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I don't recall my family ever actually getting a chicken box there, but I do remember stopping lots of times for hamburgers or hot dogs, with french fries, Cokes, milk shakes, etc. There were a number of big oak trees dotted around the parking lot, which provided helpful shade in those summers before automobile air conditioning was common. | I don't recall my family ever actually getting a chicken box there, but I do remember stopping lots of times for hamburgers or hot dogs, with french fries, Cokes, milk shakes, etc. There were a number of big oak trees dotted around the parking lot, which provided helpful shade in those summers before automobile air conditioning was common. | ||
− | There was also a Shrimp Box drive-in further down on New Warrington Road, about where it peeled off from Navy Boulevard, close to the | + | There was also a Shrimp Box drive-in further down on New Warrington Road, about where it peeled off from Navy Boulevard, close to the skating rink whose name I can't recall now. I always assumed the two restaurants were owned by the same people since the architecture was very similar - a squarish building with high wooden fence-like panels - either white or light blue, I think - around the roofline and similar neon signage. But I don't know that for certain. |
− | Anyway, in the 60's and 70's if you said something was at or near the Circle, it meant very specifically that particular triangle of land. The back side of Martine's fronted on the Circle. Whataburger (first in P'cola, I think) was directly across New Warrington Road from the Chicken Box. A Kinney's shoe store was to the south across Lillian Hwy at the corner of NWR, where there was a traffic light. And a number of small businesses were dotted here and there in the vicinity | + | Anyway, in the 60's and 70's if you said something was at or near the Circle, it meant very specifically that particular triangle of land. The back side of Martine's fronted on the Circle. Whataburger (first in P'cola, I think) was directly across New Warrington Road from the Chicken Box. A Kinney's shoe store was to the south across Lillian Hwy at the corner of NWR, where there was a traffic light. And a number of small businesses were dotted here and there in the vicinity. |
I can't document all this so I'm not putting it on the article page, but thought I would make note here for posterity. [[User:Textorus|Textorus]] 23:11, 28 December 2010 (CST) | I can't document all this so I'm not putting it on the article page, but thought I would make note here for posterity. [[User:Textorus|Textorus]] 23:11, 28 December 2010 (CST) | ||
:Thanks for this! <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 08:09, 29 December 2010 (CST) | :Thanks for this! <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 08:09, 29 December 2010 (CST) |