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Submitted by: nostalgia : 24 Nov 2008, 11:35
Berretta's Barbecue, wow, what memories. Good barbecue. Although before my
time, I know they had attendants on roller skates in the early days that
would come out to your car to take your order in the big covered parking
lot.
Submitted by: C F Smith : 25 Feb 2009, 23:22
On Highland at Park in the late sixties, early seventies, was a place
called Mike's Steak House. In the early seventies, you could get a 5 oz
ribeye, with salad, bk potato and toast for a dollar and twenty-nine cents.
Itclosed down, and a Dixie Cafe moved into the space in the late seventies. On Park Ave, in the 50s/60s and perhaps longer, pediatrician Dr. C. Cooper Stanford had his office in a yellow brick house on the north side, not far up from Getwell. He had a clock in the office that looked like a cartoonish cat--its eyes and tail moved as it ticked.
Submitted by: Bobby DeShazo : 03 Apr 2009, 20:16
The snow cone/ice cream place was across the street from Kaz's service
station. It started out as a Pure station and ended up a Union 76. Melvin
worked there! Kaz's son has a garage just off the square in Collierville
now. Ham Kirk was on the northeast corner of Park and Highland and a huge,
lighted Coca Cola sign was on the northwest corner above the washeteria.
( I went to paper meetings in the metal building behind there). Southwest corner? A Walgreens that burned down and the lot stood idle for years.
Submitted by: Della : 11 Oct 2009, 21:30
My husband and I had our first "official" date at Berretta's. Since we had
just hung out in a group of friends at various places before, we ate in the
car so we could talk uninterupted.
The Park theater was a favorite hangout during the school weekends. Later in life I spent hours conversing with frends a few blocks north on Highland at Shelbo's. Good memories of good times with good people. I never was nervous walking around late at night alone or with another girlfriend. Saddly those times are gone now.
Submitted by: A. Matthews : 13 Oct 2009, 14:18
The Frost Top Root Beer website has a great old photo of the Frost Top
drive-in.
Was Kennedy Hospital in this area, too?
Submitted by: Jimmy Mac McNamara : 07 Jun 2010, 22:34
My mother worked for Drs Cooper and Jim Stanford - Beretta's had the best
deep dish apple cobbler in the world!
Frost Top root bear was THE place to go to get your belly full for under $2.00. Of course back in the late sixties, there were gas wars going on and I can remember gas being as low as 17 cents a gallon. Kennedy Hospital was less than 5 blocks north of Frost Top (which was right next door to Rebel Rentals.)
Submitted by: Roy Nelms : 25 Oct 2010, 13:10
I spent a lot of time in the 60's at my Grandmother's house just north of
the intersection of Park and Hignland. Her house was in between the Life
of Georgia building and the washerteria on the NW corner. Her house and
the shops on her corner were torn down in the early 70's. I remember
seeing Saturday afternoon movies at the Park, getting sno-cones from across
the street. and the Houge&Knott grocery store in between the Walgreens and
the Park theater. Lots of good memories and good times.
Submitted by: Jeff : 23 Feb 2011, 01:06
Just a few blocks north of Park and Highland was Jack Pirtles Chicken. Best
fried chicken and those little biscuits and gravy couldnt be beat!
Submitted by: LaoK : 01 Mar 2011, 23:50
Ah, Buntyn restaurant in its original storefront location on Southern. The
wonderful yeasty rolls, delicious Southern-style entrees with fresh
veggies, the bric-a-brac on the walls, the uneven linoleum floors. They
lost their lease on the original space, as I recall, and then went on an
expansion binge, opening a location on Park Avenue as their flagship, and
one way out in Cordova on Appling Rd. The new digs were nicer, but the food
wasn't always quite what you remembered from the original ...and then,
alas, it was gone. Both locations closed.
Submitted by: LaoK : 01 Mar 2011, 23:53
...well, that should have been in the University of Memphis (Memphis State)
section, shouldn't it?
Submitted by: John Walker : 20 Jun 2011, 23:18
I lived south of Park and Highland on Vanuys Rd from 1948-1968.
There was a little convenience store a couple blocks south of the intersection of Park and Highland on the east side of just north of the Y at Prescot and Highland on Highland. It was called "Jot em Down". I used to ride my bike to get bread for mom (about 1956 - 1958). The building was a wooden structure that needed paint. The utility company then bought the property and put some kind of power station there. There was also a barber and a florist on the east side of Highland just south of the Walgreen's store on the SE corner of Park and Highland. Dad used to take me to the barber to get a haircut. The barber always asked me if I wanted sideburns....for the first several visits that I remember, I didn't know what "sideburns" were....too young to know or care. Berretta's Bar b Que was the best I've eaten since leaving Memphis in 1968. The Sno-Cones were also super. A Nu-Grape and a Bar b Que was something to look forward to back then! I remember watching "The Blob" and several other sci-fi movies at the Park Theater. Lots of great memories. I attended Sherwood Elementary from 1953-1958 and then Sherwood Jr. High and Messick from 1958 - 1964. Then, to Memphis State Univ 194-1968.
Submitted by: Kristin Young : 06 Aug 2011, 15:01
What happened to the Eastgate Shopping Center page? There's an error
message from the link now.
Submitted by: l.dunlap : 28 Oct 2011, 20:57
My brother, Roy Dunlap cooked at Barretta's for many years. He was 17 years
older than me. I visited him there and when he took a break after the noon
rush he would always insist on buying me a bar-b-que.I have great memories
of the place.
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