Remember when... (Mount Pleasant: big house, living, law)

[Luvsdabeach]

I remember when the weekend hang out was around Robert's Drive-in, Gaslight Square, McDonalds & the parking lot of the old Sam's Club. Anyone who had a nice hot rod was there.

[OleTomCat]

I took my Mustang there a few times back in the late 80's

[meks]

Originally Posted by Luvsdabeach

I remember when the weekend hang out was around Robert's Drive-in, Gaslight Square, McDonalds & the parking lot of the old Sam's Club. Anyone who had a nice hot rod was there.

before Sam's was built McD's on Rivers was the place to be with your car... or the old Piggy Park west ashley, now Bessingers...

[IOPbaby]

I just accidently found this forum and LOVE it! What a trip down memory lane! I hope it doesn't end. Phil Sutterfield photographed my wedding! He became a photog after leaving TV. Does anyone remember the Holly House? It was where Folly Road forked in West Ashley. Hasn't been there for years (across from where the old Lobsteer Restaurant was located. They had these little, tiny glass milk containers - held about an once or so - for the coffee drinkers and were sealed with cardboard. My parents used to take us there for breakfast/lunch. And you posters who mentioned the TV stations must remember Suzy Q the elephant!

[IOPbaby]

Oh, and someone mentioned the old jail under the Cooper River Bridge. Last time I checked it had been restored and was an office building or something. When I was in high school, it was empty and condemned. A girlfriend and I trespassed there, climbed through a small space in the bars and wandered around inside. It was really creepy - had a lot of all the former prisoners' nasty graffiti! We thought we were pretty daring back then (probably just stupid); we also went to the Southernaire (I think that's what it was called) - a "house of ill repute" to ask for a job. It was near a fire station in the city of Charleston, I think it was the one on Meeting Street. The firemen were hanging around outside the station when we came back out and they told us not to mess with those people or we might get shot!

[Pluffmud Henry]

I remember the crosswalk but over Calhoun @ where?

[Pluffmud Henry]

Originally Posted by jetsfan16

I remember when Citadel Mall did not have a food court, and when JCPenney was in their original location, where Target is now. Yeah, Chick Fillet was on the side next to Aladdin's Castle. Cit Mall doesn't even have quarter gaming now. Only N'wood. And where the Food Court is now, or just by the entrance, was a German restaurant called Old Munich. I was a St. Andrews Sophomore and I could drink there because the staff were all these actual German fraus who were quiet used to serving "men" of 16.

Kerrison's also is a store I vaguely remember, but I clearly remember going to Woolworth's back when they were closing, around '96 or '97. A lot of stores closed around those few years, including Krawcheck's Haberdashery, Sonny Goldberg's, and the only Krystals in town.

I also remember a time, not that long ago, when the only newscasts were at 6 and 11, with a Noon cast on channel 5, and maybe 30 minutes-1 hour in the morning on the three channels. Yes, it was Mike Hiott and an African American lady whose name I've long forgot, but she also did 6

Now, you have 2 1/2 hours on 5 just in the evening, and even 4 has an hour in the evening, and all 3 have 2 hour morning shows, which was unheard of ten years ago.

We became news junkies about the time of Gulf War I

[Pluffmud Henry]

Originally Posted by fqtravlr

And how could anyone forget... The "Post Courier" is a hybrid of the originals. "The News and Courier" was delivered in the morning and "The Charleston Evening Post" was naturally delivered in the evening.
The television stations signed off with the National Anthem about 3 in the morning and you got nothing but static on the TV until 5:30 am.

I recall how on 4, we got both the Star Spangled Banner and Morning Has Broken and then Specks Munzell would draw sketches and deliver a sermon that though inspirational and not fire-and-brimstone, would now not be permitted by a newsteam member. I mean, yeah, church services get free air and the stations write it off-happens nationwide-but not a guy who later does the news.

After Specks' "Sunday school class" we got two episodes of Flash Gordon.

[IOPbaby]

Was that crosswalk over Calhoun or another street nearby? For some reason I was thinking Kerrison's had a crosswalk over a street but it wasn't on Calhoun, right? That was Sear's.

[ZUMAN]

The only crosswalk I remember is one at the old Condons Dept store. I can't remember which street the walk was over, but it wasn't Calhoun.