| I Remember The Old Tin School Bus Stops |
| When I added some articles from the Richmond County Journal Special 75 Year Edition, one caught my eye about the old tin school bus stops mentioned in that part of the website entitled 1934 A Suggestion Worth Considering - an article that said the bus stops would only cost about $10 each to build. Can you imagine that! Kids today probably don't have any idea what I am talking about. If you are a baby boomer, I am sure you remember these. And if you rode the bus when you were a kid, you will remember also. Our bus stop was located on old Ellerbe Rd - right across from the Gardner and Jenkins homes in the neighborhoods. And right close to the front yard of Eddie Morse. If you ride in that neighborhood today, you will see the Beverly Hills Baptist Church right across from where the Morses used to live - and across from where the old school bus stop was located. These little tin buildings were a lifesaver back then - especially in the winter. They shielded you from rain, snow and, most of the time, the howling wind. There was one problem with the school bus stop that left you cold all over. Around the bottom it was open so that old cold wind could blow right into the bus stop and still get to you. But you were still better off than standing outside. And when it rained or snowed, you would run as fast as you could to get inside. I didn't live far from the bus stop - in fact, everyone in the neighborhood lived pretty close to it so it didn't take long once you left your house to get to the local school bus stop. Those old bus stops had advertisements painted all over them and they became a regular target for rock throwing boys of that time. They were well dented from target practice because there were plenty of boys that lived in that area at the time - the Brigmans, Jenkins, Baileys, Gardners, Morses, Hewitts, Smiths, Comers, Pankeys, Heavners and Keys. Today there are just too many kids in different neighborhoods for them to erect the old tin bus stops anymore. I have noticed the buses around here stop about every 2 blocks it seems. It just would not be practical to put in school bus stops like the ones we had. That was in an error gone by that will never come back. Like a lot of my memories of the past, thats the way it was growing up in Rockingham, North Carolina - a small textile town in the South in the '50s & '60s. |
| So, as the Train of Life keeps chugging along, another page written of my Childhood Memories of.... Rockingham Remembered. |
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