This sure does bring back a time gone by! I remember going with my grandpappy to sell his bacca here in South Georgia. As an 8-year-old girl, this was an exciting time. This is where I first fell in love with the auctioneer chant. I love listening to a great auctioneer! It is sad that now tobacco is sold as it's delivered to the warehouse. Modernization has taken away the joys of life in some aspects. Thank you for posting this lost art!
This is an art form rapidly disappearing from our landscape. I first heard the tobacco auctioneer’s chant in a TV commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes. He would move down the line of tobacco bales chanting and then “Sold American”! I was fascinated even though I really couldn’t understand him until the final sold to American Tobacco.
I went to auction school in Mason City, Ia in 1964. In that class was a teenager from Kentucky that won the state tobacco auctioneering contest. He put the instructors on their heels. I’ve often wondered why he was there.
This sure does bring back a time gone by! I remember going with my grandpappy to sell his bacca here in South Georgia. As an 8-year-old girl, this was an exciting time. This is where I first fell in love with the auctioneer chant. I love listening to a great auctioneer! It is sad that now tobacco is sold as it's delivered to the warehouse. Modernization has taken away the joys of life in some aspects. Thank you for posting this lost art!
Only time I was allowed to miss school was when I went to the baccer sales with my papaw. Miss them old days in Kentucky
This is an art form rapidly disappearing from our landscape. I first heard the tobacco auctioneer’s chant in a TV commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes. He would move down the line of tobacco bales chanting and then “Sold American”! I was fascinated even though I really couldn’t understand him until the final sold to American Tobacco.
That would been Speed Riggs
...that's EXACTLY where I first heard and fell in love with the auctionerer's chant...
I remember this well I was there my Dad was 1 of the auctioneer there ( Jack Revels)
I never thought I’d say it but I do miss them days here in the western Piedmont of NC. Hunters warehouse and Taylor’s warehouse.
There are auctions and then there is a tobacco auction! Listening to this is amazing!
I went to auction school in Mason City, Ia in 1964. In that class was a teenager from Kentucky that won the state tobacco auctioneering contest. He put the instructors on their heels. I’ve often wondered why he was there.
I actually did witness this once.. I had participated in a tobacco harvest and went to see the sale in Ahoskie, NC... VERY impressive !
That's fantastic!!
SOLD TO AN AMERICAN!!!
Anyone ever heard Robert Lee
any body got 89 champ. michael cutts
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