| I have created this new section for viewers mostly but I will add items from time to time. If you have any one or two line memories of people or places you remember in Rockingham or Richmond County that you would like to insert, please send them to: guestsremember@rockinghamremembered.com. They will be added as soon as I get the notification. I would like to keep this page as one liners or not much more than one line, if possible. One of my viewers suggested this idea, so here goes...060205 (please excuse any duplications as it is just too hard to make sure there are none) |
| Hello, I found your web page 6 years ago or more. What captured me was the song that plays. It chokes me up. I remember, not the same location but the same feelings. Family, friends, memories, Most - almost all have gone away. For me it’s an ache, a longing for times long gone. Not the events or places, just the love and friendships. People were kinder, gentler and life was not so rushed. I remember when we used to sleep with the door open and just a screen door between us and the world. Never locked the door, What for? The world is in such a hurry to move into the future. It has forgotten what makes life valuable. For that matter some have never known. Not sure why I’m writing, I guess I’m hoping someone else remembers and values (Family Values) Just the term now has a negative effect on some. Thank you again for the Web page and the song. Leon McElrea 08-03-12. The march from the old Grammer School to the new LJ Bell School (1951) Separate playgrounds at the old Grammer School Going to the health department to get a polio vaccine (on a sugar cube) Donnie Watkins. Head custodian and maintenance man for Rockingham City Schools Troop 149 at the Methodest church Billy Capps scout master. Camping the day Hazel came through and seeing a tent fly in the air and land in a lake. Going barefoot all summer. Butch, the schoolhouse dog at LJ bell - ate Ken Smith's sock Going to Maxton NG Armory on Saturday night to the dances JC Mulkey and his dedication and inspiration to students Mr. White's store on Foushee St. The rail road tracks behind the high school Carrying a gun to the cemetery and shooting mistletoe out of the oak trees. The Civil Air Patrol that met behind Sydney's Grill to look for planes...David Huneycutt 090911. 8th grade (NC history) teacher Miss Sarah C. Rice and her sometimes blue hair, Boy Scout Troop and Post 74 led by the late Billy Capps and the concrete block scout hut in the woods behind Kate Finley Auditorium at RHS, Boy Scout Troop 64 at the Presbyterian Church, Camping by Cartledge Creek out in River Hills, Finding liquor stills in the woods out there (back in the days when moonshine was the crime du jour), The contract Trailways bus route from Rockingham to Durham via Aberdeen, Sanford, Bynum, Chapel Hill (the driver lived and parked the bus at Roberdel and it put out lots of black exhaust from the fuel it burned), Senior plays at RHS, Band Directors Theo Smith, Harold Grant, and Don Adcock, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade class trips on a bus to Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Meeting an oncoming tractor- trailer truck on the old, narrow bridge over the Pee Dee River, Exploring the thick woods growing behind L.J. Bell school where the Pee Dee Mill Pond was located, Jefferson Apartments at the intersection of Steel and Ann Streets, Midnight "horror" movies at the Richmond Theater and the free tickets if you stayed to the end (ha!), "Gone with the Wind" playing at the Richmond and Clark Gabel's line: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!", Reciting memory passages to Miss Kay Crosland in 12th grade English while she corrected themes and term papers, Dr. Gandy's wife demonstrating the evil and danger of drinking alcohol at the Baptist Church by dropping a raw egg into some moonshine, Visiting the Seaboard Air Line yard in Hamlet to see the long lines of steam locomotives waiting to be cut up and scrapped, Listening to the test broadcasts of WKDX in Hamlet, Radio stations signing off at 11 PM with the playing of the national anthem, Bug collections in sophomore biology, Science fair projects that were more demonstration than research, Buying bags of apples off a truck parked across from the old A&P in the parking lot where the old school once stood, Mailing overnight letters to Charlotte by handing them to postal workers in the mail car when the train stopped at the station off Caroline St., Eating lunch at Miss Lucy Shore's Boarding House ... 