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- Wed December 17, 2014, 6:27 pm
- Forum: Looking for Information
- Topic: Christmas Parade
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5803
Re: Christmas Parade
The reason I didn't reply to this post earlier is because I thought sure someone would post the date of the first one right away. But this looks like more of a poser than I first suspected. I don't know when the first parade was held but the last one I went to was in Dec. 1952. And I doubt very seri...
- Wed December 17, 2014, 1:31 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Choo-Choo's
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5756
Re: Hamlet Choo-Choo's
Great link David, thanks for posting it. I spent the better part of the early evening surfing through the site. A lot of memories resurfaced as I looked upon the faces of my classmates, back in a time when we were all young and foolish. And although a span of more than 60 years has passed I still re...
- Sun October 5, 2014, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: W. D. James rentals 1959
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5165
Re: W. D. James rentals 1959
Hey! Those rentals seem to be reasonable but I can go one better. In 1960, when I was in between navy hitches, and living in Waycross, Ga., I had room and board at an old tourist court. You know the type, a restaurant surrounded by stand-alone cabins. They were quite common in the 40s and 50s and co...
- Sun September 7, 2014, 7:40 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Old Dog:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8046
Re: Old Dog:
OK, so I screwed up with "Hump Master" but I do believe that ol' mutt still had a railroad-jargon name. Maybe "car knocker" or "hotbox". Or "Seaboard". Or maybe just a simple "Move, Dog!"
- Sun September 7, 2014, 11:23 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Old Dog:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8046
Re: Old Dog:
Dog's name was "Hump Master".
- Sat August 16, 2014, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Telephones 1965
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8521
Re: Telephones 1965
@ TR4...Good one! And there's a septic tank service here in Brunswick, Ga. that proudly proclaims in big block letters... "#1 IN THE #2 BUSINESS."
- Fri August 1, 2014, 6:35 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Pool Shark
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8864
Re: Pool Shark
Wayne is right... the children's names are Eddie and Terry. I just talked to brother Kenny and he remembers their last name as Wrape. Oh, well, at least I had their mother's name right.
- Fri August 1, 2014, 12:56 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Who Was He And what Happened ???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6943
Re: Who Was He And what Happened ???
I think the little parakeets served the same purpose as canaries caged up in a coal mine... if one fell over dead it was time to skedaddle.
- Thu July 31, 2014, 11:50 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Pool Shark
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8864
Re: Pool Shark
Wow! I was really off on the kids' ages! I remember them as just young teenagers, certainly not in the late teens.
One of my old memory cells just woke up and I think their mother's name was/is Louise.
One of my old memory cells just woke up and I think their mother's name was/is Louise.
- Thu July 31, 2014, 10:33 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Pool Shark
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8864
Re: Pool Shark
I don't know the pool shark you guys are talking about, but I do have a recollection of a pair of brother-sister pool sharks dating back between 1972 and 1976. During that time period my mom lived on Grace Chapel Church road, about a half mile from its intersection with the Gibson highway (NC 381). ...
- Thu July 31, 2014, 9:23 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Trains
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17286
Re: Trains
Re freddie hassler's post of today: I understood just the first phrase, which was clear enough, but the rest of the post completely befuddled me. Is that a variation of the once super-secret Navajo code talker's vocabulary? Does Double Over to be rehumped mean what happens when someone drops the soa...
- Wed July 30, 2014, 9:38 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Fairview Heights 1954
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6995
Re: Fairview Heights 1954
Yep, that's where I received my certificate in spring 1952 for finishing up 8th grade. I wonder whatever happened to that certificate... or even if one was presented.
- Sun July 20, 2014, 10:26 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10299
Re: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
Virginia used to have a strange drinking law. Way back in the late '50s and '60s there were two alcohol-contents for beer in that state (at least around Norfolk)... 6% for those 21 and over and a 3% near-beer for those between 18 and 21. A really stupid law no matter how you looked at it. After all,...
- Fri July 18, 2014, 11:09 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10299
Re: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
I was never arrested for underage drinking but I got giggling silly a couple times before I graduated high school. I worked after school (12th grade, Garner, N.C.) in a little gas station that also sold beer along with gas and oil and nabs (B.R. Poole's Esso station on Garner Road, right across the ...
- Fri July 18, 2014, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10299
Re: Hamlet "Old" City Hall
sigmore, Hey, just how old were you when you got caught drinking under age? Were you caught before you turned 18 or after the drinking age was raised to 21 back in the '80s?
- Tue July 8, 2014, 1:38 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Railroad Crossing:
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9763
Re: Railroad Crossing:
Yes, Hamlet Gin was there alright, on the east side of Bridges Street, between Hamlet Ave. and Highway 74 (Spring St.). It was there in 1948 and by the appearance of the building and equipment it was there many years before 1948. (It was in operation during the time l lived in Hamlet.)
