Jimmy's
Not at all what's on my early morning mind, I keep seeing this picture in the disorganization of my desktop, where I set it weeks ago.
It's there pinched from someone else's posting because it stirs Mario Lanza slnging in The Student Prince, "life has nothing sweeter than its springtime", and here we are with all the memories. Well, not all of them.
But Jimmy's Drive-In during the 1940s after WW2 and into Korean War days, to mark life by which war was going on. And my own Time by which car I was driving or riding in, but which makes the mind calendar easy.
Jimmy's on 6th Street east and down the hill from Harrison. And we had Tally-Ho out on Harrison at 15th Street north of Bay High ("On our city's northern border ..."), about as far as you could go in Panama City without running into the woods or heading out US231. And the Chicken Box on west US98 in StAndrews, or specifically what we called Little Dothan, who remembers Little Dothan? You could get a hamburger, hot dog, shrimp box, oyster box, with my limited cash in pocket I mostly got a hot dog, and you had your choice of chili or coleslaw. Hot dog and a coke.
Friday night date, or Saturday night date, or Sunday after youth group meeting at church with the station wagon loaded with teens, the way we were.
But the cars. In the foreground is a 1946 Ford that marks the picture as after WW2. Across from it, a 1942 Chrysler. Behind the Chrysler and slanted in is a 1941 GM sedan: I was going to call it a Pontiac but I don't see the silver streak down the trunk; Chevrolet? no, the front fender goes too far forward, and the taillights are too square; not a Buick because the 1941 Buick taillights were different and cute; so by the taillights, and the front fender, and the chrome strip along the side, and the spacing of the rear bumper guards, I'm reluctantly calling it a 1941 Oldsmobile. The light colored car to the right of the Olds is a first model Kaiser sedan, 1946 or 1947. To the right of the Kaiser is a Chrysler product with the rear stoplight in the middle of the trunk, I think it's a Dodge; the 1946, 47, and 48s were identical outside, postwar years the demand was such they didn't need to change the styling in order to sell them. The car in the right foreground showing only the back half is a 1941-47 Hudson 2-door sedan. The car in front of the 1941 Olds is a GM sedanette (series with forward-slanted rear side window) 1942, 46, 47, 48 but not enough showing to tell the make for sure although the white steering wheel is a hint, and the chrome strip on the front fender rules out Chevrolet, Buick and most Pontiacs, so call it yourself.
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It's there pinched from someone else's posting because it stirs Mario Lanza slnging in The Student Prince, "life has nothing sweeter than its springtime", and here we are with all the memories. Well, not all of them.
But Jimmy's Drive-In during the 1940s after WW2 and into Korean War days, to mark life by which war was going on. And my own Time by which car I was driving or riding in, but which makes the mind calendar easy.
Jimmy's on 6th Street east and down the hill from Harrison. And we had Tally-Ho out on Harrison at 15th Street north of Bay High ("On our city's northern border ..."), about as far as you could go in Panama City without running into the woods or heading out US231. And the Chicken Box on west US98 in StAndrews, or specifically what we called Little Dothan, who remembers Little Dothan? You could get a hamburger, hot dog, shrimp box, oyster box, with my limited cash in pocket I mostly got a hot dog, and you had your choice of chili or coleslaw. Hot dog and a coke.
Friday night date, or Saturday night date, or Sunday after youth group meeting at church with the station wagon loaded with teens, the way we were.
But the cars. In the foreground is a 1946 Ford that marks the picture as after WW2. Across from it, a 1942 Chrysler. Behind the Chrysler and slanted in is a 1941 GM sedan: I was going to call it a Pontiac but I don't see the silver streak down the trunk; Chevrolet? no, the front fender goes too far forward, and the taillights are too square; not a Buick because the 1941 Buick taillights were different and cute; so by the taillights, and the front fender, and the chrome strip along the side, and the spacing of the rear bumper guards, I'm reluctantly calling it a 1941 Oldsmobile. The light colored car to the right of the Olds is a first model Kaiser sedan, 1946 or 1947. To the right of the Kaiser is a Chrysler product with the rear stoplight in the middle of the trunk, I think it's a Dodge; the 1946, 47, and 48s were identical outside, postwar years the demand was such they didn't need to change the styling in order to sell them. The car in the right foreground showing only the back half is a 1941-47 Hudson 2-door sedan. The car in front of the 1941 Olds is a GM sedanette (series with forward-slanted rear side window) 1942, 46, 47, 48 but not enough showing to tell the make for sure although the white steering wheel is a hint, and the chrome strip on the front fender rules out Chevrolet, Buick and most Pontiacs, so call it yourself.
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