bob melton's was never the same after they moved from the river location.

4/26/2012 9:30:58 AM

The real question here is Gentleman's Playground or Satin Curves?

4/26/2012 9:32:18 AM

I, too, miss Bob Meltons. Remember the spring fed fountain outside?

^ ha ha

[Edited on April 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM. Reason : l]

4/26/2012 9:34:08 AM

I really enjoyed the Power Plant area. Had a great birthday party at Chico's for my 25th, and loved to walk around City Lake early in the mornings. That stopped after that horrible murder at the church next to it, though.

4/26/2012 10:04:58 AM

I, too, loved Bob Melton's

RIP

4/26/2012 10:55:28 AM

I visited Rocky Mount every few months for a few decades... only place I ever remember eating is Gardner's BBQ. And the Carlton House. (I went with my grandparents, they didn't like to mix-it-up too much)

[Edited on April 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM. Reason : also, didn't the restraunt at the powerplant use to be a seafood place in the mid-80s?]

4/26/2012 11:01:31 AM

La Perla is pretty good. It's in the Harris Teeter shopping center off of sunset.

All in all, I second the sentiment that RM is a dump

4/26/2012 11:04:13 AM

i worked at bob melton's back in the day. that job ruled-- doing pig pickins for rich drunk fuckers who gave us free beer and huge tips was a 15-18 year old's dream.

4/26/2012 11:45:10 AM

Quote :

"My first job out of college was education reporter for the Rocky Mount Telegram. Worked quite a bit with Snewf's mom, and heard lots of Snewf stories."

4/26/2012 12:39:02 PM

Shooting at westridge grill just a bit ago. Waitress was shot by her bf.

4/26/2012 12:39:54 PM

Drove by there on my way to lunch at La Perla right after it happened. Pretty chaotic-looking

4/26/2012 12:48:46 PM

I heard echoes of that on Facebook

what the shit?

4/26/2012 1:06:13 PM

Coworker said it was that really super nice black lady who was shot. Idk if she's dead or what.

4/26/2012 1:17:14 PM

WRAL ALERT:

JUST IN: ROCKY MOUNT POLICE SAY THEY ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER 11 A..M. AT WESTRIDGE GRILL ON SUNSET AVENUE. FURTHER DETAILS WEREN'T IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE.

4/26/2012 1:20:11 PM

I guess I need to visit RM soon.

4/26/2012 1:22:55 PM

Quote :

"A Rocky Mount man and his reported girflriend are dead after a suspected murder-suicide occurred today at Westridge Shopping Center, according to Rocky Mount police. Police said Carlos Whitaker opened fire at Westridge Grill shortly after 11:30 a.m. Cynthia Jeanette Joyner, 41, died of wounds at the scene. Police found the body of Whitaker behind the shopping center a short while later. Police say they suspect Whitaker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after fleeing from the scene on foot after the initial shooting. "

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/node/1041205

4/26/2012 1:45:49 PM

The house my parents moved to when I was 10 is about a mile from there. I've spent hundreds of hours loitering around that shopping center and skateboarding behind the Harris Teeter.

4/26/2012 2:17:14 PM

hell i live 0.7 miles from that HT, work (& am currently located) 0.3 miles from there.

4/26/2012 2:19:55 PM

I really wish I had the foresight to record those Golden East Mall Christmas commericials that came on every year for about a decade. It was always the same 3 commercials, with the same music, back to back to back featuring the groundbreaking NES system as late as about 1998 or so.

4/26/2012 2:41:08 PM

^^My great aunt still lives on Winstead Rd just off Winstead Ave. And my great-grandparents had a farm on Sunset where Kandemor Lane is at now. Grandma grew up there and I used to spend a shitload of time out there as they were alive until I was like 10 or 11. They tore it down after they both died and built a neighborhood on the property. So yea I used to hang out that way a lot. That was the first HT I ever went to.

