Friday, September 15, 2023

24 Things I Miss

Twenty four things I miss about Chattanooga in no particular order:

1. Lookout games at Engel Stadium (So much history!)

2. Luther (The Voice of Chattanooga)

3. Walking the marble floors of the gigantic (or so it seemed at the time) American National Bank downtown location

4. Dr. Sages (At the top of the Holiday Inn downtown) a great place to listen to live music!

5. Town and Country Steak House (Located downtown by the river) great food and memories!

6. Watching the King and His Court play at Van Zant field

7. Cresting the highway at Missionary Ridge and seeing Lookout Mountain and the whole city of Chattanooga in the valley below (especially after the efforts to clean up the air around downtown were successful)

8. Massey's Pool Hall (And Arcade Center) even got to play pool with the master himself (Mike Massey)

9. Riding floats over the wakes left by the barges navigating Chickamauga Dam (Fun times!)

10. Exploring Point Park at night and looking down on the lights of Chattanooga

12. The Krystal restaurant downtown (Cherry Street perhaps) when the burgers were ten cents

13. Shopping at the downtown Sears store with my parents when I was just a small child

14. Exploring the Chickamauga battlefield at night / looking for old green eyes . . . 

15. Watching planes take-off and land from the observation deck from Lovell Field airport

16. Walking into the Little Debbie store in Collegedale and being engulfed with all those wonderful smells

17. Shopping at Service Merchandise and waiting for our gifts to roll out on the conveyor belt

18. Cheap movies at the theater on Hwy 58 (I recall my brother and I watching 2001: A Space Odyssey at that location - good times!)

19. When Eastgate was actually a shopping mall

20. Playing tennis at night on the Collegedale campus courts

21. Getting a shake at the diner inside of Zayre's downtown location

22. Working my first job at the Red Food Store at Lee Highway

23. The old UTC library / cool ambience

24. Hiking up to the UTC Jones Observatory to stare into the stars