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Totally Off Topic:  You know all those prescription drug ads?  Could you tell what the drug was for, if you didn't have any text or voice-over?  

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There is one I see on tv here, name unremembered. I mute commercials so I know not what they say. Everyone is living their best life, outdoors, laughing, having so much fun, friends, etc. Then our featured actor is at his slow pitch softball game and as the ball is pitched he shortens his hands on the bat to...bunt. Slow...pitch...softball and he bunts.

The side effect of loss of judgment is apparent.

Edited March 27, 2021 by tarhoosier

[rancenc]

I'm sure quite a few residents of the area have 2nd homes in Avery County and the surrounding towns of NW North Carolina.

https://businessnc.com/avery-countys-second-home-bonanza/

 

[rancenc]

The rapidly development of urbanization in the Charlotte metro region unfortunately has some negative side effects .

https://www.wcnc.com/article/features/charlotte-nonprofit-urban-farmland-community-outreach/275-d59cd452-c01b-4397-8f44-299a39479c7a

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This post is outside the Ring City thread so I will post here. First overnight travel in more than a year and it was to Pinehurst Resort. A half-day tour takes us to Carthage, North Carolina, seat of Moore County. Carthage is close to the middle of the county. It was on a plank road to Fayetteville and the Cape Fear River for trade. The city and the courthouse itself is on a rise with the land dropping away all around. 

The courthouse is from 1926. It has a simple, authentic appearance. Rusticated stone on the ground level with ashlar stone above. Inset columns with no porticoes. A double door entry and arched windows decorate the ground floor with the double rectangular windows above. No entabulature, no recessed roof, no exterior lighting, all serve to give the honest neoclassical look. The front and rear facades are identical with the short sides also identical. Perhaps this simplicity was a budget decision but it gives a satisfying appearance. The ratio of height to width is well designed. Ionic capitals on the inset columns. There are four oaks on the property which is an oval with the road from Pinehurst circling the courthouse. Two oaks on this side and two on the identical facade on the rear. Well planted in the metaphorical as well as visual senses.

On a stone marker in front of the building is this plaque honoring Andrew Johnson who ran away from his apprenticeship in Raleigh at age 15 and lived in Carthage for a short time before the risk of capture encouraged him to move elsewhere. May his memory be embalmed...

Looking from the Johnson monument is this view facing the courthouse. Subtlety is a rare commodity in Moore County.

Looking in the other direction from the courthouse oaks one sees this new court service building. Over the door in much smaller letters by the steps is the Moore County services center but it is clear who is the legal authority here. Again, subtlety is lost. Clock was correct. The Sheriff and jail are behind this building.

Rear facade. Obelisk memorializes a local man who lost his life as a member of Air Squadron over France in WW I. Matching oaks to the front were planted and donated by a judge in 1927 so over 100 years old.

Carthage has a population of ~2,000 and the residential area around the courthouse makes this a reasonable estimate.

Edited April 4, 2021 by tarhoosier

[Nick2]

58 minutes ago, tarhoosier said:

This post is outside the Ring City thread so I will post here. First overnight travel in more than a year and it was to Pinehurst Resort. A half-day tour takes us to Carthage, North Carolina, seat of Moore County. Carthage is close to the middle of the county. It was on a plank road to Fayetteville and the Cape Fear River for trade. The city and the courthouse itself is on a rise with the land dropping away all around. 

The courthouse is from 1926. It has a simple, authentic appearance. Rusticated stone on the ground level with ashlar stone above. Inset columns with no porticoes. A double door entry and arched windows decorate the ground floor with the double rectangular windows above. No entabulature, no recessed roof, no exterior lighting, all serve to give the honest neoclassical look. The front and rear facades are identical with the short sides also identical. Perhaps this simplicity was a budget decision but it gives a satisfying appearance. The ratio of height to width is well designed. Ionic capitals on the inset columns. There are four oaks on the property which is an oval with the road from Pinehurst circling the courthouse. Two oaks on this side and two on the identical facade on the rear. Well planted in the metaphorical as well as visual senses.

