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We started late on that show and binged the first couple seasons and I noticed they slowly showed stuff or talked more about Ole Miss. I said something about it to my wife and the very next couple episodes they mentioned State (cheese) and USM. Don't know if they did it more later on or not. I've got them all DVR'd, but got a little burned out. Amazing what they did and I plan to watch more eventually.
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Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
A bunch of us Coastians would go to the catholic church in Laurel during drill. It was a beautiful old fashioned church like Nativity and it was on a hill which overlooked downtown. And it was always filled for mass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
New Albany has been trying to revitalize its downtown, but the rent is pretty high in most buildings from what I hear.
79 - 82 - I was in the Trans-op section and then transferred to OCS Military Academy in Jackson and eventually on to the 348th Cavalry in GeorgiaQuote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
CG's was awesome ... I used to haul hay for Mr Watson the owner and he would bring us some of those great burgers for lunch ... that's one place along with Pasquales that I really miss ..... I'm from Ellisville and may have known your grandparents - it's not like Eville was a sprawling metropolisQuote:
Originally Posted by MagicDawg
In SSM from 90-94. It was a MSU Alumni chapterQuote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
I rode my bicycle to CG's a few times a week and bought a banana shake!!! Loved CG's!!!! If my old mind serves me correctly, I think a buddy of mine family owned it. Chancellor's maybe??!Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
Loved Pasquale's also. Great place.
CG Watson owned it ... Lived up on Ridge Road. Good to know you're a home boyQuote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
I grew up on Wansley Road. Moved away when I was in 6th or 7th grade. I'm 54 now. I remember that house like it was yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
Both sets of my grandparents were from Jasper County(Stringer and Moss), but I always joked that they knew every body in 3 counties(Jasper, Jones and Smith), and I actually think they did, lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
It's still there but not the same. This stuff is making me miss those good ol days!Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
Man this thread sure went a direction not predicted. From laughing at the sad sacks of shit KlanSharts to people possibly knowing earth other, meeting up and planning trips. Guess you never know.
Not to knock them - they do a great job and I like the show - but they follow a lot of the ideas and blueprints for success that organizations like Main Street USA, Congress for New Urbanism, and the Incremental Development Alliance and others have been championing for years. What Ben & Erin seem to have done is what can be the hardest part for downtown revitalizations - creating a vision that the community buys into, and getting local property and business owners to invest. I've watched a lot of the same things happen locally. We had a 1-2 major property owner in our downtown who wouldn't invest in their buildings, charged ridiculous rents, and wouldn't sell out. So most of downtown sat vacant for years. They finally started selling out at a time where we had done a new downtown masterplan, and things all came together at the right time. New, much younger owners who cared more about the community are here and being creative. Took one historic office building that sat empty for a decade and turned it into shared work-space. 50 units leased out in 1 month, they bought 2 other buildings, and we now have close to 200 new small-offices in our downtown. That has brought back more restaurants. In turn, the new people want to live downtown so we currently have 120 loft/apartment spaces under reno on second and 3rd floors that have been vacant since the 1950s. Working in city planning, and having spent most of my career in historic preservation, it has been a lot of fun watching our downtown boom over the past 5-6 years. It's spilling out into the surround historic neighborhoods. St. Simons Island has gotten expensive enough and over crowded with tourists and AirBnBs, so families are relocating onto the mainland and want to live near downtown. It's been transformative here after nearly 40 years of struggling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg_Lover
Is Pasquale's a chain? I used to eat at the one in Columbus a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
I believe that's what makes this such a great board.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
I won a new bicycle in a watermelon seed spitting contest at Roses. Spit that sucker 24 feet!!! My brother always picked on me and he made me enter the contest so him and his buddies could laugh about it. Guess who Dad made put that bicycle together that afternoon???Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
That's awesome! Years ago the Roses here used to have a halfway decent diner in it. Couldn't tell you the last time I was in Roses.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Okay, hadn?t really stopped to think about it, but I now get the Brunswick connection. You live in a very pretty area. It is good to hear of your city?s successful rebirth. I enjoy seeing older buildings being restored, and beautiful, historic architecture being saved, instead of being destroyed in the name of progress.
