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Posted: **Fri September 9, 2011, 5:55 pm**

Why yes, yes I do. Had lotsa fun when I worked at Nettles Shell Station traveling on those 6 oz bottles.

Posted: **Fri September 9, 2011, 10:19 pm**

I remember too Sigmore. I grew up right next door to the plant on 74 East, and us kids spent many an hour at their dump site just south of the plant recovering all those valuables they had so needlessly thrown away (only in a kid's mind.)
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Lynn Steen
HHS Class of '60

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 3:30 am**

Does anyone remember when it was on R aleigh St

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 8:57 am**

I remember the RC Cola place. I seem to vaguely remember CoCola was there also. Not enough for a concurrance though mind you.

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 9:01 am**

freddie. would the coke plant have been about where the barnes auto supply was and al's vacuum is now?

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 7:27 pm**

That is were I'm thinking, I remember going by there on the way to the Movies from Longwood Park and thay's what was told 2 me, Maybe not the Coke Plant, but surly a botting Plant.

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 9:46 pm**

i talked with lowery ballard today, and that's where the coke plant was. when the coke plant moved, the ballard's used the building for their warehouse for their beer company.

Posted: **Sat September 10, 2011, 10:20 pm**

Way back in 1948 the Coke bottling plant was on US #74 east of town, just a couple hundred feet or so from the junction of N.C. #381. A little bit of searching on Google maps will show the building still there, although I don't remember the two wings being on the building. My memory only conjures up the two story brick building with the large picture windows, through which the bottling process could be observed as the bottles were filled and capped.

Go to Google maps and enter.. U.S. 74 Business and 381 hamlet N.C. .. in the search window. Place the little "walk-a-bout" man on the white-topped building to the left of the intersection and view the building at street level.

Posted: **Sun September 11, 2011, 12:27 am**

The only place I remember the Coke plant was where Bruce said on 74 east at 381. When did it move?

Posted: **Sun September 11, 2011, 7:32 am**

I think it was moved after the end of Word War II about 1946 0r 47.

Posted: **Sun September 11, 2011, 11:30 am**

Mrs. Jernigan's book of Hamlet history says 1948.

Posted: **Mon September 12, 2011, 8:52 pm**

I spoke with Abbie Gibbons Covington daughter of Jack Gibbons who owned the Coke Plant today and she said it was at that location, @ Mike & Shirly Wood, that expains why we would spot Ballard Beer cars on the Loading Dock beside the track that ran beside that street that runs from Raleight St. to E. Main st. so they could store Beer there, before they build the new building on Raleigh St. across from Mangum Coal & Oil, where they had their own spur and could unload from there

Posted: **Mon March 5, 2012, 10:44 am**

Just catching up. I didn't realize I had been practicing invisibility for so long. It must have something to do with the curvature of the space-time continuum.

Anyway, this is a section of a map of Hamlet labeled August 1920.

Posted: **Sun March 11, 2012, 4:02 pm**

Ballard Dist. was also located on Heast Hamlet Ave. at the intersection of Bridges St. and E. Hamlet Ave, this is also where the first Hamlet ABC store was located. Ballard Dist. then built a new building on Bridges St beside the RR tracks and later built another new building on Raleigh St. beside the RR Tracks. This was also the location of the Nash (automobile) Dealership. It was a 2 story building and Consolidated Building Supply was located behind it.

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