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    Posted: December/02/2008 at 09:37
Here is a piece of history in Waxahachie Texas Saturday where we live. I also came across some old picture on how it looked back in the day!!!
 
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Edited by Stephanie - December/02/2008 at 09:57
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Also movies that were made here were Bonnie and Clyde, Places in the Heart.
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I was just going to say that I saw Bonnie and Clyde in one of those cars!!!   Yippee  HA!!!
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lol...... That was a really great movie too! My grandfather came across them when he was young. They were bathing in a pond close to his house.
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COOL!  I enjoy looking at those old historic pics, Goddess! 
 
Luckily, we have a readily accessible resource in Ed to give us a first hand account of what life was like way back then!Cool
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

COOL!  I enjoy looking at those old historic pics, Goddess! 
 
Luckily, we have a readily accessible resource in Ed to give us a first hand account of what life was like way back then!Cool
 
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i bet he still has papyrus and a stylus too!
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WOW! Steph do you know if that MG08 Maxim is a live gun?
Life's concerns should be about the 120lb pack your trying to get to the top of the mountain, and not the rock in your boot.
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Oh so that's what it's called. I was wondering.

 
Not sure if it is or not. Most likely not. Can you tell me a little about that gun?
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Originally posted by Stephanie Stephanie wrote:

Oh so that's what it's called. I was wondering.

 
Not sure if it is or not. Most likely not. Can you tell me a little about that gun?
 
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I knew that it has some kind of power to it. See the foot holder on the bottom legs! The one I see had that as well.
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Flame     Where's Rifledude???     My ex-wife's grandfather ( Papaw Boatright---who was my great buddy ....) once gave a ride to a hitch hiker way back in the thirties in East Texas.....it was Pretty Boy Floyd!!    They had a nice chat..........Shocked 
 
 
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Steph, without going into detail (you can check mike650's link) the Maxim MG08 was invented by Hiram Maxim an American, and was used by the German Army in WWI and II. It was considered a heavy machinegun and used in a fixed position. It fired the 8x57mm Mauser cartridge at a rate of about 500-600 rpm, and is water cooled (note the big water jacket around the barrel) and can be fired for long periods of time. The MG08 is the reason trench warfare started during WWI. The Maxim is considered to be the first successful machinegun. It was used by several countries and in different calibers, and was copied by others. The British Vickers is a copy of the Maxim system, and the MG used by the Brits in WWI and II. I have watched shooters at the KCR MG shoot, shoot these guns all day long stopping only to reload. 
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Originally posted by Ed Connelly Ed Connelly wrote:

Flame     Where's Rifledude???     My ex-wife's grandfather ( Papaw Boatright---who was my great buddy ....) once gave a ride to a hitch hiker way back in the thirties in East Texas.....it was Pretty Boy Floyd!!    They had a nice chat..........Shocked 
 
 
 
the mobster or the pool player from the 70's and 80's??
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Originally posted by pyro6999 pyro6999 wrote:

Originally posted by Ed Connelly Ed Connelly wrote:

Flame     Where's Rifledude???     My ex-wife's grandfather ( Papaw Boatright---who was my great buddy ....) once gave a ride to a hitch hiker way back in the thirties in East Texas.....it was Pretty Boy Floyd!!    They had a nice chat..........Shocked 
 
 
 
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Pool player????  Loco   naw........................
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yeah pool, billiards you know 8 ball 9 ball?
 

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Jimmy Mataya is an American professional pool player, nicknamed "Pretty Boy Floyd".

In 1982, Jimmy Mataya, 31, wed Ewa Svensson, 17, of Sweden (who was later inducted into Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame as Ewa Mataya Laurance in 2004), forming pool's first "power couple". Their daughter Nikki was born in 1985, but they later divorced.[1]

Mataya enjoys other games of stake. In 1991, he was seen leaving Las Vegas in a brand-new Cadillac, courtesy of the Sahara Casino.[2]

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  • 1977 Dayton Open Eight-ball Championship
  • 1982 Port Angeles Open

Former world champion with over 30 major titles.[3]

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