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M1: Couldn't have done it better.
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M2: [Cabot?].
M3: Cabot. Oh, Cabot. That's (inaudible). (inaudible) Cabot, Cabot (inaudible).
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M3: Yeah, I belong to the oldest generation (inaudible). Yes, I do.
M1: All this land up around the falls up here (inaudible) for six cents an acre.
(inaudible) They all have it around the falls up there. They feel better.M3: [All right?]. (inaudible)
JAMIE STONEY: Mm-hmm, yeah. Hmm.
GEORGE STONEY: Wait inside.
JAMIE STONEY: Count to fifteen so Judy doesn't get angry. OK.
M3: You have a car coming from behind.
M2: No problem. (sound of car approaching) (pause)
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00:15:00F: (inaudible) they're the same ones that worked at the mill.
M: (inaudible).
F: Yeah. (inaudible).
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M: Yeah, they made that one.
F: They already made it?
M: Yes, they already finished it a couple months ago. (inaudible).
F1: (laughter)
CHILD: Here comes the train! Are you going to make a picture of the train?
Here it comes! Take a picture of the train over there. It's coming. Hi. (inaudible) Are you going to make a picture of the train? (pause) 00:17:00(b-roll, background noise) (pause)
00:18:00F3: Production control manager --
GEORGE STONEY: Mm-hmm.
F3: -- in apparel. Orangeburg, South Carolina, an apparel factory.
GEORGE STONEY: When you get it set I'm going to take a look at it.
JAMIE STONEY: I'm just doing [a master?] here.
GEORGE STONEY: OK.
F3: Born in the house across the street. When I was a three year old I moved up
[on Cabot?]. And after I married I moved -- we moved here after my husband come out of the service. This was a little three room house, and he made it enormous.GEORGE STONEY: Really? Wow.
F3: But if they're just trying to preserve this, I may -- I've been on to
them to try to do something about that ditch, and they won't do it. The ditch is on my property all the way down. I'm the only one that it concerns private property. And they did come out the other day and clean it off, but [they wouldn't?] clean this one.M: That's what he was saying, yeah.
F3: Uh huh.
M: (inaudible) talking about how it's covered up in pipes, or whatever.
00:19:00F3: Mm-hmm. If they would just do that, but (inaudible) they never did. My son
says he's [covering?] (inaudible). I've already called the mayor and told him about it. And even though --M: It won't (inaudible)?
F3: Well, it will go down the middle of the road. Then they'll have to come
out and do something about it. [Take it on?] the railroad track, and take it down the other side. And at night there's plenty of (inaudible). We moved here in '47, and the cotton mill (inaudible) $3 a month for rent. (laughter)GEORGE STONEY: Those were the days.
F3: Yeah, the real days. But a lot of the houses they let go, tore 'em down.
GEORGE STONEY: Where's the best place for us to see some three room houses,
there's still three room houses?F3: On the [Y?]. You may have already been down on the Y. (inaudible) three rooms.
GEORGE STONEY: (inaudible).
F3: Over there on Sandusky.
GEORGE STONEY: Uh huh.
00:20:00F3: Down on Mitchell. All those (inaudible).
GEORGE STONEY: Can you get a close of the --
JAMIE STONEY: That's what I'm doing. (long pause) Sorry, what?
GEORGE STONEY: Are we all right?
M1: No, no. Do you want to get -- do you want to go to Dwight?
GEORGE STONEY: Yeah, (inaudible).
M1: OK.
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00:27:00JAMIE STONEY: Speed.
GEORGE STONEY: OK. Tell us about when you got the mall, and about it.
M: Well, we got the property in -- in 1982, and we opened it, opened the Antique
Mall in '83. And when we first opened we -- of course, we did a lot of advertising, but when we opened up we had a waiting list on dealers. We had over 200 dealers in the mall. That first six months we had people register on our guest register from all 48 states, and about four foreign countries. We still have folks coming in today that said they were here six or eight years ago, and so forth.GEORGE STONEY: Do you ever get people who worked in this mill?
M: Yes, a lot of folks come here. In fact, one of our men that works here
worked in the mill some. The mill closed down about 12, 13 years ago. And it made twines, cords, ropes, clotheslines, sash cords, and trotlines. That's 00:28:00fishing line, you know.GEORGE STONEY: Did you ever work in the mill?
M: I worked in one in Anniston several years ago, in the shipping department.
But I've been in sales, and private business most of my life.GEORGE STONEY: Tell us about the houses back here.
M: Well, the houses, they're the original houses that the mill hands worked --
lived in, and there were two families to each house. And they had two rooms. That's for all their living, cooking, sleeping, and what have you. And they had a faucet, water faucet on the back porch, and a path. That was their, uh, bathroom facilities. And now we have rented to people who have shops in it; crafts, and antiques, and such.GEORGE STONEY: Do you have any stuff that used to belong to the mills that
people are handling as antiques now? 00:29:00M: Yeah, a lot of people handle the old yarn spools, and the spoolholders. They
make hat racks out of them, and so forth. But there's a lot -- a lot of mill items that come through the mill that the dealers pick up all over, associated with the mill. One booth in it has a lot of spools of different sizes you can see when you get in the mill.GEORGE STONEY: It's good that you've been able to save this. How did you
manage to do it?M: Well, I didn't do it. I had an option to buy the property, and paid all my
life savings down, and had a lot of folks locally that was going to go in with me, and buy the mill. They backed out. And collateral investment in Birmingham came in the last minute, and saved me, and we put in an antique mall. They had money, and I had the property.GEORGE STONEY: Good. Hold it just a minute, Jamie.
