European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 10, 1990 smoke puffing dragon gets Oil fired up for Taipei lantern festival Batman Star vows to preserve Small town . Braselton. A. A actress Kim Basinger. Who bought a third of this North Georgia town Tor 521 million last month has said she wants to preserve its old time character and won t tear Down even a barn. Hut then nobody tears Down much Here. Old barns still contain forgotten backboards and horse drawn plows from the Days before the Boll acc Vil ale up the Cotton. The Blacksmith shop where the Village Smithy has t Sung for decades still stands and the forges and Carriage making equipment arc still there. Al the or Ascalon store. Cydelia Hosch gives a Hearty turn on the Cash Register Crank and As the numbers of the Sale pop up. The Cash drawer yawns open leisurely. A Little sign flips from barter to credit to a fading Federal poster on the Wall notes that the minimum wage is $ hour. The store used in lie the town Hank and the Small round Safe has t been moved out. It s not for show. It s the Way or Ascalon is. Basinger. Who grew up in nearby Athens and starred in has t said specifically what she and her co in castors want to do with the land bought from the Braselton clan the 1.728-Acrc Purchase of which Aboul 1.000 acres is in town includes a 600-acre Industrial Park with uni lick a few residences some land Ripe for development and most of downtown which consists mainly of a Complex of Braselton family stores founded in ih87. In the connecting Warren of a hardware and building Supply shop a furniture store a grocery and a depart ment store a drug store and what used to be the Bank Sou can by it All from Beans to bullets to a brass bed. They used to say they had everything Here from the Cradle to the grave " said Hosch a lifelong Resi Dent of the area and 24-year Braselton employee. And the the town and i think she mayor Henry Edward Braselton. Who operates the grocery store said he hoped the town s history would be preserved. During the depression when Cash was Starte. The Braselton family printed its own to pay Field hands and store workers. It was Good onh at the family stores. Samples of it Are in a Frame on the Wall near the old Cash Register. Bittersweet collection of yellowing pictures and newspaper clippings on the Wall traces the town s Prog Ress. There is a letter and two is Hills from a Man who wrote "1 want this letter and these two on Dawt or Bills to go to the head manager to alone Tor a i a to civil to he shoplifted there on hns Mas inc i m7. Lasinger has mentioned a possible in cords Anil film studio and mayor Brasel Lun sail it May Hung in some tourists. It s easier to pick Yankees than it is to pick he said As he relaxed in a Rocker in the family furniture store. You can t Slop Progress. We Umid Hae built Bra Sefton into an Island and watched Progress build tip around us he said. Hut i think we did the ight
