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Real value here. 17.5 abv. Kickin Chicken View attachment 9006028

True (bad ) story. I saw this same wine at a hole in the wall convenient store deep in Gray /Jones Co on Hwy 11 near the Jasper Co line back in 04. I remember because it had been forever since I HAD seen it. And that opening song from the ZZ Top Fandango album was going through my head.
"Have you heard ... What's the word... It's Thunderbird..." So of course I had to buy a bottle.
I was supposed to be at Ed Voyles Hyundai the next day to buy a hard to find traded in Geo Tracker soft top. Anyway I had a FEW beers the Friday night before and saw that Thunderbird bottle in the fridge... Well ****...let me keeps it real tonight.
Lookahere... that wine is worse than a damn El Toro tequila hangover. And I didn't even get to the label. The next morning at the Forsyth Waffle House was kinda rough. And since then I only keep it as real as you can get with the occasional Colt 45 or Mickey's Big Mouth.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Remember Ripple? A fine wine in a distinctive rippled bottle.

Funny thing was there used to be a liquor store down on Broadway in Macon deep in the ghetto when I was a driving age teenager in 87/88. I used to drive my super ugly tan vinyl top 78 LeBaron down there every weekend to score my booze. I had my late grandfather's old Smith 38 snub under the arm rest. You couldn't tell me **** . I would walk right by the drunk bums out front and into the store. I put my case of Busch or PBR or whatever suitcase beer was on sale on the counter with a fifth of white label Beam (GAG!) and acted like I knew what I was doing.
To this day people say I have bad luck. But I tell them when you think about all the stupid **** I did and lived to tell about it then I feel like I can't be that unlucky.

 

[InTune]

True (bad ) story. I saw this same wine at a hole in the wall convenient store deep in Gray /Jones Co on Hwy 11 near the Jasper Co line back in 04. I remember because it had been forever since I HAD seen it. And that opening song from the ZZ Top Fandango album was going through my head.
"Have you heard ... What's the word... It's Thunderbird..." So of course I had to buy a bottle.
I was supposed to be at Ed Voyles Hyundai the next day to buy a hard to find traded in Geo Tracker soft top. Anyway I had a FEW beers the Friday night before and saw that Thunderbird bottle in the fridge... Well ****...let me keeps it real tonight.
Lookahere... that wine is worse than a damn El Toro tequila hangover. And I didn't even get to the label. The next morning at the Forsyth Waffle House was kinda rough. And since then I only keep it as real as you can get with the occasional Colt 45 or Mickey's Big Mouth.

Whew.....that stuff is for the homeless. Make you forget where you stays

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Used be good place to eat can’t remember when they went out biz

There used to be one on Riverside Dr in North Macon. It was across from the Northside Dr McDonald's. One night around 89/90ish just before closing time SOMEONE robbed the McDonald's and shot the employee the counter . Then they chased the manager across the street behind the Steak and Ale.where they finished him off all with 22s.
Macon PD finally showed up and of course did or found nothing important. Then they turned the McDonald's store back over to the management who of course immediately cleaned the place up to get ready for the breakfast shift. And that one is still unsolved.
Oh the old Steak and Ale is some kinda Chinese place now.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Whew.....that stuff is for the homeless. Make you forget where you stays

When we lived in Gray we sometimes ( unfortunately) had to go to the North Ave. Kroger which is close.to the I75/I16 split and the Spring St exit. That's the underpass where the homelesses stay. One day when last daughter was still riding in the front of the buggy we were there in line for the register. So the cashier was chatting up my daughter and this homeless walker type was behind me with a buggy with like three of them Kroger brand half gallon bottles of generic Listerine. He got real impatient and started pushing closer. So I told him " Calm down dude. You'll be back under the bridge drinking that mouthwash any minute now." So he looked away.
So then I'm headed to the old 95 Escort and I hear someone yelling. Turns out it was old Smelly hollering at me. Then I yelled "Hey I got my daughter here.So stay back". He just kept coming and speaking in homeless tongues. So I grabbed the hammer from the floorboard and headed in his direction. Then he started hollering about calling 911. I told him I'd be glad to call for him but it would be WAY too late for him by the time they showed up.
Anyway that's day to day living in Macongo.

 

[buellbrewer]

Real value here. 17.5 abv. Kickin Chicken View attachment 9006028

“When the word was thunderbird “

 

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“When the word was thunderbird

“When the word was thunderbird “

 

[OttoMan]

Georgia National Guard - 1934

 

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1950s