- Sun July 6, 2014, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Railroad Crossing:
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9763
Re: Railroad Crossing:
Jody's post raises an interesting point regarding the naming of roads. I lived on the road now known as Gin Mill Road for 5½ years (1948-1953) and during that time it was generally referred to as Lackey Street extension or Bridges Street extension. How it came to be named Gin Mill Road is a mystery ...
- Sat July 5, 2014, 9:13 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Railroad Crossing:
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9763
Re: Railroad Crossing:
I remember the crossing and its location well, although I doubt I ever knew the name or even that it had a name. I was nearly squished near there one day, about 1951 or so, when I was 13 years old, just a few feet from where the tracks crossed Lackey Street extention (now Gin Mill Road). I had barel...
- Fri July 4, 2014, 10:13 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: FARMING IN RICHMOND CO. IN 1918
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2731
- Thu June 19, 2014, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: John Brittingham - Hamlet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10381
Re: John Brittingham - Hamlet
Now, that's a rariety... a whole neighborhood of boys and not a single girl. What in the world did you fellows do for fun on Saturday nights... hug and kiss one another?
- Mon March 24, 2014, 4:01 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: The Old Red Caboose
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9794
Re: The Old Red Caboose
I'm gonna say that is Mr. Lee. My guess is based on looking at the white hat with the Seaboard logo and the name LEE embroidered on it.
- Sat March 22, 2014, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: City Lake 1958
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8473
Re: City Lake 1958
Hey! What the heck is "oily mud" Tom Whitlock is loading onto N.G. trucks? Is that the stuff EPA is now digging up at Super Fund sites around the country? My, how times have changed! Years ago oily waste and other such contaminates were rountinely disposed of in ditches and open storm drai...
- Fri February 7, 2014, 11:15 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Old Snow Picture
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5451
Re: Old Snow Picture
This photo isn't dated but since gasoline is just 31.9¢ a gallon, I would guess 1970 or earlier.
- Tue January 28, 2014, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Trains
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17286
Re: Trains
The Hamlet News Messenger's subheadline is grossly misleading... it's like counting chickens twice. "16 in and 16 out" still adds up to 16 because I doubt all passengers debarked in Hamlet and a completely new passenger train formed with different passengers. And the Rockingham and Bennett...
- Sun January 26, 2014, 7:05 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Trains
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17286
Re: Trains
36?
- Sun January 26, 2014, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: PURPLE TOP
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13072
Re: PURPLE TOP
Perhaps I can add a bit of info for the Esso station at the intersection of US#74 and then-NC#77. I entered 7th grade at Hamlet Avenue School in Sept. 1950 and left after finishing 9th grade in June 1953. During that time most of my lunch periods were spent there, eating sweet cakes and sipping Peps...
- Thu January 9, 2014, 10:33 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: HAMLET HEDGES
- Replies: 18
- Views: 22247
Re: HAMLET HEDGES
@ freddie hassler, You must be a few years younger than me because I got my first Yancy Brigman haircut in the early part of 1948 for 25¢. I continued to get my hair cut there until sometime about 1950 when Dad went back into the army. That's when Mom started giving me 50¢ to get my hair cut at a sh...
- Fri December 27, 2013, 8:23 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: HHS 1952 Locker room
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8189
Re: HHS 1952 Locker room
Looks like J.V. Pruitt chewing out the Junior Varsity after a bad defeat. And the reason I say Junior Varsity is because number 15, Douglas Haynes, was a classmate of mine and we were in 9th grade during the 1952 football season. (Of course this could have been the Varsity team if 9th graders were a...
- Tue November 12, 2013, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: WWII Soldiers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6360
Re: WWII Soldiers
My twenty-two-year-old uncle Tommy Lee Patrick was killed during the Anzio landing in May 1944. Although he was born in Chesterfield County, S.C., he enlisted in Richmond County.
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- Mon November 4, 2013, 8:36 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: Seaboard Airline Railroad Unknown Year
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8855
Re: Seaboard Airline Railroad Unknown Year
Looks like a '55 Chevy.
- Sat November 2, 2013, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: People in the News - Nov 13, 1956
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6666
Re: People in the News - Nov 13, 1956
Jean is right... this item was important only to the ones who submitted it -- a not so subtle way of letting folks know how well their children were doing. But, no matter how much we may have thought the parents were bragging, small town newspaper "fluff" items such as this are what today'...
- Mon October 7, 2013, 11:10 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: Hamlet Hospital 1980
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3613
Re: Hamlet Hospital 1980
In what year was this 60-bed facility built? Was it an addition to the old hospital or a replacement? When were the facilities razed? Google map shows a parking lot where I remember the old hospital used to be (1940s-1950s).
