When I worked for Hearst Magazine Division in the early eighties, I was assiged to photograph a tow truck that had won a Motor Magazine contest for custom tow trucks. Picking this vehicle was sort of a gag on the prt of the editors. The truck was kind of obscene. It was decorated with hundreds of lights and geegaws, and sported a bevy of horns. Iit belonged to a guy who lived in the mountains in West Virgina. I went out there to shoot the truck on the last day of a thirteen day road trip that had taken me across the country and back. I flew into West Virgina, rented a car and drove up some eighty miles of winding mountain roads. The last twenty miles or so were dirt roads. When I arrived at the house, the truck owner and his wife greeted me like I was long lost kin. I spent most of the day with them. Great folks. We drank some moonshine, they slaughtered one of the chickens that roamed thier yard, and the Mrs. baked som biscuits. I filed up on the best fried chicken I ever had, sho t the truck and headed back to New York. I have to see if I can find some pics of that truck. I probably have them packed away in a box somewhere. Anyway, that's my West Virginia story. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Doug Franklin wrote: > > frank theriault wrote: > > > >> When Mark and Dave and I head down to GFM we're a couple of hours > >> driving through West Virginia. It's beautiful-but-kind-of-sad > >> country. Hard to imagine how such a place could be economically > >> viable (coal and tourism seem to be about the only industries - and no > >> one but the owners seem to be getting rich from those). > > > > They do a pretty decent business in untaxed liquor, too. (Also known as > > "moonshine" :-) ) You might be surprised at the financial position of a > > few of those guys who look like a backwoods hick from Central Casting. > > Of course, a lot are just as comparatively bad off as they seem to be. > > There's some pretty serious moonshine operations out there. Places with > virtual private armies where the police don't even like to go. Dealing > in moonshine and North Carolina's second biggest cash crop (after > tobacco, of course) - marijuana. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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