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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Several of us girls that went to the ?W? together, used to go to the Columbus Pasquale?s often, when it was out on Hwy 82. One of our group, of four, was from Columbus and went to the same church as the owner, and the rest of us went with her to church, too. I guess he liked all of us, because whenever we went to his restaurant, he would invite us behind the counter to fix whatever we wanted just like we wanted it. My favorite was the open face beef sandwiches, smothered in gravy. 😋 He was such a nice man.
It is a pretty area and a great place to raise a family. Been here almost 22 years, but I grew up vacationing here so it has been "home" for most of my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg_Lover
Laurel had intentions of doing that ... back in the mid 70's they hired my dad to be the architect for their "Urban Renewal" project. It helped some but the total funding just wasn't there to bring it to full completion ...... We did end up with a disco called Mad Jacks thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawg_Lover
I grew up on a cattle farm in SW MS. Several hundred head but over time family sold them off along with the land. Now getting back into it, mainly for my son and revitalizing our old family brand. All that being said, went to Tadlocks on Monday and the look on my kids faces when that auctioneer starting talking made the decision final for me, they are going to finish growing up with an AG background. My son is really into beef cattle and daughter wants to be a vet so not that hard of a stretch. Ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Good old "Urban Renewal". Hopefully your dad was a good architect as more oriented to preservation and not needless demolition. We had a similar program here that wiped away multiple brick waterfront warehouses in the 1970s. Would have been perfect waterfront condos or lofts. Instead we got a 6 lane divided highway and a new rail spur to our portQuote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
Mr. & Mrs. MP Carter. He taught at JCJC, she taught at South Jones. Lived out on Augusta Road right across the street from the JCJC President's home back when it was by itself in the middle of a big field. Me and my brother and the Tisdale boys would play in that big open yard sometimes, a million years ago. I miss those giant pecan trees in my grandparents' yard. Many of the best moments of my life happened in that yellow brick house on Augusta Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
Lol. I drove the delivery van for Lomax Printers for a couple years. Loved working for Perry Lomax.Quote:
Originally Posted by FISHDAWG
Turned into a great thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Same thing happened with us. My papaw had cattle, chicken houses and a huge farm and grew everthing, but like you, it all got sold off over time. The best time of my life was working on that farm with my papaw. Wish i could go back.Quote:
Originally Posted by SilentSteel16
Are you referring to Terrell and Martha Tisdales kids? Terrell and Martha were good friends of mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicDawg
I remember that setting ... I had Mrs Carter for a class at South Jones - (if it's the same one) she was HOT !!! ..... Terrell Tisdale and my dad were good friends as he installed and taught the construction dept for 4 years there before becoming registered as an architect and moving on but they remained very close.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicDawg
Not sure if Mr CG Watson sold the restaurant later but I know he used to own CG's
They had great pizza. Had on in Hattiesburg, Laurel and Columbus. Another great place was Big Boy. Had one in dam near every town in Miss.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Just couldn't help it but this belongs on this thread!Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
https://youtu.be/9CJ_HsX7PkQ
Yes. I would turn pages for Martha when she played organ at FBC when I was visiting my grandparents, the Carters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Did Vacation Bible School with the Tisdale kids at FBC many summers...
If your dad was Terrell Tisdale's age, you probably weren't in my grandmother's class. And she has never, to my knowledge, been described as "hot" so I doubt it was her. She taught in the 50s and 60s.
No doubt. Learned a lot in this one and it is somewhat refreshing to have a non bitching thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Percho
HA! That was awesome! I also just found out another poster on here went to elementary school with my wife. It's a small world!Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
Awesome! I sold Martha her grand piano many years ago, almost seems like a different lifetime ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicDawg
Beats the heck out of the "we suck at everything but baseball" threads! Glad you started this one Rouge! Extra rep for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
The Carter I'm thinking about was teaching in the 70's .... Last time I saw Terrell Tisdale was at my fathers funeral in 1986 but they were good people ...... I'm almost certain we probably know each otherQuote:
Originally Posted by MagicDawg