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.
I think I was a gleam in my Daddys eye back then . Lol The Grate old days . It's a shame these kids today will Never be able to enjoy a more simple time like we had . A crying shame .
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.
Are you the one that did a book on the State Line Mob? If, so, very good book. I have always found the Buford Pusser story to be a very interesting story. The Waking Tall movies are good, but man, the real story seems more exciting than the Hollywood take on his life. I live in Louisville KY and I find it interesting that they were actually getting ready to visit family in Louisville on the day of the infamous ambush that nearly killed Buford but did kill his wife. Such a sad story and an inspiring one at the same time. Send me a PM, would love to talk some more.
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.
teller12 I thought it was at first but it was setup differently. Yes, it must have been a real hole in the wall. I was shocked to discover the tiny little piece of nothing that it was, or the people running it, had ties to actual organized crime. Louise must have been one piece of work. The whole group was pretty brazen. Carrying on crimes that wouldn’t go unnoticed in a big city, much less in that tiny corner of nowhere. It just shows how brazen they really were. They robbed, stole, gambled, ran whisky, and didn’t care who knew it. Their opinion seemed to be, Well prove we did it then. I’ve lived in TN all of my life. I shook Mr. Pusser’s hand when he made the rounds during the first movie showing. I’ve heard stories of how he didn’t shoot Louise in self defense but more in execution style. She earned what she got. So did the rest. But he was lucky he didn’t go to the pen when he burned down one of the shit holes that needed to be burned. The way it ended for him was tragic though.
@@brookswade5774 LOL. ROFLMMFAO . Buford never burned down a club , that was in Walking Tall 3: The Final Chapter. And since you lied about that , pretty safe to say your lying about everything else as well
