Ghostsoldier
Call Me a Cab
- Messages
- 2,410
- Location
- Starke, Florida, USA
Rob
auto-tan
I'm guessing that's self service or he is the best-dressed gas attendant ever
Many places in Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine claim that as well as far as PB's hometown.
@LizzieMaine - LOL, I don't think they were trying for a fez, but it sure looks like it.
Leeds, Alabama, a little town about 10 miles east of me, also lays claim to John Henry, so he's pretty well known down here. It's still disputed in some circles, but apparently there's sufficient evidence that not only is the story true, but that it happened during the building of the Coosa tunnel there. And no, as far as I know, he hasn't sold gas around these parts either.In my neck of the woods (southern West Virginia), the local folk hero is John Henry (the steel driving man). He's not as well-known as Paul Bunyan and his story has never been elaborated on and is more likely to be mostly true. Part of the reason may be that he was a black laborer, a group that has never exactly been romanticized the way loggers have been. There are statues of him and bronze plaques here and there but as far as I know, he never sold gasoline.
In my neck of the woods (southern West Virginia), the local folk hero is John Henry (the steel driving man). He's not as well-known as Paul Bunyan and his story has never been elaborated on and is more likely to be mostly true. Part of the reason may be that he was a black laborer, a group that has never exactly been romanticized the way loggers have been. There are statues of him and bronze plaques here and there but as far as I know, he never sold gasoline.
Makes me think of the Alabama town featured in To Kill a Mockingbird -- though these people, the customers, would have been the elite of the county.
In my neck of the woods (southern West Virginia), the local folk hero is John Henry (the steel driving man). He's not as well-known as Paul Bunyan and his story has never been elaborated on and is more likely to be mostly true. Part of the reason may be that he was a black laborer, a group that has never exactly been romanticized the way loggers have been. There are statues of him and bronze plaques here and there but as far as I know, he never sold gasoline.
“SANITARY ICE CREAM" ???
“SANITARY ICE CREAM" ???
SOS LizzieMaine!