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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/20 12:11
You go, girl! Isn't the WWW a little better than those globes they had in the library? And no refolding those maps! 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/20 18:33
 Yeah, but I wish I had kept the globe!!!!!!! May sound silly but, I would REALLY like to have a great big globe for my bedroom! Or, the office! Anyway, have to share that I was talking with my buddy and hubby about the satellite pics and what he shared with me is that there are no real time pics that we can see since 911.
It makes sense to me. That means that when I am looking at our old house off Lenora Church Rd., I am looking at when we still lived in it???!!! The subject came up because the neighbor that lived across the street always parked a car on the street. Those houses came with big, nice double garages, and they always had one car parked on the street. I was like, "Remember the neighbor that always parked one of their cars on the street?" Joe says, yeah, I say, well he is still doing it!!!!!!!!!! HA! Ha! Ha!
That's when he explained the satellite thing to me. Well, the place still looks pretty good!!!! From what I can actually see. Of course, I was always a nut about the yard!!!!!!! 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/21 15:16
If we search our address on satellite, it actually points to a neighbor's drive a few houses up...is this good, or bad? 
We know that our satellite photo was taken before April 20, 2004, since we can see Flare is still out standing in her field...and there are no little trees...
Last year Gwinnett County flew over everyone's property, loaded the photos into the computer, and drew off their "impervious surface" to be taxed for stormwater runoff. I felt invaded (and overtaxed!). At least we got the tax discounted...our ravine is actually part of the drainage system...but do you think Big Brother might still be watching me?
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/21 20:35
GailHullingsCobleigh wrote:
do you think Big Brother might still be watching me?
Yes, and he knows what you did last summer! Hahahahah!
~~ Dragon #9 Susie
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, but the second one is up to you and no one else.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/22 10:10
Susie...the photos were taken in winter. They wouldn't have caught me doing ANYTHING in the winter! But I have been concerned -- ever since they set up the light signal that lines up the planes landing at the airport so that they fly RIGHT dead center over my tub at night.
I keep the lights off.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/13 11:35
About the family who owned the cougar: If I remember correctly, their last name was Bean. I went to Laurel ridge with Jessie and his younger sister Stormie, and I'm pretty sure this was their house. Does this sound right to anyone?
Scott Thompson
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/13 15:58
I am not quite sure how I missed the "Cougar", it escapes me completely. I seem to remember hearing people talk about it, but am glad I didn't meet him/her face to face.
However, I do remember a "Great Dane" that was the biggest dog next to a horse, I have ever seen in my life!!!! Sometimes we would walk home from McLendon by way of the front of the building, down the hill toward Valley Brook Rd..... I remember that there was a house on the same side of the street as the school only a few houses up in the middle of the hill. We would stop and walk under the carport (everyone at work), and stand at the fence. Most days this "Thing", would come around the back of the house to greet us. He (I remember checking!) Ha! Ha! Ha! (couldn't miss it)! was HUGE, and black. I remember being totally intimidated, but so curious that I would just stand there and glare at him. Some of the kids would dare the other kids to climb the fence and get in the yard with him. Imagine that!!!! I have never seen a "Great Dane" as huge as him to this day. He was awesome!!!!
I finally did get face to face with a "Great Dane" named "Lurch", he was one of the most gentle, sweetest, animal's I have ever encountered. I tried to insert a picture of us in this post but it didn't work out very well, obviously!!!!!! I will have to get with "Susie Q" and get some instruction!!!!!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/20 23:47
Marshall71 wrote:
My neighborhood was/is North Valley. I lived on Homewood ct. there was the Paula Patterson and the Culpeppers on the corner, I lived next to the Praters, down the hill was the McGoffs all 10 of them! Mitchell Touret and Clark Warren. Marty and Max Huie, Coach Harris...theres more but they escape me right now. We had the creek that always flooded Medlock Park on one end and the woods that backed up to North Dekalb Mall we used as a shortcut to the Mall (pre cars)!
I lived there, too, Marshall. I was the same age as your sister, Margaret. You probably know my older brother, Paul, and sister, Gail. We Lived right across form Clark Warren and our back yard became Peachtree Creek when it rained. Totally cool.
That was an awesome neighborhood! As I remember the families we went to SHS with were - besides the Lindsays and Downings: Praters (Mike, Paul, Chris), Devendorfs (Missy and others, remember them?), Culpeppers (Coleen, Christy!, and Joe), Temples (Johnny and lil bro), Rivers (Mike?), McGoffs (Ray and the clan), Bartons (Shibbean? and sis), Touarts (Mitchell, Alan and Wayne), Warrens (Clark), Penleys (David and Mark), Byrds (Elaine), Jacobs (Louis, Judy, Jeff and the rest) Trainers (yep... Beverly herself, and Nancy for a brief time), Hueys (Max and Clay), Kerns (Karen and Merk), Harrises (as in Coach Harris, Chuck and Scott), Clevers (John), Rays (Laura and Susan), Metzgers (Alan), Rumbles (Bob, Bill and Tom), Shows (Ray), Bloodworths (Charles, Tom and Becca), Dennards (Martha!), Pattersons (Pauls), Moons (Mike, Tommy, Denise, Tony and the rest), Myers (Tommy), Woodards (Ira), Julians (Freddy, Maria, Jenny, Caroline and Amanda), Hardemans (Lynne), Fussells (Michael and Deedee), Marshalls (Lynne!), Coach Jones, Halls (Phillip and Peter), Rowlands (Jan), Hendrixes (Hugh), Matthews (Tori), Fains (John), Lesters (Mike and Tim), Leibolds (Lisa! and Bruce, briefly), Collins (Sally), Shorts (Sally). Still forgetting a bunch. Just an awesome place to grow up!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 02:20
I knew the Culpepper's!!!! I was married to Joe, "Pepper". We dated from the time I was seventeen until I turned nineteen. We married and divorced when I was twenty-one. Five years of my life, "POOF"  I loved his mom, and Betty loved me!!!! Christie, and Colleen!!!!! Incredibly beautiful woman!!! We always agreed that it would have been great if I could have divorced Joe and kept the family!!!
