What families in Blount? I have gobs of relatives up there through my Hendricks settler families who seem to have married into everybody. Bill Erwin -----Original Message----- From: aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Geniesleuth@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:58 AM To: aljeffer@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALJEFF] names in my dads 1930 diary/Train Station Ah, those wonderful memories ... My uncle used to call out the trains at the Southern Railway station. We used to ride the train to TN and other parts of our great country and I really loved seeing the marvelous countryside go by. You had to have a certain "knack" to do his particular job. The old train station: I loved the marble floors, it's huge dome. The same architect built one almost exactly like it in St Louis, BUT they chose to immortalize it by turning it into a tourist attraction, also a hotel of sorts and many stores. Making a fortune from it. Ours went to rubble and who knows what happened to the beautiful marble all in it, or to the wonderful stone from which it was built. Heavy Sigh !!! I have an article written about my uncle that was in the Birmingham news, also have a photo of him in his SR cap. The article starts off with ALL Abooaaarrrd. I had heard him call that out many times. Even went to his little work cubby-hole with my aunt to take him his lunch/supper depending on the shift he was working. Thanks Delilah for dredging up so many wonderful memories for all of us. How wonderful for you to have your father's diary. What a benevolent thing for you to do to share it with us too. My brother-in-law is a VP at the Alabama Theater. My cousin was here doing family research (she is from Australia, father with the Blount Co roots went to Australia in WW ll and met her lovely mother, married her, and stayed there). I took her down to the theater and he gave her a personal tour. We both had a wonderful time!! PS: The pipe organ's name is: Big Bertha. PSS: List Admin. Please do not fuss at us too much for all this nostaligia. After all it is, "history". History is memories, and "memoirs" have made many a person famous! Perhaps it is also that the holiday season is upon us and we are all waxing nostalgic for those ancestors/relatives no longer among us with whom we used to celebrate the holidays. They also used to tell us about the holidays of their youth and from that we have all hopefully gleaned many a clue on some of those elusive ancestors ... Aunt so and so did this, Grandpa so and so did this, and on and on. Judi in Pinson ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message