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		<title>Heating our homes, the old fashioned way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until the mid 1950&#8217;s, coal was the predominant heating fuel for most houses and apartments in our neighborhood. After all, it was abundant and easily mined from nearby. It was an extremely dirty way to heat. Every chimney spewed thick, black, sooty smoke all winter. That made it difficult to dry clothes on lines in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made in America and in our neighborhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Southside neighborhood area was one which produced many items that were durable, and were meant to serve a given purpose at the time. Several of these items are still around and are useful in one way or another. I think it is unique that our villages of 800 or so houses and the accompanying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When hobos came to the southside neighborhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was a young boy growing up in our Southside neighborhood, we had a lot of men who would ring our back doorbell asking if they could have something to eat. The Great Depression and World War II made for a hard time for many people. So from 1929 until around 1946 there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillbilly music had a home in the Tree Streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were a lot of &#8220;start up&#8221; businesses in America at the end of WWII. One of our neighbors, Jim &#8220;Hobe&#8221; Stanton, who lived in the 400 block of West Pine Street, decided to start his Rich-R-Tone Record Company in 1946. His first records were the 78-speed records. As he progressed through the years, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Southside Neighborhood General Mills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our research and interviewing, we are constantly discovering new and fascinating stories about the people who have lived and are currently living in our Southside Neighborhood.  We are also fortunate to have many of these people sharing artifacts with us and giving us &#8220;leads&#8221; to even more and more impressive folk who have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Television comes to the Tree Streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walter Brownlow, who lived with his wife and children at 821 West Pine Street, was known for years as &#8220;Brownlow the Radio Man&#8221;. His radio shop at 411 West Walnut Street was a mainstay for the latest model radios and record players. He also repaired them when they burned out a tube or otherwise failed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you hear the whistles blowing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&#38;WNC) was certainly a local railroad. The Tennessee legislature granted permission for its&#8217; construction in 1866. After false starts and delays, it finally was up and running to the mines at Cranberry, NC. Johnson City was the location for the Headquarters with the offices and the depot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Markings on the Curbstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On those quiet walks you take through our special neighborhood, here is a curiosity that you can search out. Back during the first half of the 20th century, the City Water Department used a special marking system to make their repair work easier. When a section of the &#8220;Carter Addition&#8221; (our neighborhood) would be developed [...]]]></description>
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