50 cents for family style all you could eat - One time, she got a "C" rating, mainly because she still had a wood stove in her kitchen, Listening to Cuban radio stations on car radios while driving around at night. Sometimes you could get "ZedNS" in Nassau and XERF in Mexico, The 1956 ROCKET being delivered and distributed with the wrong cover--had to be collected and sent back to change it, American History with Dr. Lois Eddinger on WUNC-TV the first year of state-wide instructional TV...John Paschal 073109 One thing that was stressed by Miss Buie (later Mrs. Black), Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Huneycutt and Miss Tomlinson at good old L.J. Bell Elementary was spelling. It is not "pedycoat", it is petticoat. We also watched Andy Griffith on TV...Harry Singleton 062408 The Open Air Market in Ellerbe in the 50's ran by my aunt and uncle... Claudia Hall Bunting Albemarle, NC 063008 "Freeze Tag"... "Roller Bat"... "Drop the Handkerchief"... "Bonanza" on Sunday night... "Kilgo's Kanteen" on Saturday morning... AFTER "Roy Rogers"... "Joey The Clown"... The BIG shock you got if you "took a swig" from the hose that had been laying out in the sun... Waxing down your sliding board (with wax paper) so you could go REAL fast... Passing the ice cream freezer from person to person, cranking until your arm was SO tired... but the "payoff" was SO worth it!..Tina Benson Skenes 060308 “Don’t play in that mud puddle—you’ll get ringworm!” “Hooka Tooka My Soda Cracker” “Thrill Hill” 5-cent candy bars Big cardboard cutout of Fess Parker as Davy Crockett at The Strand Stringing chinaberries (“chaney-balls”) Dippity-Do & using juice cans for hair rollers Dress-shields, “Pucker Panties,” stockings & garters Drinking from the garden hose Fizzies Fried fatback Going to Laurinburg to see “Spaghetti” Home perms, plastic headbands, wiglets Ironing daddy’s handkerchiefs on a wooden ironing board Mary Belle’s Beauty Shop Mother canning vegetables/making jams, jellies, pickles, & preserves Plaid dresses, $2 sneakers from Collins Dept. Store Sandspurs Charm bracelets Somebody putting detergent in the fountain at the bank Staying in the theatre to see the same movie 2 or 3 times The Coachman The Limbo Wringer washers, pants stretchers, clothespin bags, tin washtubs English Leather (Ken Smith’s favorite) “Call for the doctor, call for the nurse, call for the lady with the alligator purse.”...Pat Covington 041008 Eating at Miss Lucy's boarding house...Linda Lancaster 031608 I remember going to Crackers and seeing Nantucket play, seems like twice a year..Then those bands from Charlotte like "Stratus", "Burnt Orange" etc..It seemed all of Marlboro County went over there back in the day.. I remember Eastern Seaboard playing everywhere..if anybody remembers the "New Release" club in Bennettsville. I know Vernon was singing then. Those were some good ole times..And they were a super cover band...Steve Akers 022208 I remember during the 60's seeing the Hamlet Drive In on Battley Diary Road. New homes are there now. About 1/4 mile just past city limits. Also the " ZIP" drink at Tom and Sarahs. It was a mix of Dr pepper, coke, 7up & cheerwine. There were 2 drive inns. One on hwy 74 and one near the "airport". How about the TV show with the "Gentleman" Gun Fighter - "Have Gun - Will Travel" wire Paladin. One of the remembrances listed is the Black and Orange of old RHS. I can remember when the Rockingham High colors were black and gold, a truly awesome color combination. Why change, then? Believe it or not, orange replaced gold because gold crepe paper was too difficult to find! We students were not consulted, of course. We were not happy campers but life isn`t always fair...Harry Singleton, Class of 1963 RC & Moon pies The Goat Man, especially the time he followed Santa Claus in the Christmas Parade, receiving more cheers & applause than Santa, 1955/56? Dixie Auto Esso Station, between W&H Clothing Co. and Belk's in the heart of downtown Rockingham Stringing Christmas lights Playing Christmas