Just happened across your blog (is that what this is? Anyway I like it!) Because of your piece about Mick Jagger showing up at a bar in Charlotte, and as soon as I saw the headline I knew that Gaston county would be on your list. I grew up there and there's no question you're correct that most Charlotteans love to look down on Gastonia. However my Pawpaw Bub (born in McAdenville in 1925) was a contrarian that way and had no use for Charlotte's big city airs. He was famous for saying he'd "rather be sittin' in Bessemer City with a broke leg, a toothache, and his pants full of shit, than own all of Mecklenburg county." Each to his own taste, I reckon. 🙂
I can vouch for the 8th St ballpark in Spencer. I lived on 3rd for a while and my football team practiced there. I got into multiple fights before, during or after practice .
Also, Lumberton would have been my vote had I known to vote beforehand. I've spent time there, Fayetteville, Jacksonville, and lived in Gaston County for 6 years but Lumberton would kick all of their asses.
Wish I had seen this earlier. The answer is definitely Shelby, NC, home to Uncle Goddamn. "COME TO SHELBY! COME TO SHELBY!!!!" https://youtu.be/MtSXj3JgX4c?t=142
Another excellent lesson on NC geography. The Bessemer City-Gastonia beef was <chef’s kiss>.
In the interests of helping you get another column out of the concept, I can’t believe I forgot about the 1885 Mocassin War, which was recently memorialized in downtown Highlands. TL;DR, after some tax-evading Georgia moonshiners were arrested and taken to Highlands. Offended at this affront to state pride, 18 Georgians then laid siege to Highlands before better sense won out. Now, Atlantans lay siege to Highlands in the summer with obnoxiously large SUVs and dressed in battlefield Vineyard Vines.
So that’s NC-Georgia, where would we fight other states? I’m thinking Boston Whalers on Lake Gaston to beat back the Cavaliers, and South of the Border to beat back those mustard-loving heretics from the other Carolina.
The only time I ever really, really wanted to fight was in Southern Pines. Five drunk asshole cops were at dinner on their golf trip *from* Myrtle Beach, and one called my wife a bitch because we asked them to tone it down.
Just happened across your blog (is that what this is? Anyway I like it!) Because of your piece about Mick Jagger showing up at a bar in Charlotte, and as soon as I saw the headline I knew that Gaston county would be on your list. I grew up there and there's no question you're correct that most Charlotteans love to look down on Gastonia. However my Pawpaw Bub (born in McAdenville in 1925) was a contrarian that way and had no use for Charlotte's big city airs. He was famous for saying he'd "rather be sittin' in Bessemer City with a broke leg, a toothache, and his pants full of shit, than own all of Mecklenburg county." Each to his own taste, I reckon. 🙂
I can vouch for the 8th St ballpark in Spencer. I lived on 3rd for a while and my football team practiced there. I got into multiple fights before, during or after practice .
Also, Lumberton would have been my vote had I known to vote beforehand. I've spent time there, Fayetteville, Jacksonville, and lived in Gaston County for 6 years but Lumberton would kick all of their asses.
Wish I had seen this earlier. The answer is definitely Shelby, NC, home to Uncle Goddamn. "COME TO SHELBY! COME TO SHELBY!!!!" https://youtu.be/MtSXj3JgX4c?t=142
Another excellent lesson on NC geography. The Bessemer City-Gastonia beef was <chef’s kiss>.
In the interests of helping you get another column out of the concept, I can’t believe I forgot about the 1885 Mocassin War, which was recently memorialized in downtown Highlands. TL;DR, after some tax-evading Georgia moonshiners were arrested and taken to Highlands. Offended at this affront to state pride, 18 Georgians then laid siege to Highlands before better sense won out. Now, Atlantans lay siege to Highlands in the summer with obnoxiously large SUVs and dressed in battlefield Vineyard Vines.
https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/moccasin-war/
So that’s NC-Georgia, where would we fight other states? I’m thinking Boston Whalers on Lake Gaston to beat back the Cavaliers, and South of the Border to beat back those mustard-loving heretics from the other Carolina.
😂😂😂... all it made me laugh!
The only time I ever really, really wanted to fight was in Southern Pines. Five drunk asshole cops were at dinner on their golf trip *from* Myrtle Beach, and one called my wife a bitch because we asked them to tone it down.
I was ready to throw them through the windows.