[Edited on April 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM. Reason : ]

4/26/2012 3:16:40 PM

Small world...My neighborhood was unofficially connected to Kandemor by a dirt trail that I rode my BMX bike down many times on my way to Candlewood. Around the time I got my driver's license it became a muddy road (which was also great fun!) and eventually it was paved and became a real road.

4/26/2012 4:46:15 PM

Quote :

"The victim alleged the suspect removed a firearm from his pistol holster while in line to get food at the Cookout and then the suspect ran behind K-Mart. Officers located the suspect and the firearm. The suspect, Avent, was charged with Common Law Robbery, Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, Larceny of a Firearm and Possessing a Firearm while being Under the Influence of Alcohol. He received a $24,000 secured bond and was transported to the Nash County Jail."

That's one reason I don't open carry.

Quote :

"The male exited the residence with a sword and attempted to stop the suspect. The suspect grabbed the sword from the male victim and cut the male victim on the arm and right side of his body."

This is a good example of brandishing a weapon that you aren't prepared to or aren't capable of using.

Yeah, Rocky Mount isn't the best place to live, but it's still better than southern kalifornia.

4/26/2012 5:08:20 PM

Thought I would post this in here, because of the topic of conversation. As I said I still have lots of family in the Rocky Mount area (way more than just my great-aunt near HT) and a distant in-law that is about the same age as me posted this on FB:

Quote :

"Sooo I'm a lil bothered by folks posting.. I understand there was another shooting in RM, and suddenly everyone starts posting "time to move".. my question- to where? A place with zero crime? Good luck with that! We live in a cruel evil world, we have pushed God from it so much yet we want it to be ok. What we need to be doing is praying! Praying for God's help and hand over all this violence! Crime is everywhere because our society has tols God he's not welcome everywhere...What do you expect?"

I understand that the glass is always half empty if you are an end times, doom and gloom kind of Christian (I am Christian, but I still see a whole lot of good in this world), but to answer her question about where to move, throw a fucking dart at the map and you are 98% likely to find a town with less crime than Rocky Mount. Big surprise, she has never lived anywhere else.

4/26/2012 5:47:47 PM

drove past lumberton on my way back from florida. real shithole. full of pretendians that are genuine alcoholic meth heads.

If you had to choose one place to live, which would it be? Rocky Mount or Lumberton?

[Edited on April 29, 2012 at 10:51 PM. Reason : .]

4/29/2012 10:51:19 PM

Fuck Lumberton. I'd rather live in Rocky Mount, lol.
They're both bad but I know the culture in Rocky Mount so that's why I'd stick here.

4/30/2012 2:01:12 AM

1 more vote for Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount doesn't even come close to the shittasticness of Lumberton.

4/30/2012 8:07:58 AM

^This.

4/30/2012 8:54:30 AM

No Municipal Waste videos have been filmed in Lumberton to the best of my knowledge. Rocky Mount on the other hand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAfpXv-dz0

4/30/2012 11:03:31 AM

Quote :

"If you had to choose one place to live, which would it be? Rocky Mount or Lumberton?"

Could I choose death instead?

4/30/2012 11:04:50 AM

Yes...Just move to Rocky Mount and they'll handle the rest.

I really don't think RM is that bad of a place. It just seems to have a ton of bad people. I thoroughly enjoyed most of my time growing up there. Met a lot of great people who I still keep in touch with to this day and had a lot of fun in that town despite all the b.s. that it is known for.

[Edited on April 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM. Reason : l]

4/30/2012 2:56:03 PM

Rocky Mount Sucks

4/30/2012 2:58:41 PM

Quote :

"Flight Boyz - 252 (I'm From the Mount) [preview] "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-phpJP4qKQ&feature=related

5/1/2012 5:20:45 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/31/3899154/will-they-come-home-to-rocky-mount.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1

6/1/2014 1:55:59 PM

Quote :

"Will they come home to Rocky Mount?"

