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It looks really nice restored but them boys on "Pickers" would have a fit about the loss of that patina look. Hamlet has a lot of history that most people don't even know about. It was a good time growing up there.

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From what I hear the dam dam busted and never got repaired. I think it's popularity had waned quite a bit before that happened though.

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Well that's a picture I've never seen of my Aunt Sandra. I sure remember the inside of Nana's house though. I wonder who took the picture? Diggin on them white socks and loafers. I wonder if he had pennies in them?

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I'll give a big concur with that.

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The feller that is marked as unknown with Beth Preslar McDonald is none other than Chris Neal.

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Dang! I was 5 years old then. Don't remember Aunt Eunice looking like that. I was on a beer diet as a child. I loved my Doctors!

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I wasn't in my News Paper reading year at that time in my life. I was learning to hunt stuuff. Spelled it wrong just thinkin bout them days!!

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I remember doing some late nite eating at the little grill they had on the backside of the train station. That little tunnel under the tracks was pretty cool too! I forgot what they called it, does anyone recall?

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He was the inventor of the deep fried chili sausage dog with mustard and onions. Good God Yall!! Then you could get a nickle fountain coke to wash it down. I used to keep at least one in the fridge for the munchies. I will remember him always. I may have worked for him at one time because I remember...

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It's a crying shame that the town will not keep them looking good. I guess they are content with someone else always handling things instead of arguing over who should do it.

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Awesome story! Tell us more.

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Yepper, that's when Hamlet was like Mayberry. Those were some good times.

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It depends on what color the old Roman wanted.

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Grammar Police!! Grammar Police!! Wayne it's ( I'm not sure) and the other one is a mind boggling (rod iron). I'm pretty sure you were trying to say "wrought iron" so I'm giving you a gimme. I sure as heck hope Jody Meacham doesn't see the wreckless slaughter of the English Language you se...

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Who's the stirrer in the last picture who looks like he just eased one out??

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I cheated and Googled Red & White and found that some stores are still in use in a few places. I'm guessing Piggly Wiggly with your hint. I wonder how they came up with that name? Deliverance pops in my head for some reason!!

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I'm not positive, but I think that the Red & White stores still exist in some locations. If I had to hazard a guess though, I would say Kroger.

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Is that Hank Roofe and Lee Meacham in that Buick with the girls on the hood?

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Concur 100% Veep. Went there many times when I lived on Boyd Lake Road to get worms for fish slaying in the pond at our house. I remember Nancy helping out a time or two.

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Melvia has really been contributing some great stuff lately. I, for one, hope there's lots more where these came from!!

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Is that an annex negro type person out front with him??

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If you right click on the picture Wayne it will shrink and you can see the whole page. I never knew that my granddaddy Campbell, Clem, lived on Rice Street. It was before my time though.

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Well, where did Daryl Wrape fit in? He used to work with us at Duke Power.

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Thanks loads Bruce! Blew beer out of my nose reading that.

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Good guess Jody. I remember hearing about that.

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I remember having classes on the short side with the cafeteria at HHS. That library was where the infamous squirt gun battle was played out.

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Yepper, that's where I received my diploma from HHS! Used to live right across the street from there. Pretty handy walking to school.

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On my pooter it's right under this trivia section.

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You guys stop it!! I'm still knee deep on the by laws and the how cans and the what fers on the DC. That's double concur for the new comers.

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I'll have to check the fine print on that double concur or a "DC" as we like to call it.

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I remember that. Shook my dad up pretty good!

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I was under 18. Finally turned 18, went to a technical school in Kentucky, had to be 21 to drink there. Dammit! You could buy a case of Buds in the bottle for less than 4 bucks after you paid the deposit on the case and the bottles.

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I had the pleasure of staying there one night. Got caught at the Hub Grill also. Was'nt old enough to drink but I knew how. Got in pretty deep poo over that shenanigan.

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I used to squirt grease in the bearing cups at the hump yard while my dad ate his supper. May not have been the hump yard though because sometimes I would have to wait for the train to slow to be able to hit every cup with the grease wand.

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You are safe at the moment David ole Bean, but something about cornbread enters my dust box fer some reason.

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TR4, yer making me blush. Ticker ain't where it needs to be yet but I'm still on the green side, so I'm happy. I think the store on Lackey Street was the Red & White, used to ride go-carts in the parking lot.

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Freddie, I hope you have it hanging correctly! Got to be hanging so all the luck doesn't leak out, open side up. I learnt that on one of my fact finding excursions to Slobovia.

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And just what were you showing that young lady Wayne?

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Little feller out front looks like he's trying to keep his short sleeve britches from getting wet!

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I can't believe Uncle Bill gave a bunch of money too! He was kinda tite.

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Are there shenanigans involved?

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Anybody good enough to be Leeford's older brother is OK in my book also!! I think we did run most of the Meachams out of Hamlet though for various reasons not mentionable here on a family forum!!

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Case heck, I spill that much!! I remember that bar though. Might have stepped over the threshold a time or two.

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That's a real interesting picture. Can of something made by Heinz on the shelf. Can't be Bill Dennis, but it sure looks like the vittles weren't lacking in the ole boose though!!

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Awesome story Bill! Almost every time you post, it's got something I never new about Our Hamlet. The eatin stories are good too! And a big thanks to David ole bean for allowing us to enjoy this site.

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OOH, OOH, monkey POOH. Sorry, couldn't help myself!

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Don't stop there Veep, yer doin fine. I also remember hearing about boxing way back when. Spent lots of time with Ben sr at the old Midget and at the Hub Grill where all them guys hung out. The pool room and Club V always had a few of them jawing at the bar.

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That picture was a lot closer to Sidney and Rodney's house than mine!!

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I wonder whose Cuda that is in the Esso lot?

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I'm crazy about old aerial photos and trying to figure out where it is. I was in the Civil Air Patrol for a while. Those flights back then stick in your memory.

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