Posted on September 21, 2012, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, abernathy, abernathy texas, architecture, black and white photography, downtown, haiku, laurie jameson, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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One Day | One Image 
Once the place to go
Now left to rack and ruin
don’t call the number.
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Not only is the Hangout done and gone, but Henry’s Automotive too. It would be interesting to call that phone number and see who is at the other end these days.
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Scoggin-Dickey Chevrolet Buick: that’s who is at the other end. It’s not their main number, and they are not in the same town as Henry’s.
And this concludes today’s episode of “So, You Want to be a Detective?”.
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Ha – what great service in blog land!
Did you call, or just do a reverse lookup of some kind? (Which only just occurred to me as a possibility). Since they survived all the GM cutbacks of a four years ago, I am assuming that dealership is not heading for demise, jinxed by Henry’s old phone number. Funny that it should stay in the general business area – maybe Henry’s was bought out by, or morphed into Scoggin-Dickey. Henry Scoggin perhaps, or Henry Dickey. Jr. perhaps.
Thanks for checking 🙂
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And, I could not help myself. Google tells me there is a Henry’s Automotive in Frost, TX. Pretty far apart to be the same business, but you never know. And a Henry’s Automotive Parts in Alice TX, even further away. And then there is Henry’s Automotive and Body Repair in Garland TX. There are probably others too. Henry must have been a name for mechanically minded boys a generation or two back.
I expect now you are going to have internet searchers, looking for one of these Henry’s, coming by this page, and going away confused about whether they are still in business.
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You made me laugh with your search of other Henry’s! Maybe you could come to Texas and find them all….
(My great-uncle Dan called everyone in the family Henry. There were a lot of relatives and it just made it easier. For him. It confused the hell out of the rest of us.)
The phone number I called isn’t the main number for Scoggin-Dickey – I suspect it’s probably one of their many roll-over numbers (or whatever they are called) for their various lines and they picked it up when the Henry’s number was abandoned. But it would make a much better story if our pal, the Abernathy Henry, was somehow tied in with the boys over at Scoggin-Dickey.
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