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6/8/2009 11:50:06 PM
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off-Topic arena.
How many of you have memories of the Lake you can share?
Here is mine. I was 6 years old and my Father was in the Air Force and Stationed at Maxwell.
He took all of us (Family of seven) to the Lake. I saw the wooden Indian and was listening to you know who at the time.
I cut my foot on a piece of glass as I was wading in the Lake. That was over 50 years ago.
My first visit to the Lake.
I never realized then what life held before me, and how it would become a full circle and I would be back on the Lake for my most rewarding years.
Please share your thougts about how you got to this great Lake.
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6/9/2009 9:07:40 AM
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I lived in Spokane, WA until I was nine and my grandparents on both sides had lake houses. This is why I always wanted one. I remember one summer I was wading in Moses Lake and I stepped on a jar and almost severed my big toe. My Mom almost fainter when she saw my toe flopping. I still remember the blood soaked towel on the drive to the hospital.
On a more positive note, I have many fond memories of sleeping in tents outside the cabin, swimming over to a big floating platform that had a slide, low and high dives......what fun and what memories. That's what I tell my kids today, the lake is all about creating memories for tomorrow that they can share with their kids and grandkids.
By the way, this should be over in the Lake Martin Topics, We only talk about politics here! :-) Just kidding (and I have to point out the joke because the humorless liberals would never get it).
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Summer Lover
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6/9/2009 10:24:51 AM
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Oh, you did say "that we can share", so some will not be disclosed (I also remember a song by Paul Simon - "Kodachrome"). ;-) My first visits were early '70's and took place in the Barrons Bridge/Blue Creek area. Our host worked at Pepperell in Opelika, so a bulk of the outdoor gear was made of steel 55 gallon drums - tables, floating pier, grills. Their cabin started out life as a single wide trailer perched on a lot that seemed to be on a 30% grade, and was enclosed as the years went on. They had a boat ramp - remember the slope here, that was difficult to use. We had only a 2-wheel drive truck, and to haul the boat up the gravel parts of the drive, we had one driver and everyone else jumping up and down on the bumper and in the bed of the truck. Add the required amounts of .22's an old 12 ga side by side, beer and bourbon for the adults and 8 tracks of Don Rickles (sp?), and you are ready for big fun....
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6/9/2009 10:53:17 AM
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It only proves the Lake is really for kids and the kids in all of us.
Every weekend, I love to hear the kids' screams and laughter. I also love seeing them fish off the end of boat dock and riding behind boats on their bouncing flotation devices. I guess they have taken the place of water skis.
By the way, this morning was a most memorable ride on the Lake. Even the big water out in Front of the Mansions was like a mirror. In a two hour ride at below 10 MPH we only saw one other boat on the lake.
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6/9/2009 1:44:16 PM
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My first experience on the "backwater" was at our first cabin.The time was mid 60's.The lake was new to all of us( cousins,aunts,uncles,etc.).There was never an empty bed,couch or lawn chair at night.I don't beleive a family ever had more fun with so little as we did.I hardly ever go for a ride without going by that old cabin and remembering the good times had there.
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6/9/2009 10:44:24 PM
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I don't have any memories of Lake Martin but I sure have a lot of Lake Rabun and Lake Lanier. One is especially vivid. When I was about 15 or 16 my uncle bought an old cabin on Lake Lanier. When the lake was impounded in '57 It had been moved up the hill from an old Ga. Power camp on the river. It was three rooms and had no window sashes only roll down canvas on the openings. One day while he, his daughter and I were painting the exterior Lakemomt green the owner of the next cabin parked his '49 tourqoise plymouth in the steep drive. Before he had walked 10 feet the car began to roll. With wild shouting and cussing he gave hot but useless pursuit. The car didn't stop until it hit the lake 50 vertical feet below. What a site! What a memory.
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6/10/2009 8:41:44 AM
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Did your neighbor SEE you laughing your butts off, or did you have to walk away for a bit???
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37 Years ago...
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newly married, and husband wanted me to come fishing with him. Left home early in the morning to be on the lake before dawn...learning to tie our own crappie jigs, packing a lunch, fishing off the deeper places along the shore line. Great times!
Later on, renting a cabin at Pleasure Point for a few days and enjoying a 'vacation' at the lake. Couldn't afford much, so the cabin was a real treat, lol.
And more recently, a few years ago finally getting our own place on Lake Martin, a dream come true. Now we finally have a place to come for rest and relaxation every week. I LOVE it! We are very blessed.
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6/10/2009 9:10:50 AM
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After we went down the hill to view the damage we all laughed, and all of us the runaways owner included continued to laugh about it for years afterward.