music and baking cookies and goodies to share Sending and receiving Christmas cards Snow-flocked Christmas trees Silver tinsel Christmas caroling Christmas hayrides Christmas carriage rides Stringing popcorn on the Christmas tree Riding around looking at the Christmas lights Snow-Flocked Christmas trees The smells of Christmas, sugar cookies, roasted peanuts, Christmas trees, ham, turkey, dressing and homemade pies and cakes Remember when gasoline didn’t cost an arm and a leg Trick or treating door to door in the neighborhood Frank and Virginia McDonald, (my parents) Jane Moss-The Queen Johnny Macker's CLUB MARQUIS (off hwy 220 N.) Show Bands at Nat. Guard Armory (Martha & The Vandellas,etc.) Putt-putt course on County Home Rd Drive-in movie theater in Rockingham Christmas Parade in downtown Rockingham Swimming in the Hamlet City Lake Little League baseball teams Chief Deputy Earl Dunn 3rd Ave in Pee Dee Short Street in Pee Dee "Doodle bug, doodle bug, come out tonight, your house is on fire" The Tailored Shop Lupeg's Shoe Salon Whitewashing something Remember the ghost story of Lucille, told around the campfires, at Camp Dick Henning, Ellerbe, NC. Circa 1959-1962 Can anyone remember the story and write about it? Looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Looking for the Milky Way Gazing at the stars at night; and looking for the big dipper Transistor radios Parking under the moonlight Counting stars When the fair came to town Cotton candy Candied applies Throwing a soft ball Playing basketball Football games Cheering for the home team Learning to type (home row) Spelling bees Climbing trees Catching butterflies Lighting bugs in a jar Finding arrow heads Making mud pies Splashing through mud puddles Pen pals Secret pals Bus rides Summer camp Vacation Bible School The Seafood Center intersection of East Washington and Lawrence Streets (telephone: TW5-6353) Journal Stationary Store Tultex Yarns The Rockingham Post Dispatch The News Messenger Tyler Foods- Munchi’s Hobby House Hicks Auto Parts Long’s Archie’s Ace Hardware Archie’s Red and White Copper Kettle Restaurant Miss Lucy’s boarding house Matchbox cars Collecting postcards Collecting baseball cards Paint by number Finger painting Coloring books Big crayons Big pencils Big erasers Coloring a page in your Giant coloring book Praying in school PEDICOAT JUNCTION MY THREE SONS FATHER KNOWS BEST ANDY GRIFFIN LEAVE IT TO BEAVER THE BRADY BUNCH TV Series COMBAT Puttin up tobacco Tobacco barns Pickin cotton Pickin blackberries Makin jam A dime a dozen Shelling a bushel of peas or butter beans to freeze Penny candy Wish upon a star Counting sheep at night to get to sleep Merry go rounds Hobby horses Red wagons GUN SMOKE RAWHIDE WAGON TRAIN ROY ROGERS BONANZA THE VIRGINIAN HIGH CHAPARRAL BIG VALLEY Tea parties Monopoly: Get out of jail free card Canista Rummy Juke box Rolled up t shirt sleeves Black leather jackets Hopalong Cassidy Davy Crockett coon skin hats Silly putty Pill box hats Mini skirts Go go boots Peace signs Happy faces Betsy McCall Paper Dolls Poodle skirts Pac-man Hall monitors Hall passes Passing notes at school When school let out for the summer Learning to dance Learning to whistle Beach music David Ariail, director for Richmond Community Theatre from 1977-2007 Fresh sliced tomatoes Lemonade stands BLT’s Lime sherbet and ginger Ale floats Sliced Watermelon Homemade churned ice cream Graduation The Prom Water skiing at the River Skinny-dipping Sloppy Joes TV dinners Making kool-aid popcycles Candy cigarettes Fuzzy face game Watching "Dick Clark's American Bandstand" every afternoon Training wheels Walking the RR tracks Sunday dinners consisting of Homemade biscuits, fried chicken, ham, deviled eggs, potato salad, green beans Learner's permit Curfews Freds Sharing a drink with two straws Alpaca sweaters Webbs Fish camp Out for the summer Vacation Bible school Paper airplanes Paper dolls Lettered sweaters Black and white oxfords Mom ordering clothes from Sears catalog Seersucker pants Madras pants Potato sticks Pick up sticks Nutty Buddys Blowing bubbles Maypole Bubble Baths Lassiter's Barbeque Outhouses Coal pile stacked in the backyard for the family coal-burning heater Penny candy Economy Auto Flukies Richard Preslar, former Office Manager CSX Railroad Elton