YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and in the future I won’t be so quick to invite readers to correct me.
I’ve learned my lesson.
Last week I listed some of my favorite eating places which are ‘Gone but Not Forgotten.’
I acknowledged that I MIGHT — just might — have forgotten to list a place or two.
So by Friday morning I had heard from a handful of readers who said I had forgotten to list:
The Freeze King and Henry’s Fine Food.
The Freeze King was on South Main across from the old ‘Nashville News’ office, and Henry’s was out on the Murfreesboro highway.
As I told one caller, I wish I had a dollar for every Freeze King hot dog I wolfed down. The Freeze King was owned and run by the McMillan family and two of them still reside here. One member of the family was my classmate and Scrapper teammate, Ronnie McMillan, who is now a college perfesser retired and living in Alabama, I believe.
And I was at Henry’s a lot because he let the Jaycees meet in the back room on Tuesday nights.
But the mention of Henry’s reminded me that at the Howard Auto Theatre across the highway the Snack Bar had popcorn, pickles, BBQ sandwiches and hot dogs (lovingly cooked for days in boiling water).
“Snack bar closes in 15 minutes.”
The eating places I mentioned last week, along with some new additions, include:
Joda’s; John’s Reddy-Go; Dale’s Little Gem
Tobe’s; Crystal Cafe; Garner Hotel dining room
Hot Pepper Grill; The Bus Station; Willie Snell’s BBQ House
The Lamplighter; The Hoover House; The deli at Joe’s Grocery
The deli at Charlie’s Thriftway; TG&Y Snack Bar;
The Plaza Cafe in the Elberta Hotel; Monty’s;
And then I remembered the Tan and White Chicken House, opened by a gent named Louie Olds who returned to his hometown from somewhere up north. He could cook chicken.
The Tan and White in the name referred to the skin color of his customers. He didn’t care: “Come on in and your order will be ready in just a minute.” He usually had a joke to share.
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AMAZED … AND PUZZLED. NOT SHOCKED. It seems like the current President is hellbent upon undoing anything his predecessor did. Important or not.
So, I get why Comrade President Trump undid the naming of the USA’s tallest mountain from Mt. Denali to the name it had before, Mt. McKinley. Denali is the name the local Indians had always called it. Sometime in the past ‘we’ named it after a deceased American President. President Biden had it changed to Denali. Then President Trump re-renamed it McKinley.
Comrade President Trump is a vindictive, classless bully.
But, I don’t get it why he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And does he have the power to do that? It had been the Gulf of Mexico since the 1500s.
I wouldn’t be surprised that before he is out office he names it Trump Gulf. Or maybe the Gulf of Elon.
I can joke and make light of some of the things Comrade President Trump does, but the scary thing is that he has banned The Associated Press from White House briefings and from access to the President.
The Associated Press has been objective and fair, and might be one of our last bastions of truthful media.
Comrade President is being vindictive again because the AP still refers to the Gulf of Mexico. We really need The Associated Press.
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WHAT’S UP with the #1 Fair Weather Arkansas Razorback fan?
I see where the Hogs have a pitcher named Beidelschies.
That’s very similar to the name of a De Queen Leopard footballer even before my time. His name was pronounced (I think) Butelcheese, but it was spelled more like Beidelschies.
I refuse to get ahead of myself in Razorback baseball, but we are 6-1 with wins over Washington State, TCU and Michigan.
Lest we forget, the Razorbacks can lose to a team that is terrible. The lone loss on the Hogs’ record was to a 1-4 cupcake.
Right now I just hope that old Leopard doesn’t come looking for me.
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DON’T WORRY. Well, maybe you SHOULD worry. Remember the asteroid I wrote about that had a 2.3% chance of landing atop the Bingen Community Center or some other notable place on Earth? Well, the perfessers have now DOUBLED those chances.
We’ve got seven years to party.
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THINGS I LEARNED from opening e-mail: “If you find yourself feeling useless, remember: it took 20 years, trillions of dollars, thousands of lives and four presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.”
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WORD GAMES. The cousins: Tarred and Feathered. What a terrible way to be invited to leave town!
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HE SAID: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi, NFL Hall of Fame coach
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SHE SAID: “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa, saint
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SWEET DREAMS, Baby
