Posted on 5 Nov 2010 - 7:14 PM | (0) Comments
I was listening to Chicago’s “Old Days” recently on the radio. The song says “Good times I remember, fun days filled with simple pleasures like drive-in movies… take me back to a world gone away…days I’ll always treasure.”
Having grown up in Murfreesboro and Smyrna, I still fondly remember those good days and simple pleasures like getting our first color television and how exciting it was to put up a UHF antenna to receive channel 17 (our 5th channel). It seems only yesterday, I was watching TV as Neil Armstrong stepped down upon the Moon and going to the Marboro Drive-in to watch movies like Grease and James Bond.
Jackson Heights Shopping Center was the center of the universe in 60’s and 70’s. The basement was a huge underground play land containing a train, golf course, games, pinball machines and more. Above was a huge single screen movie theatre, Western Auto, McClory’s, Dixie Foods and the Rexal Pharmacy Soda Fountain. In the middle of the parking lot was Happy Burger and an ice cream Shoppe next to Sears.
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