Cook & George Cockman, former Terminal Superintendents Hamlet Yard, CSX Railroad "I Remember Hamlet" by Russ Lancaster Sheriff RW Goodman Remember when downtown Rockingham had 3 movie theatres: Richmond Theatre, The Strand (now Community Theatre) and the Little Theatre. Now we can't even get one. Teen Age Club dances on Saturday nights Deputy Sheriff Jack Heeney Cedar Hill Dairy Circus on vacant lot below Gulf Stream Service Station Scout Jamborees at Ellerbe Springs Swimming at Boyd's Lake It was so hot during midsummer that I would sit up in my window in my skivvies and listen to the trucks making the shortcut from Hwy 220 to Hwy 74, right by where Beverly Hills Church is now, hoping for a little breeze and listening to the blues on a station out of Nashville. Flying june bugs on a string Drawing on the pavement with rocks Playing snail hopscotch on the pavement Cannon's Grocery Store on Airport Road "Parking" on a date at the Rockingham ballpark Camping out at the Pee Dee River Having Sunday dinner almost done before church on Sunday morning Visiting family on Sunday afternoons Buying a new dress for Easter The Easter Bunny bringing a Easter basket on Easter Sunday morning Women and girls wearing hats and gloves to church on Easter Sunday Hiding Easter eggs French Fries with gravy at Tom and Sarah's Being able to buy gas for your car on certain days of the week 4th of July fireworks at Hamlet Lake Hanging out at the OK Bowling Alley Having to be home at 11:00pm after a date Not being able to "car date" until the age of 16 Having the Christmas play at church on Christmas Eve Getting a bag of fruit, candy and nuts at church for the Christmas holidays Respecting our elders by saying "Yes mam, yes sir , no mam, no sir" Getting an allowance of 50 censt a week for doing chores around the house Not being able to go trick or treating one year except in your neighborhood Making the drink "pj" at parties Rockingham’s Bucky Covington and his new single “ A Different World” Taking coke bottles to get into the movies free on Saturday Buying a hot dog at the bus station uptown Going to the radio station uptown, WAYN No shopping centers Going Christmas Shopping a week before Christmas Riding down old Ellerbe Rd right out of Five Points and seeing old Santa in the boat fishing in the pond at Homer Benoist's house at Christmastime Better watch out, better not cry, better not pout…I’m telling you why…. Santa Claus is coming to town When Pam Dillman made county history…with the highest majority of votes in the County Commission general election race, she will become the first elected female commissioner Nov 7 2006! Potato chip sandwiches Collard sandwiches When fresh milk and eggs were delivered to your house Playing baseball in the summertime in the backyard Those 6-layer half Chocolate cakes that Merita used to sell Spanish Bar Cake Churning homemade ice-cream Little bity Coke bottles of colored water made of wax Mayonaise sandwiches Mayonaise & jelly sandwiches Chocolate milk Fried bologna & tomato sandwiches Putting clothespins with cardboard attached on your bike's spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle Skateboarding down the hill at LJ Bell Dipping your toast in your coffee or putting the toast on a saucer and pouring your coffee over it Roasting marshmallows over a campfire A good 'ole homemade pecan pie Chocolate covered peanuts Sugar babies Candy corn Viewmasters Goobers Wax lips Zagnuts BB Bats Wax bottles Sky bars Candy cigarettes Kits Sugar Daddy Potato sticks Box of chocolate covered almonds at the show Candied apples Cotton candy Popcorn and peanuts Taking clothes home on approval Leisure suits Kilgos Canteen Paper routes Pajamas parties, staying up til dawn Penny loafers Lettered sweaters The Prom Penny Candy Hulahoops Saddle shoes Fran and Ollie Dick Clark’s American Band Stand Pillow fights Your first haircut Pall Mall Lucky Strike Kent Chesterfield Camel Old Gold Go go boots Monogrammed sweaters Wearing your boyfriend's high school ring Trick or treating at Halloween Fall festivals at school Apple bobbing Double your pleasure with Doublemint chewing gum Pennies on the RR track, so the train would smash them flat Hayrides Jack o lanterns Corn mazes Raking leaves and pinestraw Canned corn Listening closely to