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That's not true though. The guy would take pictures with them and put the pictures up on a cork board at the front. (Yes, he'd get in the picture and everybody would smile.)
It was a sad strange little place. I think most people imagine an aggressive blowhard having a store like that, he seemed like a slightly confused almost certainly stoned old man. He was the kind of guy you'd expect to have a bait ship rather than a bigotry emporium.
Evidently he once had a world renowned set of works by Aleister Crowley and that's the reason Jimmy Page sought him out.
Fuck Dent Meyers. That grave robbing piece of shit thought he was a tough dude pulling a gun on my mom back in the 80s bc she threatened to call the cops on him for robbing graves.
I went into that fucking creep’s store as a young teenager on a trip down south, not knowing anything about him except a cheerful comment from the fireman who’d given us directions: “he is a wild man!”
I rushed through my tour of the shop after realizing what I was seeing. My parents had excused themselves and stepped out back to the car after he railed about Atlanta using words I won’t repeat here. They said afterwards they didn’t push back because he was wearing guns on his belt - which is apparently a law in that part of Georgia. I bought two bullets just to justify having stopped; he insisted on writing me a receipt and wouldn’t let me leave without it. He stopped writing to take a phone call, telling his friend: “Yeah, I got some tourists here from England or Ireland* or something… yeah pop their tires or somethin’, make ’em feel welcome!”
I spent the whole next hour on the highway staring out the back window to make sure he wasn’t following us. That was thirty five years ago. When the internet came about, I would google him every time that memory came to me, to see if he was still alive. I admit to being very pleased when I read he finally popped his tires. The world is better off without him in it.
Genuinely scarred me. I sent the post link to my mom so she could celebrate, too. Here’s her response:
“Oh, wow, he was still alive! Thought he'd have gone to meet Satan long ago!* I just remember he had sort of brillo pad things nailed on to his desk & a note beside it: ‘N-glet scalp’. We said we were going to Atlanta & he hated it. When I asked why, ‘Too many negroes’**. What a horrible guy!”
*We’re not religious haha
** I had to correct her that he didn’t say that, he said “*N——-r town”.
They're suing each other over who has rights to this "inheritance". What an absolute self-own. What if the old man had just bought, I don't know, a grocery store instead in 1971? Then there'd actually be something worth fight over.
I don’t even think this weirdo had credibility on the civil war collecting scene, which is saying a lot. His store was a tourist trap filled with bogus material
Was visiting the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History right across the street from this place a couple years ago. My curiosity got the best of me and I went in. Vibes were super fuckin weird. Talked with the owners widow for a bit and she was certainly...interesting. Apparently my good ol boy act worked and she let me into the back room. The place was full of insane racist bric-a-brac, Nazi paraphernalia, real Klan robe. It was certainly an experience Im good not to repeat.
I went there once about 20 years ago with some reenacting pards after the reenactment we planned to attend ended up being a complete yahoo fest and we chose to sightseeing instead... in our Federal uniforms.
We went to Kennesaw Mountain, observed the battlefield park, got barked at by a little dog at the summit, its owner laughed that it "didn't like Yankees".
Went to the museum where the titular Great Locomotive Robbery locomotive is kept, we arrived just as they were closing but were graciously allowed to quickly view it before leaving.
Aaaand we went to that shop, again in uniform. We remained neutral, weren't trolls. I noted the owner was carrying openly. It was truly as racist as it gets in there.
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Threw in the towel?
Happens alot in confederate land—fire sales too.
It’s what they do best
As is their heritage
Haha grew up there. Always heard stories of no black people allowed in the store. I'd tell out of state friends about it and they'd be appalled.
Get fucked! Rest in piss.
That's not true though. The guy would take pictures with them and put the pictures up on a cork board at the front. (Yes, he'd get in the picture and everybody would smile.)
It was a sad strange little place. I think most people imagine an aggressive blowhard having a store like that, he seemed like a slightly confused almost certainly stoned old man. He was the kind of guy you'd expect to have a bait ship rather than a bigotry emporium.
Evidently he once had a world renowned set of works by Aleister Crowley and that's the reason Jimmy Page sought him out.
Racism is fucking weird.
https://creativeloafing.com/content-210835-profile-dent-myers-racist-bigot-honky
Show of hands, who thought the reason for closing would be that they burned down?
Standard traitor behavior.
If this upsets you, you should go back to the CSA
Oh wait!
