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topflight8000 OP t1_iymo50g wrote

Reply to comment by 417SKCFAN in Is Fast Fiber Direct a scam? by topflight8000

The guy I talked to said they partner with the city's utilities and that I could get like 900 Mbps for $65 a month, no cap, but that I had to pay it upfront. He wanted me to put my debit card number in a website while we were on the phone and said that it wouldn't work if I did it at another time cause he had to accept it on his end.

It just gave me bad vibes.

EDIT: I'm going to sticky this in my post

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Maxwyfe t1_iymnbr3 wrote

Reply to comment by mattmaddux in Here’s what the 1953 Springfield Christmas Parade looked like by [deleted]

You got me curious so I did some Googling over my morning coffee. I found this article from the Library archive about black schools in Springfield. The Lincoln school operated in Springfield until 1955 when the schools became integrated.

Here's a little portion about the Lincoln school and I think that's who these marchers represent. "Springfield's most well-known Black school is the second Lincoln School at the southwest corner of Sherman Avenue and Central Street. Funded in part by an $8,000 grant from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it opened in 1931 with 15 rooms, including a library and a gymnasium. When the Douglas School, another Black school built in 1892 at the west side of South Market Avenue south of Lombard Street, closed in 1932, its students were transferred to Lincoln. The second Lincoln School remained in operation into 1955. After the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. the Board of Education ruled that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional, Black students entering the 1954-1955 school year were given their choice to attend either a formerly white school in their neighborhood or continue to attend Lincoln School. Lincoln High School's 1955 senior class was the school's final group of graduates.

When Springfield integrated all of its schools during the 1955-1956 school year, the Lincoln School's name was changed to Eastwood Junior High School. In the fall of 1962 the building became the Vocational Technical School. In 1991, the building became part of Ozarks Technical Community College. OTC renamed the building Lincoln Hall in 1998 to honor its early history. Lincoln Hall has remained in continuous use for college courses."

So interesting!

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mattmaddux t1_iymjp2m wrote

Reply to Here’s what the 1953 Springfield Christmas Parade looked like by [deleted]

Really great seeing the group of young black girls in that second picture. Didn’t expect to see them represented in a Springfield parade from the 50s!

Wonder if they were part of a club or some other organization. Would love if someone had some more info.

Edit: Just hitting me that the schools were likely segregated at the time, and this is probably a marching troupe from an elementary school. Showing my ignorance that it didn’t occur to me right away.

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Wyldfire2112 t1_iylsdmq wrote

Reply to comment by pexelto in Is Fast Fiber Direct a scam? by topflight8000

It won't be available in my area until March... which is at least more than Quantum (aka CenturyLink) would ever tell me.

Brightspeed is apparently a brand new company, like formed in '21 new, and still going through some teething troubles. They bought out a lot of Quantum's infrastructure in the wake of the company shitting the bed on developing the networks in places where they had contracts.

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