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Mine are easy, Frogmore Louisana-- 1975 They had one quick stop shop, which was a shed where a one eyed girl (and it twitched) sold 3 items. Camel Cigarettes, the small bottles of coca-cola and Budweiser. And a screened in pavilion, we rented the pavilion for $100 a month, during the day we walked down the Mississippi River and held a rope while a boat charted the river channel. That's the summer I learned to love water.

Lafe, Arkansas--I have a farm there, my wife's family. To this day, they are on a party phone line--4 houses are served, each a different family. My ring is 2 clicks, we love it.

You would not believe Fourchon today. It's a major energy hub.

Darwin, Austrailia

San Fran Sis Co.

Tikkanut,
You need to quit posting these pic's.

You just might find me moving in next door, and there goes the neighborhood, well at least for a few months of the year.,,,,

Jail for 18 hours before all charges were dismissed...Jail is beyond suckville! 😎

In 1959, 4 other young airmen and myself, nobody over the age of 19, got to having too much fun in a cantina one night, wound up spending two nights and two days as a guest of the mayor of Juarez, Mexico. Maybe it wasnt what you would call a backwater, but it sure seemed like it at the time.

What everyone has told me about Fourchon. It was one canal through marsh and two docks in the day. We docked and fueled and got groceries and water and supplies. Drank a lot of beer in that bar. Saw first stabbing there. Rig worker came in and stayed two days at bar till wife came looking and oh well stabbed him in argurment.

My grandpa was a farmer in Mabel MN and was friends with some Amish people there.
A couple times I would go with him when he went to pick something up at one of their farms.
They live in their own world.

I dunno - maybe the hamlet of Dahu, on the island of Hainan.

A friend's grandmother still lived up there, she couldn't stand the city. It was up in the mountains, so no nearby rice paddies, but it was a purely agricultural area. In the nearby town of Wupozhen, there was a betel nut warehouse? Processing plant?. So there were quite a few of the betel palms in the area, as well as latex rubber trees. It did have electricity though, but it hadn't been long. It didn't feel like a chithole though. Things were pretty well kept up, though looking at the home construction and the fields, it could have been 200 years ago.

Here in California, there's the scenic burg of Iowa Hill. It's maybe 5 miles or so as the crow flies off of Interstate 80. When I first checked it out, there was no telephone or electricity service. They have phone now, piggybacked off of a wifi signal they get from Foresthill, but still no power from the outside. It's either solar or generator..

Utley, Texas

The Mayor

Mayor drinks good beer at least, snappy dresser too.

That's the look he gives speeders that the constable brings into "court" when he says, "Maybe we can make an arrangement so that you don't have to pay the fine....."

RS

That will work too. Last fall in Matetse.

I was there from feb 2009 to feb 2010 with 1-40 cav.

Nuevo laredo,mexico,gretna, la. malcom x blvd,brooklyn,ny

Can't you just go over the side?

UTLEY, TEXAS. Utley, seven miles northwest of Bastrop in western Bastrop County, was established in the early 1850s by James Harvey Wilbarger as the site of his commissary and trading post for plantations in the area. It was named for Wilbarger's wife, whose maiden name was Utley. In 1892 a post office was established, and four years later the community had two general stores. In 1914 Utley had a population of twenty-five and a general store. The post office was discontinued in 1922 but reestablished in 1923. In the 1930s Utley had a school for Hispanic children. From the 1930s into the 1940s the population was listed at 250. It dipped to thirty in the late 1940s, and estimates remained at this number through 1990, except for a brief rise to fifty in the late 1960s.

By 2000 the population had returned to fifty.


Lot's of constituent's there Bob..

Jeff!

One old store is still there on the old Barton place! It was closed way back in late 50's. Front arra of old store was used in that John Revolta movie "Michael" as the Milk Bottle Motel! LOL!

Also old metal truss bridge over Wilbarger creek 1/2 mile from the house here, was used in Chase scene in Costner's "Perfect World".

Montgomery County TN