COMMENtS **** Comments ******Comments******* Why not click all and watch four at one time-if your screen is wide enough************* Tal Hardin 1:58pm Jun 25 Don, Your neighbor on Hill Street, Fred Tonkins, is with the McCrary Eagles basketball team, back row, center. I was able to watch what you sent me. I've knew Fred for years, but didn't know he came to town with the Eagles until I saw the video years ago. He sure was tall enough! Fred married Ruth Lloyd who worked for us for years. She made the best lemon pound cake you ever ate! Thanks. Lucas Graves W.C. Lucas (my grandfather) appears from 27:11 to 27:14, sitting between two flags and talking to the man on his left. Tal Hardin Don Allred (Duel) told me he had these videos on DVD format. I don't know if they are for his personal use or if they could be reproduced. It would be nice to have them on a full screen TV and pause the as you wanted to. I did recognize Miss Donna Lee Loflin and I think Miss Lovett at Park Street School and Bob Wood at Rotary. I think what is frustrating is seeing all these people you probably know but not recognizing them. I enjoyed watching it very much, but have aways to go to see it all. The history is great! I think the Library has them that can be checked out. They used to have it on VHS tapes but I think they have them on DVDs now. Betsy, I agree with you that the Scouts are probably Boy Scouts. In Asheboro in the early 1940's there was another scouting organization called the Pioneers that had a hut on Wainman Ave. across from Frazier Park . My Dad was one of several leaders and Bob Wood put lots of money in the Pioneers. I think at that time the Pioneers were actually bigger in Asheboro than the BSA. I did read where David Stedman (and I think Bud Hedrick and John McGlohon and a few more) all got the Eagles the same day, so BSA does go way back in Asheboro too. The guys in the video look like Boy Scouts but it makes me wonder. Betsy R Harris ANALOG of MINUTES & SECONDS. I didn’t begin this in earnest until about 7 minutes in. NOTE: I'm pasting all of this in here, but I may find it is too long, and cuts off part of post. I'll continue in another comment if necessary.) 0:00 nothing 0:08 Park Street School - children outside. Kids and teens as well. 7:17 Coffin and Scarborough Men’s Store – to 8:36 8:36 Men in coveralls outdoors against building, maybe on a break. 9:06 Economy Auto Supply – to 10:25 10:25 Folks walking up hill/ street/ driveway maybe going to work. Almost looks like they’re coming upstair on left of an underground parking garage or walkway into open sunshine. (Possibly Acme-McCrary?) 11:55 (a Tru-Ade sign in background that someone may recognize) 11:59 a long building in background possibly with the name in the roof shingles. “…CE” shows. Maybe Acme-McCrary? 12:05 Capitol Theatre, then Sunset Theater which was showing “The Feminine Touch”. 12:36 possibly a pregnant woman with another woman in doorway. I thought that was interesting to speculate because I understand that women in advance stages of pregnancy were often applauded and encouraged to stay out of public view, not have their photos taken, etc. 13:40 Police officer possibly – tall, handsome, lanky man in a uniform smoking a pipe. 14:01 Randolph Drug Co. to 14:50 14:50 Rotary International sign. Footage that follows is presumably a Rotary dinner meeting, although there are one or two women there as well. Bonus!: at 14:06 check out the character with the handkerchief on his face and utensil in hand. Someone’s memorable Uncle Roger to be sure! There were many younger versions of faces vaguely familiar to me, since I wouldn’t have known their faces until the 1950s and 60s. Thanks, Don, because I do recognize both W. F. Redding Jr. and Sr., -perhaps your grandfather from portraits around honoring his civic work. 16:15 Boy Scouts tent camping. 16:48 begins a segment with split frames, presenting two different sets of film images. Mostly people, babies in town, man polishing shoes for a customer. Around 17:35 I think there’s a Coca-Cola logo painted on the side of a business which might be a recognizable landmark from someone’s memory. 18:00 Fire truck pulling out of fire house, then backing back in. 18:18 Water tower. 18:20 Elementary school probably, or a church. 18:23 5th grade class (?my guess, give or take a couple of grades) with teacher outside walking (reminded me of field trips to a walkable destination). Kids playing outdoor games. Many wearing coats. 19:30 and at 20:58 A teacher or principal here and there. NOTE: If you’re thinking of who might be in these film segments, I’m figuring many of these kids would have been born ~1929 or 1930 – 1933. Some later segments in this reel have teenagers at school. Around 20 or 21 minutes, though, I think it’s an older class. The girls appear to be entering puberty, and are not that much shorter than their female teachers. 22:23 A clear shot of a white house or church in the background with a distinctive portico of arches. 22:35 A laundry business, part of name out of frame. “-?-ODEL LAUNDRY INC. Interesting, showing interior film of workers processing laundry in the different stages. 23:52 Exterior of business with people perhaps leaving work. Bossong Hosiery? 26:13 Asheboro’s City Hall – grand architecture. Employees exiting, perhaps from a mill. 26:25 Man hoeing. 26:31 Women with babies in strollers walking up slight hill. Distinctive house in background. 26:31 FOOTBALL AT LINDLEY FIELD! Hal Reaves’s future home in background. (not yet a twinkle in his parents’ eye at this filming.) Ads on fences include “Cranford Industries”. Good face shots of #41, (then, is that a payoff?! I’m so naïve, but that’s what I imagined. [grin]), #42, #36, #38… TEAM LINEUP span at 27:08. 27:12 Business/civic dinner meeting probably. Flags behind seated diners. 28:10 School girls with books. 28:20 Newspapers bundled and loaded into cars. Possible printers/ newspapermen/ editor. 28:40 Man washing windows. 28:42 Police officer in front of a recognizable house/ hotel. 28:53 White-shirt-&-necktied men probably in their early 50s. Barber sign? Business number appears to be 107, as in a street address. 29:02 Adolescents/early teens at what I think is Fayetteville Street School, on the ballfield/gymnasium side of the building maybe. – to 29:16 29:23 CENTRAL FALLS sign close-up. School classes walking by, 2-4 abreast, with teachers. Recognizable house in the background. 30:19 Wood-sawing team. 30:37 People in business district, presumably Sunset Avenue. 30:01 Shoe shop in background. Something like Babcock Shoe Shop? 31:06 Saved by First Peoples Savings and Loan. Shows modern building. blank/black space. But wait, there’s more! 32:12 BALFOUR SCHOOL! Kids and teachers, to end at 33:01.
