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CellR wrote:This keeps on getting better and better. Anyone else who knows my grandparents? Haha

Maybe Wilson knows your grandfather from his days in the history department at ECU.

CellR wrote:

CameronBornAndBred wrote:You just haven't been caught yet.

Pshh...
What trouble can I get in in New Bern?

Dude that is a loaded question! I grew up in Havelock (well Middle and High School), and there is tonnnnnns of trouble you can get into.

CathyCA wrote: John, what were you doing in Greenville?

How we got to Greenville is a kind of long story, but suffice to say, we were living in Norfolk, VA until we had our first child. My wife got homesick and wanted to be closer to her folks. We agreed to move back to this area, and she got a job at PCMH, we bought a house in Eastwood (318 Brookside Drive) and a couple months later I landed a job at Hardee's Food Systems in Rocky Mount. We lived in G-vegas for four years until we found a historic home in Li'l Washington and we've lived here ever since.

Johnboy wrote:

CathyCA wrote: John, what were you doing in Greenville?

How we got to Greenville is a kind of long story, but suffice to say, we were living in Norfolk, VA until we had our first child. My wife got homesick and wanted to be closer to her folks. We agreed to move back to this area, and she got a job at PCMH, we bought a house in Eastwood (318 Brookside Drive) and a couple months later I landed a job at Hardee's Food Systems in Rocky Mount. We lived in G-vegas for four years until we found a historic home in Li'l Washington and we've lived here ever since.

A historic home? Please share details.

Johnboy wrote:

CathyCA wrote: John, what were you doing in Greenville?

How we got to Greenville is a kind of long story, but suffice to say, we were living in Norfolk, VA until we had our first child. My wife got homesick and wanted to be closer to her folks. We agreed to move back to this area, and she got a job at PCMH, we bought a house in Eastwood (318 Brookside Drive) and a couple months later I landed a job at Hardee's Food Systems in Rocky Mount. We lived in G-vegas for four years until we found a historic home in Li'l Washington and we've lived here ever since.

Haha! I used to work for Hardee's, uh, but it was the summer after my freshman year in college. My job was quite different from yours, I imagine. I worked at the Hardee's on 10th Street in Roanoke Rapids. "May I take your order, please?" (Or as most of the cashiers used to say: "Take y'order?")

Does your wife still work at PCMH?

TillyGalore wrote: A historic home? Please share details.

Um . . . that's possibly a misleading phrase upon further review. It really should read "a home in the historic district" rather than a "historic home" (which may imply that something historic occurred there or some noteworthy person lived there or something).

The main part of our house was built between 1886 and 1895, and has had major renovations since then. The first major renovations, in or just after 1915, added a second floor and made the simple "dog trot" style clapboard one-story into a two-story Arts & Crafts style house. The old hospital (now converted to really cool condos) is around the corner, and we're told that our house had nurses living there as tenants at one time. in the 1960's the kitchen was renovated and the back of the house was closed in, increasing the kitchen space from a galley type kitchen to a modern one with an eating area and lots of counters, cabinets (57) and drawers (29). It's just a reasonably big (~3,500 s.f.) old drafty house that's a lot of trouble, but we love it.

CathyCA wrote: Haha! I used to work for Hardee's, uh, but it was the summer after my freshman year in college. My job was quite different from yours, I imagine. I worked at the Hardee's on 10th Street in Roanoke Rapids. "May I take your order, please?" (Or as most of the cashiers used to say: "Take y'order?")

Does your wife still work at PCMH?

Yeah, I was in the office of the General Counsel before, during and after the purchase of the company by CKE Enterprises, Inc. (better known as "Carl's Jr.").

My wife started working at Beaufort County General shortly after we moved to Washington, but she now works as a Certified Diabetes Educator for Sanofi-Aventis, the makers of Lantus and Apidra insulin products (along with a bunch of other medications).

So I've gone small (solo practitioner in Chocowinity) and she's gone with Big Pharma.

Voted again. He's at 96. Here's the link!

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAl ... 6&scid=438

CathyCA wrote:

CellR wrote:This keeps on getting better and better. Anyone else who knows my grandparents? Haha

Maybe Wilson knows your grandfather from his days in the history department at ECU.

Wait, are we talking about Henry Ferrell? Yeah, I know him. I never took his class, but after I found out he went to Duke, we struck up a periodic conversation about games and such.
He had something of a foreboding reputation...even among graduate students, the adage was that "there's no A in Ferrell".

wilson wrote:

CathyCA wrote:

CellR wrote:This keeps on getting better and better. Anyone else who knows my grandparents? Haha

Maybe Wilson knows your grandfather from his days in the history department at ECU.

