Sam, I have to take exception to you on the new 82 from Detroit to Batesville being built in the 40s. It just had to be between 1957 and 1960. I was in high school (or maybe PJC) and driving a car. I drove my 1954 Plymouth one night out on the construction site of the cut off (bypass missing Bagwell) being built. I recall it still being only the dirt work at that time. I had about 4 other guys in the car with me. I did not get my license until 1956 or 57. I graduated in 1959. I drove a few miles onto the new work. Came upon a bridge being constructed. We decided to try out our empty gasoline can in the truck of my car. We drove up beside a parked bulldozer. I stopped to look around. As we looked upward, there was Buck Cagle setting in the dark on the seat of the dozier. It was a freighting moment. He was the night guard. I guess they had had some trouble, Dah. Anyway, we shot the breeze with big Buck and filled our can with gasoline (not out of the dozier). I don't know about other sections of 82, but this section is very clear to me. The bridge was probably crossing Scatter Creek. Those were the good old days. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: "sam embrey" <sre795@suddenlink.net> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. >I was basing my guess on the extra miles by thinking you have a few miles > South of Detroit to the Turkey Ranch, and you also have the mileage from > Bagwell to Batesville that you don't have to travel now to get from > Clarksville to Paris, plus several other shorter strips of road we had to > travel then, but I will drive it out soon. The road from Detroit to > Clarksville was built in the 40's, because I remember getting a job > putting > out the night flares, and I moved from Detroit in 1950, so I can pretty > well > remember working on that road. > Sam > Paris. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> > To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. > > >>I think I could pretty well find and follow the road from Clarksville to >> Paris or vice versa. I'll bet the difference in the mileage wouldn't be >> that >> much, it's just cut a good deal of crooks and turns. I remember when I >> was about >> 6 and we made a trip to Paris in a small Chevy coupe. I surmised that I >> could >> probably walk all the way to Paris because I stood up all the way while >> we >> drove to Paris. Kids? ? ? >> >> About 5 years ago, my daddy wanted me to come to see him at the nursing >> home >> to take care of some business. He asked me if I had to drive from >> Detroit >> [I >> did, of course, we live here] and he said he was sorry that I had to >> drive >> the >> old bumpy road. I inwardly laughed. He worked on that road as the >> highway >> was being built new in the 1956 era, I believe. Our son was just a baby >> then. >> >> Marilyn Trapp Shelby >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free at >> http://www.aol.com. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message