to go first in your perspective tonight we are going to be talking about another disappearing village at the dawsons crossroads my guests tonight are alice donaldson crossroads from a review of an early survey map the crossroads probably included two and probably three tracks of land now this is going way back like in the seventeen hundreds so the most probable was th track called the shop and at that time all the different parts of the the township was given a name and the crossroads was given the name of the shop and it was patented too john black warn consisting of three hundred forty one acres and one hundred twenty eight perches and it was surveyed on december nineteenth seven hundred eighty seven from the virginia certificate and patented october twenty third seven hundred eighty eight t prim blaine so now we're going to going to go quite back that far but my guests here tonight are going to go down memory lane and we're going to be talking about the crossroads as it was and quiet when they were teaching the other grannies and it was quite remarkable how they i was going to say my heart was broken because i didn't get to go to the pleasant valley i was looking so much forward to mcconnells and man he bought a small house for me when i got married in thirty eight which means two rooms an unbound chambers house behind that was just that was built in thirty eight i lived in that when i first got married and iraq although i have a may and her mother moved out and shirley and i moved in now it's been quite a few changes at the crossroads the many times yes well you know just you know about jobs first job that we had as children was  picking strawberries for taylor achievement which they probably have a picture of that house and we got paid two cents a quart and he he would pack them up and take him into  light in the crossroads but there were some some bad accidents there once they got to pave roads because all they had was a blinker there flashed red to two directions and yellow and it was a lot of times that  o gas station sign it missed the chef's restaurant and went across the road and went down in my mother's rock garden and i often wondered why they came out real quick and they cover measles and i remember the people coming into the kitchen and my mother was making coffee and and there were some people that were hurt and at that time there is the ambulance had to come from houston it was speakin funeral was all right nineteen thirty seven because they built the first track which is a thirty seven chevy which they still have and my father and the fellows that organized the fire department the first property for the first fire station my father donated and they built a tin building to house that thirty seven chevy and where was it then i said well it was behind us a gas station it was the last film there was a tower there th for the siren and that they would reach there and i remember my father saying that many nights they passed to have to pay the gas bill because they didn't have any money they built my two brothers and myself we have over one hundred years with the party parker i had thirty eight and my brother dick has forty some now and then my father had until he was killed and then my brother imagine when we did the walking tour of the crossroads right now we started like down or crips professional center is now so why don't we start there and work our way up and you can tell us all about the changes and patty maybe  ok you're going to have pictures yeah so does anybody have anything else before we show this this film of what we walked around with there was some  out in the background there was a cheeseman farm and that's where the streetcar came through in front of their house and came to the cheeseman stop but this was before i was born and there's four distinct the four roads coming together to make the crossroads and the other one is it is well the other one is a little closer up it's a it shows a picture of where i chose the four corners and you can see the road is fairly narrow and it dropped off past that telephone pole going down that's where we used to sled right because it went down just anybody else have anything else now before we are going to start with the pictures but you're going to start with the feel of what we have seen ok so just a few minutes they'll be well we've had some very pleasant memories of the when it used to be and now maybe we can talk a little bit about what we see today water dam road comes out to a member of the truck stop the had some hard hearted about but you know we're already built the building there was a truck stop there dawson's hand and then they sold that and then they moved down to where the there serious oh yeah that was a model home and i think it was a restaurant it was the rest are the french it was a french restaurant i remember going out there and you know we thought we had a coupon so we have a coupon you now and then you come on down and that was where boss and grocery store was and the advertising across the street from that we had a dairy delight for we have a dairy delight we had the carlos union national that we had a frozen custard place next to the sunoco service station and then there was sam van dam and he had a trading post you know and he had auctions there and a little bit of everything you know is now yeah right now i know where i'm at and where  we can see that says nice thing and there's looks like we're up in the mountains or something in the you in the back ok well i think that we have gone through a lot of the crossroads there and there is still war but we don't have time to do the risk of it right now so we will be back with more pictures of how the crossroads used to be and to show that so many improvements that you can do it all at one time so we will be back with more and hoping to see you all soon this is and we grego from seeing your