ghost stories by the open fire, too scared to move, scared the ghost would appear Go Fish Crazy eights Old Maids Pick up sticks Jump Rope Simons Says Hide n Seek Kick ball Roller bat The pinball machine The twist Jitterbug Shagging Electric Slide Two step Slow dancing The Point After YMCA Meter Maids Fat Boys and Kebo Davis Clark Equipment Western Auto Copper Kettle Restaurant Plaza Jewelers First Southern Savings and Loan Association United Carolina Bank First Union National Bank Wickes Lumber Weddington Motors, Inc Tultex Mill Outlet Longs Hicks Auto Parts Heilig Meyers NC Motor Speedway Doyles Flying Service CP&L Corks under bottle caps The Star on Safie Mill at Christmas East Rockingham Super Market on Mill Road Car Dealership on the corner of Hancock and Franklin Street( Former Employment Security Commission) Dr. White and Dr. Bristow's office above Fox Drug Store The Barber Shop that was underground where the bakery is on the Square. The Greek Restaurant across from Farmers Bank Jerry Goodman's Shoe Store at the corner of the Journal office Bobby Goodmans Clothing Store where Fidelity bank is located Bill Martins Marina where Whitley's Auto Sales is located on Hwy 74 Blueberry Hill Sears and Western Auto in uptown Rockingham The wooded acreage between Rockingham and Hamlet Hot roasted nuts that we bought at the Five & Dime Stores Rockingham Hardware Beside Farmers Bank before it moved down the hill Munn's Fish Market on Green Street The old Moss Brothers General Store on 74 West The Courthouse when it was located where the Daily Journal is now The Rockingham Fire Dept behind Economy Auto and the Barber shop beside it W & H Clothing Store The Midget burger and the Zip at Tom & Sarah's Do you remember Andre' the Giant and his house in Ellerbe? Great Falls School on Hwy 74 W 'The Chicken Box' in East Rockingham. Shangri - La Lounge in Hamlet When the old City Hall was what is now the Police Dept on East Franklin Street JC & Rotary ball parks where Long Drive Apt's. are at now. Guy Mullis restaurant at Tanner's shopping center Tanner's Food Center The guys from Morrison Training School that would be at front of Christmas Parade (All in Step) Small zoo on highway 74 between R'ham & Hamlet. Long's Body Shop (Bookie Long could do anything with an automobile) Boy,I am gonna send you to Stonewall Jackson Training School if you don't behave.....LOL When you went to football games at the old Rockingham Ball Park in September and it was cold. Charlie 'Midnight' Moss..Would ride in all of Christmas Parade's on his bicycle Remember Parker's Meat Center on Long Drive Oasis Tavern How many remember a tag game called 1-2-3 Foxin' Dog's Caught The Colonial Store The Corner Pool Room The Jewel Tea Man The East Rockingham News Revel's Bar-B-Que Lassister's Bar-B-Que Buttercup Ice Cream The Dairy Queen Dairy Queen Ice Cream Truck Watt's Cleaner's Safie Mill J.P.Steven's Mill Beaunit Mill Aleo Mill [Steele Mill- Klopman Mill - Burlington Industries] Ledbetter Mill Pee Dee Mills - No 1 & No 2 Great Falls Mill Richmond Yarns Roberdel Mill Carolina Paper Mill Sandhurst Hosiery Mill Billy Bathgate movie Filmed in Hamlet Central Taxi Richmond County Bank Farmers Bank McInnis Ford The Gore Co. Sedberry Funeral Home, on Fayetteville Rd. The Jewel Box Bob's Cleaner's Donut Diner Green Stamps Cox's Army Store Swails Shoe Shop Dixie Home before it changed to Winn Dixie Bowers Cafe Burger Ranch Rockingham Gas Co. Pargas of Rockingham Bowles Furniture Co. Dick Taylor's Barber Shop Alex Sessoms Barber Shop William's Barber Shop Bucky Covington Day in Rockingham May 6, 2006 The "dodge hole" swiming pool at Safie Mill Parker's Bicycle Shop John's Music Shop beside the Richmond Theater When all of the mill hills had baseball teams Bob's Watch Repair in the Western Auto store Standing on the corner Sunday afternoon at Bristow's Drug Store The Purity Cafe Spin the bottle Cops and robbers Ruby and John's The Marcella Theater in East Rockingham? The Hannah Pickett Theater? When it was the Richmond County Post Dispatch, owned and edited by "Ike" London? Bucky Covington Carolina Grill - home of the Bucky Burgers in Rockingham Do you remember freeze tag or 1-2-3 Red light? How about kick the can??? Don's Meat Center The old Rockingham dirt race track north of