Hey Jack, don't forget the vanilla and cherry cokes that went along with those onion rings.  They were the best and I ain't never forgot them.  They have got a drive-in like the barrel in Starke, Florida where I live now and I always geet a cherry or vanilla coke with my rings.  Tom Waugh.

Damn! you guys are good.  I guess I destroyed to many brain cells back in the 60's and 70's I can't remember what I had for lunch.  My wife lets me hide my own Easter eggs.

Jack you ain't changed a bit.  I hope you remember all the lunches we lost at track practice because of Coach Alsop!  Some things you just can't forget and then again there were some things that really needed to be forgotten.  Are the easter eggs the ones that are the size of footballs that you still hide?  Good to hear from you Jack and hope to see you at the 45th.  Tom.

your wife lets you have eggs?

Ya, I guess we all left a little of our DNA around that track.  I used to love those big meets where we got out of school at mid day to go run the prelims, then go back at night to run the finals.  In between they would take us to McDonalds and buy a couple of cheeseburgers order of fries and a coke for a buck.  Then we would go back and try to run the finals on a belly full of greese. Nobody cared much about nutrition back then.  Hell! a good burger and fries is still my favorite meal.

I don't know if Donny Vosberg ever played with the Impacs but his band's name was

the Eldorados

1. Zesto's (worked there for a while)

6. Tri City (was in NE St. Pete )

Business on NW corner of 38th & 16th was a Kwikchek grocery

Sorry about the late answers to 1 & 6, didn't see pages 2 & 3.

Drive out 49th St toward the airport. On Ulmerton Road, just east of 49th, was a racetrack and dragstrip combined. Fridays and Saturdays, racing. Fast times at Northeast High.

What was the name of that favored St. Pete weekend motorsports location?

My dad used to race there. Won 1st trophys and money in his class many times. Remember it well...

sunshine speedway

who can tell me where the "Toot andTell it " was or who remembers an old caboose on 4th street that was an ice cream parlor? tell me where they were located and win a memory badge

Hi Joe,

Don't remember the "Toot & Tell It" but do remember the caboose. I may (and probably am) wrong, but it seems like it was around 39th N.  There was a Lums somewhere in that area. May have everything confused, it's been a long time since I lived there.

Just a side note. At "Give Kids the World" outside of Kissimmi, they have an icecream parlor caboose on the property. Same one?  I know this because my sister-in-law Kathy Huber (maiden name & NEHI class of '70?) has worked there for 20 yrs. or more.

Actually it was at the end of 4th st., right before the turnoff to Gandy. Toot and Tell it was on 16th and Haines, NW corner.

Here's another, what was the name of the steak house next to Derby Lane.

Can't believe I don't remember that it was on the NW corner of Haines & 16th. Lived on 10th St. & 45th Ave. Remember the Grace Lutheran church, Spur station on SE corner, & Sunoco on SW. Major clutch slippage I guess. George's Meat Market was right behind.

Remember the steak house & actually dined there a few times. Black Angus? Probably more clutch slippage. Smoke coming out of my ears!

The Toot n Tell was or later became an A&W drive-in. I swear, there's been a nursery behind the drive-in ever since Metheuselah. What's the nursery called? (Still there, I'm pretty sure)

George's Meat Market was on the NE corner of 19th St and Haines. My mom got all our beef and chicken from George. Everything came weighed and wrapped in coarse brown paper and marked with the price in black crayon. We lived five blocks from there, on the SW corner of 44th Ave and 22nd St.

Across the street from Harris Elementary (6 years my alma mater) lay one of the infamous strip shopping centers around St. Pete. A little "five & dime" there lost a lot of junk to me and my brother, Roger in grade school. Thievin' little punks! What was the name of that enterprise?  Cause I sure as hell can't remember it...

You'd think all those years of ridin' bicycles all over town would have caused my memory to be better for longer. On the contrary, I think it started slipping a long time ago, and I'm just catching up to the fact! Aaagghhh, Charlie Brown!

Here's one for you: there were two ways to get to Snell Isle from NeHi. Obviously there's the front door, on a straight shot down the Blvd from the mainland. The back door was quicker though, and you didn't have to drive all the way down town to get there. What was the neighborhood the other entrance/exit passed through?

BIOYA!

Joe Maschino wrote:

Latimer's?

The steak house was RJ's Steakhouse. George went out of business a few months ago unfortunatly. If you take Locust south, it winds around the golf course and empties on Snell Isle. When I use to work at the Pier, I use to bet people that from where I lived off 43rd ave that I could drive to the pier and only have to negotiate one traffic light. I won all those bets.

Hey Frank,

You're right . George's Meat Market was further out than I said. It was across the street(?) form Gene Younis's fruit stand. I remember the 5 & 10 but can't remember the name. Wasn't there a barber shop next to it? Slap Happy 5 & 10 kept coming into my head but I think that one was at 9th & 34th between the Rexall drugs (vanilla cokes & fries) and the A&P grocery.

Also remember going to a Dr. Myers on Haines & I think 22 St. It was right on the corner  almost up to the hardware store. 

One more question. Do you remember Snyder's Neon Signs. I want to say it was out Haines Rd. on the left just before 62nd Ave. Stan Snyder's (Mary Ellen Jackson's husband) father owned it forever. 

Anyway, just some random thoughts. Trying to keep the old brain working.

George

Anyone remember "thrill hill"?  How about the "Arrow's" drive in on 4th st. ?  pre-high school, taking the city bus from Meadowlawn down to Al Lang field to watch spring training, fifteen cents for the bus, round trip, $2.00 for the ball game.

Jack

Jack, I remember it well and good memories too.  Many times I shook hands with Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and many others and you could in those days.  Did the same thing with the Cardinals when they were at camp there.  Been to Arrows and all those places you talked of...good memories.  Spent a lot of time at the Barrel downtown and Steak & Shake on 34th street. Still remember track practice and Coach Alsop too!