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| ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Key To: Joel Bailey (RR) Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:33 PM Subject: Martha Baum Pic This one sure brought back a lot of memories! Just was reminiscing with Bill Saunders today about riding an old car hood down the street to the bridge over the creek near where the old mill was after a big snow! Mike From: Joel Bailey (RR) To: Mike Key Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:35 AM Subject: Re: Martha Baum Pic Hey Mike Good to see you remembered that old mill. And, yes, I remember too using an old car hood for a sled. Boy, that was the good ole days, wasn't it? Don't know if you have looked at this link, but see if you remember walking across the rr trestle when we were kids - right across from the old mill. Pat Covington sent this photo.Here is the link: http://www.rockinghamremembered.com/1955NLeeSt.html Joel From: Mike Key To: Joel Bailey (RR) Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:02 PM Subject: Martha Baum Pic Oh yes! I walked it many times and on the day we were sledding Bill and I bailed out just before the bridge and the hood went over the bank! Mike From: Mike Key To: Joel Bailey (RR) Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Martha Baum Pic Looking at "Dynamite" reminded me of the early days there when he had 35 or 40 fifty pound bags of sugar stacked in the store. There was only one reason to buy sugar in that size during the fifties. Homer must have made a bundle off that sugar until the Revenue Guys made him start keeping a record of who was buying it. The "White Lightnin" out of that area was very good I understand! Still remember those lazy Saturday mornings with my Dad going down and chewing the fat around the stove in Five Points Grocery. Mike From: Joel Bailey (RR) To: Mike Key Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: Five Points Grocery I never thought of that before, Mike. You might be right about those bundles of sugar. I remember when my brother, Gary, would go out on hiway 74 and stop off at a little house on the left and go in the back and come out with some of that hard stuff. I used to love to go to Homer's too. I loved those birds he always had there. He always had a joke to tell. He is the one that told us boys about dog fever. He would get up close to you and start describing the symptoms and then let out a loud bark - just like a dog! Scare the crap out of you. Joel |
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