Wait, are we talking about Henry Ferrell? Yeah, I know him. I never took his class, but after I found out he went to Duke, we struck up a periodic conversation about games and such.
He had something of a foreboding reputation...even among graduate students, the adage was that "there's no A in Ferrell".

Yes, that's who we're talking about!

Wow, you guys need to get a room, or at least a PM. ;) Bone is gonna get jealous.

Not to be boring and bring this back on topic, but I just voted again, and he's up to 91 again! Yay!

Miles wrote:Dude that is a loaded question! I grew up in Havelock (well Middle and High School), and there is tonnnnnns of trouble you can get into.

Haha, you're right.

wilson wrote:Wait, are we talking about Henry Ferrell? Yeah, I know him. I never took his class, but after I found out he went to Duke, we struck up a periodic conversation about games and such.
He had something of a foreboding reputation...even among graduate students, the adage was that "there's no A in Ferrell".

Wow, he needs to join this board.
I suppose he would be very intimidating to many students...

Story:
My dad was in medical school at ECU if I'm not mistaken, a recent graduate of UNC. My mom brought him home for the first time to meet her parents. They sit down, and are about to begin to eat dinner when my granddad, sitting at the head of the table, asks my dad in his intimidating history professor voice: "Mr. Patterson, would you like to ask the blessing for us this evening?"

Just a taste of his personality I guess. Luckily I haven't ever been grilled or questioned by him

bjornolf wrote:Not to be boring and bring this back on topic, but I just voted again, and he's up to 91 again! Yay!

And thank you very much for keeping this thread on-topic bjornolf! Much appreciated

Crap. Voted again. You're back to 92 again. What the heck! I'm starting to think this thing is rigged!

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAl ... 6&scid=438

bjornolf wrote:Crap. Voted again. You're back to 92 again. What the heck! I'm starting to think this thing is rigged!

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAl ... 6&scid=438

I think it is...

Keep voting, everyone!

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAl ... 96&scid=43

Just voted again, too.
Is the old original Hardee's still operating there in Greenville? So much difference now from what they were then. My cousin went to ECU and took me there years ago. His Senior year, he was a PE major and resided in the locker room in Ficklin.

captmojo wrote:Just voted again, too.
Is the old original Hardee's still operating there in Greenville? So much difference now from what they were then. My cousin went to ECU and took me there years ago. His Senior year, he was a PE major and resided in the locker room in Ficklin.

Oh, I'm afraid that I don't know where the original Hardee's was located in Greenville. I'm still "new" here--it hasn't been a year yet!

If you tell me where the original Hardee's was located, I'll go find out if it's still there.

CathyCA wrote:

captmojo wrote:Just voted again, too.
Is the old original Hardee's still operating there in Greenville? So much difference now from what they were then. My cousin went to ECU and took me there years ago. His Senior year, he was a PE major and resided in the locker room in Ficklin.

Oh, I'm afraid that I don't know where the original Hardee's was located in Greenville. I'm still "new" here--it hasn't been a year yet!

If you tell me where the original Hardee's was located, I'll go find out if it's still there.

It was so long ago, I was too young to find my way out of town, much less anything else. I do remember him telling me it was Mr Hardee's original, and we ate there. This was about 1970.

captmojo wrote:

CathyCA wrote:

captmojo wrote:Just voted again, too.
Is the old original Hardee's still operating there in Greenville? So much difference now from what they were then. My cousin went to ECU and took me there years ago. His Senior year, he was a PE major and resided in the locker room in Ficklin.

Oh, I'm afraid that I don't know where the original Hardee's was located in Greenville. I'm still "new" here--it hasn't been a year yet!

If you tell me where the original Hardee's was located, I'll go find out if it's still there.

It was so long ago, I was too young to find my way out of town, much less anything else. I do remember him telling me it was Mr Hardee's original, and we ate there. This was about 1970.

Not only is it gone, there's no way of telling, unless you'd been there before, that it ever existed. IIRC, it was near the corner of either Evans or Memorial (?) and 14th Street. I worked for Hardee's Food Systems (as a lawyer from 1996-1999) and lived in Greenville. I found out where it had been out of curiosity. The site is an office now, again, IIRC. It's been 10 years since I thought about it., and nearly 10 years since I lived in Greenville.