Rockingham. Remember the Psychedelic Shack, and the Liberation Warehouse? Miss Ike and Miss McNair's Kindergarden at the Old First Presbyterian Church of Rockingham Miss Sallies on Fayetteville Rd. When the girl's 9th grade PE class at Rockingham High School went swimming in the spring The bug machine Tas-T-O Donuts Rockingham Railroad Rockingham-Hamlet bus line The bus depot by the courthouse (across the street to the south and later in front of the courthouse) Rockets vs Walkertown for the state baseball championship The Little Theater The Skyview and Airport Road drive-in theaters Great Falls lake by the Rockingham Seaboard depot Piano lessons with Mrs. McDonald Pee Dee School and Mr. McIntosh The temporary sawmill by Pee Dee school circa 1950 Bullard's store Martin's store in honeytown Five points cotton gin Five points auto junkyard Gibbs grocery Toddyville at RHS The dam in the woods by the flumes The flumes Aleo mill's christmas parties for kids Morris's electric shop Hernando's hideaway Making a wish on a fallen star High street Your first kiss Eating at Mrs.Lucy's Rockingham Swimming Pool Rockingham Rockets versus Hamlet Red Rams - classic football rivalries years ago Waiting for the bus at an old bus stop - little tin shelters for the schoolkids - something you don't see any more Throwing pennies to the line Playing Travel - By buying Cokes in the bottle and seeing who would pay based on the distance of the location printed on the bottom of the bottle Cruising around Rockingham tossing bottles at speed limit signs when you were a kid Riding through Richmond Park on Halloween night in the back of a pickup truck tossing eggs and water balloons White's Grocery on Fayetteville Road Waters Cafe Green Street Old 220 Tarheel Motor Court Slot car racing at the old skating rink Godfathers Pizza Quincys Green Valley Golf owned, operated & ran by the Dankos Pates Esso in Five Points - before that, Nichols Esso Three Sisters Store in Richmond Plaza Making paper airplanes to fly The ice storm of '69 Holly Farms Harris Teeter Winn Dixie A&P Big Star Masons The first day of school Remember when we had a movie theater? What once was "THE STAND" in Cordova and then it became Totsie & Ida's Grill--------and most of all "MISS" Totsie!!!!!! What wonderful memories I cherish growing up in Richmond County!!! Bill Wallaces Kays at the Plaza Skating Rink parties Remember playing the arcade games at Maplewood? Remember K-Mart? Remember Aleo Mill? Mrs White's Store in East Rockingham Mickey's Amoco in East Rockingham Roller skate keys Full service gas stations Swinging on the front porch with a glass of lemonade When it was safe to pick up a hitchhiker Paper dolls Riding hobbie horses Making mud pies Snow angels Collard sandwiches Cracklina cornbread Pumpkin pie Little fried apple pies The Rockets and The Rams Flying a kite on the first day of March May pole dances Inter-tubing at Boyd's Lake Camping out in the backyard under the stars Slumber parties (up all night) 4H camp Horseback riding When the fair came to town Gazing at the stars at night and making a wish on a fallen star Jumping in mud puddles Big Star A&P Bi-Lo Standing in line at Watkins Station (located where the BK is now in Rockingham) to get your license tags...everyone got them at the same time instead of during your birthday month now. Pop's Shooting pool at John's Pool Room Remember what you were doing when JFK was shot? Riding over those merciless dirt roads in Hamlet Yard O-n-e, t-w-o, t-h-r-e-e - copying train orders & spelling them out Doubling every 8 hours Working the graveyard shifts Walking for exercise at CSX Payroll in Jacksonville Fl Walking the tracks at Tampa CSX RR yard Walking the tracks at Hamlet CSX RR yard Going to the Hub in Hamlet Street dances in Hamlet Dancing to beach music at Scandels and Fatboys The barbershop at Black Bottom with Alec Sessioms and Don Todd McCoys Service Station Reids Grocery Store Wilsons Tire Service Ja-Ron Chips Quincys Restaurant Dockside in Southern Pines J. Alberts in Southern Pines The Hanger Crackers The Three Sisters Slot Car Racing Skating Rink Robert & Charles Seago - owners of Seagos Restaurant Climbing the hill from the pool to the library Ed Tull Swimming Pool Ethels Rockingham Police Station on the Square Old Rockingham Ball Park