[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.

[stboz]

The Texaco's long gone...replaced by the Pile of Debris Isle of Capri Casino. I'm 54, but have lived here only since 1987. Tea Room bit the dust a little while back. The casinos have had a predictable effect on the local eateries.