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00:00 ~ Balfour School?, cont. from part 1. Then some adult men.
01:30 ~ MODEL LAUNDRY INC. - shows lots of large-scale laundering process, mostly by black women. Home delivery! (which I'd forgotten about).
03:34 ~ Dixie Ice & Coal Co. Phone 257 -several seconds.
04:26 ~ Young teen girl and dog in car.
04:36 ~ Bruton's Dry Cleaners, ~50 seconds' worth. Mr. & Mrs. Bruton?, and others. Young man in a monogram A sweater. It was seeing this dry cleaning operation versus the laundry operations where I noted the inside workers appear to be mostly black men vs. women. With both operations/ services, delivery drivers are white men. Bruton's deliverers are nicely staged for the camera (not loading trucks) & appear to be in suits or suit uniforms.
05:23 ~ Cut Rate House Furnishing Co.
06:05 ~ Rogers (Credit) Jewelers.
06:55 ~ GETWICK SILK MILL -workers leaving.
NOTE: the footage in the first 2 parts of this 2-hour movie show most men and women coming and going from the mills are dressed very nicely. Men are often in topcoats/ overcoats and wearing hats. Women are often in long coats & wearing gloves and modest dress hats as well. I haven't been able to see much about footwear, but I have the notion that women are in modest heels rather than flats. Surely that's not so!
08:41 ~ McCRARY HOSIERY MILL - workers leaving. Some clearly enjoy being filmed, & some appear a bit annoyed.
10:12 ~ Lots of clearly identifiable teenage school kids' with 25 or so faces in the camera frame, and, again, lots of different teens. I'm figuring most were born in the mid 1920's. At 11:20, there's a clear view over a boy's shoulder of an identifiable house in the background. If this is Fayetteville Street School, it might be Mrs. Swaim's home in its finer days.
12:44 ~ Students/people walking in business district.
12:57 ~ SMITH'S SHOE SHOP in background.
~ CAPITOL Theater in background.
15:31 ~ Maybe a police officer? I've recalled that several men's occupations wore uniforms with similar caps. Some I can think of right off included taxi drivers, service station attendants, maybe firefighters (firemen), elevator operators, delivery drivers, bus drivers, etc. There are a couple of other clips of men in similar uniforms. (-Didn't take time to study insignia, etc. but you can if you're interested.)
14:35 ~ Among the footage along here of women leaving a mill, there's a woman at this point who appears to have a monogram letter-sweater with maybe a P on it. If your mother, aunt, whomever had a sweater like this around, you might recall it!
15:53 ~ Possible view of Central Hotel, which was on S. Fayetteville Street, in the next block south of Sunset intersection. If so, it is not clear enough to be worth study.
16:38 ~ Ten or so young men on steps in WHITE, SHORT-SLEEVED T-SHIRTS, standing in front of some very distinguishable double doors. -Maybe they had just played a game of basketball or something?
16:46 ~ Kids at school going outside. Playground games.
20:40 ~ Teen high school girls wearing long, stylish, fitted PANTS at school! (We've talked in other fb posts on this page about girls not being allowed to wear pants to school until the early 1970's. So this came as a big surprise when I saw it in 1940. I began looking for it again, and saw it a couple more times.)
Also, go back several seconds to see boys in knickers! (another topic of this page's previous discussions)
22:32 ~ FIRESTONE sign, and inside footage.
23:41 ~ film malfu -upside down footage, run backward.
24:29 ~ more people again. Boys, girls, teens.
25:11 ~ Man in monogram sweater. Also had a chance to see a close-up of the ubiquitous men's/boys' cap with long flaps over ears. What are the 2 round things above the forehead that look like bombardier/airplane pilot goggles? Is this just a fad in men's fashion, post WWI? (Wouldn't yet be WWII fashion reflection.)
26:26 ~ Good footage for 3 seconds of man with daughter about 5 years old maybe. If it's your family, you might recognize!
27:02 ~ 2nd or 3rd floor footage from maybe atop Eagles 5 & 10 (or was it "5 and dime"?) looking east on Sunset Ave.'s bustle, in fast motion.
28:09 ~ Men and women (wives, presumably), probably at a civic-club dinner, dining in rows of long tables. Men in suits, most women wearing corsages as if they are guests for a Ladies' Night evening. Note the absence of what would appear to be iced tea; only sometimes see water glasses. But the tea cup & saucer used for coffee appears to be in use at almost every place.
29:22 ~ MODEL LAUNDRY INC again. Big tub washers in use.
Ends 29:59.
* ...As it appears to me by reasonable speculation.
NOTE: I didn't originally plan to post my analog notes with time references and detail for this 2nd segment. But since I had it, I went back to my original text here, and filled most of that in before posting. I don't have all the detail that my notes have, but most is there. Hope it helps some of you.