Not going to happen. I don't know a single person who even entertains the thought of going back and most of the people I know who still live there talk about how badly they want to leave.

The city council is currently doing their best to strip what little wealth is left in that town. My prediction is that it will be even more like Detroit in terms of abandonment and crime before it ever gets any better. I think an actual rock bottom is in its future before there will be any change there.

But hey, the City Council wants to spend millions on a convention center despite the fact that their own feasibility studies show it cannot possibly generate enough revenue to come close to breaking even (I don't have time to look up the numbers, but it is expected to lose several hundred thousand dollars per year IIRC.) IIRC they want to pay for it by selling bonds. Bonds that they expect to pay back via property taxes....In a town where property values and population is on the decline. The leadership there is a mess.

[Edited on June 1, 2014 at 4:03 PM. Reason : l]

6/1/2014 3:47:31 PM

i'd take either one over Rockingham. i worked there for 6 months and it was the most depressing shithole i've ever seen. folks there have absolutely nothing to live for. i stayed near pinehurst while i worked there.

6/1/2014 3:55:29 PM

Are these both former textile towns? While do they suck so hard now?

6/1/2014 4:23:46 PM

Rocky Mount shits on Ahoskie. I hate my home town so much I haven't been in the "city" since I graduated high school.

6/1/2014 5:01:01 PM

Railroads, textiles, and tobacco were the industries that built RM for the most part.

6/1/2014 5:14:41 PM

rockingham was textiles. you can drive through the part of town that used to house all the mill workers. tons of tiny houses packed together. they're all crack/meth houses now.

i think lumberton had some big tobacco warehouses. not sure what else propped them up for so long.

so what did these towns do different from places like wilson, nc? wilson was a tobacco town, but they seem to have adapted to that loss and are doing pretty well.

^^the difference is Ahoskie has never been anything. it's always been a dinky little shithole. these other towns actually had something going for them for a while, but fell by the wayside.

[Edited on June 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM. Reason : dafs]

6/1/2014 5:22:51 PM

Wilson has Firestone. It employees about half the town and other half has old tobacco money their great grandparents made so they are living off that. More money in Wilson than you think.

I work in rocky mount and live in zebulon. When people say "man i bet you hate that drive" i counter with "i bet you hate living here". Always a win.

6/1/2014 6:57:02 PM

Cummins engine plant is in Rocky Mount

6/1/2014 8:11:48 PM

Quote :

" other half has old tobacco money their great grandparents made so they are living off that"

i don't buy that at all. i feel like the portion of the population there living off tobacco fortunes is pretty small.

6/1/2014 8:54:19 PM

I spent a lot of time around both and they are both shitholes. Living in Halifax County I remember when "going shopping" meant heading to Rocky Mount. The only people that are interested in moving to somewhere like Wilson or Rocky Mount are the people stuck in even shittier places like Ahoskie, Roanoke Rapids or pretty much anywhere in Eastern NC not on the beach.

Ask me how much fun it is to own a home in southeastern Halifax County and three years later I am still in a fucking apartment in Chapel Hill. Gigantic houses that old people die in are going on the market all the time, so nobody wants a nice little fixed up home that is 1500 sq.ft. when they can get a dilapidated house that is 3x as big for the same price but hasn't been updated since the 70's.

6/1/2014 9:20:02 PM

http://m.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2014/05/rocky-mount-brewmill-to-serve-as-states-first.html

6/2/2014 10:20:16 AM

Good luck attracting Hipster brewers in training to Rocky Mount.

6/2/2014 3:19:05 PM

good idea. bad location.

6/2/2014 3:19:28 PM

Maybe they'd be successful having a Malt Liquor incubator there

6/2/2014 4:13:56 PM

You can't resist not being a racist piece of shit, can you?

6/2/2014 9:15:29 PM

This is what Rocky Mount needs most...

6/3/2014 8:41:48 AM