I find a lot of 100+ year old coins.
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Lucky you, I'm jealous.

(07-12-2017 12:24 PM)banker Wrote:  A lot of misconceptions about company towns. You have to keep in mind that in the mid to late 1800s into the 1920s there was literally nothing in the areas where these companies owned vast mineral rights. No one lived there, there were no houses, stores, doctors, etc. The only way to get workers to locate their was to provide them with the necessities of life. So the company built housing, stores, employed a doctor and dentist.

You can talk about it being wrong to pay in company script, but the simple fact is that there was no where else to spend money anyway. Don't know how many of you have been to Appalachia and the locations of these old mine operations, but you literally couldn't get there from here back in the old days. A few treacherous dirt roads running along ridge lines through the mountains. When real roads came, and automobiles, allowing the miners and their families to actually "go to town" company script died.

I do a fair amount of metal detecting in the region and have found some cool old script from different mines. It's an interesting piece of American history.

My family reunions were way up in the wv backwoods at a camp my family has in Clay County. It's about an hour from the nearest thing resembling a town. If you go 30 minutes farther down the road it's on, you'll hit an old coal mining town. Truly remarkable how isolated it is. Shockingly, some people still live there. I don't know how you could unless you truly just lives off the land.

(07-12-2017 11:41 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 11:38 AM)BuffaloTN Wrote:  Curious when people say enough and stop using Facebook. I've never had an account, what about the rest of you guys?

I remember when you used to have a university email address to be on it.

I got off of it long ago.

That was back when facebook provided actual value to its users. For instance, it was a great tool for helping to figure out what party you were going to or for setting up a group to make fun of your buddy for hooking up with that linebacker of a lady.

(07-12-2017 11:26 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Yes, I wrote 1890's. for a reason.

Anyone remember those "Corporate cities" (Usually from things like Pullman company and such), where you lived and worked for one company, but all your spending went back into that one company?

Looks like Mr. Zuckerberg wants to go back to those type of Shanty-towns..

Social Housing.

Best part? The claim it is to help the fact that there aren't enough homes for the employees in Silicon Valley, but hten:

Quote:However, the new Facebook homes will still be quite pricey, with only 15 percent of them being offered at below market rates. The apartments will be available to Facebook employees and are estimated to be completed sometime in 2021.

What's next? You'll only be able to buy from the Facebook-Store with Facebook-Script Money?

Congratulations, Mr.Z, you've gone back to the days of the railroad barons!!!

We call those mill towns around here. And if you want to find where crime is going down in the deep south ... go find the nearest mill town. Because that is as low as you get around here before you hit public housing. And frankly I'd consider any recent public housing nicer than 95% of mill towns I've seen.

(07-12-2017 11:33 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  A post modern plantation.

On second thought, with the number of Asians Facebook employs, it may be a post modern internment camp.