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Here's my story
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6/10/2009 9:58:23 AM
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I was a freshman at Auburn. I lived in Atlanta and all my "lake" days, prior to Auburn, were spent at the cess pool known as Lake Lanier. So, 3 new friends and I went to Lake Martin one Saturday. All three of them had their "steady" girlfriends with them and I, had a blind date. To say "I outkicked my coverage" was an understatement. The girl was beautiful and, 5 years later became my wife. But, I digress. So, we go to Chimney Rock. Us guys climb to the top and I look down and say "Oh Shi!." Well, these 3 guys were brought up on Lake Martin and had been off the rock many times. Not only do they jump off the highest part of the rock but, they dove. So, here I am not even wanting to jump but, knowing I have to dive to save face. So I did. I felt like my shoulders were wrapped around my ankles but, I survived and thoroughly impressed by blind date bride to be. To this day I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Budweiser. There is no way I dive off that rock without his encouragement. And by the way, I haven't jumped off that stupid rock since.
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lol, love it
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6/10/2009 10:30:47 AM
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My family wasn't 'lake oriented' - we went to the beach every year. Our local lake is Lake Harding, i.e. 'The Backwaters', and I only went there a few times with friends. Martin was so neat when I came here, and one of my funniest memories was riding in the bass boat with hubby staring in awe at the 'mansions' that had been built by folks like Red Blount. Now that house would be just a normal house on LM, but back then it was a castle - at least to us.
Thanks, Feb, for starting this...hope the memories keep on coming.
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6/10/2009 10:38:26 AM
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1st Lt, USAF 1972 attending Squadron Officer School at Maxwell, brought a fellow student from Japan, Takauto Yamamoto (Grandson of Admiral Yamamoto) to Maxwell/Gunter rec area.. Got out butts lost fishing, but had a great time.. Returned many times with wife and kids and knew then where we would retire..
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6/10/2009 2:46:37 PM
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Wow... A thread I wanna post in. Who-da-thunk!! Thx!
My kin all went north in the 40's for work but were able to come back to Alabama when they retired. My Grandpa retired back to the home his uncle and father built in Eclectic. That was 1972 and I was 9 yrs old... my dad was a Tool and Die maker who moved us from Detroit to the West Coast but luckily was not teaching college and so we had every summer to come back to Eclectic. My grandparents would load us up and haul us to Castaway Island and pay $1 (I think) to swim at the beach. The old Kowaliga bridge was still there and we would sometimes go to the boat ramp on the far side to swim as no one was ever there. We would BEG our grandma to take us swimming. I did this EVERY summer until I joined the service out of High School. Just before I went in, I came back to Alabama and my uncle took me to the Wooden Nickel. (I still have the tshirt!) Since the drinking age was still 18 (or was it 19?) in Alabama, he got to buy me a beer before I left for the AF.
I remember looking at lake lots with my folks. There wasn't a lot on Lake Martin for more then $5000 and STILL neither my folks or their folks could talk themselves into it.
Grandpa got cancer in 1987. That summer he forked out to rent a condo on the lake for 10 days and every member of our family showed up and lived the lake life for real... it was that week that Grandpa decided that he had made a mistake by not buying on the lake AND my folks realized they wanted to retire back here but it had to be on the lake so they could push the summer tradition to what it has become for all of us to this day. Grandpa died in June of 1989. We still have an island we go to to swim that is dubbed "grandpa island"... it is a must go to just about every single time we hit that side of the lake in a boat or ski and point it out to our kids...
My folks finally bought that lake house in 1991 and moved here full time in 1998. Lake Martin holds a huge mystique in my family's eyes and every 4th of July is set as THE time to come if you want to see family from all over the U.S. Of course, our doors are always open to lake guests through out the year and if it were not for Lake Martin I would not even be here.
Dad died in 1989 unexpectedly but I think of him each and every day and thank him for helping to create the legacy that is Lake Martin and our family on the lake.
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6/10/2009 3:15:58 PM
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The first time I ever saw Lake Martin was when Feb and I came to a birthday celebration for my MIL. We were both working and living in DC at the time and retirement was still in the future. Feb decided that we needed to buy our own spot on Lake Martin -- and I agreed (still wasn't sure at that point I wanted to retire here) since no one loses money on waterfront property. At the end of a very long day of looking at houses, the realtor told us that she had one last place to show us and was sure it wasn't what we were looking for.... so of course, it was perfect and we bought it.
Had some work done on the old cabin and for several years, we came a couple of times of year for a week or two. In the meantime, Feb retired (2002) and went to work coming up with a design for the house we would build. When I got the chance to take an early retirement in 2006, I jumped on it and the housebuilding was on for real. Took longer than we thought, but last July, we moved here full time.
Yesterday morning, we took the pontoon boat out about 7 am. The weather was perfect, the lake like glass and we didn't see another soul.
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