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CageTheElephantCageTheElephantPost Master
Some of the buildings are still here...
Some long gone...

Wilson Drive-In Theater
Joy-Land Drive-In
Martin Theater
Johnsons Skating Rink
The Shanty
Starkeys
Pizza Inn
Pasquale's
The Galley
Dairy Queen
Zippy Marts
Western Auto
Grants
TG and Y
Woolworths 5&10
Woolco
Kents $1
Army Surplus Store
A&P Groc.
WOWL TV
East Florence Drugs
Turning Point Records
Spiveys Pool Room
Florence Fairgrounds (with grandstands)
Robbins Beach
Old World Flea Market
Tony's Club
Todd's Club

......
BamaGirl82BamaGirl82Hall of Famer
I do miss the Galley. I remember being on the boat with my granddad or dad and we would stop there to get a milkshake and I would play PacMan and I would always get shocked because I would be wet from swimming! I also miss Rogers Department store. When my mom let me start wearing makeup thats where I got my first makeup!

This may sound weird but around the corner from Rogers there was a barber shop where Lilly's store is now(on Tennessee Street). My mom worked next to it and I can remember the barber shop had one of those red/blue/white swirly barber shop signs thats like a tube (I have no idea what you call them) that would spin around and I always thought it was neat. I'm a girl so I never got my hair cut there but I always loved that swirly thing!! Weird I know....
P +PuF+Hall of Famer
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Originally posted by BamaGirl82:
I do miss the Galley. I remember being on the boat with my granddad or dad and we would stop there to get a milkshake and I would play PacMan and I would always get shocked because I would be wet from swimming! I also miss Rogers Department store. When my mom let me start wearing makeup thats where I got my first makeup!

This may sound weird but around the corner from Rogers there was a barber shop where Lilly's store is now(on Tennessee Street). My mom worked next to it and I can remember the barber shop had one of those red/blue/white swirly barber shop signs thats like a tube (I have no idea what you call them) that would spin around and I always thought it was neat. I'm a girl so I never got my hair cut there but I always loved that swirly thing!! Weird I know....


I loved Galley burgers. And the swirly thing is called a barber's pole.
Just_Just_Old Faithful
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Originally posted by oLDsEAdADDY:
Did you know that at one time, we had a horse race track in Tuscumbia? It was a trotter track where the golf course next to Spring park is now.
......Yes you are right about that....not that I remember, LOL. I think that was when Helen Keller lived here.
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Just_Just_Old Faithful
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Originally posted by +PuF+:
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Originally posted by BamaGirl82:
I do miss the Galley. I remember being on the boat with my granddad or dad and we would stop there to get a milkshake and I would play PacMan and I would always get shocked because I would be wet from swimming! I also miss Rogers Department store. When my mom let me start wearing makeup thats where I got my first makeup!

This may sound weird but around the corner from Rogers there was a barber shop where Lilly's store is now(on Tennessee Street). My mom worked next to it and I can remember the barber shop had one of those red/blue/white swirly barber shop signs thats like a tube (I have no idea what you call them) that would spin around and I always thought it was neat. I'm a girl so I never got my hair cut there but I always loved that swirly thing!! Weird I know....


I loved Galley burgers. And the swirly thing is called a barber's pole.
.....Yeah and there is one of those on 6th st. in Tuscumbia. It's for men AND ladies. Smiler
seeweedseeweedOld Faithful
The Shoals Theater when it was a picture show
Andersons Books, right next door and the cafe underneath .
The 3-D movie house (don't remember it's name) in
Tuscumbia
Passenger trains where you could actually go somewhere on the train.
The walkway that went down the middle of the O'Neal bridge, and the entrance which went underneath the bridge on each end.
Bowling alley in Sheffield, I think it was River Bluff. You could bowl from midnight to 6 in the morning for about $2.
The catfish resturant at the corner of Wilson Dam Rd and Huntsville Rd.
The Sears parts store in East Florence
Blevins Furnature store which had about the best record department anywhere.
tinabethtinabethHall of Famer
Yes, weed, I was thinking about the Shoals Theatre too -- when it was actually a picture show. Also, the Marlboro Drive-In in Muscle Shoals. Who remembers all the great shopping in downtown Florence? J.C. Penney, etc.? And Rogers was THE place to buy something "special". Still sad that had to close. Actually had forgotten about the Cowboy at Murray's and the Woolco stores. Who remembers going to Big K in Sheffield? They had the best icees! Oh, and what about the original skating rink in M.S.? It was the place to be. We thought we were the stuff with our Calvin Klein jeans and Olivia Newton John head band -- the little braided gold ones. Ah... the memories. :-)
FirenzeVeritasFirenzeVeritasOld Faithful
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Originally posted by BamaGirl82:
I do miss the Galley. I remember being on the boat with my granddad or dad and we would stop there to get a milkshake and I would play PacMan and I would always get shocked because I would be wet from swimming! I also miss Rogers Department store. When my mom let me start wearing makeup thats where I got my first makeup!

This may sound weird but around the corner from Rogers there was a barber shop where Lilly's store is now(on Tennessee Street). My mom worked next to it and I can remember the barber shop had one of those red/blue/white swirly barber shop signs thats like a tube (I have no idea what you call them) that would spin around and I always thought it was neat. I'm a girl so I never got my hair cut there but I always loved that swirly thing!! Weird I know....


They're called barber poles.

When they first redid that area in the late 1970s, a friend of my parents had a watch repair shop next to the barber shop. There were large Mediterranean lanterns on the walls. They redid it a second time a few years ago and took them down.

As far as I know, an attorney owns Rogers and began turning it into condos--then stopped. Have no idea why.
FirenzeVeritasFirenzeVeritasOld Faithful
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Originally posted by tinabeth:
Yes, weed, I was thinking about the Shoals Theatre too -- when it was actually a picture show. Also, the Marlboro Drive-In in Muscle Shoals. Who remembers all the great shopping in downtown Florence? J.C. Penney, etc.? And Rogers was THE place to buy something "special". Still sad that had to close. Actually had forgotten about the Cowboy at Murray's and the Woolco stores. Who remembers going to Big K in Sheffield? They had the best icees! Oh, and what about the original skating rink in M.S.? It was the place to be. We thought we were the stuff with our Calvin Klein jeans and Olivia Newton John head band -- the little braided gold ones. Ah... the memories. :-)


It was Marbro Drive-In. They still show films at the Shoals during festivals. I wish the owners would show classic films on Friday and Saturday nights. There should be enough movie-goers to make it worth their while.
seeweedseeweedOld Faithful
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Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
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Originally posted by tinabeth:
Yes, weed, I was thinking about the Shoals Theatre too -- when it was actually a picture show. Also, the Marlboro Drive-In in Muscle Shoals. Who remembers all the great shopping in downtown Florence? J.C. Penney, etc.? And Rogers was THE place to buy something "special". Still sad that had to close. Actually had forgotten about the Cowboy at Murray's and the Woolco stores. Who remembers going to Big K in Sheffield? They had the best icees! Oh, and what about the original skating rink in M.S.? It was the place to be. We thought we were the stuff with our Calvin Klein jeans and Olivia Newton John head band -- the little braided gold ones. Ah... the memories. :-)


It was Marbro Drive-In. They still show films at the Shoals during festivals. I wish the owners would show classic films on Friday and Saturday nights. There should be enough movie-goers to make it worth their while.

Seems I also remember a drive-in movie on Huntsville Hwy, or maybe Florence Blvd., but I can't place exactly where it was. Took a date there once to see "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte". Anybody remember where it was ?
Dade QuimbyDade QuimbyHall of Famer
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Originally posted by E.Z. Lee Pistoph:
That was Mr. Hill at the barber shop on west Tenn........./////////Western Union was in the building by the alley and parking deck. Former post office I believe
Mr Hill cut my hair many times there when I was a kid. I want to say his first name was Gilbert,... not the same as the bail bondsman of course. They had a guy that shined shoes too, real nice guy.
FirenzeVeritasFirenzeVeritasOld Faithful
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Originally posted by Dade Quimby:
If I remember right there was a drive in just past Wilson Dam Rd going east on Huntsville Rd on the left. Across from the old shop rite. I barely remember it and could be wrong....


Wilson Dam Drive In. I think there's a topic on it somewhere. You can see the old entrance on the left on Huntsville Road traveling east.
PD pooh's dadHall of Famer
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Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
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Originally posted by Dade Quimby:
If I remember right there was a drive in just past Wilson Dam Rd going east on Huntsville Rd on the left. Across from the old shop rite. I barely remember it and could be wrong....


Wilson Dam Drive In. I think there's a topic on it somewhere. You can see the old entrance on the left on Huntsville Road traveling east.

The shoals was blessed with 3 Drive-in theaters. The Park-view in Muscle Shoals, the Wilson just off Wilsom Dam Road and the Joy-Land in North Florence.
E electraglideHall of Famer
what about the norwood theater on north wood and the cinema theater on tennesse st. lard bros bus lines, s&h green stamps store, when you bought gas you always got your oil checked and windows washed plus green stamps, spur gave dishes.wrestling at the national guard amory. rowdy red roberts, frankie cain, toromato etc. having cutouts on your car, pulling the caps to drag race.
SI Stinky Inc.Hall of Famer
I remember when was younger seeing what was once a drive in theater on Hwy 72, just east of the intersection of Hwy 72 and Hwy 101. I believed it closed in the late 50’s, early 60’s. When I was researching drive-in, it also listed one being named the Cherokee and one named the Cloverdale, but I am not familiar with either.

Before Florence PD moved to its current location, there was a store there, similar to Service Merchandise. I believed the name of that business was G F Wilson. I remember buying a watch there one time, many years ago.
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