Robert Nix

ROBERTO, PLEASE SEND THIS OUT FOR ME........RONNIE HAMMOND WAS A ONE OF A
KIND HUMAN BEING. VERY COMPLEX, VERY PASSIONATE, VERY GIFTED,AND VERY MUCH A SIMPLE KIND OF MAN ALL AT ONCE. NOT A LOT DIFFERENT FROM HIS NAME SAKE
RONNIE VAN ZANT. I ...REMEMBER SO MUCH ABOUT HIM THAT THIS WILL HAVE TO BE A
WORK IN PROGRESS.I'M SORRY THIS HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO DEAL WITH.AND TALK
ABOUT RONNIE AND HIS PASSING, IT'S BEEN THE HARDEST THING I'VE EVER HAD TO
COME TO GRIPS WITH. BELIEVE ME ITS A TERRIBLE THING .
WE WERE RECORDING AT LeFEVRE SOUND AND A MAGICAL MEETING OCCURRED. IT WAS THE BEST THING THAT
EVER HAPPENED TO US. WE MET AND HIRED THE GREAT RODNEY MILLS AND MET HIS SUB ENGINEER RONNIE HAMMOND. RONNIE KNEW THAT RODNEY JUSTO HAD LEFT ARS AFTER
THE FIRST ALBUM' HE CAME UP TO ME BEFORE WE LEFT THE STUDIO ONE NIGHT AND
HANDED ME A TAPE HE HAD MADE. HE PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AND SANG A
BEATLES SONG. I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS.THE NEXT
DAY I CALLED BUDDY AND SAID ,"I THINK WE'VE FOUND OUR SINGER". BUDDY TOTALLY AGREED. BUDDY SIGNED RONNIE. THE REST IS HISTORY................ROBERT

Check out this Buddy Buie bio on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4m2A-ffcP8&feature=player_embedded











Back in '02, the News had a I LOVE T-TOWN contest & axed us to tell 'em how much we just loved T-town to deaf so I'ze sent mine in & low & behold those SORRY ASS SCALAWAG LEFT WING KOOKS chose mineZizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as the one to end their 3 FULL PAGE COLOR (no ads) ARTICLE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

This joker STILL LIVEZZZZZZZZZZZ & holds up the tradition of THE ORIGINAL SILVER TONGUED DEVIL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTRHIVScAXE

Steve Hope It was only Natural that i went to this school of higher learning, and I did receive my Phd.


Wisteria growing on a light pole across from the water towers in the curve on Crescent Ridge. There's another incredible infestation @ the intersection of Crescent Ridge & Keene Drive that fills the woods with wisteria north to the railroad tracks & Holt Elementary.



Carol Ann Self They look so graceful and feminine, like a true southern belle!

















Grant's back in the day was the ULTIMATE CHICK MAGNET!

THE ABSOLUTE CHICK MAGNET!





George Little's house:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2DLkjs8wSIgC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22GEORGE+LITTLE%22+TUSCALOOSA&source=bl&ots=GKOm9TMQMw&sig=GPxEdHngQ4zA7te68SkiQT9ql5U&hl=en&ei=we-LTdzfKofBtgfbpLykDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22GEORGE%20LITTLE%22%20TUSCALOOSA&f=false



"PAUL IS DEAD" ~ Robert Nix






This cop does ALL OF MY EVICTIONS! He was right there when that dumbass judge issued A STAY OF WRIT OF POSSESSION RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF KICKING THE SH&^%$DS TO THE CURB. This bastard WALKS INTO ANY HOUSE & attracts dope & porno LIKE A F$%^&N MAGNET! Never seen anything like it. IT WERE A TRIP to hang with THIS DUDE this afternoon & get his take on the crowd @ THE DRUID CITY ARTS FESTIVAL.



Right when I walked up to the show, Robert Nix called me. I snuck into this alley to get away from the rock music so I could hear him on my cell phone.



Here's the Brazilian kid who understood Spanish with his BEETLEJUICE SHIRT. None of these kids had a clue about the movie BEETLE JUICE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hovKm9oFiM

This is Vito Catalina. I let him out of Partlow. He sez,"I worked good for you." His brother, Jerry, choked on a chicken bone & died @ Partlow. His people were brought over from Italy by TCI to work in the mines around Bessemer.

