Posted 4 years ago
Watchsearc…
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I hope this old receipt shows up well enough to be read.
It must have been a very important document to my grandparents because they kept it their entire lives. It represented a huge purchase for them to “set up housekeeping” after they got married.
Granddaddy paid $7 upon signing the lease on the goods, then paid $3 per week until the $87.70 was paid in full. I figured that would have taken him a year to pay it off.
Those 2 zinc wash tubs listed on the receipt are probably the same ones in this 1952 picture of my cousin and me when I was 1 year old....what fun!! I’m so glad they bought those! That’s me in the tub on the right....no boy-girl swimming allowed in same tub!
Granny had an electric wringer-type washing machine by the 1950s so didn’t use a rub-board any more, but she still needed the wash tubs to do a double-rinse of the weekly laundry.
My grandparents must have been in his early 20s in their pictures. Granddaddy was born in 1895 so this picture would have been made about 1915.
In the picture of the young ladies, my granny is the one on the left. The other young lady was her best friend. I’ve always loved the pretty dress and hat my grandmother was wearing there.
Thanks for looking! Comments welcome!
Jerryboy, I appreciate your comment and the love!
Thank you to dav2no1, vetraio50, fortapache, Brunswick, frieheit, PhilDMorris, and AnythingObscure for the loves!!
Vynil33rpm and kwqd, thank you for the loves. I’m glad you loved my grandparents’ receipt and pictures. I’d love to see some prices like that these days!
Watchsearcher, How did I miss this for so long? <3
Sorry about the Facebook links, but it was the only picture I could find of the Brittain Brothers Department store in Lindale:
https://www.facebook.com/124340260959524/photos/pcb.619775604749318/619774298082782/
https://www.facebook.com/124340260959524/photos/pcb.619775604749318/619774308082781/
https://www.facebook.com/124340260959524/photos/pcb.619775604749318/619774068082805/
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The Brittain Brothers Department Store (mill store) was located where the Dragon Wash is today.
In the pictures is the store along with a coin valued at 5 cents. The coins were used at Lindale and the Shannon store.
Picture was taken in 1939. After Pepperell took over the mill.
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=124340260959524&story_fbid=619775604749318
Dragon Wash, Google Street View, July 2013
https://goo.gl/maps/EhamkqHYu9YsrYzP6
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The railroad required the area to have a name so the United States Postal Service could deliver the mail in the area.
An area resident named George S. Black worked for the railroad and later for the cotton mill desired mail and train service. He read a lot of novels during his spare time and while reading a book called “Wherein” there was a town in the book called Lindale. George read that the town was peaceful, booming in industry, and quaint. So in 1833, he dubbed this settlement “Lindale”. The area residents could now have what they have been praying for during their Sunday morning worship, which was rail service.
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https://wheninromega.com/how-lindale-georgia-got-its-name/
This one is bittersweet, as it was one of a series of photographs taken of very young Lindale millworkers in 1913:
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Ada Griffith, a very young spinner in Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Runs 4 sides. Apparently under 12.
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2018677556/
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The Lindale Stars hang over the Lindale Mill near Rome, Georgia.
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http://www.ryansmithstudios.com/store/p220/LindaleChristmasStar.html
There's a ton more references out there, but I'm not gonna burden you with all of them. };-)
There are some Lindale references and pictures in the 2001 "Rome, Georgia in Vintage Postcards" book by Robin L. Scott from Arcadia Publishing, and there is a Google eBook version out there that I won't link because those links are atrociously long.
Thanks Keramikos!
That big Brittan Bros store later became Knight’s Department Store.
The right side of the building sold clothing, shoes, hats for men , women and children.
The left side of the building held a pharmacy which sold cosmetics and personal care products of all sorts and, best of all, a soda fountain.
For 25 cents, you could get an ice cream cone large enough to make you sick (although that did not deter me if I actually had 25 cents).
My sister and, sometimes, my cousins and I would get our ice cream cones and sit on the top step of those concrete stairs to eat and watch traffic go by.
My grandparents lived within walking distance of that store and I attended high school in Lindale. My grandfather was employed at the mill.
The huge smoke stacks are still standing and the star is still hoisted up there every Christmas. The smoke stacks were allowed to remain even though the rest of the mill was demolished years ago.
It was very sad when the mill closed down because the entire little town existed because of the mill.
I haven’t been back there for many years…..the demise of a town is a very sad thing to see…..hard to take when you have so many fond memories of it.
I have a book called The History of Lindale.
My grandfather is in one of the pictures made at the annual Lindale Mill Christmas dinner.
It’s very nice of you to add those links to the Brittan Bros store and to the little village of Lindale.
You gave me a nice little trip down Memory Lane.
Watchsearcher, You're very welcome. :-)
It actually looks like Lindale has experienced an uptick in population since the last census, but no doubt the town isn't the one you remember.
I haven't been back to my hometown in a long time, either, but courtesy of the Intertubes, I can see what's changed, and what hasn't.
I know the Brittan Bros store building was old but it looked like a substantial structure, just as the mill did. I know that for years, there was talk about what could be done with the mill buildings….but the final decision was demolition. At least there were big heaps of bricks available for sale, so parts of the old mill live on in some new form.
And leaving the smoke stacks at least is like a tribute to the workers whose entire lives were entwined with the mill, the mill village, mill doctor, mill stores, school, churches, cemeteries…
Oh. and that car wash they built where the distinguished Brittan Bros store had stood….The town did need a car wash.
When I was a child, the place to was your car was IN Silver Creek….there was a nice section of creek with a firm pebbly bottom and clear shallow water. An unpaved path allowed cars to be driven into the creek, washed with rags and buckets, then driven out on the opposite side. The kids played in the water with inner tubes while the adults washed the car.
Sometimes there would be a line of cars waiting their turns…always polite, congenial, fun and laughter, and free fun and free car washes….those were the days.
Silver Creek is the water source that fed the mill, just a bit further downstream from the car washing section.