Johnnys Truck Stop Bailey Fence Co. Watson Auto Sales Santa on the Square in Downtown Rockingham City Market Downtown Roses & Woods Downtown Old Bi-Lo Grocery Store in Richmond Plaza I Know Everybody Remembers TOM & SARA'S ON SAT. NIGHT. Freeman's Pool Room and Cafe Black Bottom Going Bat Hunting with cane poles in East Rockingham Walking home from school DeWitts peach warehouse in Ellerbe Getting a hair cut at Five Points Barber Shop & listening to John Heavner politican Getting around Rockingham with your thumb When dogs ran free Curb hopping at Seagos & Tom & Sarahs Slopping hogs Going to the Indian Mound Climbing slate rock hill The river hills - when they were dirt roads Tab Picking plums and eating them right off the vine Hoeing the garden Using a slingblade Classic Dick, Jane, and Spot books Roller skating at the Skating Rink Sitting in the balcony of the theater Sunday afternoon rides with your parents Fairs The News Messenger Journal Stationery Store Clark Cox The Seafood Center located intersection of East Washington and Lawrence Street Kirsh Bros.Store located on South Lee Street Hicks Grocery located on South Lee Street The Rockingham Hotel located on the southeastern corner of Washington and Hancock Streets The old Rockingham Post Office Building located on the northeast corner of Franklin and Hancock Streets Great Falls Cotton Mill Rockinghams Farmers Bank Archies Ace Hardware and Garden Center JE Haywood, Inc. Plaza Jewelers tankers, submarines, pizza burgers, knee-hi burgers, super burgers Cole Hardware Company W&H Clothing Company Kate Finley Auditorium Coxs Goodyear downtown Rockingham The Richmond Theater Pick up sticks Paper church fans Flying paper airplanes The Clothe Shoppe (where Hamiltons Seafood is now) When The Daily Journal was known as Post Dispatch (family owned by Neal Cadieus parents) Pill box hats Do you remember 8th grade school teacher, Mrs. Goodman, she was one of the best! Rumor has it she only used a substitute teacher only one day in all her career. Very dedicated and still teaching children in Sunday school at FUMC. Were you there when the worlds largest Walmart opened in Rockingham? Sharing a Coke Float Using clothes pins to attach cards to the spokes of your bike Shooting marbles into cigar boxes at LJ Bell (for keeps) Swimming at the Ballast Pits, Ledbetter Lake, & Indian Lake tether ball Hernando's Hideaway Cotton candy Mary Janes Pixie Sticks Pogo sticks Ronnie Goodman alias"the Roach" T.V. Antenna Pee Dee Oil Co. Inc. Paper straws Rufus Morrows Service Station Flukies Rockingham Speedway 66 Station at Five Points Quality Ford McInnis Motor Company Freeman Buick Richmond County Bank Traylor Construction Co Sealtest Milk L.G. Fox Drug Co. Bellamy Electric Service Security Fence Co. Richmond Co. Freezer Locker Plant Adams Gulf Station Munns Coal and Oil Co. Inc. Rockingham Railroad McNair Furniture Co. Joe McLaurin One Hour Martinizing Richmond Technical Institute Richmond Memorial Hospital Show and tell Paper dolls Go carts Flying a kite Blowing bubbles Sandwiches wrapped in wax paper Roller skating Jump rope Hop scotch Mother May I Simon Says Churning homemade ice cream Coke floats Sock hops Staying after school, writing 100 times, I must not talk in class Riding your bike to school Taking your lunch in a brown paper bag Playing marbles Making paper airplanes 4 H Camp Eating watermelons Church homecomings and all that gooooood food! When Mothers raised their own children and didn't work The Twist Shagging Two stepping Hula hoops Prayer in school Petticoats Longs Department Store Snowcones Cupcakes The Haunted House Apple bobbin Loafers with copper pennies tucked inside Bruce Hardins friendly smile, he knew everyones name (the score keeper at all the games) Dr. Bill Haltiwanger Shoe shine Full service stations Picnics “ fried chicken, biscuits, and iced tea Swinging on the front porch Going barefoot When Winn Dixie was where the Library is now. Library seen above Ed Tull Park Book mobile Sunday rides When banks closed on Wed afternoon When nothing was opened on Sundays Small cokes in the glass bottles Police Chief Eddie Martin Fire Chief Charles Trotter Sunday buffet at RMH Sheriff Raymond Goodman Old Cotton Brokerage Office located on Washington Square Bus Station located on West Washington