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The next time you find yourself at the end of Greenville’s serpentine
Washington Avenue – take a good look at the memorial that stands there honoring
those who fought for America – the memorial was sponsored by Frank Koestler
through Rotary International and Hermann Werbeck set the tile in the monument.
"He was very proud of that – it was one of the things he was most proud of that
he ever did", said Detlev. It was a privilege for him to have a part in
something that honors American’s fallen heroes and the country that became his
home and gave his family a new start.
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Don't forget
"Buleah's Drive In", Car Hop's and
Hamburgers with slaw and chili, on hiway 82 East,
"Fieldings Drive In" corner of Main and Edison, Hamburgers,
Hot Dogs, Juke Box and a variety of sandwiches, Milk Shakes, etc.....
I have not received any stories about "Fieldings Drive Inn", the one we mostly patronized in the 50's....
Later on Feildings would be either torn down or renovated around the end
of the 50's.
"Strazi's Drive-Inn" was opened at the same location.
The service and menu were very similar.
The best information I can understand is Strazi's was built sometime after the 60's and
was not patronized by many of the Greenville Airmen.
It became a hangout for many of the local teens.
Below are two stories from those days.
Many of the other "Drive-Inn's" closed soon after the Air Base closed, as well as other nostalgic places.
So sad indeed...................
This observation as seen by John Walker,
Publisher/Editor of The Daily News, Bogalusa, La.
during the 60's.
Strazi's had some decent food. Strazi's was Greenville's version of Arnold's, from
Happy Days, while Dan's (yes, also on Hwy 82) was where the "greasers" — or those the
so-called cool kids (I was neither) thought were greasers ... hung out.
This observation was sent in by: Jim Veal, a previous Greenvillian.
The truth about Strazi's is that it was just a beer joint, but it was the only place
we had to go and it was a focal point of activity and teen drama.
I have many fond memories of the place.
But it was just a beer joint, however lofty a perch it might attain in the minds and
memories of all of us that littered the parking lot with our brain cells scatterred among the
Pabst cans. People drank there, got in their cars and died.
Young lives senselessly lost.
This mythology of Strazi's, of which I am a willing participant, is the reverse of Julius Caesar,
the good living on, the evil often interred within the bones of memory.
I was one of the lucky ones who only have fun memories of that place.
But those memories have a dark edge. One I don't like thinking about.
No one does.
Browns Delish Shoppe was around the corner and down a block from Strazie's, on Main and Harvey Street.
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Alberta Hiller, Floor Manager..(on the left)...I can still hear her, "All Skate"




The most Famous Restaurant in Greenville, Mississippi.

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bottles to a cardboard style container. I believe it was in 1955 or 56....There was a big advertising campaign on billboards with the caption that said... I was under the impression there was going to be some big movie stars coming to town.....It turned out to be Red and Blue stars printed allover the new container....You can probably relate to my disappointment. But that container style (although changed some) is still used today in many of the liquid and solid products on the market. |