The Headliner, B'ham's Mathew Mayfield! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hI542VGPs

GOTHAM CITY HIGH SCHOOL BRAIN POWER '67-68
BATJOHN & ESSIE MAE'S lab assistants, left to right: D.J. Underwood, Tom Fortner, ROBERTOREG, Jimmy Jones, Denny Meeker, unidentified, Bruce Wallace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5AqMhXSpg&feature=related

This old mansion sits catty cornered from our block. It was one of the first big houses to be built in Tuscaloosa after The Civil War. It was constructed in 1901 so it took a long time for anyone to accumulate wealth after the devastation of 1865. The Maxwells probably made a mint during the construction of Locks #1, #2 and #3 during the 1890s. Today you can see this old house from our office's back yard and it's just been repainted.


A wonderful response from Whitney:
When I was in college I worked at the Tuscaloosa Credit Bureau across 27th. Ave. from this house, and I would usually park on the street beside it. Mrs. Jennie Maxwell Richardson lived in it, and she would often be out working in the yard, and loved to talk.

She was a 1910 graduate of the University, and said that she walked or rode the trolley to campus. Said there was a bridge across a gully on U. Blvd. at the time, possibly on the other side of Pinehurst. That gully was filled S. of the blvd. and Audubon Pl. was built on it.

She told me that she christened one of the locks with a bottle of champagne when she was 6, which would have been about 1898. She had a life-sized oil portrait of her 5 beautiful daughters in the foyer of the house.

I suspect she is the young women in the rocker on the left. Would one of those boys be Fred Maxwell, the engineer?


That's probably the Sam Alston's yacht,The Mary Francis on the left.It later capsized & twenty six people drowned.http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0DE1DB173AE03ABC4E52DFB0668382609EDE

Sorry to say IT but I DO delete lotzzzzzzzzzzzzz uv CHAMPAGNE JAM posts on yahoo but we rilly needzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to keep that avenue of communication open. Even though Facebook opened on Sept. 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 & older, nobody around here started joining until the summer of '09. FACEBOOK IS GONNA CONTINUE TO SHAKE UP THE WORLD. It shook mine up when I joined in '09 & I found out how to unfriend REAL QUICK! http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/17/us-words-unfriend-idUSTRE5AG09H20091117

Here I am sitting on top of THE CAMAK STONE.
My heads in either AL or GA; left hand in AL; right in GA; right leg in GA & TN ; left in AL & TN. Before it was stolen in Aug. 2009, the old stone had marked the point where AL , GA & TN intersect since 1826. This is the END OF THE LINE from that mythical point on the west bank of the Chattahoochee on Ansley's property down in Houston County where it all begins: the point where AL , GA & FL intersect- THE POINT NO ONE ON EARTH CAN IDENTIFY!
http://marioncountymessenger.com/2011/03/02/tri-state-camak-stone-cornerstone-replaced-near-nickajack-cave/.

This wuz back in '03 near the point where AL , GA & TN intersect. That's some kinda strange yellow lichen growing on that tombstone. I'm wearing my SKYPILOTCLUB t shirt. http://skypilotclub.com

M & D~
Found this in the '48 MEH LADY, the yearbook of the Mississippi College For Women in Columbus. Yvonne Elizabeth majored in Modern Languages and came from Vicksburg so I guess she grew up with y'all's Mother.

Here's her obit:
http://www.vicksburgpost.com/view/full_story_obit/7273064/article-Yvonne-E--Lowe?instance=news_special_coverage_right_column

best,
r

http://southernlagniappe.blogspot.com/2010/10/mcraven-house-most-haunted-house-in.html

http://www.lebanese-forces.org/forum/showthread.php?41418-Hajj

LATER GATORZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
SECTION 8 IS CALLIN' ME!
IT UNNURDURR BREAKIN' & ENTERIN' MONDAY
@ CRIME SCENE REALTY!

best,
robertoreg

I work my son's friends some times when I'm in a tight. Some of these kids, now 21 & 22, have worked for me since they were 10 & 11. The big thing right now is correcting a problem with the plugs. These kids end up tellin' me something like this ,"Mr. Register, I'd forgot that when you pull the plate off the plug that about pound of dead roaches fall out." I ALWAYZZZZZZ axe dem,"Son, how many of our houses have that problem?" "Ever one of 'em, Mr. Register." "THAT'S RIGHT & DON'T YOU EVER F*&^%n FORGET IT!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2QkgMvTtM

WADDELL'S MILL POND, Summer of '73
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI_0tQdEA5k


Hey guys~

I got this idea for making a pilot video @ The Farm Center on Friday, April 8 before The Bopcats take the stage @ 6 that evening.

From what little I've learned about The Farm Center, it appears to have opened in about 1958 or '59. I want to explore the impact the opening of The Farm Center had on wrestling & music in The Wiregrass.

According to my memory, prior to the Farm Center, the largest indoor Dothan venue was the T.E. Buntin Armory.

Anywayzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Not much response to my initial inquiries but if you have an opinion about this endeavor, please share it.

Start organizing your FARM CENTER ARCHIVES & somebody pull some strings 'cause
I'm gonna need to get full access to the arena building & I need folks to volunteer to appear on camera.

best,
r

Great idea Robert.
My Dad used to take me to wrestling and I remember Mario Galento(?). When he chaired the Peanut Festival they snagged Charlie Pride for the entertainment and that seemed to be a really big deal at the time. Later as a teen, I remember watching Ted Nugent and White Witch at the FC. Lot's of history there.
Best,
Lamar

RR. How could you do a story on the HOUSTON COUNTY FARM CENTER and leave out the most important facts ?
Roy Orbison played there twice and launched the careers of Bobby Goldsboro, John Rainey Adkins, and myself.
Without those shows in that building I would probably be running Buie's Restaurant, Goldsboro would be selling flowers
at Schad's, and John Rainey would do all his pickin' at local juke joints instead of playing for thousands around the world.
We thought of the Farm Center as a Coliseum,second only to Montgomery's Coliseum where Big Bam had their shows.
It was and still is holy ground.
Buddy

Here's an article about wrestling & Charlie Platt in THE HOUSTON COUNTY FARM CENTER:

http://awupdate.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=print&thread=935

Memories: Dothan's Farm Center full of memories

By Ricky Adams / Enterprise Ledger
Published: January 31, 2008

http://www2.eprisenow.com/

"DO NOT SET ON THIS WALL"

Those unforgettable words were once stenciled in red letters six inches tall on a block wall inside the 50-year-old Houston County Farm Center in Dothan.

We Baby Boomers never set on that wall, although we enjoyed many opportunities to do just that.

Even though the words disappeared several years ago, now we won't get to set on the wall ever again, since the recent announcement the building would be converted to a storage facility.

If that setting wall could just talk, it could tell stories of rodeos, wrestling matches, concerts and a variety of other activities associated with the National Peanut Festival that called the Farm Center home for decades.

It was probably the Peanut Festival that drew members of the Enterprise High School class of 1968 to the Farm Center or it could've been wrestling. Either way, once the Blue Goose, a 1960 Dodge Seneca painted (Richard) Petty Blue, came to belong to this member of the class, trips to the Dothan landmark were many.

Usually, Burns Whittaker manned the shotgun seat in that two-door sedan — and the other Dodges that followed it the next several years — when we went to the Goober Grabbin' every fall, even after Burns went away to some college in Tuscaloosa.

The Festival was big stuff to us and we especially enjoyed inspecting the agricultural displays in and around the building. We also liked touring the mobile homes that were displayed each October.

It was in one such home that we caused one poor mother to have a conniption fit one Saturday afternoon.

She was in the front part of the mobile home when we went inside it, but she quickly went into high gear when we headed toward the other end of the trailer.

We only got halfway down the hall when the woman flew by us and blocked our path. How were we supposed to know her most nubile daughter was inspecting the bedroom where we were headed-

While members of our class and others close in age to us usually went to "WTVY Live Studio Wrestling" at the TV station in Webb on Saturday afternoons, there were times we also went to the Farm Center.

One night during our senior year at EHS, one female wrestling fan, who insisted upon standing up throughout the preliminary matches, told a couple of us exactly which part of her body we could kiss after we'd asked her to sit down a time or two.

One summer night before our senior year, we went to the Farm Center to hear some of our favorite recording artists. We heard The Happenings, the Real McCoys and several other groups on tour with headliner Gene Pitney who, to the dismay of everyone, only sang a handful of songs to close out the first of two shows one summer evening.

One Sunday afternoon, Burns emceed a "Battle of the Bands" promoted by Enterprise native Larry Wilkins. About 10 local bands competed, but the group that stole the show was The Tams, whose song, "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy," was our class theme song.

We also saw Marty Robbins as seniors, but when he didn't sing "Cap and Gown," we left the building.

We couldn't take such a disappointment setting down.

BOPCATS & THE BBQ Bash at Houston County Farm Center

Friday night, APRIL 8, from 6-10pm is a fun yard party on a (hopefully) warm spring night at the Houston County Farm Center. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy classic rock from the BopCats and visit with your friends. Plenty of food and drink available for purchase! Shop in the vendor village or let the kids play games or ride some rides. Lots to do for everyone!

Advance tickets $5 at www.tristatebbq.com/tickets.html until April 1st or until they run out. This is a 50% savings!

Tickets $10 at the gate. Students and seniors $5 at gate.