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Smaug Wrote:Superbowl in Pinson is still there.

Kid across the street played for the Wahoma Warriors.

I dated a girl who lived in the Ski Lodge.

Very good, you know that it was Ski Lodge (there was a Ski Lodge 2 and 3, but the original was never Ski Lodge I, just Ski Lodge)

To continue:

Taken a new car to Old Rocky Ridge Road to see how it handled the curves
Pasqualie's in Tarrant (it's still there and still taste like it did when I was in Junior High)
Shakey's in Roebuck (after football game hang-out until it got run-down, then we went to Pizza Hut in Center Point, but were not welcome, finally found some dive place called Dambi's, who would serve anyone, 13 and up!)
Skatehaven (my first date was there)
UAB student discount cards (Baby Doe's manager inadvertantly put 2 for 1's on the card, then got fired for doing so, that was in only time in college that I could afford to buy Jack Daniel's in a bar)
Roebuck Lanes
Parking with your girlfriend at the airport
3 on a String concerts at Eastwood Mall
You knew that Randy Hunter was MTV VJ Alan Hunter's brother
You thought that "Birmingham Tonight" by Kevin Derryberry (Tellureride) was a national hit
The Breakfast Club every Fri. morning at Rube Burrow's sponsored by 95, The Rock (Dick James?). Nothing like a Mimosa drunk at 0900, then Lab Class at 1300.

Lou-A-B Wrote:

cjrun Wrote:-you remember 1077 the X, The X at 100.5 and 97.3 when it was a hardrock station.

Wasn't the X on 105.9 before is it was on 107.7

And before it was The X, it was The Bear...

The Breakfast Club was Mike McCarthy and Dick James.

They were replaced by Mark & Bryan.

Dick James is still around, I think. Seems like I hear him doing commercial voice-overs occasionally.

mobileblazer Wrote:Remember when you had to get off of I20 in Irondale, drive thru Irondale, then get back on I20 in Leeds?

I remember that from driving through Bham when we lived in Dallas and made the yearly Christmas trip back to Georgia. Matter of fact, that trip off I20 into and out of Bham was what almost kept me from taking a job at UAB.. When my wife heard I was being recruited there, she was less than enthusiastic about moving, even though it was a day's drive closer to home.

While my Grandma was still alive, we trekked from Huntsville to Butler Alabama, in Choctaw County, once a month. Every month. I was about 8 years old and knew the name of every business on Highway 31 from Warrior to Malfunction Junction and on Highway 11 all the way through Bessemer. The Birmingham stretch literally took half the time of the trip.

A few more:
Did you ever attend stock car races at the "Iron Bowl" (a dirt track) in Roebuck?

Do you remember DC-3s belonging to Southern Airlines taking off from the airport?
Speaking of the airport, does anyone remember Daniel Paine College on the hill south of the N-S runway? How about Becker-McCombs repairing B-29s & B-50s in those big hangers? The "Week end Warriors" flying PBYs out of the field? The Air Guard RF-84Fs taking forever to get off the ground on hot summer days? Do you know where Sumter Smith Air Base is located? Capital Airline's carmine red striped Lockheed Constellations with their three rudder tails? The red eagle on the tail of Eastern Airlines planes?

Did you know that Charles Lindbergh flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" to B'ham on his national tour, landing at Robert's Field. The runway was where I-59/20 has that straight stretch near the old quarry and behind the Glenn High School site. The old Central Park Airport pavement still exists at 50th street just south of Central Park School (where I taught 1965-1972)

Did anyone frequent Paul's Donuts on 50th St. or "The New Spot" farther down 50th in front of chicago Bridge and Iron? In Wahoma, did any buy from the "Fruit Basket" owned by the Contri Bros.? I remember "Bob's Trading Post" having a Grand Opening on 1st Ave, and mom wanted to go, but dad said "Don't worry, It will be there tomorrow"--but it burned down that night. Also there was Fadely's Drug store (his brother Don Fadely had a similar store in West End) on 1st Ave. In Woodlawn, I remember eating breakfast at the "Dinette" which had a curved glass brick exterior. In Woodlawn, have you noticed the yellow brick two story building on 1st Ave. that says "City Hall" above the door?

If you were saddened to notice that Penny's tail had stopped wagging.

Speaking of Shunarrahs
Anyone remember Mike Shunnarah's place - "The Emergency Room"?

Many a UAB student downed some beers there.

If you ate at VJ on the Runway.

BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:Do you remember DC-3s belonging to Southern Airlines taking off from the airport?

I rode in many of those Southern Airlines airplanes. It was those kinds with the propellers planes. When the started up the engines black smoke would boil out of the back of the engine. and at times they would backfire and flames would shoot out the back.
Nowdays people would never fly in a plane like that.

jstud63 Wrote:If you ate at VJ on the Runway.

I hope VJ's is still open. I was good friends with the owner's daughter, Tara.

You went to the old Berry, Shades Valley, Shades Valley RLC, West End (Closed this summer), Banks, Hewitt, Parker, Phillips, John Carroll High Schools. Those are the ones I can remember.

OOH OOH! How about this one? You must be from Birmingham if your water & sewer bill costs a bajillion dollars because your dumb*** city government could go down with the dubious distinction of causing the largest municipal bankruptcy/implosion in U.S. History!!!

RONBLAZE Wrote:Speaking of Shunarrahs
Anyone remember Mike Shunnarah's place - "The Emergency Room"?

Many a UAB student downed some beers there.

Mussa's Deli, Home of the Camel Rider. Frank was in our engineering study group (Mussa's son). Got a lot of free Camel Riders there.

mobileblazer Wrote:

jstud63 Wrote:If you ate at VJ on the Runway.

I hope VJ's is still open. I was good friends with the owner's daughter, Tara.

Would Tara's nickname be Teeter? Did she used to hang with Jane Grundhoffer (Grundy's Music Hall)? Weren't there about 16 Grudhoffers (good old fashion Catholic family, no birth control)?