[AT] Culverts

[john hall]

Dad has told me before that he would cash the checks after carrying a load 
of tobacco out of town before he left that town so the banks back here 
wouldn't give him any trouble. Back in the 50's he would haul loads that had 
5-6 tenants tobacco on the truck. He would not put the money in his wallet, 
generally in a buttoned shirt pocket or hid in the truck. I doubt that would 
have helped much, it would have been quite obvious what you were up to when 
you left the bank and climbed in a big old farm truck with a bunch of sack 
sheets in the back.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts


> David,  my father used to tell me about going with his dad to sell tobacco
> in Greenville, NC.  It was about 25 or 30 miles.  They went by horse or 
> mule
> drawn wagon.  It took the whole day to
> get there and unload.  The next day they sold the tobacco on the auction 
> and
> got paid in cash.  He said they always went armed with a shotgun because
> there were bandits on the road.  This would
> have been in the 1920 to 1930 era.
>
> Pretty much the same story as yours except location and being armed.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:32 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts
>
> We are losing those local expressions for better or worse.
>
> My grandpa used to tell me of driving a horse drawn wagon to the tobacco
> market - one day done, the market and one day back.  These days I can
> follow the same route in half an hour (and come close by Spencer's).
>
> In those day this area was very isolated.  Today in 15 minutes I can be
> at Hanes Mall Blvd.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
>
>
> On 3/25/2012 8:02 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> David and I live pretty close, but I haven't heard trunk.   Not yet
>> anyway!  I will say that around here culvert often seems to refer to the
>> whole drainage project, the "pipe" is a tile.  Like:  "They put a new 
>> tile
>> in the culvert".
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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