50 Years Ago....

I think I mentioned it in an earlier blog posting here, but I wanted everybody to know Shoney's Restaurants, one of our favorite places to eat and hang out when we were in Sing-Out South back in the mid-to-late 1960s, is celebrating its 50th birthday.

Mentioning this does get close to a bit of shameless self-promotion for me (since Shoney's is a client of my firm, DVL Public Relations & Advertising). But I don't work on the account, and besides everybody likes a party.

And that's what Shoney's is planning next Saturday, October 17.

Come to the original Shoney's restaurant location in Nashville out in Madison at 720 Gallatin Road from 10:00 A.M until Noon. More than 50 classic cars will be on display (much like the old days of 'cruising at Shoney's)along with music, specially prices menu items and birthday cake!

I don't think our old friend, the Shoney's Big Boy, will be there. Nor will some of dearly departed Sing-Out friends like Henry Swider, with whom I (and many others) spent many hours discussing (sometimes arguing) over the issues of the day at Shoney's, especially the old restaurant on Murphy Road.

I think Patty Mayer Higgins can tell the story about the time things got so heated, the manager asked us to leave. Heck, we'd already been there for quite a while, as I remember, and being kids without much money, we probably had only ordered some cokes and maybe a couple of hamburgers and fries. Or maybe it was a Slim Jim or the Big Boy hamburger, or a hot fudge cake or a sundae.

Yummm......makes me hungry just thinking about it.

Fun times, fun memories. If you'd like, leave your thoughts and memories below.