Remember when... (Columbia, Charleston, Sumter: subdivision, restaurant, military)

[ZUMAN]

^^^
The Coburg Cow is still there. Long live the Cow!

[Geechie North]

Gracias a Dios!!

[fqtravlr]

I keep thinking of the wonderful days of childhood. Picking tomatoes and cucumbers on John's island.
Camping at the Campground on Isle of Palms. Yes, that was the former life of Wild Dunes. it was a lot more fun back then.
JoAnne's in Hanahan. Best breakfast in the area.
Miss Kitty's Diner on Morrison Drive. Saw Miss Kitty the other day. She is well in her 80's and loves the fact I remember her place.
Sitting the empty glass milk bottles on the back steps for the milkman to replace. Yes, there was a real milkman (I look nothing like him).
Seeing the Charleston Pirates play, and wondering why the hell they ever wanted to become the Rainbows.
Going deer hunting with my grandfather on the Westvaco Property at Wassmasaw when I was a kid. I bet some of you live there now. That tract stretched from 176 to Hwy 6.
Dialing 5 numbers on the phone to reach anyone in Charleston.

[SCBeaches]

[quote=fqtravlr;7056425]I keep thinking of the wonderful days of childhood. Picking tomatoes and cucumbers on John's island.
Camping at the Campground on Isle of Palms. Yes, that was the former life of Wild Dunes. it was a lot more fun back then.
JoAnne's in Hanahan. Best breakfast in the area.
Miss Kitty's Diner on Morrison Drive. Saw Miss Kitty the other day. She is well in her 80's and loves the fact I remember her place.
Sitting the empty glass milk bottles on the back steps for the milkman to replace. Yes, there was a real milkman (I look nothing like him). LOL...took me a minute, but I got it!
Seeing the Charleston Pirates play, and wondering why the hell they ever wanted to become the Rainbows. I had forgotten about the Rainbows! lame name!
Going deer hunting with my grandfather on the Westvaco Property at Wassmasaw when I was a kid. I bet some of you live there now. That tract stretched from 176 to Hwy 6.
Dialing 5 numbers on the phone to reach anyone in Charleston. You must be ancient! LOL

[Geechie North]

RA (Raymond)= City.
SN (Snow)= West of The Ashley.

Far back as this fossil goes.

[fqtravlr]

I don't remember the letters for the North area, but I know when I was not yet in the first grade there was no need to dial all the numbers. Of course, there will be quite a few who remember when Charleston, and all of SC had the 803 area code. I remember thinking it was just wrong that WE had to change ours and not the upstate.

[OleTomCat]

Now The only area with an 803 area code is the midlands...

[Geechie North]

TU (Tulip) was for East Of The Cooper.
At least the long-term memory still works.................

Anyway, Circa 1962 there were two "foreign" families in our neighborhood. One was a family with two daughters which had a Canuck dad and a mom from New Orleans.They really kept to themselves.
Other family was from Vermont and wanted to be very involved in the local "Civic Club". This went over like flatulence during High Mass, and was made worse by the fact the wife was very pushy, and always pointed out that their subdivision had no sidewalks. That's when the cattyside of local gossip among women took over.
It seems one of the local ladies was a receptionist at a local Doc's office where the Vermont women went- and the receptionist found out that her neighbor had a bad case of hemmorhoids. Had this been anyone else, it would have been a state secret, but because of who she was, it became ammo.
So at the next gathering (held at our house) the receptionist-turned spy spilled her dirt. Everyone laughed, my mother who was an RNwas at first appalled, but I noticed after a short interval she was joining in the general fun. We kids who were playing in earshot didn't know what a hemmorhoid was, but knew it was something dirty- and funny since the yankee woman had them.
The "oopsy" payback came the following Monday at Stono Park elementary where we all went, including my classmate, and pal, George (not his real name). So we're sitting there Monday morning in our class when the teacher went around the room asking her pupils what they learned this weekend.
Kids were giving the usual; I said something about airplanes.
Then came George who blurted out "Mrs (pronounced Mizz) ------ has hemmorhoids and needs to take a bath."
That got back to the adult clique asap, and everyone ended-up with a pain in the butt!

Been wanting to tell that story for over 40 years.

[Luvsdabeach]

Now that's funny, I don't who you are. lol

fqtravlr, Joann's was the place to go after a night out at Stonehenge, Derrieres, Streamers or whatever it was called each year. Also spent many of summer nights as a kid at College Park watching the Pirates with my grandfather. I haven't been to a game since. You have brought back many happy memories!

I just remembered another one.....Drag racing on Bushy Park and hiding from the cops when they showed up. lol

[meks]

Originally Posted by ZUMAN

How about Angers Wharf (I think that's the correct name) on Folly Rd, JI.? Was open in the early 70s. I remember it as a pretty good seafood place. I believe it burned down late 70s.

it was Adgers Wharf, excellent food too...

remember the old Condons dept store downtown that had the crosswalk over Calhoun? ... and Montgomery Ward with it's ice cream snack bar

the old red brick hotel with the barber shop on the end right past the Ashley River bridge into downtown on the right, Charleston Inn?

I really hated to see BaskinRobins close down at St.Andrews shopping center, that was the last of the original shops there.

Hush Puppy's were worn by many, then they closed down and Tom McCann took over that line

the yoyo contest at every 7-11 every weekend during the summer

and the millions of firefly's/lightening bugs that were everywhere all night during their season from downtown to as far out in the country as you could go... catching dragonflies on every fence... and crawdads (crayfish) in every ditch everytime it rained, I used to fill big jars with them