How is your memory?

I've got a few questions, and only if you grew up where I grew up will you know the answers....

I drove around the loop today. It's unbelievable how our surroundings have changed so much. It got me to thinking about the years while I was growing up. All the Bisbee's who lived on the west side are now gone. The houses have been excavated and the only thing left are some trees and the telphone pole that went to Uncle Pat and Aunt Leenie's mobile home. (And, the deep hidden secret - underground.)

As I was driving back to work and on my way home, I thought about all the many changes to the area that I have always called HOME. See if you can remember....

1. What was the name of the store that is now LaPalapa?
2. What was the name of the store that was on the East end of the Loop?
3. What was King's One Stop before it was King's?
4. What was the place where Leisure Arts is now?
5. What was the name of the store that was next to Uncle Butch's/Uncle Frank's Station on the west side? Then, what was on the east side?
6. What was located where McAlisters' and Izzy's are now?
7. What was the name of the Mountain behind the Loop?
8. Where did we all go to vacation bible school?
9. What kind of gas did Uncles' Butch and Frank sell?
10.What was the name of the cafe located just west of Joe T?
11. What was sitting between Aunt Dorothy's house and Grandma & Grandpa's house when we were very small?
12. Why was it taking your life into your own hands, if you wanted to walk down the lane to Lynne & Marnita's house?
13. What kind of tree was in Aunt Lillian's back yard?
14. What kind of fruit tree did grandma have in her front yard - before they cut it down?
15. Where did Mike, Cheryl and Pam go to elementary school?
16. Where was the other station that Uncle Butch opened up?


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Answers:
1. Stone's Market
2. Rainey's
3. Nub's One Stop
4. Glen Johnson's Ranch
5. Moran's to the west, and Gilliam's Bros to the east.
6. The Optimist Club, where we all played softball.
7. Shinault - which is how my daddy said it and spelled it - NOT CHENAL.
8. Nalls Babtist Church.
9. Champion
10. Fletcher's Cafe.
11. There was an old rock - water well and PaPa's old jeep, which everytime I climb up on it, I got black stuff all over me.
12. Because, Leonard had two big black dogs that chased us when we walked by Aunt Stell's house.
13. A weeping willow, that hung so low that it was a secret haven in the area next to the trunk.
14. A peach tree.
15. Dupree Elem. in Jacksonville.
16. Across Highway 10 from Stones Market.

How many did you know?