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Date Posted: 14:01:09 07/29/03 Tue
Author: Joan Morrison '84
Author Host/IP: cache1.agfg.com / 161.159.4.20
Subject: Murphy's/old downtown Ashland, etc.
In reply to: Doug King 's message, "Re: Beech Street neighborhood groceries in the 1960s" on 10:21:50 03/07/03 Fri

I remember Murphy's! I used to go downtown on Saturdays and I LOVED Murphy's onion rings, french fries and fountain cokes. You're right Doug, those grilled cheeses ruled. I can remember the smell of freshly roasted cashews at their candy and nut counter. Back then (listen to me...it was only the 70s) you had fountains/counters in department stores and drug stores. And Gosh...remember the elevators in Parson's? They actually had elevator OPERATORS! Hard to believe in this age of streamlining and efficiency, isn't it? lol They had the elevator operators until they closed in the late 80s.

I still can't get over the 29th street overpass being filled in. They did a really good job - now when I'm back home and drive through there it's hard to imagine it ever even being there. Weird!

I haven't been in the Sherwood Forest area in years, but I suspect the "Flattop" (little mountain of rock my friends and I used to to climb back in the late 70s and early 80s) has been completely bulldozed and is probably now a subdivision.

>I halfway remember Murphy's....I remember that they
>made a killer Grilled Cheese at their fountain.
>Sad thing about home, a lot of stuff disappears over
>the years. Mussetter's Grocery.....the 29th street
>Underpass. (Stupid thing, I go home for a visit a few
>years ago and my dumb ass drove up and down that small
>piece of 29th street looking for the damned underpass)
>I could have sworn it was just here, when I left. LMAO.

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