hallmark, this is just gonna blow your mind. It just did mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uzDETpF85Q

By the way some may think there's a discrepancy between this song and hallmark's memory (if you read the other thread).
Nada. Back then Pace Blvd was known as O Street and that stretch of Fairfield was known as Pottery Plant Rd.
So hallmark is right on the money.

How about "Chicks"? Up on Massachusetts and O st. I believe

hallmarkgrad wrote:How about "Chicks"? Up on Massachusetts and O st. I believe

Chicks I remember well. I was also around when the Chicken Box at the Circle was a curb hop drive-in. And of course my high school hangout was the Old Firehouse. But what do you remember about the Famous Drive-In on Cervantes (somewhere near Davis)? That's another local legend I never got to see.

I think it was over near the "Pen" theater and the Coffee Cup. Was a little bit to far east for my crew,,,,,,,,,,Maybe if I can think about it or see a pic it might jog my memory,,,then maybe not ,,,LOL
Check out this link My Hight school class of 1960
http://phs1960.com/8/4-TRUE-4.htm

Sandy's on Navy was my old High School hangout. It's now a Krystal.

hallmarkgrad wrote:,Maybe if I can think about it or see a pic it might jog my memory

this is the only photo I have but it doesn't reveal much.

Yomama wrote:Sandy's on Navy was my old High School hangout. It's now a Krystal.

Sad news. Even Krystals is now closed. I hated it I used to go there a lot. some of friendliest employees ever for a fast food place.....

Bob For some reason I dont think I ever went there. Dont know why....Pensacola was a small place back then....

Who remembers the Bon Ton? It was an old fashioned soda fountain shop at the Circle where Whataburger is now located.
I was an east-sider but my friend's old man was the greek who owned it so it was one of the few west side hangouts I went to when I was a kid.

I am curious how the traffic circle was situated at what we now call "The Circle". Anybody got a picture? I ate at Martines and the Howard Johnson's at The Circle, but the traffic circle was gone by then.

Yomama wrote:I am curious how the traffic circle was situated at what we now call "The Circle". Anybody got a picture? I ate at Martines and the Howard Johnson's at The Circle, but the traffic circle was gone by then.

this thing sure aint no wikipedia.

http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/The_Circle

Bon Ton Wow!! Good Call and the drive in restaurant in Martines. I think they called it the The Ranch I know they had a Ranch Burger type thing............

hallmarkgrad wrote:Bon Ton Wow!!

The Bon Ton turned out to be a lot more to me than just an ice cream parlor.
It was one of several places (the others being the Greyhound station, the Arcade Newstand, the Beach Casino and Hogues Market grocery) which first inspired what became my lifelong occupation.

Isnt that why Martines shut down? Because they widened the road or did something that messed with the parking lot and the Mobile High way access? I remember for many many years the tables were still had the table cloths and silver ware on them You could see them when you peeked in the windows.. Marines Marks+wifes name(Catherine?)=Martines?

Browns news stand across from Postons hardware?

hallmarkgrad wrote:Isnt that why Martines shut down? Because they widened the road or did something that messed with the parking lot and the Mobile High way access? I remember for many many years the tables were still had the table cloths and silver ware on them You could see them when you peeked in the windows.. Marines Marks+wifes name(Catherine?)=Martines?

The way I've always understood it is Marks got to making so much money off being one of the first KFC franchisees (over a wide area) that he lost interest in Martines and let it go down.

hallmarkgrad wrote:Browns news stand across from Postons hardware?

Being that was a westside newstand, we east-siders only went downtown (to the Arcade and Sportlands).

Marks bought one of the very first KFC franchise. They were very new to the franchising game and he got the rights to ,I think, like 50 miles. Made him even richer than he was....so I heard....

Bob wrote:

hallmarkgrad wrote:Browns news stand across from Postons hardware?

Being that was a westside newstand, we east-siders only went downtown (to the Arcade and Sportlands).

I do remember it being member's only. You don't think the old Greeks that ran sport-land made book do you? LOL

You mentioned the Pen Theater earlier. Now that was one really cool place.
Remember instead of a concession stand the owner also owned a soda fountain shop adjacent. And you went through a door in the theater lobby to get your concessions in the soda shop. That was really something different.
The thing I'll always remember about the Pen was that big art deco neon clock (had orange or green neon I can't remember) to the left of the screen. Made me want one of those from the day I saw it. Years later I got me one.

Do you remember the Isis Theater on the NE corner of Palafox and Garden?
That's like those curb hop drive-ins for me. It was gone shortly before I started going to the saturday matinees as a kid but I've got a movie poster with the Isis showtimes printed on it.

I think the Isis was the cheapest and smallest of the downtown theaters. But they did do a great Saturday matinee business. Wonder what a ticket cost? 15 cents?

There used to be a small Juice bar next to Auto Elec their competitor was Western auto that was across the street), where the travel lodge is now. Small place made hamburgers and had real fruit juices. Made the best damn Pina-colada in the whole world. Severed in a frosty mug. I need to write a book LOL

[b]Christine Constance Tampary Marks
Obituary
TAMPARY MARKS
1912 - 2010
Christine Constance Tampary Marks, 98, of Pensacola, FL, died the morning of May 18, 2010 in her home. She was born on January 30th, 1912, to Alexandra Micsan Tampary and Constantine Theodore Tampary in Oak Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago. There she graduated Austin High School with honors and was an accomplished ballet dancer and musician. She attended Sherwood Music School to study piano under the very respected and renowned pianist, Leo Podolsky.
Her family moved to Daphne, AL (Malbis) in the late 1920s, where they were close friends with the founders of the community and her father built their dream house: Tamparyville. After attending business school, she went to work at Malbis Bakery. She was the choir director and organist at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Mobile, AL. Upon losing her father as a young woman, Christine took the reins and never put them down.
She was married at Tamparyville to Navy Pilot James John Marks on November 11, 1939. Together they opened and operated Martine's Restaurant in 1942, a Pensacola landmark for 30 years. She was always going beyond the ordinary to please her customers who really became her friends. She and her husband, Jimmy, close friends of Col. Sanders, became one of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisees from 1959 until 1989.
She was a member of the Daphne Chapter of the Eastern Star, a charter member of the Pensacola Mardi Gras Maids of Mirth, an avid member of the Music Study Club, the Baptist Heath Care Women's Board, the Pensacola Little Theatre, and the Mobile Opera. She belonged to the Garden Club, a passion that is seen at her home where she planted hundreds of flowers. She was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Pensacola Suburban West Rotary Club, of which her husband was a charter member, and for which they both hosted an annual garden party for many years.
Christine was a member of St. Andrew's Antiochian Orthodox Church, where she was a member of the Sisters of Photini. Before this, Christine was a member of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church for many years where she was active in the Women's Philoptochos Society and in the Daughters of Penelope. She was an early organizer and co-chairman of the annual Greek Festival, and was the first to initiate a cookbook. She sang in the choir which gave her the chance to share music with her dear friend, Anna Tringas. Christine's fondest memories were with "the Madames," Anna Tringas, Genevieve Yianitsas, Sophia Papador, Ellen Tampary, Della Marks and her mother, Alexandra. Party planning was her passion and her love. Many family members and close friends will never forget her wonderful Christmas parties.
It was always her nature to be a leader, consummate planner, and hostess. She strived always to be a lovely lady of poise and elegance.[/b]