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Post by PoPo on Jan 7, 2012 22:54:47 GMT -5
How about The Bluebird Diner, and The Sunset Diner?
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Post by gunsey2u on Feb 23, 2012 8:37:20 GMT -5
Pinky, did you ever have to ride a city bus? Remember when certain folks had to sit at the back of the bus? Didn't I ask, "Why"? Remember when doctors made house calls? We ran and hid from him. Was it also common practice for mothers to not allow their children to go barefoot until either the first or last (I think) day of May?
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Post by pinkpanther on Feb 26, 2012 12:32:49 GMT -5
I remember all of those, Gunsey.
I had to catch the city bus when I went to North Charleston High after I got out of school and rode it to work at the dime store.....FW Woolworth Co. where I worked my first part-time job. That was the year they started having "sittins" at the lunch counter at Woolworth's and I could not understand why they closed the lunch counter when the blacks sat down. All schools were then segregated .....I just couldn't understand why they couldn't eat at the lunch counter. I don't think I even thought about the blacks sitting at the back of my bus because they weren't allowed, I just thought they wanted to. I was in high school, but still didn't know a lot about what was going one in that respect because the kids never talked about anything like that.....it was just the norm back then to be segregated because we were born into that era and hadn't really thought anything different. I can remember playing and associating with them as a child, because at times we had church services in the evening with the ones in the villages in the different cities and towns where we lived prior to our teenage years before moving to Charleston. I guess that's why I didn't feel like they were any different than the rest of us, and that it was strange when I realized that they were being treated differently. Don't know if I making sense or not.
But I remember those things you mentioned.
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Post by pinkpanther on Feb 26, 2012 12:54:20 GMT -5
I remember all of those, Gunsey.
I had to catch the city bus when I went to North Charleston High after I got out of school and rode it to work at the dime store.....FW Woolworth Co. where I worked my first part-time job. That was the year they started having "sittins" at the lunch counter at Woolworth's and I could not understand why they closed the lunch counter when the blacks sat down. All schools were then segregated .....I just couldn't understand why they couldn't eat at the lunch counter. I don't think I even thought about the blacks sitting at the back of my bus because they weren't allowed, I just thought they wanted to. I was in high school, but still didn't know a lot about what was going one in that respect because the kids never talked about anything like that.....it was just the norm back then to be segregated because we were born into that era and hadn't really thought anything different. I can remember playing and associating with them as a child, because at times we had church services in the evening with the ones in the villages in the different cities and towns where we lived prior to our teenage years before moving to Charleston. I guess that's why I didn't feel like they were any different than the rest of us, and that it was strange when I realized that they were being treated differently. Don't know if I making sense or not.
But I remember those things you mentioned.
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Post by gunsey2u on Feb 27, 2012 0:57:48 GMT -5
Slept most of the day. Guess I tried to do too much Sat. when I had two of the grands up here to help me a little. I can count on resting after I have a busy day since my surgery. Then again, I always had weird times to get on my pc.
It's like you said Pinky, we were born into the way things were back then. The reason why we didn't understand is because it was not talked about so we just thought it was the norm. Then again, I wondered why things were that way and if I ever asked why, I was ignored, like folks didn't want to talk about it.
I'll try to think up some more stuff that went on during my life and get something started. You and Aminal are the best at it though.
Someone mentioned a Blue Bird Cafe. There was one of those in Sptbg. when I was a little girl. Dad and Mom would take us to the walk-in movies and sometimes we would stop in at the Blue Bird and get ice cream.
Don't remember any eating places in any of our Roses, K-Mart, or sky cities. Baber Rhyn Drug Store and Piedmont Cafe were two popular places to get a bite when you were in town but the only thing about those was the location, Magnolia Street, making them bad choices. Sort of a red light district when us kids got older.
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Post by pinkpanther on Feb 28, 2012 18:40:52 GMT -5
The Piedmont Cafe had good food. I remember when my husband was in the hospital, The owner, Nick, of the Piedmont Cafe brought him a Rib eye steak to his room...in the 1990's. Since he was on a strick diet, he couldn't eat it so I devoured it. Delicious. Wasn't I sad to do that to him.
Aminal and I were talking one time about Jimmy's Restaurant, that used to be across from SR hospital (Spartanburg General Hospital at the time). Curb Service. Best chicken Liver plates in the state at the time. Everything was good. Owned by Jimmy Boketas (not sure that's spelled correctly).
McDowells Restaurant on Asheville Hwy right past the Hilltop fire Dept.
The Longhorn used to be on Hearon Circle where MacDonalds is now. I never went when it was there, because I think it was more of a lounge at the time and I'm not much for lounging, just not my cup of tea.
The beacon used to be a crusing spot.
Zimmermans behind Belks up town Spartanburg.
The Lunch counter in F.W. Woolworth. My Mom was manager of the Lunch counter several years after she worked in the office for years. Good food. I have an original menu in my hand right now and although I think I have put this on here before, here it is again.....making me hungry:
Turkey Dinner 80 cents....Ice tea 10 cents Ham & Scalloped Potato Dinner....70 cents Country Style Steak & Gravy......85 cents Meat Loaf Dinner........75 cents Vegetable Dinner (Macaroni cheese, Crowder Peas, Choice of two Additional vegetables, Crisp Cole Slaw, muffins.) 65 cents Hot Meat Loaf Sandwich & whipped potatoes........65 cents Pie slices....25 cents cake slices 20 cents Soup...cup...20 cents Bowl...30 cents coffee...10 cents
I worked on the toy counter there in my teen years in the 60's and ate these meals.....big proportions. Orange twists were delicious...... lucious banana cakes
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Post by gunsey2u on Feb 29, 2012 3:13:25 GMT -5
I knew I could count on you to bring on some goodies, Pinky. You mentioned Jimmy's. They also had the most wonderful calf liver smothered in onions with mushroom gravy if you wanted it and it was delicious. Zimmermans was on the bus line and sometimes Mom and us would stop in there for a bite while waiting on our bus. Best hotdogs and even better were their doughnuts, better than any I've ever eaten. I can remember Woolworths lunch counter like it was yeaterday and those pie slices under the domes and yes, the menu (steak and gravy).
Do you remember the Deluxe Diner or the Minute Diner? Pete's Backyard was my favorite for years.
Out in the county, up towards Chesnee, was an eating place named Burr's Restuarant. Also some of that steak and gravy which was the greatest. Remember Wade's when it was on the other end of Pine Street? Did anyone ever go to the Cherry Hill Drive-in? I used to get bored with so many theaters to go to, now I wish we had one locally. How I remember Dad loading up our car with us four and three neighbor kids and taking off to the dollar a carload movies (usually a double-feature). My daughter said that there's a drive in movie in Blacksburg. Think I'll check it out this spring with the "sheriff".
One thing more, the "sheriff" and I spotted a Longhorn Resturant in the Westgate area that I had previously missed seeing. Don't know how long it has been there. In the same locale as the old shoe carnival, I think. Remember the Bonanza Steak House? And Quincy's?
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Post by SLJAM (again) on Mar 14, 2012 18:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by gunsey2u on Mar 15, 2012 6:11:25 GMT -5
Thanx scfreebird. Now that you mentioned it, I think my daughter did say that the one she went to was in Shelby. I don't so much care how good or bad the movie is, it's just the lost ago memory of sitting out under the stars and eating popcorn with a jug of icewater from home to enjoy. Who knows, the "sheriff" and I might even get lucky and sneak a kiss or two.
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Post by pinkpanther on Mar 15, 2012 16:06:21 GMT -5
Whooo HOOOO! WE heard that!
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