On a stone marker in front of the building is this plaque honoring Andrew Johnson who ran away from his apprenticeship in Raleigh at age 15 and lived in Carthage for a short time before the risk of capture encouraged him to move elsewhere. May his memory be embalmed...

Looking from the Johnson monument is this view facing the courthouse. Subtlety is a rare commodity in Moore County.

Looking in the other direction from the courthouse oaks one sees this new court service building. Over the door in much smaller letters by the steps is the Moore County services center but it is clear who is the legal authority here. Again, subtlety is lost. Clock was correct. The Sheriff and jail are behind this building.

Rear facade. Obelisk memorializes a local man who lost his life as a member of Air Squadron over France in WW I. Matching oaks to the front were planted and donated by a judge in 1927 so over 100 years old.

Carthage has a population of ~2,000 and the residential area around the courthouse makes this a reasonable estimate.

I'm from Moore county and carthage shot itself in the foot a hundred years ago. There was a buggy factory there and the town turned down a ford factory being built there. Carthage used to be a fairly important city back then due to its location on the plank road. The town was completely dead until about ten years ago when they downtown area around the courthouse actually came back to life with shops and restaurants.

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Next is Lee County, seat in Sanford, NC. Sanford was a railroad town but is most known now as a brick manufacturer. Sanford Brick and Lee Brick are among the largest brick manufacturers in the country. The area has clay mines with a mix of sand from the sandhills area and a good resource for this product.

Rightly so, the courthouse from 1906-1908 is brick faced. Brick columns also. Prominent pediment and ionic capitals on the columns. Note numerous air conditioning  units.

Lee County was crated in the 1870's from Moore and Chatham, the last of the eastern counties created. Named for Robert E Lee. No tin soldier. When this building was considered there were competing towns, Sanford and Jonesborough, each about a mile and a half apart. The decision was to put the building between the two towns. Sanford has overtaken Jonesborough in prominence since that time. 

Rear view and the pediment looks even more prominent here. Note natural mortar repairs in brick facade. Some parge also noted in areas of the building, which is common for such a building over a century old. The new working part of the court system is a modern red brick structure on this brick plaza seen here and just to my back. Ionic capitals for the columns, single windows and the size of the building is small considering all the responsibilities necessary in the early 20th century when the building was built in 1906-1907. There is a raised recessed roof just seen from this viewpoint. The person at the rightmost edge of the photo is a bail bondsman. Saturday, Easter weekend. 

On the grounds is the former courthouse bell, placed here as a bicentennial project in 1976. Still operable and I rang it. If it was on the roof of the courthouse it would be heard from far away. Likely to announce court for clerks, lawyers, jurors and such in the towns, each three quarters of a mile away. Courthouse bells was a common item in the 1800's and not just here. Church, school, and court, a call to serve. Bell manufacturers were a going business. This one marked from Hillsboro Ohio.

Because the courthouse was built in the open area between the two towns this is the current scene. Five lane Horner Boulevard, US 421, leads 30+ miles East to Lillington and the Cape Fear River.  For decades the Lee County Courthouse was the only one in the US with an RFD address. This photo taken April 3 and if you are allergic even the online photo will make you sneeze. I was covered in pollen and dust.

The unusual location of Lee County Courthouse on Horner Boulevard. Greensward of the Courthouse to the right.

 

More oddity is a grave in the lawn. As part of a memorial the remains of the only known Revolutionary War soldier from what became Lee County was moved here, along with his stone. Jacob Gaster died age 90 in 1855 so he was an adolescent in the war. How much of this is factual I cannot say. More heat pumps in view.

Railroad brought prosperity to Sanford and the look of the town with all the buildings in a pleasant shade of ochre brick, the depot, the hotel and other survivors, paints a pleasing view. If you happen to go there be sure to  visit Yarborough Ice Cream and grill.

https://yarboroughs-homemade-ice-crm.business.site/

[KJHburg]

Charlotte is #18 on this list and that is a great thing believe me.  Still too high.  Raleigh does better than we do 

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[kermit]

Is post-upgrade UP superslow for everybody or is it just me?

