What was the building at Front & Oneil Streets?

ok now I am going to have to ask my brothers, they are a little older than me. Are you the same age as her brother or younger? My brothers have better memory than me.

 

sent ya a PM, I actually think I may know

 

am a year older then he is i never hung oiut with hin didnt like him much LOL

 

gah.........y'all are making me feel old now. Not tha I ever worked inthe store itself, but know of plenty that did growning up while in highschool.


Was too far out of the way (as was most everything then) for where I lived.


Craig

 

you are not that much older than my oldest brother.. you are the same age as gerbil right?

 

year older than gerbil.




Craig

 

I probably know most of you, or your folks. My Dad ran Clayton Oil Company on the corner of Main and O'Neal, caddy corner from NC Paper Co., from 1950 until he moved it a half block down Main. Don't remember when he moved, late 60's, early 70's maybe. I helped him there from the time I was about 9 or 10 on, and got to know so many folks. Clayton was really a small town then. I ran the gas station/convenience store there called The Corner Station for a couple of years in the early 80's. I had a game room in the basement, and it sort of became a local "hangout'.

 

I remember it when it was Colt and Carls, or something like that, I remember the game room I was young! you know my parents I am pretty sure!

 

gotcha

 

Is Gerbil your brother?

 

nope he was a really good friend on mine and my brothers. We all grew up together in Clayton.

 

Carl Collins (the Carl, Colt was his little boy) bought the store from me, sometime around '85. Who yo folks???

 

Sent ya a PM!

 

Spent alot of time in there and at Pepperoni's when they had their game room.



Craig

 

Tassy spent some her first weekends down here watching me and gerbil work on either his Nissan, the blazer, or the Jeep on Saturday so we could all go down to Buckleberry on Sunday.


Craig

 

See I think I remember meeting her one weekend at Buckleberry but I cant remember its been so long ago!

 

Oooh.. please don't make me think that hard! LOL

 

yeah I know that feeling..that was way back in the day Plus I cant remember if I met you there or up at the parking lot!

 

If Craig knows who you are, he might remember which it was. But I do remember spending a good amount of time in Gerbils driveway when I first came down to visit. I don't know which they spent more time on, car audio stuff, or getting ready for 4-wheelin' stuff.

 

that would be a total toss up LOL