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A jingle I remember from my childhood?.

?Thumpin good? Thumpin good? Cas Walker melons are Thumpin good?

Sir Cecil Creep/Shock Theater

Here in West TN it was Sivad on Fantastic Creature Feature every weekend out of Memphis...Which was Davis spelled backwards which was his real last name.

WEEEEEEE BUY GOLF CLUBS!

(This is a real commercial that aired on Chattanooga tv, btw)

https://youtu.be/O_zx7jPLmyk?si=BYqCQY-LCn5yOTdX

(https://archive.knoxnews.com/Services/image.ashx?domain=www.knoxnews.com&file=801653_4431969_ver1.0_640_480.jpg&resize=200*318)

I was going to say Sivad as well. He scared the crap out of my sister and me when we were growing up in Memphis. I think that show aired on WHBQ.

Y'all remember the Tennessee Trash commercial about littering. It was a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcMrWk_0Uw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWcMrWk_0Uw)

Ain't that right Miz Mull.

That's right, J. Bazzel

I started to go with that
My Journo teacher in HS taught me a lot of behind the scenes of Cas Walker and his show
Quite the charactures

we had Dr. Shock and Shock Theater on Friday nights....I was at my girlfriends house when I first saw Rosemary's Baby. My gf lived waaaaay out in the boonies, it was about 8 miles of dirt road before seeing any pavement. NOTHING but pastures and creepy trees outlined against a FULL MOON.....I told myself "I'm hauling ass out of here and God have mercy on anything/one that I meet". I nearly sideswiped a huge oak going around a curve on that dirt road, the good news is I survived.    :dielaughing:      :patriot:       :powert:

   

Grew up at the end of a road in Scott Co. We did not get Bonanza until Wednesday night.

:dielaughing:

They stole my fishing spot putting in riverfront park.

If it wasn't Ray Blanton on the News it was Marsha Trimble.

or perhaos Jake Butcher ...

Drums of buried Silver Dollars....

If you bought your groceries at Red Food, if you bought your clothes at The Leader, if you remember when Dollywood was called Silver Dollar City, if you?ve ever thought about accelerating to 100+ and trying out the runaway truck ramps while going down Monteagle, you might be from Tennessee. :naughty:

Before that it was known as Rebel Railroad

Got you beat...I grew up so far out in the sticks Santa didn't come until December 26th.....And we had to put pants on our chickens to keep the owls from screwing them.

Was that Scott County Virginia? If it was I know it well.

If you lived close to Bristol you will remember the Bill Gatton Chevrolet commercials. He was a UK grad though. He was instrumental in getting Derrick Hord to go to UK. Not a coincidence they also hired my Tennessee High coach at Kentucky. This was 1979. But they never cheated..lol.

Margie Isom

 

No. Scott Co Tenn, Onedia   Huntsville

And brown liquor

When I first moved to East Tennessee in 1982, there were billboards everywhere in S Knox County that said "Water is for washing, Dickel is for drinking" and it showed a country gent sitting in an old school washtub drinking Dickel from the bottle.  That sure did seem appropriate for S Knox County somehow!   :dielaughing:

Well, S Knox County has always been a bit "different"  :naughty:

yup.  I stumbled across a still while hiking in my junior or senior year....most likely senior year. In fact, I found more than one over time.  I found a couple that were abandoned and old, and at least one that was active.

When I was in HS and we lived in the Kimberlin Heights area (my parents house is still there, although they are both now in homes for the elderly), in my HS head, the countryside all around their house was open country and not owned by anyone. I guess I thought it belonged to the state of Tennseesee. So I would hike through the woods for miles away from my parents house, mostly in the winter when there wasn't much else to do.  Took the family dog sometimes.  And now I realize I was trespassing the entire time.  Probably lucky I wasn't shot at some point.  :dielaughing:

We ate at the Jolly Ox, instead of "Steak & Ale".  Eventually the TN state law that forbid reference to alcohol in an establishment's name was done away with and Steak & Ale it was....I loved their prime Rib.

Well if you grew up in North Knoxville --- you knew where the original Louis' Pizza Restaurant was!  And I remember when the brothers had a fight and 1 opened a 2nd Louis' restaurant next door to the original.  :dielaughing: :dielaughing: :dielaughing:    

And in Lonsdale, where my grandparents lived until retirement, there was a small restaurant where we went to Sunday dinner (Heath's I believe was the name) after church at Euclid Ave. Baptist Church!   Lordy the memories when I was little with my granny and grandpa in that area!  Sometimes when I'm in Knoxville visiting now, I still go by their old house. 

Oh, and I used to watch the Cas Walker show in the early mornings just to hear Ms. Dolly Parton sing -- I loved hearing her then and now.  PLUS, we used to vacation every summer in Pitman Center (where she was raised) -- and walk to the Parton store for ice cream!

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Kay's Ice Cream with the big ice cream cone outside was a S Knoxville icon, and had been since the 50s I think, when I moved to Knoxville in 1982.  Kay's closed (sadly) during the pandemic, but the ice cream cone is still there, and there is a Thai restaurant where Kay's used to be, but it does serve ice cream of some sort.   :naughty:

So who won between the Louis brothers, or did they both go out of bidness?   :naughty:

I worked at Kays on Magnolia as a freezer boy out of High School, till I joined the AF

So there is still a Louis' restaurant -- and honestly, I don't know which brother it was!  LOL  They are both gone now, but 1 of my brothers and my son ALWAYS go to Louis' for spaghetti anytime they are in Knoxville....not only was I raised going there, so were my children until we moved to GA!