- Sat September 14, 2013, 11:08 am
- Forum: Hamlet Trivia
- Topic: Train Scchedules
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8363
Re: Train Scchedules
Who would have thought passengers trains traveled so slowly? Especially over that long stretch of straight track from Hamlet to Wilmington. Four hours!...wow! That's an average speed of less than 30 mph. Maybe a lot of time was spent standing at stations along the way.
- Tue August 13, 2013, 10:57 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: COSTLY FIRE AT HAMLET ...1907
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2469
- Tue August 13, 2013, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: CHARLESTON, SUMTER and NORTHERN R.R. CONNECTS AT HAMLET.1891
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5480
- Tue August 13, 2013, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: SEABOARD and S.C. WESTERN R.R. CONNECT at McBEE, 1910
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4356
- Fri August 9, 2013, 10:47 pm
- Forum: Hamlet Happenings
- Topic: SEABOARD LAYS TRACK TO ATLANTA... 1890
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3693
- Fri August 9, 2013, 10:45 am
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1st TRAIN ON N. & S.C. R.R... HAMLET TO GEORGETOWN, ..1912
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6182
- Thu August 8, 2013, 9:55 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: EVALUATION OF CAROLINA CENTRAL..HAMLET TO MONROE..1897
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4119
EVALUATION OF CAROLINA CENTRAL..HAMLET TO MONROE..1897
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- Thu August 8, 2013, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: 1st TRAIN ON N. & S.C. R.R... HAMLET TO GEORGETOWN, ..1912
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6182
- Wed August 7, 2013, 10:35 am
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: L.A. CORNING BUILDS ICE CREAM PLANT IN SUMTER, S.C. 1922
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2219
- Tue August 6, 2013, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: WOMAN SHOOTS INTRUDER, HAMLET... 1922
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2291
- Mon August 5, 2013, 11:32 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: HAMLET SELECTED AS SITE FOR S.A.L. SHOPS...1916
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4265
- Mon August 5, 2013, 12:29 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: CYCLONE KILLS 23 IN RICHMOND COUNTY, 1884
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3027
Re: CYCLONE KILLS 23 IN RICHMOND COUNTY, 1884
The tornado described in the above article was just one of a series of storms that struck Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina on a swath stretching from Alabama and exiting on the North Carolina coast. It was reported that more than 200 were killed and over 5000 homes destroyed. The ...
- Mon August 5, 2013, 11:01 am
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: S.A.L. CRASH KILLS 5 AT HAMLET... 1911
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5211
- Sun August 4, 2013, 10:04 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: CYCLONE KILLS 23 IN RICHMOND COUNTY, 1884
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3027
CYCLONE KILLS 23 IN RICHMOND COUNTY, 1884
FROM: NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, Washington City, D.C., Feb. 22, 1884.
- Sun August 4, 2013, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Old Hamlet Stuff
- Topic: MAN KILLS WIFE I N HAMLET HOTEL... 1913
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2398
- Wed July 31, 2013, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: SEABOARD CHANGES FROM COAL TO WOOD-FIRED ENGINES.. 1902
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5187
SEABOARD CHANGES FROM COAL TO WOOD-FIRED ENGINES.. 1902
FROM: THE TIMES, Richmond, Va., October 11, 1902. WOOD BURNERS. Colonel Frank Huger, superintendent of the Second Division of the Seaboard Air Line, says an order has been issued for all engines on the Carolina Central from Hamlet to Wilmington to be changed from coal to wood burners on account of t...
- Wed July 31, 2013, 10:28 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: SEABOARD ORDERED TO IMPROVE ROADBED... 1907
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4147
SEABOARD ORDERED TO IMPROVE ROADBED... 1907
FROM: THE TIMES DISPATCH, Richmond, Va., March 30, 1907. IMPROVE ROADBED. CORPORATION COMMISSION ISSUES PEREMPTORY ORDER. RALEIGH, N.C., March 29. — A peremptory order is issued by the Corporation Commission against the Seaboard Air Line reiterating the charge that the condition of the roadbed on th...
- Tue July 30, 2013, 11:08 pm
- Forum: Railroad items
- Topic: SEABOARD DISPATCHED BY TELEPHONE... 1909
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3879
SEABOARD DISPATCHED BY TELEPHONE... 1909
FROM: THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 23, 1909. OPERATING BY TELEPHONES. NEW PLAN IS ADOPTED BY THE SEABOARD — EXPERIMENT TRIED BETWEEN RALEIGH AND MONROE, N.C. On September 4th, the Seaboard Air Line put into service its new telephone train dispatching circuit between Raleigh and Monro...