At 08:22 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote: >With all the talk about various places around town I have to share a story >that I was telling my grandson the other day. > >In the early 50's we were living in Bessemer, near Muscoda School, where I >started in 1953. We attended the Second Baptist Church (not the First), >which was near our home. After church on Sunday we'd drive up the Bessemer >Super Highway to what we'd now call a fast ffod restaurant named The >Skillet. (It was right next to those tepee-shaped cabins.) We'd get hot >dogs 15 for $1.00. That was a treat for our family of 5. Then the price >went up to 12 for $1.00 and we couldn't afford to eat there any more. > >I sure a lot of you can appreciate the times when money was that tight. > >Jim Nix Jim, You are a young fellow. Go back to the thirties. You could get a 12 ounce Pepsi for a nickle. In the mid thirties, our family generally had Sunday lunch at Bagwell's Cafeteria which was just across the street from the Birmingham Electric Company "car barn" for electric trolleys. The standard price was meat, 3 vegetables, bread, drink, and dessert for 25 cents !!!! In the late thirties, Bagwell raised that price to 35 cents. My father thought that was far too expensive, so we started going elsewhere for Sunday lunch. Carl, in Knoxville Tennessee