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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Yet more signs
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun Aug 26 18:13:19 2007
References: <200708270106.l7R16Hj7026497@server1.waverley.reid.org>

between the park and pamlico village

want to meet there this weekend

i'm still a member;^)

ric




On Aug 26, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Robert Clark wrote:

> Ric:
> I seem to remember that the Rebel is actually located in Washington  
> Park.
> Is that correct or am I mistaken?
>
> Headin' down Thursday night and will be at Pamlico Beach by midnight.
> Stayin' until Tuesday mornin' at the crack a dawn and headin' back  
> up to Pa.
>
> Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+rclark01=comcast.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+rclark01=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf  
> Of Ric
> Carter
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:02 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Yet more signs
>
> Thanks Ball--
>
> The Rebel has always been my favorite redneck bar. AG, the barbecue
> guy in my WayBack PAW, is the owner.
>
> The Rebel has a history of hosting a number of Yankee regulars. Leo
> was a 300+ pound  electrical engineer from Cambridge, MA. (I'll try
> to find a photo I have of Leo, mint julep in hand, sitting in his
> 1966 Ford convertible in the parking lot at The Rebel.) Leo was in
> this foreign land designing linear electrical motors for Hamilton
> Beach and other manufacturers.
>
> Leo never lost his accent and loved to pick liberal arguments with
> the local reactionaries. Among his favorite adversaries was Captain
> Frank Cox. (The guy with the cannon in my WayBack PAW and the
> yachtsman who always referred to fiberglass as "frozen snot.") That's
> a real cannon by the way. I remember when Frank had her remachined
> and had to resite the bugger. He an his Washington Grays cronies were
> taking her out into the country one Saturday with lots of live rounds
> to get their aim rezoned. They were competitive shooters.
>
> Frank invited me out to take pictures that day. "You don't need to
> worry about bringin' liquor, we'll have plenty there," he reassured
> me. They did. I'll look for those photos, too.
>
> Anyway...
>
> After hearing so much about how the damn Yankees were ruining our way
> of life, Leo thought it would be fun to put a permanent end to the
> question. He bought had installed a small tombstone memorializing the
> symbolic "last damn Yankee."
>
> The second marker rather tells the rest of the story.
>
> Thanks for looking.
>
> ric
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2007, at 8:39 PM, H. Ball Arche wrote:
>
>> Ha! I love it Ric. I wish I knew the story of the last
>> damn yankee.
>> There's a roller rink in Murray Ky that has a sign
>> I'll have to shoot for you next time I'm there.
>>
>> --- Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are always interesting signs out there because
>>> people always
>>> have things to say. Here's another page in the
>>> album:
>>>
>>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/Signage/?g2_page=6>
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/3b625r>
>>>
>>> Ric Carter
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/
>>>
>>>
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