Mill-Hill Life: (Black-Bottom Nc Usa)

By Allen Barrington

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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 21, 2005
• ISBN: 9781463455569

Allen Barrington

      ALLEN WAS BORN IN 1941.  HE WAS BORN ON THE MILL-HILL, AND IS ALWAYS TRYING TO WRITE ABOUT THE MILL-HILL AS IT IS HIS (AND MANY OTHERS) HERITAGE…       MR. BARRINGTON SATS IT IS MUCH BETTER TO LAUGH THAN TO CRY…THIS IS TRUE HUMOR OF DAILY LIVES, BOTH GOOD AND BAD…       ALLEN WAS BORN,LIVED, WORKED AND PLAYED ON THE MILL-HILL. HE AND HIS WIFE LIVES ABOUT 210 FEET FROM WHERE HE WAS BOREN…THE (MILL-HILL MEMORIES) MUST NOT DIE AWAY… TO MANY PEOPLES, BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS ARE TIED TO ‘THE MILL-HILL’ THE MEMORIES MUST SURVIVE!!  YOU WILL LAUGH AND CRY AS YOU ENJOY THIS TRUTH…ALL TRUE, EVEN IF STRETCHED A BIT (SOMETIMES)   ALLEN BARRINGTON

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© 2005 Allen Barrington. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/28/2021

ISBN: 978-1-4184-4424-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4184-4423-5 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-5556-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004093793

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Book Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

MILL HILL

CHAPTER TWO

AH, THE THEATERS

CHAPTER THREE

HEADLINERS

CHAPTER FOUR

OUR NEW PLACE

CHAPTER FIVE

A & P

CHAPTER SIX

NEIGHBOR

CHAPTER SEVEN

DOGS

CHAPTER EIGHT

SCIENCE FICTION

CHAPTER NINE

THE DOCTOR

CHAPTER TEN

NOSTALGIC TOUR

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SLOAN’S POND

CHAPTER TWELVE

OLE BEN

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CAR STORIES

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ROLLS ROYCE

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

THIS THING NOSTALGIA

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE MILLS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My appreciation to the various people and industries that were an aid in the development of this book… To the leath library for their micro-fische archives and general information, ms adrienne for her generous help….

To the richmond county journal for many cut-outs for my illustrations…To my father-in-law and other members of my family for pictures and information for my book

To my sister-in-law, deanna, for her great help and use of her computer skills, many, many thanks…

Many thanks to anyone concerned that contributed in any way toward developing this book!! My appreciation

To everyone!!

Allen Barrington

FOREWORD

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BOOK DEDICATION

To my wife, wanda for her patience, belief and support.

For my daughter, patricia for her assistance in the hard part..

For my family and my in – laws, for their encouragement. (Especially my sister-in-law)

And for everyone who supplied names, memories and stories,.

And who helped make this book possible….. Thanks– anb

CHAPTER ONE

MILL HILL

CAN THIS STUFF BE TRUE

I was very young when I was born, and I was born in the shadow of the entwhistle mill, later to be known as aleo. Also, and not affectionally as add-more. You would easily understand this if you had worked there…. Ha -ha

My birth year was 1941, fdr was in office. I was not old enough to vote for him, but I would have, if I could. In that time, the folks on the mill - hill helped one another as much as possible. Mill houses were built close together, so we had limited space. Every household planted a garden, and of course, we had to plant a different crop from what our neighbor did. We did this so that we could have a large variety. We had peas, and someone else had corn, another had tomatoes, etc.. So we would all trade and everyone had some of everything!!! Oh!! If only people in the present were so sophisticated !!! Beside trading, people would often pass the soupbone. After it made 2 or 3 stops the soup would get pretty thin. By the time the owner got his bone back, it probably wasn’t worth having!!! So much for food!!!As a child, I knew no better, but now I know that we and others on the Mill-Hill were so poor that we looked up to people on welfare. Ha-ha, seriously as a child we were very poor and we had to make do with what-ever toy our little minds could invent. Most everyone played under the house. The favorite thing of course, was doodle– bug! The parents worked really hard in those days, so this thing of playing under the house went well with them . Watching the child was much easier that way !!! My favorite toys was a pepsi bottle and a coca-cola bottle. We could’nt buy toys so I used the pepsi bottle for my big truck and the coke bottle was my car !!! I turned them around and pushed them big end first through the dirt !! Don’t laugh, I put many miles on those two bottles !!! I’m watching tv this morning. C-span, they have Mr. Ralph nader on there. They list him as a public advocate,i thought he was a political activist !! Do not ask me the difference because I do not know!!! Ha-ha. This brings me back to the old days on the mill hill. Although, I now understand that tv was invented (or available) in 1929, it was unheard of on the mill hill!!! The big thing for us folks, was the radio on saturday night!!! Also, everyone didn’t have a radio. Anyway, on saturday night it was time for ‘the grand ole opry’ everyone in the whole world loved hank williams and patsy cline!!! I think that in those days, people had more values, because everything was so much harder to come by and was probably much more appreciated !!! Also, in those days, we still had prayer in school and people weren’t ashamed to speak of the lord so in my humble opinion, I think everyone was so much happier, just my thought!!! My own prayer now is ‘ lord, please help us, mankind, to prevail in this new modern and very fast world, help us one and all to seek peace and care for one another and to always do your will. Aman .

–––– More later, as it comes to mind––––-

In the previous pages, I drew attention to the fact that folks had to work very hard to make a living. People don’t work as hard now-a-days because of our technology and people are working smarter –– not harder.

But in those days, we could go to town and we did’nt have to lock the door. Now-a-days, you can’t walk to the mailbox without locking up. In those days, you could cut through someone’s yard while walking to the store, but now-a-days, you put your foot in someone’s yard, they want to sue you for trespassing!!! I walk down the street and I say, good day mrs jones, how are the kids? ‘Kids? Kids are baby goats !!! I’ll see you in court!!! Let that be a lesson to me !!! Ha-ha- yes!!! Yes!!! I miss the ‘good ole days’

I must confess, right here and now, if I could return to the ‘good ole days’ I would dearly miss my vcr. Ha-ha there are now many things that I would miss !! But even now, I do have a good sense of humor. I can laugh at myself!!! Watch it sucker !!! Laugh with me–— not at me!!! Should I go home, or should I go crazy? Either is a short trip.! I hope you enjoy some of this and I will return !!! I spoke before of how hard everyone worked in those days, and now they work smart, not hard. This is true and it’s because they have technology now that was not available at that time. There were many things not easy to come by .One of course, was transportation. There wasn’t many cars because most people couldn’t afford one and also, because of the war, tires—rubber and gas were in short supply. Most of our transportation was by our feet.I remember, everyone on the hill would walk to town on the railroad track,. This was always for two reasons. First, it was the shortest way to town. Second, we could take a bucket with us and pick up enough coal to cook dinner with or to heat the house in cold weather. Coal would always fall off the open cars and that was