How to recognize Scottsboro natives.....a work in progress

1. You remember when only two lane roads led in and out of town.

2. You recall two-way traffic around the square.

3. You put money in the parking meters.

4. County park looked like a park instead of a trailer court.

5. City Park was still a vision.

6. The main pressure groups were the Baptists, the Methodists, and the Church of Christ.

7. John T. Reid and Congressman Bob Jones built the town you see now. Forget what you read in the papers, these two men built it!

8.You know where double bridges were.

9. You learned genealogy on the front porch at the home of kinfolk, usually your grandparents.

10. You rode the train or a Trailways bus, which you met at Josephus and Betty McGahey's bus station, a popular eatery.

11. Town ended at Five Points, Caldwell Gardens, the Benham home, and the turn-off to the Old Larkinsville Rd.

12. You still give directions by referring to the Last Chance (i.e. turn right at the Last Chance.)

13. There were three drugstores on the square. You traded with Brooks Woodall, Gene McCamy or the Hodges boys, Charles or R. L., and you could buy paregoric without a prescription, for the "croup".

14. You were a victim of the Hodges brothers' practical jokes.

15. You didn't say you're going to Mud Creek to eat barbecue.....you just said you're going to Leck's. Everybody knew why.

16. You were at the Ritz or the Bocanita at least once a week.

17. You remember when Jackson County High became Scottsboro High School, where our parents also attended.

18. You ate Fred Porter's delicious lunches at the Amoco Diner.

19. You remember the Bailey Hotel and the Jessica Hotel, and the Hotel Scottsboro dining room.

20. Dr. Bankston and Dr. Collins made house calls, or would meet you at their offices in the middle of the night. Dr. Rayford lived in the old Hodges Hospital.

21. Ten-cent stores sold everything the hardware stores didn't. Lay's and Elmore's and Coplin Hardware and Scottsboro Hardware sold everything you couldn't get at Julian Hambrick's (next door to the P.O.)

22.Lyles Hembree read your postcards at the Post Office. Waco Thomas delivered more than mail---groceries, prescriptions, etc.---and was never off schedule as much as 15 minutes. If you were expecting a special letter or package and it came in when he was on his route, he would turn around, go back, and bring it to you after his route ended.

23. Grubtown, Bub Starkey's first "real" supermarket, along with all his gimmicks. While the wives shopped, the husbands and kids were next door at the Pig House, with car hops, barbecue sandwiches and root beer.

24. You refer to Scottsboro Elementary, later Central Jr. High, simply as City School.

25. You remember when Adam's Chicken Basket was the Mug and Cone, with a spotlight illuminating the cone on top. Also the field adjacent to it once hosted a KKK meeting in full dress.

26. You could buy Sealtest ice cream, then considered the best, at Roger's Drive-In, along with great cooking and excellent food.

27. Further up the Chattanooga Hwy. stood the Tawasentha Drive-In Theater. Down front under the screen were swings and other playground equipment for the entertainment of children, no doubt dragged there by their parents.

28. Near the drive-in was a dirt track belonging to Red Sharp, featuring a car identified by #"39". which stood for county 39, Jackson County.