It doesn't exist!
Obama was president longer than the Confederacy existed. I love that fact
Fuck Dent Meyers. That grave robbing piece of shit thought he was a tough dude pulling a gun on my mom back in the 80s bc she threatened to call the cops on him for robbing graves.
He was just digging for that southern pride.
Props to your Ma though - not confederate ones!
Now that's one I haven't heard before. Not saying it didn't happen, but it's not everyday you hear of grave robbing.
Just for the record, everyone in Georgia I've talked to has thought this rules.
Proof that, in time, burning bad shit to the ground does generate results.
Maybe another round would speed up the process.
I love when confederates fall 160+ years after the guns ceased.
Guy in the comments of that article talking about free speech and how "the extreme right and left" want to take away your rights.
If your rights involve being a KKK dork or Copperhead dipshit, I get to laugh when your (I assume racist) family fumbles the racist bag.
Now where will I go to find the dumbest people in town?
From what I’d read recently, a lot of his pals are in the local government. So maybe City Hall?
I went into that fucking creep’s store as a young teenager on a trip down south, not knowing anything about him except a cheerful comment from the fireman who’d given us directions: “he is a wild man!”
I rushed through my tour of the shop after realizing what I was seeing. My parents had excused themselves and stepped out back to the car after he railed about Atlanta using words I won’t repeat here. They said afterwards they didn’t push back because he was wearing guns on his belt - which is apparently a law in that part of Georgia. I bought two bullets just to justify having stopped; he insisted on writing me a receipt and wouldn’t let me leave without it. He stopped writing to take a phone call, telling his friend: “Yeah, I got some tourists here from England or Ireland* or something… yeah pop their tires or somethin’, make ’em feel welcome!”
I spent the whole next hour on the highway staring out the back window to make sure he wasn’t following us. That was thirty five years ago. When the internet came about, I would google him every time that memory came to me, to see if he was still alive. I admit to being very pleased when I read he finally popped his tires. The world is better off without him in it.
*We’re Scottish
insane lore drop
Genuinely scarred me. I sent the post link to my mom so she could celebrate, too. Here’s her response:
“Oh, wow, he was still alive! Thought he'd have gone to meet Satan long ago!* I just remember he had sort of brillo pad things nailed on to his desk & a note beside it: ‘N-glet scalp’. We said we were going to Atlanta & he hated it. When I asked why, ‘Too many negroes’**. What a horrible guy!”
*We’re not religious haha
** I had to correct her that he didn’t say that, he said “*N——-r town”.
Did they hold a fire sale before going out? 😏
Well, it lasted more than 10 times as long the Confederacy…
Burn it.
They're suing each other over who has rights to this "inheritance". What an absolute self-own. What if the old man had just bought, I don't know, a grocery store instead in 1971? Then there'd actually be something worth fight over.
Sherman smiling down on this news.
I don’t even think this weirdo had credibility on the civil war collecting scene, which is saying a lot. His store was a tourist trap filled with bogus material
Was visiting the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History right across the street from this place a couple years ago. My curiosity got the best of me and I went in. Vibes were super fuckin weird. Talked with the owners widow for a bit and she was certainly...interesting. Apparently my good ol boy act worked and she let me into the back room. The place was full of insane racist bric-a-brac, Nazi paraphernalia, real Klan robe. It was certainly an experience Im good not to repeat.
St John the Just be praised.
Oh well. Sucks to suck.
He didn’t die soon enough for me.
Amen.
Fuck ‘em
Divided they fell? lol
Was there fire involved?
In the words of Nelson: HA HA!
HA!
Couldn't happen to a nicer business.
I went there once about 20 years ago with some reenacting pards after the reenactment we planned to attend ended up being a complete yahoo fest and we chose to sightseeing instead... in our Federal uniforms.
We went to Kennesaw Mountain, observed the battlefield park, got barked at by a little dog at the summit, its owner laughed that it "didn't like Yankees".
Went to the museum where the titular Great Locomotive Robbery locomotive is kept, we arrived just as they were closing but were graciously allowed to quickly view it before leaving.
Aaaand we went to that shop, again in uniform. We remained neutral, weren't trolls. I noted the owner was carrying openly. It was truly as racist as it gets in there.
The Confederacy will neveer die! /s
A house divided against itself cannot stand
Burn the store down. Only way, really.
Burn it or put it in a museum of "what not to do."
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