Georgia WAS On My Mind, Honest

[yuugimotoh]

In the spirit of Yuletide giving, it seems my once-home state, Georgia, has given about 500 communities an early present. They now share something of a kinship with the planet Pluto -- whoops, sorry, scientifically wrong, the "dwarf planet" Pluto. They've been demoted clean off the official Department of Transportation map. Poof. Gone

Comments

[feyth]

That's like the town Kim lives in. It's not actually Waterford, NY. It's some other name (that I forget)--but, it's so small that they don't have a zipcode or anything, so if I want to mail something to Kim, I have to address it to Waterford, NY, the next-nearest town so that their post office can deliver it to her town. Or something like that. :B

[embyquinn]

That's exactly like where yuugimotoh used to live. Jackson, GA is the county seat and yet they can't be bothered to have a post office. Or a McDonald's. Or a cinema. Hell, their business district is a convenience store/gas station, a hardware store and a Family Dollar. I am SO NOT KIDDING.

I spent a week there once. I nearly went mad. Mad, I tell you.

[embyquinn]

I read this story early this morning (while you were still pulling Z's) and the first thing I did was check the list of "deleted" towns for Jackson. (I forgot it was the county seat and therefore would probably be immune to deletion). I meant to tell you about it, but it looks like you found it just fine on your own.

The funny thing is that nobody else seems to be doing a mass deletion of wide-spot-in-the-road communities. Just Georgia. What, is their typesetter being paid by the letter or something?

This being the Deep South, we have a lot of small towns. You wouldn't believe how many there are in Alabama. I wouldn't have, either, until I actually rode on a "local stop" Greyhound home from Tennessee. I started counting how many stops we made and lost count after thirty-odd. Small as they are and as much as I hated spending ten hours on a bus, I'd hate to see those little whistle-stops vanish into obscurity.

[embyquinn]

Oh, and incidentally--how could they dare to drop Experiment when it has its own Wikipedia entry?

The nerve. Srsly.