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680. Jerry Key - 2010-02-24 23:59:12 |
| Yeah. And now Mansour’s is no more. It really changed hands years ago but kept the name. Now it’s just an empty building. I remember eating at the Plantation Cafeteria when I got older but not as a child. I think we were too poor for everyone to eat out. |
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679. Charlie Farrar - 2010-02-24 09:28:32 |
I was back home in January and drove the downtown area and remember it as it was.
Bull St used to be the one with bars or at least Moncus had a bar and Charlie Joseph served beer at one time. We talking years ago now, I mean back when Plantation Cafeteria was in business next to the cab company.
Now Main St has numerous eating places and what was is no mas.
Me and otherboys would walk home from working at the picture show and parking meters would be jumped as we walked up Main headed towards Goldstein Hill headed home.
The square was much prettier before they put that green statue in the middle of the fountain. It is nothing more than a pigeon stoop full of poop now days.
The fountain back when would put on a great performance of shooting water high and of course had numerous colors.
My mom would take us there in the evenings just to watch the water show.
Someone made a statement that one day Mansours would take over the entire block and it was said NEVER. Well they took over what was Rhodes Furniture.
They refused to sell shoes to me and my sister one time as we were at our limit. Made the folks mad, didn’t bother me cause wearing new shoes took a while to break in.
We got our shoes at Bargain Basement after that. Next to the Cake Box.
You remember any of those places?
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678. Charlie Farrar - 2010-02-08 21:02:34 |
| I heard dat, I know dats rite |
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677. Howard Underwood - 2010-02-08 19:42:08 |
 WHO DAT OH DAT WHO  |
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676. - 2010-01-24 09:11:09 |
Happy Birthday Marie Estes Dunn on your special day  |
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675. Hollis Rogers - 2010-01-18 01:29:55 |
| Yep, the pay wasn’t great and it was hard work, but to many folks coming to Lagrange to work in the mills, it was an improvment in working conditions and pay from their parents generation. My Dad (Alton Rogers) came to LaGrange I think around 1947. He grew up in Heard county in a family of 11 children. My grandaddy raised them by farming, painting houses, carpentry, and I’m not sure what else. They were dirt poor. But, they were some of the finest people i ever knew. I feel that way about the people of Dunson mill village also. i’ve always been proud that I grew up there. The adults at Dunson Baptist Church, and Dunson mill influenced me as much as my parents. |
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674. Hollis Rogers - 2010-01-18 00:52:02 |
| Charlie, Dunson and Dixie Mills were both closed permantly in 2004. I dont know if Dixie has been sold or is for sale or anything about it. Dunson mill was purchased by Raymond Vaughan a few ears ago. I beliieve all machinery is gone but not sure. Dunson is being used as warehouse now by Mr. Vaughan’s company. The Vaughan family has operated a trucking company in LaGrange since the late 50’s or early 60’s. |
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673. Jake Thrower - 2010-01-15 00:29:00 |
| Until I went to work at Dunson I did not know that my Mom and many of your Moms and (Dads for that matter) had to work as hard as they did for so little pay and under such adverse conditions. My issue was "Why the folks who ran the mills couldn’t or wouldn’t try harder to raise the pay and improve conditions." It wasn’t just Dunson or Dixie it was most mills especially in the south where there was little threat of labor unions comming in. Never was a fan of unions but looking back cotton mills sure could have used at least that threat. Our folks labored there because it was a way to keep us clothed and fed, a responsibility they accepted the day we were born. Sure wish things could have been better fo them. |
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672. Wynette Wright Little - 2010-01-13 16:52:23 |
| Well said, Howard. |
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671. Howard Underwood - 2010-01-10 02:11:14 |
It’s been a while since I checked the guestbook. I was just reading it and thinking back about growing up in the Dixie and Dunson Mill villages. Charlie Farrar can tell you, my memory was one of the first things to go. A good many of the guys I grew up around went on to graduate college, land a good job, marry and live enviable lives. Calvin Bates was one of those. He did well. I always liked him. Others I knew enjoyed bending the rules. Some of them never made it to adulthood. For obvious reasons I won’t name them. Many of you knew some of them. I was close to several of them. Guess I was somewhere in he middle. I worked at Calumet, Elm City, Dixie, Muscogee and Fairfax. I never felt like a second class citizen nor was I ashamed my parents had worked there also. I felt a sort of kinship with many of those working there along side me. Of course, as in lots of families, we had a few "crazy-in-laws" we didn’t claim. I was a hard worker and took some amount of pride in that, but the generation ahead of us, that had left farms and pulpwooding to come work in the mill, will tell you we didn’t know what hard work was. When I left the mill I was made twice the money doing half as much work. I’ll never look down on anyone that does a day’s work for a day’s pay while they provide for their family. I know most of you, like me, don’t regret your cotton mill connection nor your mill village upbringing. They are what we were meant to have. Thanks for them.
Your turn Charlie |
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