JAL NICKNAMES
This great list was sent in by Loyce Reid, loycer@idt.net
class of '49.
During the twenty or so years I spent in Jal, I was amazed at the people
there that
were known by nick names. Here is a list of some of them that comes to
mind.
This list was compiled with the help of Gus Pearce of Eunice.
It is not intended to offend anyone, but demonstrates the colorful atmosphere
we enjoyed in the 1940s and 1950s. How many can you add that we left
out?
(Also, there are bound to be nicknames from more recent decades.)
Loyce
Reid (Wart)
Send your additions to this list
to Jerry Phillips, at GPhil@ix.netcom.com
NOTE:
This list is limited to nicknames which
completely replace a person's given name, and which are used by the whole
community to address that particular person. Your uncle might have called
you "Sugarbritches", but that doesn't qualify. Neither do nicknames
which are derivatives of the given name (i.e. Dick for Richard, Jerry for
Gerald, Bill for William).
* Denotes additions to original list.
Arkie Langston
Babe Davis
Babe Boy Brininstool
Banty Pearson
Big Scott
*Big Um Hare
Blackie Savoie
Blink Swaggert
*Blossom Nunn
*Bo Bell
*Bob Erwin
*Bones Myers '95
Bood Reed
*Boogie Bloodworth
*Bubba Lewallen
*Buck Bankus
*Bud Cunningham
*Bud Dyer
Buddy Lenning
*Buddy Perkins
*Buddy Phillips
*Buddy Shotton
*Buster Booth
Buggs Shipman
Buzz Easterling
Bull Meyers
Bun Carson
Buster Morris
Butch Boyd
*Butch Wright
*Buz Owens
*Cap Jinkins
Case Barking
Cesspool Willie
Chick Miller
*Chicken Lima
Chico Farr
Chile Lindsey
Chock Jones
Chuck Kamerer
Chunky Thompson
*Cigar Scott
Colonel Hodge
Cookie Boyd
*Coonie Fleming
Corky Clepper
Corn Jones
Cotton Clayton
Cowboy Weir
Doc Hubbard
Doc McCallister
Doc Walls
Dooney Galagher
Dub Balch
*Dub Cass
*Eyeball Wright
Fats Reynolds
Fizzer Phillips
Flop Roberts
Frenchy Le Boeuf
Frog Beckly
*Frosty Jefferson
Fuzzy Chance
Gig Baker
Gold Tooth Maggie
Goob Pinson
*Gooser Armstrong
*Gus Kendrick
Gus Pearce
Hap Morris
Hardface Richardson
Heavy Hobson
*Hoot Carlson
Hoot Gibson
*Hoss Newberry
*Ike Erwin
*Ike Norfleet
*Ikey Lewis
*Jack Erwin
*Jack Shiplet
Jiggs Dinwiddie
*Judge Nunley
Jughead Justice
Lazy Harris
Lefty Stephens
Lighthouse Long
Lightning Davis
Looney Buffington
*Mitt Rogers
Monk Ford
*Monk Nunn
Moon Mullins
*Moose Myers '91
Moose Tab
Ochoa Joiner
Pansy Jeter
*Pappy Beard
*Pappy Gregg
*Pat Allen
Peck Whitten
Pee Wee Jones
Pinkie Langston
Pooch Pendleton
Pop Snellings
Pop Thomas
Popeye Barnett
Popeye Mosley
Preacher Bennett
Press Anderson
Purr Hicks
Put Shot Blackwell
Put Snap
Rabbit Ellis
Red Butler
*Red Nelson
*Red Rogers
Red Ryder Hall
Red Smith
*Rosie Kendrick
Sarge Richardson
*Scooter Hunt
*Scooter Locklar
Scooter Robinson
*Scooter Weaver
Ses Sims
Shorty Armstrong
*Shorty Cutright
*Shorty Jones
*Shorty Reid
Shot Hager
Skillet Rushing
Sleepy Baird
Slick Bell
Slim McCullough
Smitty Smith
Smokie Murray
Snook Dyer
*Snooks Reid
Sonny Davis
*Sonny Stevens
Sparky Mabe
Speedy Stocks
Stinky Hamlin
Stumpy Roundtree
Sucker Rod Bryant
Sunshine Grider
*Tag Locklar
Tail Gunner Johnny
Tail Light Annie
*Tall Walker
Tee Model Hicks
*Tood Cunningham
*Tootie Young
Toots Fry
Torchy Justice
Tuffy Carson
*Tunney Melancon
*Wart Mathis
Wart Reid
Wee Willie Justice
Whitey Meaders
Whitey Moffit
*Woodie Mize
Woody Goin
Send your additions to this list to Jerry Phillips, at GPhil@ix.netcom.com
New Contributers: Nelda
Wood McConnell, Gene Wood, Mary Beth Kendrick,
Mary Grayce Wright Weathers, Glena Allen Engebretson, Jerry Dyer,
Carolyn Langston Stockton, Roxie McMahan Swain, Doris Swain Phillips,
John and Clarice Cunningham