THAT IS IT!!!!
Thank you so much, Ole. I was beginning to be afraid folks would think I had made it up. I had searched every way I could think with no result.
Again, thanks to each of you for both finding and posting.
Rounding the curve on NC #27 and seeing this on that little two lane highway took my breath away.
Thanks, Dennis. Had forgotten the name of Buffalo Ranch. I seem to recall several different creeks with the name Buffalo on NC 49.
Jim, the link below should take folks to your post and the awesome 8mm movies of you racing at Johnson County in the 50s:
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/forum/topics/a-few-weeks-ago-i-found-that-my-daughter-had-a-box-of-8mm-film
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
Billy, you kin to the folks they named Biscoe after???
You ever seen that art on NC 27?
Just down the road from the Petty artwork on the tobacco barn, in the vicinity of Cameron, NC, we passed what appeared to be a big, bare field surrounded by chain link fence. There was a sign that said simply, "Muslim Cemetery."
This is it:
Muslim Cemetery of Greater Fayetteville Area (MCGFA )
20698,
Cameron, NC 28326, USA
Phone: 910-797-0082
Email: shamsiddeenyaqub@yahoo.com
URL: Muslimgraveyard.org
Directions: On Hwy 24/27 just next to Shamsiddeen Halal Farm....on Hwy 24/27 twenty miles north of Fayetteville, NC....4 miles west of Hwy 87...between Sanford, NC and Spring Lake, NC.
General Information: Free Cemetery for any Muslim that is upon the Qur\'an, Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad, Salalahu alayhi was salaam. Free....free...without innovations!!! Visit our web site; we do accept donations.
General Activities: The Board of Directors, and the Graveyard Committee do have regular meetings that are rotated between masajid. You can call for notice of meeting or visit the web site.
NC Highway 27 is indeed an interesting road.
Sorry, that I-95 sign was infamous. Hoping maybe Billy Biscoe or Dennis Andrews has seen the Petty art on NC 27.
By the way, here's a photo of the billboard that used to stand beside I-95 at Smithfield, NC just below Wilson:
Johnson County was also home to Percy Flowers, the largest bootlegger in the United States.
Donald, sometimes we'd just continue from Wilson on U.S. 264 and hooking up on U.S. 64 at Raleigh. We'd continue west through Pittsboro, around the old courthouse and on through Siler City to Asheboro where we'd get on NC 49 to U.S. 52 and skip down to NC 27 at Albemarle and on to Charlotte. Haven't been all the way in to Charlotte on 49 in many years. Do they still have that ranch on the right where the horses crossed the swinging bridge beside the road?
I do indeed, owe my inspiration 100% to you, Johnny. Thanks.
