🎵 DO YOU REMEMBER 🎵

Local Sights - 1965 era

• The Miracle Strip?  (1973 - Close Enough!)

• The Hangout?

• Goofy Golf?

• The Sky Ride? 

• King Neptune?

• The Funland Arcade?

• Miracle Strip Amusement Park?

• The Old/New Hathaway Bridge (Now Old Again)?

• Sandspur Tech? (Gulf Coast Jr College)

• Jimmy's Drive-In and the Tally-Ho?

• Tony's Pizza?  

• The Martin Theater (formerly the Ritz)?

• Isle of View, Gulf and Bud Davis Drive-in Theaters?

• The Dixie-Sherman Hotel?

• Ideal Bakery at the "Y" (the delicious smell)

• Tommy Oliver Stadium?

• Bowl-a-rama?

• Rainbow Roller Rink?

• The Mall? (Oops, there wasn't one!)

• Tinkertoys?

• Erector Sets?

• Washtub wringers?

• It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

• It took an hour to bake a potato?

• Laundry detergent with free glasses, dishes or towels inside?

• Flower bags with printed designs for sewing?

• The smell of purple mimeograph ink at school? 

• Films in class? (Yay!)

• Candy cigarettes?

• Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside?

• Wax lips?

• Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles? For a Nickel?

• Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes?

• Black Jack, Clove, and Beemans chewing gum?

• Bazooka bubble gum?

• Milk in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers?

• Newsreels and cartoons before a downtown movie?

• Tupperware?

• Christmas Displays at City Hall and International Paper?