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Jim Sr lived at the corner of Boyette and Rollins

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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.

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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 ...

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Veep's right. It was Doug. I apologize because he had a great half.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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I think it means stop

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There's still some painting left to be done on the diesel in these photos including the engine numbers, SAL heralds and there should be a trim stripe along the top and bottom of the yellow.

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I recognized him and sent the picture to Nancy.

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I have no idea how many people in this picture are still alive, but my aunt is one of them and she will turn 100 in November.

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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...

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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...

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Actually Lee broke the bank and they had to wait three years until Julie.

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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...

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I don't remember the exact amount, but it was something along the lines of what Wayne wrote about, less than $100. I think my parents finished the payments about the time Lee came along two years later.

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I remember seeing a similar-sized bill from Hamlet Hospital from when I was born in 1951 showing how they paid it off in monthly installments.

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Lillian D James -- Sr.

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I understand.

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Sigmore, those of us whose computers have a calculator in the "all programs" list (PCs, don't know about Apple) can figure out the sales tax was 3 percent. Converted to English, that's 3 cents tax on every $1 in purchase price.

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Janet, I saw the new movie "Hyde Park on Hudson" earlier today. It's the one with Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt and takes place mainly during a visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Roosevelt's family home on the Hudson River in New York in 1939. These were the royals who took...

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I'm beginning to think Hamlet holds the world record for people named Dink.

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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...

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Thanks, Malcolm. Now I recognize it.

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Anybody know where this building is/was located?

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1. Singletary

2. ?

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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...

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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...

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My bad on the above post: Seaboard trains didn't stop at Yemassee because it was on the Atlantic Coast Line side. The Silver Star doesn't stop there because there are no stops between Columbia and Savannah.

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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...

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Janet, I, too, thought of "The King's Speech" when writing about this. The man who became king when Edward VIII abdicated was George VI, the movie's central character, Edward's younger brother and the father of the woman who is now queen, Elizabeth II. One of the things the story about the...

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OK, a hint:

The author worked in British Naval Intelligence during World War II, which is why this was a series of spy novels.

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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...

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I remember when the new water tank was under construction at a point a little earlier than the picture above. The crane was at the top of the big central cylinder that, in the picture, goes into the bottom of the tank. At that point the construction looked like a missile standing there.

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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...

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Indeed I am. I would not be surprised if the Duchess of Windsor was one of the Seaboard's major stockholders at the time, meaning she owned [a part of] the train.

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Right. King Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Wallis Warfield Simpson to be precise, an American from Baltimore. She is the key to why they would take a Seaboard train, and that's the second part of the answer.

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Here's Branch's obituary from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Apr12.html.

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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.

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