[stboz]

Tuminello's is gone. Maxwell's is still there, I ride past it every day on the way to work. The old bridge is closed and the new bridge (I-20) is, well...., how can I say this?...pulling away from the east bank. DOT engineers are scratching large holes in their heads trying to figure this one out.

Goldie's is still there (yum!), but Top o'the River is gone. Sadly, Miss Ruby Mitchell has passed on. (For those who don't know, Miss Ruby's smoked sausage with red beans and rice was indescribably wonderful. You could cut the sausage with a plastic fork, it was so tender.)

[wardaddy]

I'm not sure how old you are ....I'm 44. I remember the Old Southern Tea Room at that hotel downtown....fine bread pudding and boiled custard and lemon icebox pie.

You know 3 poor souls are buried under a few 1000 yards of concrete in one of those huge middle columns on the old bridge....they forgot they were still in the cassion and just dumped all over them.

There used to be an old Texaco there on old 61 just north of the old bridge where 80 meandered out of the Military Park. Inside I remember an old photo they had from the 20s when ice floes during the winter were as far South as Vicksburg during a peculiarly harsh winter....very strange.

I suppose you know about the old Ghost in the Park over near the train trestle with the cannon ball shot clean thru him....Union fellow of course.

Pardon my nostalgia.