Posted on 05/05/2013 12:32:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Louden Field was the savior of WWI before the Big Inch line was built from Texas.
Carmi, Illinois. Used to be operated by Exxon. Don’t know about now.
Wow..Cave in Rock brought back some memories. Went there as a little kid. My uncle tried to teach my wimpy little self how to swim there.
I haven’t been back to S.I. in many, many years (although that is where my my family is from). I would almost hate to go back...it would destroy the memories as I remember them as a child. It may not be as beautiful as I remember. :)
What I see on the internet (so it must be true, lol) once the coal mines shut down..the whole area went down. My whole family were coal miners.
Maybe this will bring some much needed employment to the area.
Big Gushers? Been a looooong time since any Gushers were in Texas.
I hope they didn’t try to teach in that huge river, I was back there two years ago and NOTHING has changed. My grandmothers house was LEANING and folks were living in it The old Motel is STILL open...to weird... we went to Elizabethtown and Rosiclare..My 95 year old aunt lives in Elizabethtown. Stopped by to see her. One year as a child we had a white Christmas there...very nice for a California kid...My family mined for Fluorite
It was in the river.
But...this was back in the days before an uncle could be prosecuted for child abuse for tossing his very little non-swimming neice into a river, lol. I could probably still dog paddle around the world if I had to. :)
Glad to hear things haven’t changed too much. My family was from a little further north..Carrier Mills. We were just at Cave In Rock to fish, picnic..and try not to drown. They are all gone now so I think, like I said, I’ll leave those memories intact.
In fairness to my uncle..he taught me a lot. He would take me hunting and how to clean the kill. Taught me how to mow the yard on a Gravely riding mower. How to garden. How to drive a standard transmission (sitting on his lap ‘cause my legs weren’t long enough to reach the brake/accelerater/clutch.)
All of those things would be frowned upon today..if he weren’t arrested!
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