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Mystery photos made in Kingsport and
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Photo # 1
FS I recognized this photo right away. It is a picture taken from the edge of Gibsontown looking south toward Elizabeth St. The houses on top of the hill are on Elizabeth St. with the rear of the houses facing the camera. The photographer was located on what is now known as Girls Club Place which dead ends at the foot of the hill. As children, we used to climb this hill as a short cut to Watauga St. and on to Sevier Junior High School. I don’t know when this picture was taken, but those walking paths were still in use in the 1970’s, however the shack at the bottom was long gone by then. Even as a kid it was a difficult hill to climb, and I muddied my pants many times during the climb. Allen Rolle, Macon Georgia |
I and a high school buddy were quite interested in all kinds of
firearms. My friend's father told him about a man who had
hundreds of guns of all types. We went to the stone house on
Elizabeth St. late one evening and knocked on the door.
The next thing we saw was the biggest gun barrel I ever saw at the
time. My friend called out who we were and who told us about his
gun collection and we were invited in. He had guns around the
walls under the stair treads in the newel post. I mentioned that
I had a German Luger. He pulled out a basket of Lugers and Luger
Parts. He had guns of all types and values. Some were very
rare. I have never seen another collection like it.
Louis Long
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Photo #2
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The picture is one of the early concrete pours at the sewage disposal
plant on industry drive. If you look closely you will see a
light steel building framework with no siding on it next to a square
smoke stack. That was the old city incenerator adjacent to the
mouth of Reedy Creek.
Louis Long
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