Smokey Joe’s Cafe: Jailhouse Rock

Matt Bogart singing Jailhouse Rock with dancing help from some of the others in the ensemble.

Our Second Car: 1949 Packard

This isn't exactly like our 1949 Packard but the style is similar to that of the one we owned. We went on a trip from Louisiana to Maine in 1957 in a 1949 Packard.

Our First Car: 1939 Plymouth

The 1939 Plymouth was our first car and I can remember us driving to Missouri in the car when the car was twenty years old. We kept this car until my dad bought a 1949 Packard.

A&W Root Beer Stands

I can remember growing up in Pineville, Louisiana and going across the Red River to Alexandria where we would go to the A&W Root Beer place in our 1949 Packard.

How could we ever forget those icy mugs filled with root beer? Those were a special treat since my parents didn’t take us kids out to eat very often in those days.

Roy Allen made the first root beer in a mug in June of 1919 in Lodi, California and sold it for a nickel. He took on a partner in Frank Wright one of the first people he had hired at the Lodi establishment. They took the first initials of both their names and named the root beer A&W Root beer.

A&W Root Beer was even better when mixed with ice cream in a root beer float. No other drink goes quite as well with ice cream as root beer.

 

This photo brings back memories of when the carhops would bring our order to car in a tray like this.

 

 

An early barrel shaped A&W Root Beer stand.

Modern version of an A&W Root Beer stand.

It is getting very difficult to find an A&W Root Beer stand. They still exist but they seem to be in smaller cities mostly.

According to the A&W Root Beer website there are only twelve A&W Root Beer stands remaining in Tennessee.