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« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2009, 09:06:11 PM » |
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I was beaten at horseshoes by a blind man!
A true story.....he is legally blind....but has some vision. He placed a styrofoam cup upside down on the top of the stake, and he was able to see that.
Our son likes to bring that up now and then!
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« Reply #16 on: April 16, 2009, 12:11:04 AM » |
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Now, that sounds remarkable! Maybe hearing can take some of the place of lost vision, like the sound of the horseshoe in the air (if it makes any sound).
I can't recall ever playing horseshoes other than as a kid using the rubber ones. I'd wonder if a person tends to have a favorite horseshoe, sort of like a special golf club, to score better with.....
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« Reply #17 on: April 16, 2009, 07:44:46 AM » |
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Well I hardly ever play horse shoes myself..........and that is my excuse obviously also! At some family gatherings though, I will join in. Some people that have played for many years are very smooth and methodical in their pitch.
The man that that beat me, had probably played for a long time; but it makes a nice family story that I was beat by a blind man!
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« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2009, 08:46:29 AM » |
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Danville used to have a regular Horseshoe pitching team... Not sure if they still do, but had a friend that was involved in it.. I believe, Douglas Park has or had the area just for that.. He also owned horses, so maybe he used the old ones from his horses, but I don't think so.. I believe they had their own they carried around when they played against different teams..
There ya go Oliver.. Maybe you could learn a tune using Horseshoes, and be there mascot..
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« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2009, 02:00:06 PM » |
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Hmmm, interesting idea, CG. Well, as a mascot, I'm already wearing blinders according to some posters on the old CN-GB, so maybe just adding a straw hat would complete the image?
That horseshoe area in Douglas surely must still be there.. Yet, I may need to pedal by to check.
PS, I go around singing the Mr. Ed theme song often (but not as much as that radio "Cars for Kids" ditty, including my impersonation of both the would-be Johnny Cash voice and the little girl!)
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« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2009, 02:18:46 PM » |
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Yes, the horse shoe place is still there. They in fact have a large tournament there yearly; (that is very poorly publicized). I have an uncle about 80 that drives up and participates in it. The tournament usually goes an entire weekend, and has quite a large number of participants.
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« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2009, 11:06:29 PM » |
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I'm glad the horseshoe event is still there. I wonder where else locally they do it.
In more recent years, the reason for us to go to Douglas was for the kids to practice either softball or soccer (in the SW open area).
Of course many remember the rides in the park. I also have a memory of a sliding board over in the NE area of the park not far from Wayne & Bowman.
I just looked up on a (1975) Danville map to make sure that is Wayne St. that borders the park's N. side. Just happened to see the old RR tracks I've posted my "captivation" of: apparently it was an L&N line. The tracks started near E. Williams by the other tracks and crossed Seminary and Cleveland, which I clearly recall, but crossed Perrysville Rd, which I have no clue about and went through the hills & hollers to Grape Creek, Belgium, and I had all but forgotten (!!) they crossed Route 1 at an angle in Westville, and yet, the depot is still there in plain sight, right?
Guess I need to get out and about more, lol.
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« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2009, 12:45:59 AM » |
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I very much enjoyed my childhood here in this neighborhood in the 50s, probably the closest time to a boom time for Danville inexpansion. I still remember Elzer Marx as the host of an evening (?) jazz show at WITY saying he hoped Santa Claus would bring the city a 50,000 population sign for a certain Christmas. You might say "alas, the town never made it to 50,000" but I still think the 33,000 here now are living more well-to-do than back in the 1950s and 60s.
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« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2009, 06:22:38 AM » |
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People that grew up in Danville make it sound very interesting.
We have lived here 31 years, so it is now home.
I grew up in a little village of about 50 people tucked away out in the country. About half were aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents; so word could quickly get back to parents when we were up to something. Until about age 12, we had a little grocery store there that also had a gas pump. It then closed and the nearest store was about 8 miles away in Shelbyville.
We had a woods to run around in, a creek to swim and fish in. My childhood was spent running around outdoors, bike riding all over the countyside, fishing, hunting, trapping, playing army/war over large areas, hiking the railroad, finding arrowheads, and occasionally a trip into town. I look back on those time fondly! I still get down that way as much as possible.
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« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2009, 10:49:41 AM » |
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I never spent much time to the south and west of Danville, but to me it seems like a different state from our flat corn and soy bean fields up this way. Neighbors used to camp for weeks down at Shelbyville. They drove me around the whole lake one...30 miles or so?? And of course by Edwardsville, and the Mississippi, a Danville boy would really think he was not in Illinois anymore.....
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« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2009, 12:06:40 PM » |
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I still know most of the words to a 6th grade song "I Like It Here". (this country)
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2009, 08:35:50 PM » |
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1958 was a happy year.
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« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2009, 10:17:13 AM » |
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On an Atlanta trip in the 50s, probably at Lookout Mt, at a souvenir shop, young Oliver selected a blue Yankee cap and the lady with the friendly southern-accented voice warmly asked, "Are you shore y'all want that Yankee hat??" (yes, though today I would've changed my mind to try to please her--so much for allegiance)
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« Reply #28 on: May 13, 2009, 10:47:13 AM » |
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Would you believe that when I was very young I used to feed very tiny pancakes to the ants outside?
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« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2009, 09:19:50 AM » |
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Would you believe there is very, very little trivia about me?
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