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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
Phillips Drive in is till top notch ... I remember when the Ramada was new and THE place to go , now .... not so much. I'm so old I remember the Holiday Inn and Magnolia Motor Lodge as well - Used to be the place to go lol.
And Parabrave - I used to be a member of the 184th there also
When?
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Originally Posted by
Commercecomet24
Laurel downtown was so rundown and scummy and not safe not that long ago. The transformation has been nothing short of miraculous. Wetumpka is night and day difference from what it was before and after. I was just over there last month and it's amazing. Obviously I don't agree with their choice of schools, lol, but they've pumped new life into laurel and Jones county. Wetumpka has some awesome Christmas displays and stuff to do that time of year if you get over that way. There's a guy over there that decorated his house just like the Griswolds, RV and all and even hires characters to play Clark and cousin Eddie
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.
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New Albany has been trying to revitalize its downtown, but the rent is pretty high in most buildings from what I hear.
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Originally Posted by
parabrave
When?
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 Georgia
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Originally Posted by
MagicDawg
Whatever happened to CG's in Laurel? I remember my Mammaw and Pappaw taking me and my brother there sometimes when we'd visit them in Ellisville.
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 metropolis
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OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Originally Posted by
FISHDAWG
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 Georgia
In SSM from 90-94. It was a MSU Alumni chapter
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Originally Posted by
FISHDAWG
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 metropolis
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??!
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Loved Pasquale's also. Great place.
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
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??!
CG Watson owned it ... Lived up on Ridge Road. Good to know you're a home boy
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Ole Miss campus police ask students to behave at future baseball games following a recent incident.
The university said students were reportedly throwing rocks at Georgia baseball players during last weekend's series.
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Originally Posted by
FISHDAWG
CG Watson owned it ... Lived up on Ridge Road. Good to know you're a home boy
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.
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Originally Posted by
FISHDAWG
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 metropolis
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!
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
Loved Pasquale's also. Great place.
It's still there but not the same. This stuff is making me miss those good ol days!
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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.
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Originally Posted by
Dawg_Lover
The new season started two episodes ago. What they have done, for Laurel, has been amazing, I have read an article, or two, talking about a few other small towns have taken note, and are working towards the same goal.
Also, I have wondered how the small town, of Wetumka, AL, is doing since they completed their revitalization on the Hometown Takeover series.
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.
"After dealing with Ole Miss for over a year," he said, "I've learned to expect their leadership to do and say things that the leadership at other Division I schools would never consider doing and to justify their actions by reminding themselves that "We're Ole Miss.""
- Tom Mars, Esq. 4.9.18
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Originally Posted by
Commercecomet24
It's still there but not the same. This stuff is making me miss those good ol days!
Is Pasquale's a chain? I used to eat at the one in Columbus a lot.
"After dealing with Ole Miss for over a year," he said, "I've learned to expect their leadership to do and say things that the leadership at other Division I schools would never consider doing and to justify their actions by reminding themselves that "We're Ole Miss.""
- Tom Mars, Esq. 4.9.18
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Originally Posted by
RougeDawg
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.
I believe that's what makes this such a great board.
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Originally Posted by
FISHDAWG
CG Watson owned it ... Lived up on Ridge Road. Good to know you're a home boy
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???
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
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???
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.
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Originally Posted by
BrunswickDawg
........... 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.
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.
* Foghorn Leghorn-isms *
> about as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrel of oatmeal.
> more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind.
> gettin so deep the farmers have to jack up the cows so they can milk em.
> making more noise than a couple of skeletons dancing on a tin roof.
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