Oh pshaw, on Fri 15 Dec 2006 12:01:55p, jmcquown meant to say...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Oh pshaw, on Fri 15 Dec 2006 03:07:11a, jmcquown meant to say...
>>
>>> I didn't know this place was still in business. I haven't been
>>> there since around 1976 or so. The Side Porch Steak House in
>>> Bartlett, TN. I Googled for restaurants nearby and this popped up.
>>> I immediately thought "No, really?! They're still there?"
>>>
>>
>> Aye, a bit of nostalgia. I remember going there a few times with my
>> parents back in the 1950s. It would be fun to go back.
>
> Couldn't have been much in that area back then, eh? Bartlett has grown
> but much further to the north; this part of Bartlett is still pretty
> much old Bartlett
>
> There was a lovely old house at the corner across from the Methodist
> Church at the corner of Stage and Shelby St. that I always wanted to
> live in. It was situated on a hill and had a wide front porch. My
> schoolmates and I would walk to the drugstore at the corner and we'd sit
> on the retaining wall at the bottom of that hill sometimes, drinking pop
> and wondering who lived there. Never saw anyone go in or out. <shaking
> herself out of the reverie> Well, we'll see if the steaks at the Side
> Porch are still as wonderful as my 30 year old memories. Guess they
> wouldn't still be in business if they weren't!

It's funny the things we remember. We didn't live in Memphis a long time,
but my parents and I both loved living there. I have a 50 year old memory
of an ice cream stand that was on Poplar near White Station Road. It was
called the Tropical Freeze, and every day that had a different array of
tropical fruit flavors. At the time, that stretch of Poplar was almost
complete rural, particularly as you drove farther out of town.

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Wayne Boatwright
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