My home town

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  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    My home town when I was growing up in southern Maine, right on highway U S 1, was so small (around 3000) we had 3 digit phone numbers, but we had 2 traffic lights. Here we are 70 years later the town now has over 10,000 people, (in the winter time - in the summer it gets up around 50,000 or so - 7 digit phone numbers (10 if you count area code) and lots of traffic congestion.

    Sure ain't the town I grew up in in the 40's and 50's for sure. I do like living in Memphis if only because the traffic is no-where near as bad in most of the city.

    Oh, yes - we had a Hudson dealer on Main Street from around 1915 into the 30's. Then the dealer sold the dealership to someone else and he moved it to the edge of town. The original dealership building is still there (made of brick) and is, today, used as a store room for the local water company. The 2nd dealership, believe it or not, is still operating as a garage in the garage area - in the showroom building next door the showroom is mostly storage (no Hudson parts) while the back area which was probably the parts department is used for wheel balancing.

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
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  • [Deleted User]
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    Took the t-plane up the hills 250 miles away to my old home town last weekend.

    Slim, thanks for sharing ... Using your T for a trip home is cool.

    I just completed a read of Charlie Woodruff’s book about his Hudson travels. HE&T model cars were meant to be driven. Yes even the Essex brand. Ask Larry, aka Uncle Josh about My Great Uncle Shrorl's E cars. Over the years it has been my privilege to drive a Hudson as daily driver and to depend on those cars as my transport on long distance trips. In the near future, I expect to take my current Hudson cross country to NY to visit my childhood home.
  • Browniepetersen
    Browniepetersen Senior Contributor
    I have often spoke of my home town in various articles that I have written. As from comments above it was much smaller, around but less than 3000. One stop light at the main highway intersection but the road was a dead end at the local train station. Forest Street, as it was called was six blocks long and went from the City Court house to the RR yard. The city is known for the trees that line the old State highway (all cement built by the CCC camp folks in the 30's) and travels North to nowhere? No Hudson dealer; but, on the City Court House lawn is a statue of a GI in full uniform with the names listed of the cities war dead. A large aerospace company moved to town during my highschool days and the the size of the city doubled. They went out of business a short time back because of the end of the Space Shuttle program. Since then, the city has been on the decline--I expect that within a few years it will be the size that I remember as a child. However, the McDonald's that they built in the 90's will never sell hamburgers for fifteen cents....
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    edited May 2012
    My Home Town is Northville, NY at Great Sacandaga Lake. Pop. about 2000 and growing very slowly. No traffic lights and ya don't have to use your signal lights 'cause everybody knows where you're goin.

    Ken alluded to his late great Uncle Raburn Shroh. We're hosting Uncle Josh's 14th annual car show here this year, and when Rae was alive, you could count on his old 29 Essex arriving from Schoharie, 50 miles away.

    Son Bill and Bonnie usually accompanied him driving Bill's own 24 Essex or Rae's so he could drive his 26 Hudson barn find (with the little awnings on the windows.)

    We miss him, but we enjoy Bill and Bonnie. The 26 got flooded in the Schoharie Crick rampage last fall. They're rebuilding the house and have plans to dry out the 26.
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    Lets try this. Well, I must have a damaged file. I can't load the 26 Hudson. This is Bill Shroh's 24 Essex and the late Raeburn's original 29 Essex
  • [Deleted User]
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    edited May 2012
    My much missed hometown is Sydney, and more specifically the suburb of Balmain. It's only a few miles from the CBD, but Balmain didn't have any traffic lights until the late 1980s - the insular peninsular it was once called. Historically Balmain was was all port activity, shipbuilding and factories, very blue collar, and it is from here that all the (now disused) coal mine tunnels wind out beyond North and South Head to the ocean.

    Sydney's population is knocking on the door of 5 million these days. Below is a picture of Balmain, with one or two famous places and things in the background. The house I grew up in is located just to the left of the park in the centre.
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  • fossiltin62
    fossiltin62 Expert Adviser
    Town? Wasn't one for miles. That's where you went to sell butter, eggs, and produce. I grew up hunting, trapping, and working on a truck farm. Rode a hoss to school many times, not home though, slapped the hoss's butt and sent him home. Walked the trap line home (and occasionally to). Used a hudson truck on the farm. My first car was a '31 Essex. Still have it.
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