Macdonald/s shooting half mile from Gaffney Pastorium

  This blog will need some work but the the substance is here about a shooting that mad eupstate news around december ten hallf mile from where the family lived in Gaffney at Bethany baptist church. The Mickey Dee on Union Hwy is halfway between our former home and Limestone College   

      there was a shooting at McDonald’s yesterday about 430 on the union highway in Gaffney, South Carolina about a quarter of a mile from the Bethany Baptist Church on the Wilkinsville Road in the pastor in which I lived from 1964, the fall of 64 until 78 when we left, of course in those years, I was at Furman for four years, but I came back 75 and was there Every location has it history right across the street in 1956 some people who attempted to bomb Doctor‘s house about a half a mile and the other direction on up from Central school, which is one of the best elementary schools in the state. They made a phone call from a payphone and I left the phone off the Hook to give them a little time to get away from their bombing and then went down Chandler Drive it was also used to be a Keller’s supermarket on that in the town and that guy was a deacon in my dad‘s church and right beside him. David Wyatt lived Was a colorful character and big years. They said if you look like a taxi cab coming down the street at the back of the bus had all the pretty girls laughing one day he said there was some incident in that neighborhood where the guy called. He shouted out help help my CUR my occurs on FAR for my cruise zone for my cruise zone for somebody called the fire department for me Says it’s pretty hilarious at the time and it’s also in the other direction on a quarter of a mile just McDonald’s formally a killer store formally across the street from Joy’s hot dog tree give you that foot-long hotdog on Saturday for a dollar or less and is my friend from the third grade. He went through Furman with me the Doctor son Charles Edwards from up on the hill said he had in the fourth grade and know it start saving his money Every Tuesday to get one of his foot-long hotdogs at Jennings hotdog and then between our church and parsonage and this McDonald’s location was Lynn‘s hamburger stand. You had the famous chili hamburger. My dad would go down there and getting in the way two or three weekdays a week and and then said well since I work for you and then you get a free hamburger, but they love daddy that was the location of a former school board trustee was looking for me One night in May 1978 and I was not there but he had some guy with him, Wilbur Lynn‘s brother told me said, but I called him on the phone. We had four phones in the past is my sister on the other line and that was part of some family tensions with the church And he told me he could stand on my ass and be stand on my toes and beat my ass in the ground and I said I got no question you could do that but later I made a vague reference to that in a response to the documentary on the uprising of 34 on the textile strikes, they came through the Piedmont Carolinas from Winston-Salem all down all the way down to Gadsden, Alabama to Gainesville and Gaffney in Greenville so I got some national attention with a vague reference to all that also reminded me of the black guys in the late 60s early 70s would stand on the corner opposite where this McDonald’s is now on her Kellers was including on one occasion, Charles Foster, my friend, who later was in the Olympics in 1976 but part of his Testimony was he didn’t really feel comfortable there. That was the place for him, but it was of some comfort to a guy nickname was no talker no talker. He was often in that bunch of about 20 black guys between 10 and 20 black guys on Saturday afternoon. I don’t remember any you know you just kept moving when you would drive past them. You certainly didn’t walk that way on Saturday, but they never hurt. Nobody that I remember except no talker in a touch football game not to poop out of me on time you know I never played football, but I got an idea what a hit was like one of my buddies that played on the team that almost won the state championship Fall 6970 said no taco would’ve been a starter Beeene receiver or defensive in and I believe that, but I don’t know if no talker still living or not but that’s a little history of that vicinity so you know every location is got it’s a guided history but that’s a little bit. That’s not common knowledge but again 20 yards from where this McDonald’s shooting was, which is Getting a worse reputation, especially in the last 20 years though again I haven’t been there since 1978 is a fairly popular spaghetti pizza place where our class is 71 meets four times a year and other classes they have a big room for a gathering. It seats about 40 or 50 so you know this shooting could’ve happened and almost any McDonald’s anywhere or Walmart but it happened to make the news yesterday on channel 4, and provoked some memories