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  1. J

    Jewlery finds heads up......

    Confined by the weather this afternoon and nothing on tv worth watching so I looked through a box of junk jewelry finds. The top photo is what was in the box, the bottom photo is a .925 silver chain and part of a broken 10 kt necklace or bracelet that were mixed in with the junk jewelry. I...
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    An unusual Compadre find, from an unusual place.....

    A few years ago we were looking for a site in west Alabama. It was on a high hill, had been a hotel before the Civil War and a lodge for Confederate veterans after the war. We knew the general area and made a few trips looking for the right hill but never found it. The last trip there wasn't...
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    Oddity.........

    Found in an unpaved parking area of an old football field that hasn't been used in several years. Both sides are the same if flipped over vertically, in the photo it's flipped horizonally. It's a little larger than a quarter, chrome plate over brass and the grooves appear to be identical on...
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    Golden

    All the stuff tabdog has been finding on his tot-lot hunts inspired me to take the Golden down to the school playground. Not many coins lost since the schools here went to the voucher system a couple of years ago but usually there's a few, and always the chance of finding small gold ring. No...
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    A couple of old auto finds.......

    Since some others are posting old automobile related finds I'll post a couple. The first photo is a pretty rough looking Chief of The Sixes token from 1926, the year the Pontiac with a six cylinder engine was introduced. It was found at an old homesite back in the middle 1980's. The Nash...
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    Help dating coin.............

    The coin in the photo was given to me about 10 years ago by a friend, long since moved out of state, who bought a bag of supposedly Roman coins. I ran across it a few days ago and all I can remember of what he said about it was that he thought it dated to 120 B.C. or earlier. I haven't had any...
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    A whiney story .............

    My youngest daughter, Jamie, flew down from Harrisburg, PA for the holidays. We got her a ticket a couple of months ago at a lower cost than if we waited and she was scheduled to leave early Sunday morning and fly back late Friday. She got to the airport, checked through security and went in...
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    The flood...

    Before any kind of flood control was implemented in this area it didn't take a lot of rain to flood Bigbee and Lusby bottoms. The Tombigbee River could handle a lot of water but Town Creek was almost as big, very crooked with alternate shallow and deep stretches, and when it overflowed and mixed...
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    A Hopalong Cassidy Christmas........

    The only shoes I had until Christmas day of 1950 were what everyone around here called brogans, work type shoes with ankle high tops that were stiff leather with hard soles. We got a pair of brogans every fall after the crops were gathered that had to last until the next fall and dad always...
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    A Christmas story........

    This story has been around awhile and although the version I've had is attributed to RB Anderson I wouldn't gaurantee that's right. It's probably fiction but it's a heartwarming story that still makes me sad, and reminds me of Christmas in our community when I was a sharecroppers kid. <b>A...
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    Dumas Wayne........

    I knew, and worked with, Dumas Wayne Oswalt for a lot of years. He was a typical "good old boy" redneck who love hunting, fishing, chewing tobacco and all the other pursuits common to southern rednecks. He had little education, and was far from the sharpest tool in the shed, but was a good guy...
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    Tornado........

    On a relatively cool, cloudless day in June of 1963 I got home from work at 4:30 in the afternoon to find my mother and my wife Linda, who was two months pregnant with out oldest daughter, standing outside looking toward the southwest. When I got out of the car my Mom pointed in the direction...
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    Extra-sensory Perception............by Jbird

    <i><b>Jbird posted this story on Carl's forum in 2002. I was browsing the forum archives a little while ago, ran across it and thought I would post it here. Jbird is a super storyteller with some great and funny stories to tell, hopefully he won't mind me posting it.</b></i> <center><hr...
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    Stepped in it...

    [attachment 39136 nutin.gif]I've been all but down for the last week due to problems with my left knee and the way I've drug that leg around reminded me of a detecting trip a few years ago. I put a story about it on a small story forum a couple of years ago but don't think I've posted it here...
  15. J

    Gotta love pawn shops.......:happy:

    For over 20 years I made the rounds of all the pawn shops in this area at least once a month looking for camera equipment to resell. Because I was a regular customer and bought so much I would get a better price than most, and got to know some real characters as a result. I pretty much got...
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    From the mouth of babes

    <img src="http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/b/jbms12/Pics5/underpass.jpg" align="right" vspace="2"hspace="2"/>There's an underpass, almost identical to the one in the photo, under the Burlington Northern railroad here in town. The land is flat and when the underpass was built they basically dug a hole...
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    Daddy cures his hemorrhoids........

    In 1954 my father developed a severe case of hemorrhoids. He'd had mild hemorrhoids for several years but in the spring of that year they got really bad, to the point he was in constant pain from them. He was a mechanic for the county at the time and had to do some heavy lifting when working on...
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    Tag?........

    Found this tag at an old plantation site. According to the landowner all the buildings were torn down and/or burned before 1950 and is now woods and pasture land. The newest coin found there was a 1917, the oldest 1841. Was told it was a luggage or baggage tag from a ship but got my doubts...
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    Another lone grave story.......

    One Saturday afternoon about 15 years ago a man, William Tate, called and asked me if I had a couple of hours to spare, and if I did would I come to his house and bring a camera and a metal detector. He said he called me because I had good camera's and metal detectors and knew I would be...
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    Vernon.......

    As was typical in this area from about 60 years ago and back there was a lot on intermarrying between neighboring families. That resulted in a lot of what local folks call double first cousins. Two or more brothers from one family marrying sisters from another family, or a brother and sister...
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