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Topic: I'm Baack...So What!! |
Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 6:30 am |
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| Bought a new House, got a new computer. Here I am!! |
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Bob Carlson
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Surprise AZ.
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 7:44 am
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Well Stephen...welcome back. Must feel good to be home again.
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Doug Seymour
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Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 2:50 pm
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| Sorry for not paying attention, but where did you go? |
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 8:36 pm
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| He went to his new house in Abbeville, South Carolina. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 9:48 pm
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| Gee, thanks. I'm gettin' all warm and fuzzy, waiting for the profile to change. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 9:49 pm
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| See?? |
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Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 10:08 pm
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| .. enlisted Benjamin Riegel of New York to invest in the project. Riegel moved to South Carolina, completed the mill, and built the model town of Ware Shoals for his operatives. -SC Historical Site- |
Well at least you got out of that hotbed of secessionist militias..
Glad to see you back.
EJL
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Jerry Roller
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Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2003 10:17 pm
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So welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!
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John Floyd
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R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 1:48 am
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Congrats! See U in Saluda in Feb
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 2:24 pm
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Eric, this is the town I was born in, and lived in, till I took up with my wife-to-be. The Riegel mill was the heart and soul of this town, and the town has dried up since it closed. Real estate's cheap enough, taxes are WAY too high(but at least I have po-lice protection), and I've got my own room!
Life is good, and God is better! |
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Ron Page
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Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2003 2:41 pm
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So Steve, you've been arrested already?
(I know... in light of recent events, that's a load coming from a guy here in the Cincinnati area.)
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 3 Dec 2003 6:32 pm
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Rick McDuffie
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Benson, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2003 7:48 pm
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Steve, too bad we didn't know each other when I was living in Jo-Bananna (as we used to call it). We could've had a great time playing some music together... I looked for some pickin' partners the whole time I was there (nearly 3 years) and came up dry. Finally had to move to Augusta to find someone to play with.
Joanna,SC was built by the Regnery family of Chicago... same story w/ many upstate mill villages. It's just about all gone now... that's very sad to me, as a whole culture was built on spinning and weaving cotton.
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Rick McDuffie
Marlen SD-10, Sho-Bud Professional S-10, Paul Reed Smith McCarty, Hofner New President, Fernandes LE2G
Rick's Music Photo Gallery
www.tarheelmusic.com
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 5 Dec 2003 1:43 pm
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You're absolutely right, Rick. I come from a long line of lintheads, and, although the mills were owned by folks from up north, they really helped rebuild the South after the Civil War. They came looking for cheap labor, and caused the South to become less agricultural.(Sound familiar?)
And now, giant mega-store chains are forcing prices lower than Americans can afford, causing the textile manufacturers(among others) not just into Mexico, but to weird little countries nobody's ever heard of.
Sorry for the rant, there. Rick, come to Saluda sometime--let's pick! |
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Rick McDuffie
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Benson, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2003 8:03 pm
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I'd like to come to Saluda and go 'round and 'round the traffic circle!
There were 2,500 looms running in the 3 Joanna plans when we moved there in 1981. The doors on our house used to shake in the jambs... kept me awake at night for the first few weeks. Now the mill's been demolished. All gone to Mexico. I wonder where all those people are working now.
Talk about your giant sucking sound...
I'm not an economist, but how can you have a viable economy with no producers? At base, you must have some people producing goods.
Bad case of thread drift going here. Sorry about that.
Say, speaking of Mexico, I hear that Saluda's about 3/4 Mexican now. Isn't that ironic...?[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 09 December 2003 at 08:06 PM.] |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2003 9:58 am
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| Closed as off topic. |
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