• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The Library of Lore for Cliffside, North Carolina

Since 2002

Remember Cliffside

Memories
MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Explore
    • Galleries
    • History
    • In The News
    • Landmarks
    • Media
    • Memories
    • Odds & Ends
    • Photos of the Month
    • Rutherford County
    • Society
    • Where People Lived
  • What's New
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Where are we?
  • Guest Book
  • Contact Us
  • Search
  • Help
  • Donate
Home » Memories » Projects & Memoirs » Thompson Columns » Thompson 350523
The Thompson Columns

Thompson 350523

May 23, 1935

Cliffside, May 20 — The main street of America, you know without my saying it, has been given the publicity of magazine, radio, screen, and stage. Here in Carolina, however, it is main street which will hold many memories for us in years to come. It is Cliffside’s main street. Recently, taking shape thru the addition of concrete walks, it will in time become equal to any residential of cities of 50,000; during the summer I hope to see those strips of concrete become bordered by a blanket of green grass- there’s no reason, by the help of each citizen, why we shall not have a little main street as attractive as any residential in the Long Island district where New York commuters get away from most of the noise. It is our main street, yours and mine. And I believe I am not too enthusiastic. Maybe I have different angles, a different viewpoint from flying over the home town; that is certainly a different angle. When you fly over it, well, maybe you will agree.

* * *

Flying, the aviation fever, struck this scribbler during high school vicissitudes; I guess never to recover. At least the family agree in one of those long faced conferences that this must be the thing that is wrong with me. With a shrug and a sigh they try to bear up. But back to aviation, true it is a matured industry as yet. They do hold an unwavering faith, however. “Time” says that a great New York newspaper carried the same day of the Senator Cutting fatality an advertisement of the very same airplane manufacturer. In fact, “Time” magazine plainly says it is the new transport Douglas, the fastest, most trim passenger airplane on any American line. It is exactly the same ship that Eddie Rickenbacker made that new transport coast-to-coast time record. Officials, though not directly, are certain that crash was no fault of the machine but of the pilot. These same planes are flying one million miles monthly for American airways, I believe it is.

* * *

I wonder how many young fellows of the section “give a hang” about flying. It has been some months since we did a few spirals with Johnny Crowell in his Wrightmotored Waco, but boys ain’t it the doings?

* * *

June in January, Spring in Summer. Measles and Mumps. Coke and Coal. Snow and Sleet. (cannot stay them from their flight): A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and Thou. Beneath the Bow. And oh yeah-Blonds in Black. Which was what I was leading to. (to those who know this is ku-razy, and I’ll agree: I don’t give a nevermine.)

* * *

Mae West comes back with her “Going to Town” picture. And everyone you know will say: Am not sure I’ll see that picture. All of them will be there.

* * *

To those who will dance to the music of the Buccaneers at Rutherfordton on Thursday evening, a dance sponsored by the boys of Rutherfordton, here are five little things that you might like:
Guy Lombardo selects on Wednesday evening:

No. 1- Clouds
No. 2- Little Dutch Mill
No. 3-Stardust
No. 4- Easy to Remember
No. 5- Little white Gardenia

Congratulations, boys of Forest City and Rutherfordton, nice going those commendably conducted dances.

Primary Sidebar

Thompson columns logo: Flashes of this and that.
  • Introduction
  • About Skipper
  • Topic Index
  • Columns – 1933
    • November
      • Nov 09
      • Nov 23
      • Nov 30
    • December
      • Dec 07
      • Dec 14
      • Dec 14-B
      • Dec 21
      • Dec 28
  • Columns – 1934
    • January
      • Jan 04
      • Jan 11
      • Jan 18
      • Jan 25
    • February
      • Feb 01
      • Feb 08
      • Feb 15
      • Feb 22
    • March
      • Mar 01
      • Mar 08
      • Mar 15
      • Mar 22
      • Mar 29
    • April
      • Apr 05
      • Apr 12
      • Apr 19
      • Apr 26
    • May
      • May 03
      • May 09
      • May 16
      • May 23
      • May 30
    • June
      • Jun 07
      • Jun 13
      • Jun 21
      • Jun 28
    • July
      • Jul 05
      • Jul 12
      • Jul 26
    • August
      • Aug 02
      • Aug 09
      • Aug 16
      • Aug 22
    • September
      • Sep 06
      • Sep 13
      • Sep 27
    • October
      • Oct 04
      • Oct 11
      • Oct 17
      • Oct 25
    • November
      • Nov 01
      • Nov 08
      • Nov 15
      • Nov 29
    • December
      • Dec 06
      • Dec 13
      • Dec 20
  • Columns – 1935
    • January
      • Jan 10
      • Jan 31
    • February
      • Feb 07
      • Feb 21
      • Feb 28
    • March
      • Mar 07
      • Mar 14
      • Mar 21
      • Mar 28
    • April
      • Apr 03
      • Apr 18
    • May
      • May 02
      • May 09
      • May 16
      • May 23
      • May 30
    • June
      • Jun 06
The fountain on the square in Cliffside, its water completely frozen .
Cliffside's Fountain
"This pleasant landmark has been recently drippingly draped in a coat of ice. With warmer days, though, we watch lazy fish in the pool, which is formed at the fountain’s base."

© 2002–2023 · Cliffside Historical SocietyScroll To Top