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juledene

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Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/24 14:09 Who else remembers Scottdale Mills and is it still open?
...and does anybody out there remember Aunt Lollypop on T.V.?

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Tomjakes

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/24 15:20 I worked there for a short time in the 80's, My mother was a switch board operator there for 13 years , it has been closed for 10 or more years now, i miss that place they had a killer cafe to eat at with home made everything tommy jacobs

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/24 18:19 I remember Scottdale Mills. It wasn't far from our house, down Ponce across from the tracks and on the right as we headed down to the DeKalb Farmer's Market and on towards Decatur. It was an old building in the style that is never built now. I believe it was surrounded by trees.

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metertel
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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 02:09 across the tracks from pittsburgh steel - i remember that the mills had a big front yard

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 09:08 I remember Scottdale Mills My Dad worked there in his 20's. My mom used to buy a lot of fabric there to make our clothes.

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Robin

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 14:10 I use to go there with my grandparents and my Grandmother would buy fabric too. I want to say that I had kin folks that use to work there. I remember going inside and seeing all the fluff floating around.

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GailHullingsCobleigh

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 14:21 The Scottdale Mills property was sold, and then the folks who bought it went out of business (whatever that business was...).

I believe that the property is being converted to some sort of trendy art venue...but the details escape me. Maybe that plan has fallen through?...we're too far from urbania to keep up!

I remember going there to buy fabric, but what I remember most is going there for my polio booster, when I was six, seven? I dunno...it's been a while...but it was the drop on the sugar cube, after they left the scar on my arm...

We waited in line in a big room with wide plank wood flooring...I was a horsey girl, so I thought sugar cubes were cool...the things we recall!

My sister said it's easy to spot Americans in Europe -- they're the ones with the polio scars on their shoulders...

Remember West Lumber across the way? I loved going there with my dad on Saturday mornings...

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Robin

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 17:07 That is so funny that you mentioned the polio scar. I was looking for mine the other day. I actually had 2, but one was very vague. I would love to know just how that sugar cube with the pinkish red medicine squirted on it made a scar on your arm. Looks like it could have made a scar where ever it danged well pleased. I want a thorough explanation of it all. What a mystery.

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juledene

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 20:44 correct me if i am wrong but, isn't the round scar on you left (always left) arm from the small pox vaccine?

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Pittypat
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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 21:33 Right this moment I'm looking at a watercolor 8x10 I did of a old house I sketched of a house on Scottdale mills property. I had one of those moments of teenage angst. You see on that day I was to sketch, I felt TOO COOL to go into the mill store that day to buy fabric with my mom that day and I was sour to stay in the car and sketch on my pad. So what I saw I reproduced was a house with 3 chimneys; bluesiding; oak trees and clothes hanging on a clothes line.(remember hanging clothes to dry on a line?) I later water colored said sketch and it is one of my favorites. AS art teacher Ms. Walters knew I did my best work artisticly was when I was bored or having a moment of TEEN ANGST. Eventually I will give it to Laurie Early for her "coollection" of Shamrock Museum relics. I only did it because I felt too cool to Go shopping with Mom.Sweet memories now. I swear someday Jack...I'm gonna put a picture of me here...

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GailHullingsCobleigh

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 22:06 You know, I think I remember that blue house...wouldn't want to post that art for us would you? Aw, come on!

The scar on the left arm is definitely your polio vaccine...can't say I ever had a smallpox vaccine, but do recall that the measles vac was a drop your drawers and grin sort of event...

Robin -- you are a hoot! You didn't get a scar eating that sugar cube -- it was just a booster -- but how in the world did you remember it was pink?

As for the scars, I understand that they move -- and they gradually got smaller as they developed the vaccine. My mother's was the size of a 50c piece, while mine was about the size of a dime. I think they move from your arm around to your back a bit...OK everybody...one, two, three, strip!

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GailHullingsCobleigh

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 22:09 PS -- It was always on the left because you stood in a long line and the nurse waited for you at a table as you came by...I think they used a little gun?

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Pittypat
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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 22:20 Gail, you and Laurie are the true hearts of this site. I will ask my computor man to help me post the water color as I can. Stand by as I try. I swear someday Jack...I'm gonna put a picture of me here...

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Duke

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/25 23:39 Anyone else ever eat at the Scottdale mill cafe? We use to stop over there for lunch,,(while we wuz skipping).
It was just good ole country food. The only things in life that are free,,

Your memories and the air you breathe

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Robin

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Re:Scottsdale Mills - 2009/03/26 05:55 I don't remember the cafe. I mostly ate at home. I do remember all the cool little shotgun houses. I loved that area.

Pittypat, I would love to see your work of art also.

As for the polio scar. I remembered last night that it was some kind of light blue liquid lotion that they put on my arm and not the sugar cube. All I know is that I really hated the shots.

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