Anyone who's been in AZ since 1963 qualifies as an "old-timer" and is
granted carte blanche to complain about how things have gone to hell since
all the Midwesterners have move down here. :)
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Van Scoy [mailto:ed@vetteracing.com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:35 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil
Cc: 'Keith Turk'; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: what's up?
Easy there Neil...... I was born not far from there ;-)
(escaped to Arizona in 1963)
Ed
>Keith;
>
>" I'm hanging out in nowhere Alabama..."
>
>I've been there- it's called Hollywood, Alabama, east of
Huntsville. We used
>to go through there on the way from Redstone Arsenal to
Tumbling Rock Cave.
>Hollywood had the only gas station- convenience store in the
country with a
>dirt floor. It wasn't built with a dirt floor; they just
never cleaned the
>place. Our motto was "never eat anything from that store, no
matter how
>hungry you are, unless it is in a can. Then wash the can first."
>
>I doubt that it's there now but it was one of the more
"colorful" places
>I've been.
>
>Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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