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From: "james wesley lynn" <>
Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] Anyone recognize the building?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:39:25 -0500
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Marti, the photos are of two different Steam Operated Cotton gins.

The exterior of the one on the (viewers) right has hard wood siding - the
one on the left has "shiplap" siding, probably cottonwood which was an
inferior tree for lumber!!

I suspect the McCloud location is correct. Each of the photos were taken in
probably Sept or Oct of the year - while kids were out of school for
harvest.

I visited McCloud several times in the mid 1940s, in the company of one of
my Wayne HS buddies (Garland Hunt) who had family living in the NW outskirts
of town. I do not recognize specifically those particular establishments.

Yes, those are bales of cotton - makes my back hurt just looking at them and
it has been most 60 years since I touched a cotton boll - deliver me from
ever experiencing that "stoop labor" ever again.

Good photos - thanks for putting them on.. Someone will recognize them I
bet.

Jim Lynn aka Happy Warrior aka manyhaha

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