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Yes, each page, post and photo is slower than before.

[NCMike1990]

Yes it’s definitely slower on the mobile site and my desktop pc. I hope there is a fix for this or might have to just get used to it.

[rookzie]

6 hours ago, kermit said:

Is post-upgrade UP superslow for everybody or is it just me?

 

6 hours ago, tarhoosier said:

Yes, each page, post and photo is slower than before.

 

2 hours ago, NCMike1990 said:

Yes it’s definitely slower on the mobile site and my desktop pc. I hope there is a fix for this or might have to just get used to it.

 

I'm just a pop-up lurker per se ─ just spot-visiting from the Nashvile [TN] forum, to check how others are reacting to the new snail's pace of U-P.

I'm hoping the software engineers get in gear to come up with a fast-fix.  At my age, either I fall asleep between page-navigation loadings, or dementia has time to set in to make me forget why I even clicked a link in the first place. The members of the Nashville forum aren't that enthusiastic about it either.

Thanks...

 

13 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

Is it just me, or does this new updated version of the forum run significantly slower than the previous version?  I don't suppose there is anything we can really do about it if that is indeed the case, but I suppose I mainly wanted to make sure it isn't an issue with my computer.

 

12 hours ago, downtownresident said:

Same here, new version runs significantly slower. 

 

12 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Ditto... and tougher to read on my iPhone 

 

[Norm2]

49 minutes ago, rookzie said:

 

 

 

I'm just a pop-up lurker per se ─ just spot-visiting from the Nashvile [TN] forum, to check how others are reacting to the new snail's pace of U-P.

I'm hoping the software engineers get in gear to come up with a fast-fix.  At my age, either I fall asleep between page-navigation loadings, or dementia has time to set in to make me forget why I even clicked a link in the first place. The members of the Nashville forum aren't that enthusiastic about it either.

Thanks...

 

 

 

 

Yea, this sucks.

[tozmervo]

The forum tree also seems to be missing from the top of the pages. Like I'm in a coffee house thread, but don't see the tree where I can click back into the Charlotte forum or North Carolina forum, for example.  (on desktop)

[a2theb]

1 hour ago, tozmervo said:

The forum tree also seems to be missing from the top of the pages. Like I'm in a coffee house thread, but don't see the tree where I can click back into the Charlotte forum or North Carolina forum, for example.  (on desktop)

Its there, the font is just white so impossible to see

[kermit]

Speed is much better now. Thanks!

[kermit]

So it does appear that editing posts results in huge amounts of past material in the thread to be unintentionally added to the edited post. (its happened to me twice this afternoon)

[KJHburg]

on the new webpage revisions everything seems faster now but the navigation bar at the top to move from topic to thread is missing hope it comes back. 

[tozmervo]

Bugs aside, I do like the new clean layouts

[Neo]

Sorry about the issues guys...I bit off my than I could chew myself with this upgrade. All servers and software were upgraded in a major way including everything from server OS's, hardware, database, etc. Doing it all at once was probably not my brightest idea but it's over with now so whew! 

[nakers2]

Thoughts on this?

[Madison Parkitect]

1 hour ago, nakers2 said:

Thoughts on this?

That's kind of the best-case scenario you can hope for with tower signage these days. It's unobtrusive and fine.

[Nick2]

I'm ok with the new layout. I hate change but I'll get used to it. I just don't like the yellow. I'd prefer a blue or green in its place.

[JRNYP2C]

On 4/28/2021 at 2:35 PM, nakers2 said:

Thoughts on this?

I think it looks tacky.  That's why I'm glad (at the moment) Charlotte does not imitate a Las Vegas style with names and flashing lights everywhere.  Of course we must exclude - for obvious reasons - Truist Tower.

Just look at Pittsburgh with all of the garish sineage on half of the buildings downtown.  It's a joke.

[Matthew.Brendan]

Pittsburgh? I'll have to take a closer look next time, but it looks pretty nice to me. Can't make out much garish signage. Maybe it's all recently added?

 

 

 

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