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Bruce Osburn

@ 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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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). ...

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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...

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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.

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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,...

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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 ...

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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?

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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.)

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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 ...

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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...

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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?

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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.

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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...

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This photo isn't dated but since gasoline is just 31.9¢ a gallon, I would guess 1970 or earlier.

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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...

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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...

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@ 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...

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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...

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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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Looks like a '55 Chevy.

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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'...

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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).

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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.

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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 ...

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FROM: NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, Washington City, D.C., Feb. 22, 1884.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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FROM: THE ANDERSON DAILY INTELLIGENCER, Anderson, S.C., Feb. 28, 1915. ONE MAN SHOT and KILLED in RAID on MOONSHINE STILL on STATE LINE. (By Associated Press.) HAMLET, N.C., Feb. 27. — A coroner's jury today exonerated Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Richmond county, North Carolina, and a posse composed of...

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FROM: KEOWEE COURIER, Pickens Court House, S.C., Sept. 2, 1903 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, ET. AL. DINE LIKE WHITE FOLKS at HAMLET, N.C. — VIGOROUS PROTESTS MADE. Charlotte, N.C., August 24. — There was much discussion in Charlotte to-day, especially among traveling men, over the fact that Booker T. Washi...

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FROM: THE TIMES, Richmond Va., June 18, 1901. PASSENGER TRAIN DITCHED NEAR HAMLET. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. CARS ROLLED DOWN EMBANKMENT AND UPSET IN A POND. RALEIGH, N.C., June 17. — Particulars were received here this morning of a right serious wreck which occurred about 12:30 o'clock this morning ...

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SOURCE: THE WATCHMAN AND SOUTHRON, Sumter, S.C., February 4, 1914. Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 30. — Several people were more or less seriously injured when Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 14, from Wilmington to Charlotte, collided with Atlantic Coast Line local passenger train No. 79, running from ...

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