Hi jbow,
 Were you in Moultrie this past weekend?
 
 I was. I got rescheduled and ended up there for a 3 a.m. call on Friday and then did a mind numbing 19 hour shift on Saturday.
 
 Anyways, I got a question; Who lives in the "Chateau" on Tallokas Road? That is one fancy hacienda.
 
 Idle minds want to know... there must be a great story behind it. I wanna know all the gossip too. :-)
 
 
best regards,
mike

Yep, I was there.
 
Are you talking about the place on the left when you are driving from 319 to the bypass? The one that is right before you get to the place where they have cleared land?
OR are you talking about the place just off 319 about half a block past Allegoods store?
 
The first one sits back a ways off the road down a long driveway lined with trees. It did and I think still does belong to C. O. Smith
The other one, that is about a half block of 319 was built by Robert Wright back in the 70s. It sits in a small yard not far off the street. The front, IIRC, was taken from an old theater in Atlanta. It is the one of a few houses I have been in that has gold toilets.
 
If it is another one... tell me where it is.
 
J
 
 

 
Sorry I missed you. I slept at the Holiday Inn Express but it wasn't for very long.
 
I was scheduled to be in Tallahassee recording music but that got shuffled with some football season TV stuff up in Moultrie.
 
Here's the house: http://goo.gl/maps/ju81k

Yeah.  I've parked on a number of those.  Some were so cold I thought I'd have to leave some skin behind. 
 
Oh, you said, "Gold".  Never mind.

Thanks Julien!!!
 
I couldn't help myself, I caught it out of the corner of my eye while traveling in a convoy of cars to a location and I had an urge to learn more about this house. I was even combing the Moultire tax roles.
 
I knew this house had to be famous and historical:
 
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/colquittcounty/rbwrightjrhouse.htm
 

Yep, that's the house Robert Wright built. It caused a lot of talk back in the day... my dad did his pest control so I got to go through it when I was a kid... it is or at least was exacty what it appears to be.
 
Next time go down to the corner and get some of Allegoods BBQ. Their Brunswick Stew isn't so good anymore but they still make their own BBQ. I remember when the store was a "shotgun house" with a dirt and sawdust floor. A ot of changes in 50 or so years... with todays regulations Allegood would not have been able to open a store. Anyway, the Q is good there.
 
J

This is where I grew up and where my parents live. The house on the right was my uncle's house. My dad was the local exterminator and my uncle was the town photographer back in the 50s-70s.
http://goo.gl/maps/EGXRD
Growing up, our house was yellow, I think it looked better yellow, Royce's house was dark brown.
 
J

Cool stuff!
 
Moultrie sure seems like a nice small town with a lot of interesting history.
 
This forum is awesome... I just knew I knew someone that knew about that house. How many degrees of separation does it get down to when you can talk to someone who has seen the gold toilets? 1/2 a degree or something like that?
 
:-) 

mike_mccue
Thanks Julien!!!
 
I couldn't help myself, I caught it out of the corner of my eye while traveling in a convoy of cars to a location and I had an urge to learn more about this house. I was even combing the Moultire tax roles.
 
I knew this house had to be famous and historical:
 
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/colquittcounty/rbwrightjrhouse.htm
 

It's amazing how one little crappy sign can make a wonderful mansion look trashy...  You would think they could afford a nice, ornate sign instead.
 
The law of entropy at work I guess.

I noticed that too.
 
I think I would have broke out the photoshop if it was my photo.
 
:-)