Egg Bowl in Jackson - Beers and foosball at the Recovery Room - More beers and pool at Cherokee Inn
What a blast
What a blast
Good Times in the 70's
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in the 70's....you could legally drink at 18 back then. I started MSU at age 17 and didn't turn 18 until about Thanksgiving of that semester. Never stopped me from going to LenLew's or the Triangle Club. Matter of fact, turned 18 on a stool in front of the nickel moving screen payoff......errrrrr strictly fun and challenging pinball machines. Drinking Buds and eating cheeseburgers and fried pickles ... Wish I could go back there right now.
Jackson was wide open back then. I grew up in Jackson, and you could get ANYTHING you wanted. Matter of fact, there was a cop who provided more than security at the Dock back during the day. $100 a pop.... right there in the mgr's office. TOP quality. (Not much of a distance between the Madison County Air field and the Dock. I flew out of there for quite a long time. You did not want to know what went on there after dark.)
Jackson was wide open back then. I grew up in Jackson, and you could get ANYTHING you wanted. Matter of fact, there was a cop who provided more than security at the Dock back during the day. $100 a pop.... right there in the mgr's office. TOP quality. (Not much of a distance between the Madison County Air field and the Dock. I flew out of there for quite a long time. You did not want to know what went on there after dark.)
Man, I had forgotten about those pinball machines! Lost many a roll of nickels on that thing.</p>
I wouldn't be shocked, and he was a strange little 17er.
As far as basketball talent was concerned, Hell the twisted little thing once was on Basketball scholarship at Fla State. I heard it from the stage a hundred times, and head ELI guy confirmed it. I even ran into him on another occasion years later.... middle of the day, dead sober, music pitch....and he offhandedly told me that Cookie once had a scholly at FSU and quit. More money and members on the rock and roll tour, huh?
As far as basketball talent was concerned, Hell the twisted little thing once was on Basketball scholarship at Fla State. I heard it from the stage a hundred times, and head ELI guy confirmed it. I even ran into him on another occasion years later.... middle of the day, dead sober, music pitch....and he offhandedly told me that Cookie once had a scholly at FSU and quit. More money and members on the rock and roll tour, huh?
Man, I hadn't thought about Eli or Cookie since the 80s. The Dock, The Club, The Landing, Doug's Place, Bonnie & Clydes, many more I'm forgetting.