Posted on 05/22/2005 6:15:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I remember being in West Huntington on Adams or Virginia Avenues and passing by the Heiners Bakery. You could smell bread for several blocks. BTW, the baseball team that played (or still plays) near there, the Huntington Cubs, they moved from MY town in VA to there....
They converted part of Owens into offices and there are some businesses in there. They closed down 11-1/2 years ago. It was awful for all the employees. Some of them were married, so both of them lost their jobs. I had worked there part time for 3 years, then had just accepted a full time (great) job in the office when they decided to shut it down. I thought I would retire from there.
I love the smell of Heiner's bakery. I miss their bread when I go anywhere else. They have been bought out by the people who make Sara Lee bread.
The baseball team is gone. I enjoyed it while they were here. What VA town are you from if you don't mind posting?
byrd should have flown the coop a long time ago.
Not at all, I live in Wytheville, right where I-81 and 77 meet, about 30 miles south of Bluefield and about 80 miles from both Bristol, TN and Roanoke, VA.
Ok...so let me get this straight...
Dorothy here knows what the Klan represents...and feels that Good 'ol Grand Kleagle Bobby Byrd can "change"...a REAL LIFE KLAN RIDER, who may have been involved for all we know in lynchings and cross-burnings!
But Major Owens and Chuckie Rangel and Je$$e Jacka$$ Jr. can call ANY member of the (R)'s a racist...alledge that the new Klan gear is a Black suit and Red power tie...and basically say that all (R)'s are white supremacists....
Tell me, Dorothy...is that speaking "Truth to Power"?
Tell me Dorothy...what color is the sky down on Massa Byrd's plantation?
Hey, we will be coming thru there in less than 3 weeks on our way to FL. Disney World and the Beach, here we come.
How big is Wytheville?
About 10,000 people, and 20,000 truckstops (or so it seems).... Have you ever been to McDowell County?
I probably have been thru it, but have never actually stopped there. It's pretty rural, isn't it? Sort of like most of Wayne County. If it wasn't for Ceredo/Kenova and part of Huntington being in Wayne Co., it would probably have a very small population.
McDowell has Welch, Bradshaw, War, Iaeger (pronounced Yeager), and Coalwood. If you took US 52 south (though I wouldn't recommend it), thru Kermit, Mingo County and then Wyoming County, the next one would be Mcdowell. BTW, I just remembered where that airport is on the hilltop. Didn't they build a natural gas power-generating plant near there some years ago, just past the glass factory?
Then probably not. The farthest I have been that way is Mingo county. I don't like 52 either. Too many coal trucks for my liking.
And yes, they did build that plant. But, Pilgrim glass is gone. Blenko is still in Milton.
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