QUOTE: Originally posted by Keyworth
Were you a member of the Atlanta chapter when they met at Uncle Charlie's in Decatur? I was active with them til about 1980.
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Ed, I can't recall the year I joined, but it was around that time. I do remember that Ron Edwards was President. Some of the notables were Phil Perry, John Ficklin, Rick Abercrombie, Don Harris, Mac Cobb, Ken Lundquist, Bob Sigman, Bud Colvin, Bill Ficke, Mike Mason, Sam Lyons, Frank Mitchell, Joe Wilkinson, Ray Wheeler, W.B. Baldwin, Steve Bryant and a host of others. I still see most of these guys on a more or less regular basis.
Charlie's was one of my all-time favorite hobby shops. I started doing business there in 1967. I drove up from Moultrie, in south Georgia about three or four times a year to get supplies and visit friends in Atlanta. I became a weekly customer in 1973 when Delta hired me and I moved up here. It was a true family run business...Charlie, Mrs. Morrison, his son Charles, and a couple of his daughters. It was sad when the landlord sold the property and didn't renew the lease. I rarely go to downtown Decatur anymore, but when I do I get a pang of nostalgia for the old Decatur Speedway.
Cheers,
Jim