Jean Tennell I think you're right.
I was going back to check on something I had written and stumbled across a post by Jean Tennell that I had missed at the time. It was regarding the city in which the tannery was located in Georgia. Jean thought it sounded like Buford. I went to her link, then also looked up the history of the city. I think you're right Jean, that it was Buford. That building looks like the tannery, but I'm not sure it was the same one. Jean's post was #380 on page 38.
I found a Tannery Street that was cut in half. I'm guessing it was because of an EPA cleanup around the area. Jean, it looks to me like where Wilson and Moreno Street come together where a part of Tannery street ends at Wilson looks like it might be the location. The old house would have been just off Wilson where it makes a corner onto Moreno. If it is the right spot, we would have driven down Tannery and parked on the right where it runs into Wilson and walked across the street to the restaurant.
According to the history there were a half dozen or so tannery's owned by the same people, and some were larger than others. They made different leather goods, the largest was the biggest horse collar manufacturer in the world at one time. Tandy Corp bought out the tannery company in 1968. After the EPA came into being they charged Tandy with a cleanup of the tannery sites. They cleaned the area up, but closed down the factory in 1977, because they thought it would be too expensive to upgrade.
Sorry for the delay Jean, but I'm glad I chanced upon your earlier post. I'm sure Buford was where Tommy and I stopped on the way to Greensboro, N.C.
I Was Thinking About My Dad, Today!
Wayne, you probably didn't meet my dad at the Golden Shores Winternationals, but he was the chief inspector there every year we had the race. My dad was either LOVED or hated, few weren't sure.
At the Parker 9 Hour 1967 (Somewhere here on BRF I've told this before) but my DeSilva twin engine Evinrude was on the trailer "Broke down" when Red Adair's Mandella broke a steering and ran on the beach and "T-BONED" my DeSilva. The best part of the story was that Ted May was under the trailer hooking up the lights and wanted to know who was trying to kill him....at the time Red's boat hit the beach.
Red tried to pay for the boat, which my Old Man explained to him that wasn't how racing worked.
The day before the race, Red's Team showed up with a Semi and two boats and two new RED Cadillac El Dorados...My Needles "Playboy" buddy explained he'd just read about Red in Argosy Magazine....
Anyway, after Parker, may dad worked the Galveston 250 races in Texas, for many years, and Red always had my dad and mom stay with him at his house. Red was a real gentleman.
I was thinking about my dad today because I'd like to tell him what a great father Chad is, not to mention what a great propeller builder and business man he's become.
Great story here about Baldy. He was bigger than life!