Category: time machine

chicken etiquette

twins, child in a stroller, fried chicken

Chicken: Most chicken should be eaten with a fork and knife unless the meal is extremely informal (like a picnic). How to eat fried chicken is debatable at moderately formal dinners.

Hooper informed Dietrick that it’s against city ordinance to eat fried chicken, “a culinary delicacy sacred to this municipality, this county, this state, the Southland and this republic,” with anything other than your fingers. The 1961 ordinance was put on city books as a sort of public relations stunt to promote Gainesville as the poultry capital of the world, Hooper said.— The Times

Bill and Ned

on the porch
On the porch.
On a different porch. A screen porch, screened porch. Pictures from 1976, no one is coupled with a phone. They are talking, listening, working, reading, present.

Old Dominion Camera

ODC
Old Dominion Camera, 3128 West Cary Street, 1976. They had inventory that just wouldn’t quit. Excellent people: Bill Fisher, Cecil Layell, Charlie Hall, Messrs. Potter and Kennedy.

In Charlottesville we have a camera/photo/image center that does things that Old Dominion Camera didn’t do. Pro Camera prints photos in house, they repair cameras, they hand develop film!

Pro Camera, Inc.
711 W Main St
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia 22903
(434) 979-1915

take 666

drug billboard
Might not sell well with a certain demographic.

The three 6″s originated with Dr. Roberts in Monticello , Florida (26 miles east of Tallahassee) The concoction he put together became known as 666 because that was his prescription number. Fascinating company history, product also well known in Mexico and Central America , some manufactured in Mexico at one time. Iconic building with the 666 sign stood at the east end of I -10 for many years.-Forrest F Boone

I am 84 in fairly good health. I am convinced that being forced fed this poison is a factor in my current longevity. When swallowing this toxic mixture. at age 8, my body went into shock emergency mode…except the heart other major body parts would shut down…great stuff the only other real cureall ever made by man or God.
H. GARDMAN

That three-story white building was a landmark at the foot of the old Acosta Bridge until it was torn down in 1989 to make way for the new span. Even more eye-catching was the prominent 666 sign in large red elevated letters on top of the building and emblazoned on the side.
The company was formed by pharmacist T.S. Roberts Sr. in Monticello, Fla., in the 1890s. Hence the name Monticello Drug. Co., which was incorporated in 1908. Roberts patented a quinine medicine that was used to treat malaria. Even with its bitter taste, the product was very popular.–Florida Times-Union