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Porch is finished. Now it's a house.
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Group of men and boys seated on the porch of a small "double pen" house (note the two front doors) with mandolin, guitar, banjo, and tobacco pipes.
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historic florida: general store in homosassa...
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Needed 2 more horses. That'll work
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Lord, forgive us
Makes ya think, don鈥檛 it?

Texas Panhandle
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Abandoned in Alabama's black belt
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'71 ... Libert Hill, Alabama
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Monroe County, Alabama
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'88 ... Hope Hull, Alabama
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Ariton, Alabama ... then & now
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Lived long enough to see token white guys
Walked by a staging area with tree crews. About 20 two-man bucket trucks from Tennessee. Saw one American.
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Burger joints and honky tonks tucked away in residential neighborhoods ... gone with the wind

Giglio's Eat Shop (famous burgers)
Bessemer, AL
In his backyard in '52 Henry (Gip) Gipson built Alabama's most iconic blues juke joint "Gip's Place"

A hub for blacks and whites alike, Gip had strict rules against drugs or profanity. Each night opened with a prayer.

Gip's Place closed permanently in '19 after his passing
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Pettway's Place in Safford, Alabama
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Hattie's Place was a little juke joint in Clayton, Alabama known for their famous chicken sandwiches
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There's what maybe half million h1b Indians here crushing white collar wages & atleast 50M hispanics here crushing blue collar wages

They want you focused on the 1st so you'll just accept the 2nd

Reach deep in your heart and find enough shunning and discrimination for both
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19th & 2nd Ave downtown Jasper, AL
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Slick Lizard Smokehouse...Nauvoo, AL

2008 2026
Alabama has tons of odd, wonderful, strange town and place names, like the community of slick Lizard outside the town of Nauvoo. I'm on a quest to get a t-shirt from as many of these places as I can.
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Replying to @LAChas77
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cracker style in hawthorne, florida (1897)...
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