and popular, there were other railroads in addition to the Seaboard that used "air line" in their names including the Birmingham and Atlanta Air ...
- Sat May 11, 2013, 10:39 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: McEachern Murders
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18550
Exactly. Caldwell forced Vela to call Maceo, and that is covered in one of those links I posted. After she made the call, Caldwell ripped the phone cord out of the wall. Maceo told whoever he was working with at the funeral home that he had to go check on his mother. When he didn't return and nobody...
- Fri May 10, 2013, 9:28 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: McEachern Murders
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18550
You're right, Linda. There are three stories in the series that Cox wrote for the Pilot , and he, too, said Sullivan's suicide couldn't be explained. Sullivan was originally a suspect in the McEachern murders because McEachern was getting ready to testify against him in a lawsuit based on distributi...
- Fri May 10, 2013, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: McEachern Murders
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18550
Joey Caldwell, thanks to his wife's testimony against him, was convicted of 57 federal weapons violations, mail fraud and money laundering counts on Sept. 1, 1993. He hanged himself in his jail cell in High Point the night after his conviction. Bobbie Caldwell, Joey's wife, pleaded guilty in January...
- Fri May 3, 2013, 3:57 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Engine & Caboose Painting project
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25168
- Fri April 12, 2013, 3:50 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Engine & Caboose Painting project
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25168
- Fri March 22, 2013, 10:58 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Class of 1931
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10788
- Fri March 22, 2013, 7:03 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Class of 1931
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10788
- Wed March 13, 2013, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Engine & Caboose Painting project
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25168
It's clear from quotes that the other museum's attorney, William Van O Linda, and its president, Bill Williams, gave to the paper over the course of a year that they were defendants in the suit, not the plaintiffs. So the town sued the museum. The issue that David and Freddie have raised here is the...
- Fri March 8, 2013, 6:54 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Pictures
- Topic: Engine & Caboose Painting project
- Replies: 23
- Views: 25168
According to the Daily Journal, the city sued the museum in August 2011 to get the museum to paint the engine and caboose. After a year, the suit was settled so that the museum leases the rolling stock to the town for 25 years. The lease costs the town nothing, but allows the town to get state fundi...
- Wed February 6, 2013, 9:07 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17574
- Mon January 21, 2013, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Hamlet - five SAL lines?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10994
http://www.ourhamlet.org/forum/userpix/15_seaboard_map.jpg I think this is one of those questions on which everyone can claim to be correct and the differences in answers attributed to equally valid interpretations. Without question the Seaboard’s lines lead away from the diamond at the passenger s...
- Tue January 15, 2013, 8:46 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17574
- Mon January 14, 2013, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17574
- Sat January 12, 2013, 8:03 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Lillian D James
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6570
- Sun January 6, 2013, 4:50 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17574
- Fri January 4, 2013, 2:56 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: William Fetner Furniture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17574
- Sun December 30, 2012, 1:41 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
- Thu December 27, 2012, 2:11 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25980
- Mon December 24, 2012, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Train Pictures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21501
Shore is: http://www.dictionary.reference.com/browse/surely?s=t sure·ly [shoo r-lee, shur-] adverb 1. firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc. 2. undoubtedly, assuredly, or certainly: The results are surely encouraging. 3. (in emphatic utterances that are not necessarily sustained by fact...
- Tue December 18, 2012, 11:18 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Swift Company
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7490
- Tue December 18, 2012, 10:05 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Swift Company
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7490
- Mon December 17, 2012, 7:58 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Dink
- Replies: 22
- Views: 25980
- Mon December 17, 2012, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Train Pictures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21501
Thanks, Bruce. The Star had an observation car, but it was a hand-me-down from the Meteor modified to have a diaphragm at both ends so it could run in the middle of the train. It was called a tavern-lounge ( http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track2/silverstar197104.html ) and was the lou...
- Mon December 17, 2012, 2:05 am
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Train Pictures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21501
Boy, Bruce, what a set of coincidences for posting these two pictures. The bottom shot is one I accidentally stumbled across a few years ago on RailPictures.net, a railroad photo website. I used it on the cover of my book and then put it on my book's website. That decision was based on several coinc...
- Sun December 16, 2012, 3:23 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10759
- Sat December 15, 2012, 8:03 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10759
I had no idea that Somerset Maugham was ever a British spy or that he lived in South Carolina. But Yemassee is on the Seaboard's main line, and he may have ridden its trains. The schedules I've found for the Silver Meteor and Silver Star back then don't include stops in Yemassee, but local trains ma...
- Sat December 15, 2012, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
- Fri December 14, 2012, 4:08 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10759
- Fri December 14, 2012, 2:56 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
Here's an Associated Press picture from 1941 showing the royals at the Seaboard station in Miami. Note that the caption, which I've pasted below, describes the 8-year-old girl holding the Duchess' hand as Warfield's niece but ignores that both were his nieces. Sandra Southerland, 8, is with the Duke...
- Thu December 13, 2012, 6:29 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Water Tank
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7768
- Thu December 13, 2012, 6:22 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another British connection to the Seaboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10759
Another British connection to the Seaboard
Establishing a mini-theme here: A famous British author included the Seaboard in his second novel of a series that became one of the most successful book -- and movie -- series of all time. When the book was published in Britain, the series hero traveled from New York to St. Petersburg aboard the Se...
- Thu December 13, 2012, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
- Thu December 13, 2012, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
- Wed December 12, 2012, 9:19 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Another celebrity railroad traveler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23459
Another celebrity railroad traveler
Building on Bruce's trivia question about Jackie Gleason and Richard Boone often traveling through Hamlet on Seaboard's Silver Meteor and Silver Star, I have another celebrity trivia question. Many people are aware that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor also once traveled through Hamlet on the Silver ...