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Ok. Where's the tissue?

Kinda lost me right there at the end.

The one picture with Herb Winches was for a TV station in Huntsville :/

(01-27-2014 09:35 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  The one picture with Herb Winches was for a TV station in Huntsville :/

Yeap! WHNT 19. Herb started there. The evening line up was Tom Kennemer, Missy Ming, Herbie, and HD Bagley.

Back to topic, that was a great vid!

Needed one for the Fair Park Drive-in Sign, unless i missed it.

(01-27-2014 04:16 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Kinda lost me right there at the end.

Yep. Cut off the next to the last pic,and it was a great walk down memory lane.

My first job at Woolco.

Oz records - although I was more a Turtles guy

Liberty Supermarket

The Kelly's chuck wagon building

The Batman car. (Someone should do a movie on that guy)

Penny the dog sign

Watching "dialing for Dollars" anyone remember the "count and the amount"

Yieldings - where my grandmother bought all of the clothes she boutght the grand kids "because the quality was better"


As a kid, riding around was more adventurous, seeing all those icons. And no seatbelts either!!! Today my kids see nothing outside when riding, because they are too busy with something electronic. There may be iconic things today, but they won't remember them.

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(01-27-2014 10:00 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Needed one for the Fair Park Drive-in Sign, unless i missed it.

That sign was destroyed by a tornado in 1968 that went east along Lomb Avenue to the GES store on 12th. Was it rebuilt?

BTW, The drive in theaters around B'ham were originally owned by the Waters family. When they sold them all, they invested the money in building the Eastwood Mall at the site of the "Artesian Wells" on Hiway 78, which furnished the water for its AC units until it was torn down.

Yes, I went to Fair Park as a teenager in the early 80's.

The burger place on the Montclair side of the Eastwood Mall was originally called "Wagons Ho!" - hence the covered wagon - and later was Kelly's and Dilly's though I'm not sure in which order. There was an ice cream emporium in the mall that featured an "ultimate sundae" that had about 60 scoops of ice cream in a huge heavy glass container served to parties. The Krispy-Kreme Donut place was at the corner where Olive Garden is now located - it was later relocated to Roebuck where I think it is still in business.

When they started developing Century Plaza, the land was 8 to 12 feet below Oporto-Madrid Ave. but when they finished the land fill, it was at its present level about 15 feet above that road, all of it carved out of Red Mountain right there.

The College Theater in East Lake was across 1st Ave. North from the East Lake Theater and got its name because of the nearby Howard College - now Samford. I saw the "new" release of "Winchester 73" starring James Stewart there. In 1947, Dr Hurley Knight set my broken arm in the ER of the East End Memorial Hospital which was later moved out on Hiway 11 above Saddler's Gap and is today St Vincent's East.