Why do they call these "threads"? This isn't thread view. Hmmm.

"I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married."

Loved reading Lewis' column.....NEVER missed it. Even when he was poking fun at my Jackets! Taken waaaaay too soon!

Lewis spoke at Memorial Hall when I was a student at Georgia. It was a very casual talk, not a show of any kind. He talked about his time at Georgia, football (this was in 1982 so football was HUGE at the time), told some stories and took questions. He was a riot. I remember my sides actually hurting from laughing.

A few years later he came to Augusta and did an actual stand up show. He was still pretty funny but not as good as that time in Athens. A lot of his jokes were old jokes we all knew but he put them in different scenarios to fit some of his characters. His health was slipping and he looked very frail. I guess this was in the late '80s or even early '90s. The line I remember most from that show was him talking about how many times he had been married and divorced, I think he had divorced his third wife fairly recently. He said "I've decided from now on I'm just going to find a woman I hate and buy her a house and car and give her half my money".

(03-21-2024, 10:25 AM)Replying to Buzzfan®

LOL, that was a classic

“She was so fat, if you told her to haul ass she’d have to make 2 trips”

"There are only two times I like to drink. One is if I'm alone, the other is if I'm with people"

I know I have told this story on here before. My apologies for retelling it. This is a pretty cool story, though... Lewis Grizzard-related. Better yet, it is tied to this board's history. A good Dawgvent (the original) story.

Years ago... mid/late-1990s... I worked in downtown Atlanta. Some of the old hands down there where I worked would occasionally want to get a big group of us together to go have lunch at Harold's BBQ. I had never been there, never even heard of it. But it was definitely an oasis, down very near the Hapeville Ford plant. On my first trip there when paying the cashier, I noticed this extremely cool framed picture hanging on the wall behind the girl running the register. It was a large print of a colorized editorial cartoon drawn by Mike Luckovich when Lewis Grizzard died. I don't recall if I had even seen it when it ran in the newspaper. I was absolutely blown away by all of the symbolism within that little cartoon, as I had read a number of Grizzard's books, and immediately knew what each meant.

I got on the old Dawgvent that very same day that I saw the picture, telling this same story about seeing it, saying what a cool picture it was and I probably said something about how I would love to try to find a copy. A number of people commented. I totally don't remember the handle of the person who responded. It "might" have been something like GwinnettDawg or something like that? Maybe? I do want to say that he lived in Gwinnett County at the time.

Whomever it was, this guy got back to me and he told me the story of the print, saying that the editorial cartoon was SO POPULAR that the AJC had made the decision to colorize it and to sell prints. I believe he told me they sold for $1 each, and had to be ordered through the newspaper. He told me he had bought 2 or 3 of them. He told me he would make me a deal. He explained that when he was a young boy his father was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Rockmart. He said they lived in the parsonage, which was owned by the church. He told me where that house was located. He asked me if I knew two particular guys, two brothers, which I did (and still know them, today). I went through school with both of those brothers. He said they lived next door to them during that time. He told me that he would GIVE me one of the prints, at no cost, even mail it to me, under two conditions:

1. That I would contact those two brothers' mother and tell her that he asked about her, and...
2. That I would promise to have it framed and hang it on my wall.

Well, who was I to pass up such generosity as that!

I contacted the lady and she knew exactly who I was talking about when I told her who had asked me to call her. She was so happy to hear that and she talked a bit about them, and asked me to pass along a good word to this fellow, which I did.

Sure enough, I received the print in the mail, still in its original cardboard tube in which the guy had received it. I had the print matted and framed and it is still hanging on my wall, today. Man, this was very close to 30 years ago when this all happened. Time flies.

This is the picture I am talking about, below (copied from a website). Then below that ... in case someone may not be familiar with the place... are a few pics and such from Harold's BBQ, which is now closed after (so I have read) ~65 years in business.




















If you go to the 1:28 mark of this video you can see someone included that Lewis Grizzard print within their collage of photos:

I remember listening to Ludlow Porch (Lewis’ cousin) one night on the radio and he was telling the story about the time Lewis had one of his surgeries (I think) and, being a notoriously bad housekeeper (which his ex-wives also joked about him) his maid had quit because of it so Ludlow wanted to help him out and took his own maid over to Lewis’ place (condo I think) and when Ludlow opened the door he said there was a long silent pause as the maid stood at the door scanning left to right then turned to Ludlow and said, “Oh…Mr. Ludlow….what we gon do about dis?

(03-21-2024, 12:19 PM)Replying to RockmartDawg

I met Lewis once. Me and a buddy were at the Georgia Alabama game in Tuscaloosa in 1991. We lost 10-0 and were walking back to the car.Walking just ahead of us were two men and we could hear them talking. I remember he was wearing a red blazer and looked very thin.

He had a very distinctive voice though and I knew it was him. We started talking to him on the way back until he came to his car. He asked his driver to pop open the trunk and have a beer or something stronger. We took him up on it and talked for awhile. Before I left, I did get him to sign my program. He was very cordial. Looking back, I knew he was having health problems, but didn’t know the severity. I will always remember that night.

(03-21-2024, 01:07 PM)Replying to cc dawg

Bud, not many folk can say that. Very cool story.

One can have a thread without the ability to have threadview.

The information in a thread is usually related ...a theme if you will.

You asked. Now you know.

A better question would be what's a dickfer.......

(03-21-2024, 10:25 AM)Replying to Buzzfan®

Classic right there.  

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(03-21-2024, 12:30 PM)Replying to E.CobbDawg

Ludlow and Lewis were stepbrothers I believe..

I think the top pic is the 2nd Harold’s location just outside of Jonesboro. I ate there many times when I was doing the Scott Antique Market on the south side of Atlanta on the 2nd weekend of the month.

(03-22-2024, 08:13 AM)Replying to Rogasingingdawg

The first pic is definitely the Harolds in Lakewood....I can't speak to the food pics, but all of the others are Lakewood for sure.  You can look at the first two and tell it is the same building.  I wonder if anything is there now?  

I miss that place, had the best Stew around.

Thanks, I knew Lewis and Ludlow were related, forgot it was stepbrothers, it’s been a minute…