Oshkosh '06 Redux

Morgans wrote:

"Jim Burns" wrote

You're in Lenoir?

Yep.

Hey, Jim, my mother used to live in Lenoir up until three years ago when
she moved to Hickory.

At her recommendation I flew down one weekend in 1996 and toured the
showroom of Blowing Rock Furniture store, then bought some Thomasville and
Broyhill products and had them shipped northward to NY. The savings was
close to 50% over our local furniture stores, even considering the two
hundred dollar shipping charges tacked on.

I hear that these types of savings are no longer possible, perhaps due to
the fact that all of those companies are in the process of relocating?

Speaking of Hickory, that is a nice GA airport there. Too bad about the
airport losing the commercial flights, but it looks as if someone invested
some money into the FBO there. When I flew down in May this year to visit
my mother, the FBO looked brand new and very clean.


--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote

Hey, Jim, my mother used to live in Lenoir up until three years ago when
she moved to Hickory.

Small world.

At her recommendation I flew down one weekend in 1996 and toured the
showroom of Blowing Rock Furniture store, then bought some Thomasville and
Broyhill products and had them shipped northward to NY. The savings was
close to 50% over our local furniture stores, even considering the two
hundred dollar shipping charges tacked on.

I hear that these types of savings are no longer possible, perhaps due to
the fact that all of those companies are in the process of relocating?

Far as I know, you can still get the big deals. Anyone furnishing a neaw
house would be well advised to come and buy, then ship, for BIG savings.

Speaking of Hickory, that is a nice GA airport there. Too bad about the
airport losing the commercial flights, but it looks as if someone invested
some money into the FBO there. When I flew down in May this year to visit
my mother, the FBO looked brand new and very clean.

I don't know why we could not make the commercial flights go. We had
service, then lost it for a few years, got it back and it flopped. I think
it was one of those things, where they did not have enough flights to make
it convienient to go places, with enough diversity, so nobody used it for
anything.

Yep, the new FBO is a beautiful complex. It was needed; the old place was a
hole.
--
Jim in NC

Yep... Know right where Hickory is. We still ship into Hickory, mostly
smaller companies. Sometimes we deal with L&M Produce which also has
warehouses in Raleigh. We used to ship into Taylorsville also, that's where
the Broyhill trucks used to deliver for us, but the place in Taylorsville is
kind of shaky these days. How many times I tried to get the Broyhill
traffic manager to sell me some furniture at discounted prices and leave it
on the trucks for me... no dice. ;(

We recently picked up a customer south of Hickory, just across the VA border
in Cana, VA. They take about a semi load per week. In fact, they were here
this morning and bought a few Angus bulls.

It's amazing how many Wisconsin potatoes the small towns surrounding your
local area use. Thanks!

Jim

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Jim Burns" wrote

You're in Lenoir?

Yep.

We regularly used to load trucks from Lenoir... Conover
Chair company if I recall correctly. We also used to load other
furniture
company trucks from Hickory Chair and Broyhill...

I think Hickory Chair has closed up shop, or almost closed. Hickory is the
next town over, and is about twice the size of Lenoir.

Broyhill and Bernhart are two giants, and have their headquarters here.
They both are closing plants about every 6 months, about 1200 employees at
a
whack.

But as you say the
furniture industry in NC has been devastated. We haven't seen a Broyhill
truck around here in years and I think they closed their Midwest factory
return center in Minnesota. We also used to load trucks from Comscope,
the
cabling company. During the days of huge commercial building expansion,
Comscope used to ship 2 semi loads of cable to Minneapolis every week.
But
that industry has died also.

Yep, Comscope has closed plants, and are half the size they used to be.
They are headquartered in Hickory. (HKY) That was where the F-86 went
down,
off of an aborted takeoff, right before OSH. Pity. A real class guy and
a
really fine plane. It was one of the best Sabers I have ever seen.
--
Jim in NC

"Jose" wrote in message
m...
To let it go (again) unchallenged is to concede the point, which is too
important to let go.

I guess I'll just have to disagree there. This is a piloting newsgroup,
this kind of stuff comes up all the time in spite of being way off topic,
and it never goes anywhere productive.

I let all sorts of off-topic points go unchallenged, some of them just as
important as the question of caring for the environment. I'm not conceding
the point. This just isn't the place to have the discussion (even assuming
there's a point to the discussion and, IMHO, most of these topics that come
up here, you are never going to make headway with the other person...the
biases are so ingrained, no amount of debate is going to change anyone's
mind).

But more power to you. If you find it useful, please feel free.

Pete

Yep, Comscope has closed plants, and are half the size they used to be.
They are headquartered in Hickory. (HKY) That was where the F-86 went down,
off of an aborted takeoff, right before OSH. Pity. A real class guy and a
really fine plane. It was one of the best Sabers I have ever seen.

Please tell me it wasn't the Sabre with the "Batman" logo painted on
the side?

That's been my son's favorite plane since he was a toddler...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

This isn't just about having a place to live that looks nice. It's about
not killing ourselves and every other living thing around us.

I agree with you more than you might believe, Pete. I don't want a
polluted world for my kids -- period.

My main point is simply that you (and I, for that matter) should be
glad that all the under-employed, under-educated folks who are facing
economic catastrophe because of what we've done are truly ignorant of
the situation. If they ever wake up to the fact that they've been
thrown into the under-class in exchange for cleaner air and water, they
might grow hostile to your cause.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jim Burns" wrote

We used to ship into Taylorsville also, that's where
the Broyhill trucks used to deliver for us, but the place in Taylorsville
is
kind of shaky these days.

Taylorsville is where I teach carpentry, at the high school.

I'll bet I go past the place you are talking about, every day. It should be
a little better, in the past 6 months to a year, since ownership changed
hands, due to total mismanagement, from the scuttlebutt I hear. Maybe still
shaky, though, huh? g

What brand or name do you ship your product under? This is really a small
world!
--
Jim in NC

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Yep, Comscope has closed plants, and are half the size they used to be.
They are headquartered in Hickory. (HKY) That was where the F-86 went
down,
off of an aborted takeoff, right before OSH. Pity. A real class guy
and a
really fine plane. It was one of the best Sabers I have ever seen.

Please tell me it wasn't the Sabre with the "Batman" logo painted on
the side?

That's been my son's favorite plane since he was a toddler...

No, it had brightly colored bold stripes painted on the vertical stabilizer,
and out on the fuselage, and the bottom of the horizontal was a red and
white star field.

Here is the home page for the plane, with pictures, kinda'.
http://www.flyingfossilsairshows.com/site.html
--
Jim in NC

In article om,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

This isn't just about having a place to live that looks nice. It's about
not killing ourselves and every other living thing around us.

I agree with you more than you might believe, Pete. I don't want a
polluted world for my kids -- period.

My main point is simply that you (and I, for that matter) should be
glad that all the under-employed, under-educated folks who are facing
economic catastrophe because of what we've done are truly ignorant of
the situation. If they ever wake up to the fact that they've been
thrown into the under-class in exchange for cleaner air and water, they
might grow hostile to your cause.

You're both missing the fact that new industries could have been created
to allow the old businesses to operate by mitigating the polution
sources. The polution sources simply chose to move to where they could
continue the old ways or shut down completely rather than adapt to
cleaner methods.

In article ,
"Morgans" wrote:

Yep, the new FBO is a beautiful complex. It was needed; the old place was a
hole.

By "the old place", do you mean the one down over the hill in the
northwest (?) corner?

Where is the new one?

Could you take some pictures and post them to
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation?