DIVES

Abe's Grill in Corinth,MS is outstanding, great biscuits,actually everything there is great

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A true dive, is where they check you at the door for guns and knives. And, if you don't have one, they give you one.

I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

Still, there's a little restaurant on North Jefferson in Athens called the Crow's Nest. I've never been in it, but it looks like a place where the waitresses wear the menu on their aprons. I bet they have great hamburgers if you can get past the e. coli.

Let's just say I had a partially misspent youth.

Parkers, up hwy 43 north just across the Tennessee state line.

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Originally posted by PuddinTang:
Parkers, up hwy 43 north just across the Tennessee state line.

Parker's absolutely qualifies! I'd throw Little Sands in the mix, too.

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I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

same here...i always thought of a dive as being kinda dark and seedy, but the idea of the thread is a good one because the smaller places like being described ususally have great food.
Years ago we used to go to a place in Anderson that had good food...can't think of the name of the place, though.

I once had a misspent youth, but he moved to Mississippi...

my youth wasn't misspent...it was well spent

Dive of all dives is in Delta LA (just across the MS river bridge from Vicksburg) they sell lottery, hamburgers and drinks. Lots of all three. The grease on the kitchen (open) walls looks like the floor of a jiffy lube but the burgers are great!

The Boxcar in Sheffield is a modern day dive. It's old, dark, and has lots of memorabillia on the walls. The seats of the booths are so worn you sink down when you sit down.

Best of all, the food is DELISH! The hamburgers taste like the ones you got when you were little at the City Cafe in Tuscumbia. Add a side of tater tots and it is a yumm yumm good meal.

You can get a meat, three veggies, a drink and dessert for $6, and that includes tax.

Warning: it is not a place to eat for the heart healthy enthusiast.

Bumper's Grill, of course!!

What's sad is I've been to alot of these places mentioned on here.

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Posted 10 October 2007 01:34 AM Hide Post
I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

Still, there's a little restaurant on North Jefferson in Athens called the Crow's Nest. I've never been in it, but it looks like a place where the waitresses wear the menu on their aprons. I bet they have great hamburgers if you can get past the e. coli.

If it's over a block past the square on N. Jefferson it's a given that it's a dive.

Do they still have Dub's Burgers near the tracks, FV? Heart attack in a sack plus all the gossip.

That's the place I first heard about the woman biting her cousin's tongue off during a French kiss.

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Originally posted by vick13:
the woman biting her cousin's tongue off during a French kiss.

Oh yes, I am so glad I live in Limestone County...

Do you remember that?

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Posted 10 October 2007 01:34 AM Hide Post
I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

Still, there's a little restaurant on North Jefferson in Athens called the Crow's Nest. I've never been in it, but it looks like a place where the waitresses wear the menu on their aprons. I bet they have great hamburgers if you can get past the e. coli.

If it's over a block past the square on N. Jefferson it's a given that it's a dive.

Do they still have Dub's Burgers near the tracks, FV? Heart attack in a sack plus all the gossip.

That's the place I first heard about the woman biting her cousin's tongue off during a French kiss.

I'm not sure. There's still Dub's by the Good Will Store. Easter's went out of business. Think there's a Boxcar or something similar close to the square.

Athens is mainly getting the high falootin' places on 72 now.

Were you there when the waitress at Easter's was poisoning all those people?

A distant cousin was married to a waitress at Easter's in the 60's. HER story is he poured carbolic acid in a water glass sitting at one of the booths (they were having "marriage problems" and he was pining away for her), then stood up, downed the whole glass and fell over dead.

We all figured some waitress had filled his glass with what HE thought was water. Hmmmmm.

I guess I can say this name, since she is a public figure. Are you talking about Betty Green? I didn't live there then, think I may have even been in high school or college when this happened. Daddy was a distant cousin to Dr. Crutcher (as he called him young Dr. Cruthcher to distinguish from his father who delivered all my grandmother's offspring) who was her physician. Don't know much else about it, but saw some pics in a nostaligia piece in the Athens paper.

Yep. Actually Betty Jean Green.

Actully Dr. J.O. Belyeu was my doctor. He practiced till he was in his 90's. As my father used to say, "He forgot more than most of 'em ever know."

Did you ever hear about my third cousin (or fourth, or fifth, we still count 'em) who drank the carbolic acid? At Easter's?

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Originally posted by jmbo35660:
What's sad is I've been to alot of these places mentioned on here.

I got one better!! I've actually WORKED at one of the places mentioned here!!!

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Originally posted by (aka)PuckerupFrog:

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I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

same here...i always thought of a dive as being kinda dark and seedy, but the idea of the thread is a good one because the smaller places like being described ususally have great food.
Years ago we used to go to a place in Anderson that had good food...can't think of the name of the place, though.

The place in Anderson, was it The Fish Creel? Awesome food...

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Originally posted by jmbo35660:
What's sad is I've been to alot of these places mentioned on here.



I got one better!! I've actually WORKED at one of the places mentioned here!!! Razzer

Oh, sweetie, and you survived?

I guess I have a different definition of a dive , closer to Interventor's .
To me, a dive is like Moore's place up in Mickie, or the Shamrock on the state line North of Corinth.
Only had an occasional killing at Moore's, but they were regular at the Shamrock. Anybody here old enough to remember them? They even made a movie once about the goings on at the Shamrock.

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Posted 15 October 2007 11:54 AM Hide Post

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Originally posted by jmbo35660:
What's sad is I've been to alot of these places mentioned on here.



I got one better!! I've actually WORKED at one of the places mentioned here!!! Razzer

Oh, sweetie, and you survived?

Hehe! Barely, Just kidding.

Used to be a place outside of Chattanooga Called Bee's. Good country cooking. Had the Lazy Susan Tables that you could spin. Also was one in Paduca Ky. called Shorty's Little Castle. I always stop at Stan's on the way to Nashville.

There's one in Bessemer called The Stadium Grille. Supposed to be the world's best cheeseburgers, but you have to be armed to go there.

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Originally posted by vick13:
Yep. Actually Betty Jean Green.

Actully Dr. J.O. Belyeu was my doctor. He practiced till he was in his 90's. As my father used to say, "He forgot more than most of 'em ever know."

Did you ever hear about my third cousin (or fourth, or fifth, we still count 'em) who drank the carbolic acid? At Easter's?

I missed that, but should we assume Mrs. Green gave him the acid? Wasn't she tried for three or four deaths? I seem to recall she used arsenic. The victims felt like they had tight socks on their feet, and one alert nurse caught what was actually going on. Guess no one is going to miss Easter's, huh?

I bet everybody does. Everybody in town ate lunch there. I think you were safe from Betty Jean unless you were her relative or she was your caretaker.

We need to start a thread about bizarre murderers in our areas. That's kinda neat.

I guess I always thought of a dive as like a hole-in-the-wall type place. Using that definition there are a couple of places we go to occasionally near my work (Brown's Ferry): Poplar Point Grocery and Marie's. At Poplar Point you can get a burger, fries, and a drink for around $4. And the burgers are huge.
Marie's does plate lunches with tea for like $6.
Not too bad.

Staggs

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Originally posted by PuddinTang:
Parkers, up hwy 43 north just across the Tennessee state line.

Parker's absolutely qualifies! I'd throw Little Sands in the mix, too.

Little Sands is STILL in business??!! OMG - I recall going there @20 years ago...but I thought it was just a bar, then. Is this the same place??

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Originally posted by *PuckerupFrog*:

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I tend to agree with Interventor's definition.

same here...i always thought of a dive as being kinda dark and seedy, but the idea of the thread is a good one because the smaller places like being described ususally have great food.

Most of what I refer to as a dive had much better beer than food.

SIDEPOCKETS

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SIDEPOCKETS

An hour at Sidepockets is probably equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every hour for 10 years.

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Originally posted by raven2nite:
SIDEPOCKETS

An hour at Sidepockets is probably equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every hour for 10 years.

LOL. Maybe they should change the name to "WHEEZERS".

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An hour at Sidepockets is probably equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every hour for 10 years.

Apparently you have never been to Granny's Kountry Kitchen. It takes a week of 3 shampoos a day to get the smoke smell out of your hair.

That said, the grub ain't bad.

Don't know where that is, but if smoke is bad, I don't need to know.
Any restaurant that allows smoking and does not have a smoke mitigation that clears it up, will not get any of my business.

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Don't know where that is, but if smoke is bad, I don't need to know.
Any restaurant that allows smoking and does not have a smoke mitigation that clears it up, will not get any of my business.

A dive ain't a true dive without smoke.