I'm thinking that, though it obviously wasn't up to Best Western standards or anything, in the era after WWII there did exist a short-lived and weakly managed Shamrock Motel "franchise" that could be bought into. And for a period of time, a number of individually owned and operated Shamrock Motels were scattered around, mostly in small towns and rural areas east of the Mississippi. I think I even read somewhere that Louise Hathcock's outlaw husband had managed to procure one of these franchises, and subsequently built the State Line area Shamrock Motel for her. She notoriously operated it for a number of years and later died there, decidedly in a gunfight with famed McNairy County, TN Sheriff, Buford Pusser.
Too bad it isn't the Shamrock Motel from the Buford Pusser legend on (old Hwy 45, near Corinth and TN line). I've only seen one photo of that place. Must've been a real butcher's shop.
Telller 12 I am a researcher of Buford Pusser and the “State Line Mob” and you are exactly correct. A small amount of people and I mean a small amount of people disliked Buford compared to the high percentage of people that respected and liked Buford. At least half of the 1100 residents of Adamsville and many in Selmer disliked Buford for reasons as him arresting a family member, jealous of him becoming a celebrity, and cause the movies weren’t filmed in McNairy County. Buford stated this to several including W.R.Morris the author of the book “Buford”and his biography “The 12th Day of August”.Most of those are gone now but the next generation is speaking from only what they heard from their jealous family members such as Tim Barnes probably. Some are law breakers and of course wants to hate on a law legend. Fortunately their is more people in his era that shared their stories of his heroics than the very few that has told the false one.
This is actually a great song . Thanks for sharing .
love this song!!
I'm thinking that, though it obviously wasn't up to Best Western standards or anything, in the era after WWII there did exist a short-lived and weakly managed Shamrock Motel "franchise" that could be bought into. And for a period of time, a number of individually owned and operated Shamrock Motels were scattered around, mostly in small towns and rural areas east of the Mississippi. I think I even read somewhere that Louise Hathcock's outlaw husband had managed to procure one of these franchises, and subsequently built the State Line area Shamrock Motel for her. She notoriously operated it for a number of years and later died there, decidedly in a gunfight with famed McNairy County, TN Sheriff, Buford Pusser.
Too bad it isn't the Shamrock Motel from the Buford Pusser legend on (old Hwy 45, near Corinth and TN line). I've only seen one photo of that place. Must've been a real butcher's shop.
Telller 12 I am a researcher of Buford Pusser and the “State Line Mob” and you are exactly correct. A small amount of people and I mean a small amount of people disliked Buford compared to the high percentage of people that respected and liked Buford. At least half of the 1100 residents of Adamsville and many in Selmer disliked Buford for reasons as him arresting a family member, jealous of him becoming a celebrity, and cause the movies weren’t filmed in McNairy County. Buford stated this to several including W.R.Morris the author of the book “Buford”and his biography “The 12th Day of August”.Most of those are gone now but the next generation is speaking from only what they heard from their jealous family members such as Tim Barnes probably. Some are law breakers and of course wants to hate on a law legend. Fortunately their is more people in his era that shared their stories of his heroics than the very few that has told the false one.
Who sings this