Street Livery Stable located on Franklin Street Ice Plant in West Rockingham Kentucky Fried Chicken (now called KFC) Holly Farms black and white tv Orange and Black colors representing Rockingham Rockets Richmond Academy Mr. Raider - Charles Brownley Peach Festival Ethels Florist Mayor G.R. Kindley Councilman, Vet, and Friend to all Ralph Gandy, Jr. Crackers Scandals Benny's Deli on Fayetteville Road Michaels Fish Camp Brown Derby When everyone knew everyone The dance place during my years "Tin Can" located by Ed Tull swimming pool. Seeing Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs at the National Guard Armory. The Hub in Hamlet Cracker Jack toys Captain Kangaroo Catching lightning bugs in a jar Mr. Greenjeans Roasting marshmallows and wienies on an fashioned coat hanger on a campfire and telling scary ghost stories Paddling at school Simon says; hop scotch, jump rope, jack rocks, marbles Frog gigging Skiing at the River The Boat Landing Rockingham Rockets Hamburgers and hotdogs were 5 for $1.00 at the Chicken Box. Chips Driving around at Tom and Sarahs to see who was hangin out. orange-aid at Bristow Drug DJ and The Medicine Dropper Hallums' Christmas display (Rudolph on the roof) Santa Claus on the square Belks downtown, and those vacumn tubes that sent messages. Kays Gaddys Scarboroughs Hobby Shop Balcony in the Richmond Theater The Strand Metermaids downtown Christmas parades The fire horn Green Street before revitilazation Carolina Standard in old location Luptons Hardware Roses and Woods downtown Rockingham City Market downtown Rockingham Penegars Old Bus Station Russell Bennett Chevrolet in the fork on Fayetteville Rd Longs Bill Wallace at the Richmond Plaza shopping center The Ja-Ron Restaurant The fish market across from Hallum's Furniture The Ed Tull swimming pool with manager Martha Holt The ice cream truck with all us kids trailing behind it The ice storm of 1969 Bills Furniture Barn Crackers Roses Dime Store Russell Bennett Chevrolet Archies Red and White Ethels Flowers and Gifts Wickes Lumber Weddington Motors Whites Poultry North Carolina Motor Speedway Hicks Auto Parts Bess Jarrett Realty Swinks Grocery on the square Rockingham before Urban Redevelopment in the 1970s Clark Equipment Reids Grocery Store 45 RPM records Hi fis LP records Metal ice cube trays with the lever Leave It to Beaver Roller skate keys Penny loafers Gold bond stamps and Green stamps Bobby socks Bobby pins (used to make pin curls) Black and white TVs Santa and his sleigh atop Hallums Furniture during the Christmas season. Can anybody remember what the little piece of plastic was called that was used to play a 45 RPM? Fender skirts Spinners Chrome reverse wheels Redline tires Ralph Morse's junk yard Going to look at the new model cars Purple and green chicks at Easter time at Woods Dime store. Lunch counter at Woods Hamburgers from Lefty's (curb service outside, beer joint inside) Moony's Place at Five Points Dynamite's Grocery at Five Points John Haltom's store at Pee Dee Seago's Restaurant Webb's Fish Camp The Brown Derby McCoy's Service Station... where the court cases were REALLY decided! Fallout shelter at the Post Office YMCA The A & P and Mr. Infinger's bowties Barber shops closed on Wednesday afternoons Sunday all stores were closed All the taxi stands Coleman's Service Station Playing hide and go seek Front porch sittin' The school store The Bookmobile Dewitt's Peachpickers bus Full Service stations Paper church fans Back when you didn't have to lock your door, and you slept with the windows up at night. Chevrolets that didn't require a key to start Rockingham Rockets Do you remember when the prefix telephone number for Rockingham was called "TW 5" instead of 895? Orange Bowl Restaurant Howard Johnsons Holly Farms The Cinema Rockingham Hotel Cale Yarborough Auto Center JC Penny Auto Center The Clothe Shoppe Kanip's Apartments The Drive Inn on 74 "One Way Street" - Palace Barber Shop Phillips Shoe Store City Market The Hub Collins Dept. Store Woods and Roses all on one little street!! Johns Pool Room Davis Lake Halloween Carnivals at Pee Dee School Sears and Roebuck catalogs and Sears downtown Rockingham Glass bottled drinks Prizes found in detergent boxes Leisure suits |
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