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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/09 20:21
 i do believe this is a case of premature interjection . there must have been an existing nursery x from wilkes prior to green brothers , which was 1st located x from shamrock plaza where the kfc was ! it was owned by kent and sue green.they have both passed , but their sons , renny and kenny green both still live in the area . as for the goatman , i hope we all have memories of him . if you have forgotten , you can google him , it is very interesting how different people perceived him . most people were excited by his presence , but a few , namely the ones who killed him ,(he died in a nursing home,but he was severely beaten more than once , because he was different) his son and random goats (at diff. times) had to have been narrow minded to say the least.ugg..this sounds bad-sorry , i just had someting to say !
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/09 21:02
Don't worry about the triple post, Karen. I used to do it all the time. I deleted two of them for ya!
You'd be surprised how many double and triple posts I delete everyday! Now that I am working again, I am not as quick to get to them as I was before.
(And don't let Gail fool ya...she has hiccups all the time! Hehehehehe!)
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/09 21:23
Yes, it was Green Bros., later bought out by Pike's, and then closed just a few years ago. I'll never forget being behind Kenny and his mom at the Winn-Dixie one day when she paid with a $100 bill. My eyes bugged out...I'd never actually seen one...and she had more than one! 
I bought my Mom a carload of azaleas at Green Bros. for Mother's Day one year when I was 16 or so...and they still bloom in the back yard of our old house -- saw 'em just last year! My first landscaping project. 
I didn't have a clue about the goatman, although Hank has just run on ever since I brought it up...not just 29!...he went everywhere...and he had this little cart...etc. 
But I will never forget that accident. Everytime some highschoolers die in a crash, I think about that accident. Rick Garrett walked with a cane for the rest of his time at Shamrock, and probably beyond. And there was a tree in a curve on Valley Brook that had quite a rep, too.
Lisa, you have me totally confused about where you lived. I know you went to Rehoboth, so you must mean this side of St. Mtn. Fwy., otherwise that would be McLendon district.
The thing is, Valley Brook and McClendon run parallel, and don't intersect. Didn't back then either.
Anybody else remember what it was like before the St. Mtn. Fwy. was built? Valley Brook intersected 29 up towards Pine Glen. When you took Valley Brook through to what is now on the other side of the freeway, you went through a cow pasture with a creek down in the valley. That's about where the enter/exit ramps are. North Druid Hills deadended at 29. Going toward Decatur on 29, you could not turn left...it was a forest. Just before that, where the Kmart went in and you can now find the best Indian food buffet in DeKalb, there was an oak forest with a white frame 2-story house back in the woods. That house was there for a while after the freeway went in...I remember driving behind it...
Susan? Was that another haunted house? 
And while we're there, before the freeway was built, you curved on up the hill toward Decatur after you crossed NDH on 29, and before Clay Fowler's place on the left, there was a split rail fence around a nice big lawn with a modern glass-front contemporary house on the hillside. Blonde brick maybe? It bit the dust in the construction. Hank sez they were relatives...but he can't remember who...
And didn't Concord originally go through to 29...and then they stubbed it when the freeway was built, just past the Chaffin house? 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/10 08:46
yea,thats how aunt sue was ! i remember when i got married , i stayed with her for a couple of weeks before and needed a pocketbook(mine was stolen at the mall)she told me to go pick one out . well there were about 40 purses in there , and each one came with its own wallet , FULL !! she was a great lady , give anyone any thing!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/10 10:32
Gail,
I don't think Concord Dr. went through to Hwy 29 ever. I know Valley Brook used to go through where St Mt freeway is now and connected right before the church up on the hill. I used to live on Lindon Dr. in that neighborhood. Then when I was 8 my family moved over to Laurel Hill Dr.
Lisa, my memories of high school are a bit foggy but I don't think I was in Ms. Shamus chemistry class. Maybe you are thinking of another Karen. I do remember Ginny Colbert as she is also class of 73.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/10 16:49
My Bad! It was Francine and McClendon that I lived on. And you are right, that was Green Brothers nursery. The Colberts had a cool little store south on McClendon.
I was in Mobile last week visiting my ex mom-in-law and she told me that Pike's nursery was defunct. I couldn't believe it! They were everywhere.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/10 16:57
Dorrie Colbert was in my class. Hey Sis, we are missing y'all!
So anyway, I remember that store. Do you remember that time after the highway by our house had opened up and that guy got his cut off?
And speaking of ghost places--do you remember the ghost story about the woods next to our house? I DO! Spooky!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/10 21:59
Julie...What did the guy get cut off???? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 10:09
His Head. He had car trouble and pulled over to investigate. He didn't pull over far enough. He lifted the hood of the car and WHAM! Got hit.
We were all eating out on our back picnic table and heard the crash. Ran to the bridge and saw the whole thing. It is still a bad memory.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 12:10
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!  Poor guy! Sorry I asked! Send me your therapy bill.
Wait!! On second thought...DON'T!
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 17:31
Whoa! Julie...second that ewwwwwww!
Lisa...wasn't Francine the same road Pam Nolan (and Randy, and Mike) lived on? I think that's in the Laurel Ridge district, which added to my confusion...I think they let you cheat a bit back then... So if you were on the corner of McClendon and Francine, wouldn't that put you almost across the street from Paul Kent, before the Kents moved to Coolwater Ct.?
Flamingo was the first street on the right on McClendon, coming from L'ville Hwy. Same subdivision. I definitely remember Rehoboth students, Barbara Wiggins for one, who lived on Flamingo, at least on one end...I think Lonnie Bowen and Steve Boggs lived on the other end?
Jane Harris and her sister Juanita lived in that neighborhood, too. Lots more, I'm sure. 
In fact, that neighborhood is where Greg Puckett's Z28 went airborne with Marshall on board...see photo in File Library if you want to see something scarey. Amazing either one lived, much less both.
Where did the Colberts live? Norman was in my class at Rehoboth 1-7, I do believe.
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 18:12
I grew up off Valley Brook Rd. on Lowrance Drive before you got up to Ponce De Leon. I remember our group had to walk to McLendon and home every day because we lived too close to the school. We used to cut through some woods that brought us out on the back side of McLendon in between a couple houses where a little creek ran. I remember the Basson's lived in one of those houses where you would come out of the woods for awhile. Sonja Puckett also lived on that same road behind McLendon. We saw many a girl fight back there in the afternoons. Somebody thought somebody else wanted their boyfriend! Oooh Brother!!!!!!!
Who knows the name of that road. Also, the Bixby's lived on the same street.
Geeeeez, I am a little confused. 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 18:35
Its called Vistabrook, It ran behiend McClendon school, It ran from Valley brook to McClendon, One of the guys from Riggs lived off Vistabrook???
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 18:58
Ask Marshall, TJ...don't know about Riggs, but that helluva handsome guitar player Ricky Toney lived on that road... 
Also, some young thang that Marty Huie pursued at some point? Steve Holland was over there too, either that road or the one McLendon Elem. faced.
Jamie, whatchu need to do is check out one a these kewl maps they got on the innernet...you can even see your ol' house an' ever'thang! 
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Re:Old Shamrock Neighborhoods - 2008/01/11 19:01
Tom, Dave and Hoddy lived on Hollywood next to the band Hydra. Ricky Toney another great guitar player but not in riggs lived on Vista Brook across from the elem. school.
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