Truth of the matter is, I married the wrong Joe!!!!!!! I am sure that there are some of you that know my husband, Joseph Kevin Waters...... He went to Chamblee H.S.
Chris Prater was one of my buddies....There were great times that he probably doesn't even remember!!!! I was a wild child.....Must have been the neighborhood I grew up in........?
How do we mention the same neighborhood and not include Mr. Clay Blanchard?????? How did this happen????!!!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 02:25
Okay, What about Tori's brother Matttttt???????!!! And Sharon!!!!! I knew you left someone OUT!!! Do you know who she is married to???? Mr. Eddie Morgan, the little brother of Chuck!!!!! So there you go......
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 13:56
Right you are, Lisa and I lived directly accross the street from the Lesters. You walked behind our house when you took the shortcut to the mall. What ever happened to Tim Lester? He, Pat McGoff, and I were really good friends. I was also good friends with Matt and Tori Matthews. (Tori is still close with my sister Lisa). Denise Dawson lived on the end of the street beyond the woods. We spent alot of time in their tree-house playing truth or dare along with Monica Waller and Tracy (can't recall here last name.) We used to camp out in Matt and Tori's carport, and wander the neighborhood in the middle of the night. We moved right behind Idlewood school where I hung out with Jamie Gunter, Tony Harris, and Bob Spivey. Great times!!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 14:51
Raise your hand if you used to go wading in Peachtree creek.
Raise both hands if you were ever brave enough to trek all the way through the tunnel, under the highway.
People were always having car wrecks and landing in our front yard...McLendon Drive...Man, my mom got upset when they'd crash into her flower beds. AND ALL THE NEIGHBORS WOULD COME OUT. Then the cops would come-- Good times!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 16:15
markl wrote:
That was an awesome neighborhood! Christy! Martha! Lynne! Lisa! Just an awesome place...!
I just loved those exclamation marks! 
(That was an impressively lengthy list, too..did you cheat?)
This sounds a lot like a conversation I had with someone about my old neighborhood (right, Steve?) ...every other house had a girl with an exclamation mark after her name...
Oh, to be young and think you're in loooooooove!! 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 20:10
Heh... I didn't think... I KNEW!  That's one reason the neighborhood was so awesome to grow up in.
Honestly, no cheating involved, but I did miss quite a few. I actually thought about Clay-balls (purely a term of endearment, yuk...yuk...), but alas... forgot to type in his name. I guess the pre-senior moments are coming closer together.
As for Peachtree Creek, we lived right on it at the end of N Valley Drive. Aside from being a major wiffle-ball, basketball ("roundball" as Rob Perrow used to call it) and football venue, my back yard was the designated fishing hole and cross-over point for our end of the block. From there you could go east to NDK Mall, or west to Medlock Park and Pool.
Anyway, I digress, my exploits include safely navigating the creek barefooted, from my house all the way past the bridge at Lawrenceville Hwy to the east (to the Fowler ranch - Little Creek), and to Medlock Park to the west. Staring many a snake eyeball to eyeball and living to tell about it. Truly, snakes are no biggie to me anymore (in fact, saw a BIG gray one in the woods behind my house just last weekend... at least 5' long... had to be either a King or a Racer molting). Great animals! I've happened upon moccasins, copperheads and even a coral snake (I think... I was running away too hard to really verify that one... I did have my limits). I've stepped on nails, glass, and random rusty metal cans and lived as well. Caught innumerable fish of various species and threw them ALL back (the crawfish weren't always that fortunate). Yes, the creek was my world, and I and my brothers and friends knew every square foot of it. Couldn't have asked for a better childhood!
Who here remembers the Aborigine Tree across the cornfield from the Jacobs' house? It became the setting for many a bedtime story for my girls over a 5 year period.
Mark Dawson! Dadgum! Couldn't remember his last name for nothing last night! Hung out with Ricky Carver a bunch. Cool guy.
Did you guys know that Mike Lester went out with Willett's daughter? The one who owned the Lincoln-Mercury place on L'ville Hwy. Don't know why I mentioned that, it just always impressed me, but then, you can tell I was easily impressed.
Anybody else ever play shadow tag under the street lights on Homewood Court on a summer evening?
I also remember the day that Charles Bloodworth hid the rock inside the dirt-clod he threw at his brother, Tom. Put a nasty gash behind Tom's ear. Heh, funny what you remember, like the tire swing in the Bloodworth's front yard the day the limb snapped.
Anyway... I remind myself of my grandad... always talking about the old days. I'm sure by now that any of you still reading just want to get away.
Thanks for the memories!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/02/21 20:10
Jamiemw... do I know you? Sounds like you know my old neighborhood pretty well. I also think the Tracy mentioned was Tracy Miller.
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