Alton Illinois pickup. Anybody from here?

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Posted By: Silver King

No problem on hijacking the thread to talk about Wadlow. Without anybody fessing to picking up the cards, the thread is dead baby.....Zed's dead (pulp fiction). I was sort of hoping somebody picked up the cards but obviously nobody has come forth. I was hoping to hear about the cards, ya know, wondering what somebody picked up a week before I arrived.

I like talking Wadlow, I was born in this little town and there is a lot of weird history. Rated in the top 10 most haunted cities in America. The bullets that killed Lincoln were made here. A Great White shark swam up the Missississippissisiipppis River and was caught here. Lincoln Douglas debates downtown. Slave trades and underground tunnels, tours available. Poverty, rich all living next to each other. All this within a 5 mile radius. Very cool.

I asked around the dozen or so antique shops looking for Wadlow items and found out that this isn't the town to find things. He's a hero in this small town and nobody is parting with any Wadlow memorabilia. I wish some of my relative who live here had something of his, but nobody does. There is a very cool picture in Fast Eddie's of Wadlow with some school kids. It's hard to imagine the size of Wadlow, makes most NBA players look like average size people.

robert shaw