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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:05 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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It doesn't need to be dilapidated or abandoned (But my Ghia doesn't look out of place near one. ). I just try to keep an eye out for interesting old structures. In my area, old buildings & houses are getting torn down to make way for the new, flashy, boring new construction & I have to go out to the rural areas to find older structures, which usually need to be leveled. Unfortunately, since the rural areas weren't as flush with money, this usually means simpler, smaller homes & buildings. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Beetlebaum Samba Member
Joined: December 04, 2008 Posts: 2181 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:45 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I have a timeshare in VB but I'm at the south end of the beach. More quiet down at that end. You need to get a pic with the Cape Henry Lighthouse since you're in that area. |
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Beetlebaum Samba Member
Joined: December 04, 2008 Posts: 2181 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
A few months after taking pictures of a neat old covered bridge in Philipi, West Virginia, it was destroyed by arson.
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It was brought to my attention that the above bridge and this bridge also in what was Philipi Virginia, now West Virginia were key pieces in the first battle (Or skirmish depending on one’s perspective.) of the civil war.
Here’s the history on the bridge...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippi_Covered_Bridge
And the nearby train station...
Here’s the history of the Philippi battle...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Philippi_(West_Virginia) _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I got some of them covered bridges in my area too. We don't have problems with vandals. Instead we have problems with idiots driving thru with vehicles that are to tall, or backhoes on trailers that wipe out the roof of the bridge.
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Beetlebaum Samba Member
Joined: December 04, 2008 Posts: 2181 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Beetlebaum wrote: |
Nice Beetle. What year is it? |
78
It's my favorite of the 2 I have running. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:47 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Today I decided to visit a nearby "castle" that was built by a local artist who abandoned it before it’s completion, Castle Mont Rouge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Mont_Rouge
On the way back, I was enticed by a historical marker to check out this old plantation home called Stagville, built in 1787.
Perplexed by why this home was of such importance that it should have a dedicated staff & tours, I asked the ladies in attendance “What is the significance of this property?”. They told me that it was the first home of the Cameron family. Okay, whatever. Upon strolling through the museum, I realized it was sooo much more than that, this was one of the largest slave holding plantations in the south with around 30,000 acres & over 900 slaves by 1860.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagville _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Dwayne1m wrote: |
I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place. |
Yeah, & the Suthnahs didn't know shit about thermal dynamics & thermal mass, otherwise, these homes would have the fireplace & chimneys in the middle of the house, not hanging off the ends. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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busdaddy Samba Member
Joined: February 12, 2004 Posts: 51153 Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Dwayne1m wrote: |
I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place. |
Yeah, & the Suthnahs didn't know shit about thermal dynamics & thermal mass, otherwise, these homes would have the fireplace & chimneys in the middle of the house, not hanging off the ends. |
Would it even matter?, after all it seems they had no shortage of "staff" to keep the fires fed. _________________ Rust NEVER sleeps and stock never goes out of style.
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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busdaddy wrote: |
TDCTDI wrote: |
Dwayne1m wrote: |
I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place. |
Yeah, & the Suthnahs didn't know shit about thermal dynamics & thermal mass, otherwise, these homes would have the fireplace & chimneys in the middle of the house, not hanging off the ends. |
Would it even matter?, after all it seems they had no shortage of "staff" to keep the fires fed. |
I dated a girl who lived in an big old farm house. They would use the big fireplace at the end of the house in the living room for heat. Efficiency was terrible plus it would pull the heat from the kitchen, on the opposite end of the house, as it was always cold in that room when the fireplace was cookin'. |
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Q-Dog Samba Member
Joined: April 05, 2010 Posts: 8700 Location: Sunset, Louisiana
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Dwayne1m wrote: |
I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place. |
Yeah, & the Suthnahs didn't know shit about thermal dynamics & thermal mass, otherwise, these homes would have the fireplace & chimneys in the middle of the house, not hanging off the ends. |
Southerners know plenty about thermal dynamics and mass. That's why winter isn't the season they were concerned with. _________________ Brian
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Here’s another little general store/gas station south of Spring Hope.
I bought a bumper from the owner & got some history on it. It was built in 1921 & owned by the property owners father and ran as a Texaco/Sky Chief until 1959.
Interestingly, he mentioned that the station closed down due to a change in law regarding permits, this leads me to believe that this is the reason why so many of these old gas stations/general stores all seem to have simultaneously forgotten in one moment in time. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Here’s another old home that I’ve watched languish for 25+ years, this one is off highway 64 near Siler City NC. The construction equipment nearby suggest that it will make way for highway widening.
And it’s barn.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2011 Posts: 3538 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:34 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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These look like they were nice homes at some point. I'm surprised they continue to just stand there and nobody tears them down or buys the property and builds a new home. Just odd to me because I just don't see abandoned homes or buildings like you show in my area. |
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wcfvw69 Samba Purist
Joined: June 10, 2004 Posts: 13389 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:27 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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Dwayne1m wrote: |
These look like they were nice homes at some point. I'm surprised they continue to just stand there and nobody tears them down or buys the property and builds a new home. Just odd to me because I just don't see abandoned homes or buildings like you show in my area. |
I agree. My contention is the original family who built the house (parents) died. The estate taxes or property taxes may have been too much for the kids? Or the kids moved away and had no interest in the property.
Either way, you'd think unless the house was a disaster that it would of had some value (along with the property) vs. just being abandoned?
It would be interesting to look up the ownership records or deeds on some of these properties.
I dig this thread BTW. _________________ Contact me at [email protected]
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Dwayne1m Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:47 am Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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wcfvw69 wrote: |
Dwayne1m wrote: |
These look like they were nice homes at some point. I'm surprised they continue to just stand there and nobody tears them down or buys the property and builds a new home. Just odd to me because I just don't see abandoned homes or buildings like you show in my area. |
I agree. My contention is the original family who built the house (parents) died. The estate taxes or property taxes may have been too much for the kids? Or the kids moved away and had no interest in the property.
Either way, you'd think unless the house was a disaster that it would of had some value (along with the property) vs. just being abandoned?
It would be interesting to look up the ownership records or deeds on some of these properties.
I dig this thread BTW. |
But somebody has to own the property and pay taxes on it, so why leave rot away and continue to pay taxes? Unless the bank owns it but even they would be trying to unload it.
I agree, this is a cool thread. Places I want to get to so I can take pics but it's gonna have to wait until Spring. |
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12740 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: VWs preserving history |
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There are literally thousands of old abandoned farm site here where I live. Just a few still have the buildings still standing. The trend over the last 50 years has been away from small family farms and to big corporate ones. That trend is accelerating at an unprecedented pace so the abandonment of houses here continues. These days though the new owners are generally pretty quick to bulldoze and burn the farm yards to reduce liability and increase farmable acreage. |
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