Upson County GaArchives Photo Place.....Mallory Store - Five Points un/k ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Mallory Land RETROFIT@flash.net November 30, 2006, 10:34 am Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/photos/mallorys12090gph.jpg Image file size: 27.2 Kb This photo shows the interior of a store my father's uncle, William Francis "Frank" MALLORY, operated. He is the man on the left. I am told he ran a store at one or more locations at Five Points in Thomaston. My grandmother sent this to my dad some years ago (she died in 1980). I would like to find out an approximate date of the photo and the identities of the two other persons pictured. Frank (18 MAR 1889 Talbot Co, GA - 09 SEP 1958 Thomaston, Upson Co, GA) was known as Uncle Buddie in our family and Uncle Bo in some of the other families. He was the son of Francis Marion & Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" (CARRAWAY) MALLORY and is buried in Southview Cemetery. NOTE: nancys@charter.net We lived in the one house on the same strip of stores known as "Five Points" from about 1950/1951 until April 1956. Five Points was about two long blocks (running north and south) of various stores - service/gas station, furniture store, fish market, a department store, several cafes (5 that I can think of right now), several grocery stores (5 plus a fish market), a picture show, a record shop, sporting goods store, apparel shop, several beauty shops (3 that I can think of - would be called salons now), a dime store. a barber shop, and probably other kinds that I can't recall at the moment. Five Points was my "playground" with many people watching for me and children of others running businesses there. We had two roomers while living there. In April of 1956 we moved in one of the block of houses across the street from Five Points in the fourth house east of Five Points where we had a boarding house. A man known as "Uncle Bo" lived with us in the one house at Five Points and then he moved with us when we moved. I was born in 1950; so, Uncle Bo was a big part of my childhood. He died in his room upstairs at our house. The boarders all lived upstairs, and we lived downstairs. They ate breakfast and dinner (the noon meal was called dinner back then) with us. Some of the boarders who worked in the mills during the day shift would eat when they got home just after 4 P.M. as the mills were within blocks of us. I so enjoyed going in Uncle Bo's grocery store when we lived at Five Points. I would ask for bologna because I liked it and really liked to watch him slice it. Then we would get a box of Ritz Crackers and sit in front of his grocery store in chairs on the sidewalk and eat bologna and crackers. "david covington" I remember the store and also, we used to buy fish at the Wishams Fish Market which was Thomastons only fish market. Also, there was the Assembly of God Church there and a fairly large department store Called Hellners Dept. Store. Red Shirley had a cafe there and they had the most wonderful burgers. "Cathie Parker" Note the wonderful tin ceiling! File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/photos/mallorys12090gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb