Gone but not forgotten: Knoxville area restaurants and retailers we miss.

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Boca Vol said:
Interesting story involving Hazel.

Slaying in Sequoyah Hills: Who killed Rose Busch?
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It was my first year away from Knoxville, and my mother mailed me this clipping. We were neighbors of the Busches , but i had never met either Rose or her husband; I only remember how they were acquaintances and how horrified Mom was when got thosee clippbngs. .

For years she sent me clippings involving Knoxvillians I grew up with and many more involving UT athletics. The clippings continued until the 80s, when my parents gave me a News-Sentinel subscription, probably sensing I would not be moving back to the community they so dearly loved.

I never got back to Knoxville except for vacations, Vol games and funerals, but I'll always be grateful for the clippings and the dozen years I called it home. So many memories.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
My Duncan Yo-Yos came from Henderson-Floyd's in Bearden Center and Long's in Kingston Pike Center.
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Could you "walk the Dog' with your Yo-Yos?, that was the big thing you know back then and I think "rock the cradle", anyway I had not thought about that in years!
 
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Vjcvette said:
Could you "walk the Dog' with your Yo-Yos?, that was the big thing you know back then and I think "rock the cradle", anyway I had not thought about that in years!
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Walking the dog was easy. Rock the cradle took a bit of practice. Around the World was challenging, but not too hard if you had Walking the Dog down.

The Dog was much easier with a butterfly yo-yo. It was harder to keep the standard yo-yo balanced. One of the "standard" Duncans might have been called the "Emperial". There was also a lighter weight "standard".

I think there is another called tightrope or something similar. I could never do that one, even poorly.

I also had a pair of Clackers from that time. They melted in a house fire.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Walking the dog was easy. Rock the cradle took a bit of practice. Around the World was challenging, but not too hard if you had Walking the Dog down.

The Dog was much easier with a butterfly yo-yo. It was harder to keep the standard yo-yo balanced. One of the "standard" Duncans might have been called the "Emperial". There was also a lighter weight "standard".

I also had a pair of Clackers from that time. They melted in a house fire.
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I never could get the Hula Hoop to work. Not a lot of success getting the Slinky to travel down the whole set of stairs either. But I pretty much kept track of the Super Balls and the Silly Putty worked well. Play-do dried out quickly and didn't taste very good. The next door neighbors had Creepy Crawlers. We played a lot of Frisbee Tag and Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. Hide and Go Seek in the Dark was fun.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
I never could get the Hula Hoop to work. Not a lot of success getting the Slinky to travel down the whole set of stairs either. But I pretty much kept track of the Super Balls and the Silly Putty worked well. Play-do dried out quickly and didn't taste very good. The next door neighbors had Creepy Crawlers. We played a lot of Frisbee Tag and Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. Hide and Go Seek in the Dark was fun.
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Man a lot of good memories. You forgot about the Mexican jumping beans, I never had em. Oh did you have those little plastic green soldiers?
 
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saw some lightning bugs tonight and thought about this from when I was a kid
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
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Hide and Go Seek in the Dark was fun.
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We called that Ghosts in the Graveyard. There was also a variant called Flashlight Tag that was fun.

Back in the late 80s when I was in my early 20s, a favorite occasional pastime for my group of friends and I was to load up on beer and play flashlight tag late in the evening on the grounds of Cedar Bluff Middle School. The grounds there were relatively confined but had enough hiding places to be fun. We weren’t too raucous and people never bothered us there.

Couple of my friends lived within a reasonable walk from that school so it was also a place we’d go to chill and drink sometimes. There were a couple easy ways to get up on the roof and we’d go at night and climb up, sit and hang our feet over the edge of the building, drink beer, look at the lights of Cedar Bluff and talk about all the stupid things kids that age talk about.

Good memories.
 
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mad4vols said:
Man a lot of good memories. You forgot about the Mexican jumping beans, I never had em. Oh did you have those little plastic green soldiers?
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I had a good sized box of little green army men. I don't know if it's still at my parent's house or not. Haven't seen it for years.

We used to build models and then blow them up with firecrackers purchased at Dixie Lee Fireworks. Squirt lighter fluid on what was left and fire it up with Zippo lighters (had to have Zippos for the fireworks, but it took a lot of convincing to get the parents to allow having them).
 
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pismonque said:
We called that Ghosts in the Graveyard. There was also a variant called Flashlight Tag that was fun.

Back in the late 80s when I was in my early 20s, a favorite occasional pastime for my group of friends and I was to load up on beer and play flashlight tag late in the evening on the grounds of Cedar Bluff Middle School. The grounds there were relatively confined but had enough hiding places to be fun. We weren’t too raucous and people never bothered us there.

Couple of my friends lived within a reasonable walk from that school so it was also a place we’d go to chill and drink sometimes. There were a couple easy ways to get up on the roof and we’d go at night and climb up, sit and hang our feet over the edge of the building, drink beer, look at the lights of Cedar Bluff and talk about all the stupid things kids that age talk about.

Good memories.
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We played Hide and Go Seek in the Dark in the basement. Stuff got broken.

My dog stole somebody's rolled up newspaper and ran away from us trying to get it back... carrying it like it was a cigar. Once we got it, we invented "newspaper tag". We'd play until the newspaper disintegrated from throwing it at each other.

Played "Butts Up" during lunch time in high school.
 
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I think that we played something like Ghosts in the Graveyard but called it Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight. "It" would hide, everybody else circled the house chanting "Ain't No Boogies Out Tonight", then "It" would bust out of hiding and tag as many people as possible before they made it "home" while all heck broke loose. Then in the next round everybody tagged before getting "home" joined "It". First person tagged by "It" was "It" in the next game. The winner was the last kid tagged.

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
We played Hide and Go Seek in the Dark in the basement. Stuff got broken.

My dog stole somebody's rolled up newspaper and ran away from us trying to get it back... carrying it like it was a cigar. Once we got it, we invented "newspaper tag". We'd play until the newspaper disintegrated from throwing it at each other.

Played "Butts Up" during lunch time in high school.
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We played butts up Bearden Jr High, that was serious business
 
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