to drive around town and see some of the old stomping grounds. It is so interesting to me to go to some of the places we frequented while we lived there and think about all that happened in the 11 years we lived in Jeff City. I thought it might be fun to have a little test of the old memory banks for those of you who can remember.
Hey everyone,
I am posting a bunch of pictures that I took while I was there. Your job is to identify the place in the picture and tell us something about what you remember about each place. The winner (the one who gets the most correct) is the owner of a large Blizzard the next time you are in Denver. The discretion of the Big Guy is absolute and final and I and only I, will make the tough tie breaker calls if needed. That's what I do best....is make the tough calls as you all know by now. The pictures are numbered so number you response in the same order and I will figure it out. The more creative you get about what you remember about the particular place, the more points you get. The point system used is totally arbitrary and only known to moi!! (don't ask in other words.)
Good luck,
Love, Dad
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I posted a comment trying to name the ones that I knew but for some reason it didn't show up. I can remember several but I either have no memory besides the image or I can't remember where or what it is. Thanks for the post.
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Here's my guesses:
1) Jefferson Avenue? Looking at the World's Largest Taco Bell!!!
2) The Capitol
3) View from Rodney Davis' driveway
4) ???
5) The Guvna's mansion
6) From the back parking lot of Thorpe J. Gordon
7) Somewhere along Tanner Bridge Road?
8) Lincoln U's Football Stadium (with McClung park in the background)
9) the Truman building with its world famous escalators.
10) From stadium boulevard looking across JCHS stadium towards the high school, picture taken from the turn off to go up to the YMCA
11) Somewhere along route B?
12) My old hang out with my friend Georgie Porgie Pardalous--I can still smell that pizza!
13) Goodriches house
14) The old LDS church--is the annex still there? I still believe that there are secret staircases and slides in that building!
15) Hyvee supermarket
16) The Norman's old house
17) The Wager's house
18) JCHS
19) The old family home
20) ???
21) Rodney Davis' lair of evil and villainy
22) The Creek behind our house--man, it looks puny!!!
23) Good ice cream at Central Dairy
24) ????
Whew!!! I better get back to work . . .
I just read Mark's answers and I recognized most of them with his help. I loved the pics, though. Dad, I'd like to here your memories about those places.
I have no idea what some of these are... but here goes. And I swear, I didn't look at Mark's comments ;-)
1) Downtown Jeff City, near the Capitol. I don't remember the name of the street.
2) Missouri State Capitol building. Duh!
3) The back of the Foster house, showing the screen porch that Bapa built, from across the creek -- yes, from Rodney's driveway.
4) I have absolutely no memory of this house, and in fact it looks pretty new, so why should I? I guess I could be wrong.
5) Governor's mansion, a couple blocks from the Capitol building.
6) Thorpe J. Gordon elementary school from the back parking lot. The picnic tables wheren't there when I was a kid, but the "temp" classroom was built then I guess that makes it, oh, at least 23 years old or so.
7) I do not think this is Tanner Bridge road as Mark does, but definitely from somewhere in our old neighborhood. Then again, maybe it could be...
8) Lincoln U stadium. Sometimes in the summer we would ride blocks of ice down the hill in the park in the background, or have the occasional waterballoon fight, with other church kids.
9) The Truman Building. Why I was so impressed with this building when it was built when I was a kid can only be attributed to a certain... um, rather provincial upbringing. :-P
10) That is Jefferson City High School with its substantial football stadium in the foreground. Oh the memories...
11) How in the heck am I supposed to know where this is? It's way too blurry. The sign reads Central Bank, but it appears to be in a rural area, and anyway I am virtually certain that there was no such sign like that around when I was a kid. Some highway in the vicinity of Jefferson City?
12) Oh yeah the pizza place. It's downtown near the Capitol too. I only remember eating there once or maybe twice. I'm kind of surprised its still there.
13) Byron and Gwen Goodriches' house. Cattycorner up the hill from ours.
14) The old church which was sold sometime around 1983 or so if I remember correctly. It overlooks the highway out back. It looks rather haunted in this photo.
15) Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this used to be the old Gerbes Grocery? Not Hy Vee. I think.
16) The Normans' house. The back yard is precipitously steep.
17) Jason Wagers' house. Do his parents still live there?
18) I think this is the High School again, but it's not the front entrance.
19) Our old house! Looks pretty much the same 18 years later.
20) I think this is a house up the hill towards Tanner Bridge Road, but though I knew the kids who lived there, I can't remember their names :-(
21) Rodney's house again, from a different angle. Man, it's ugly.
22) The Creek again. Our yard was to the left. I think erosion has changed it quite a bit. However, it looks like they finally got control of the periodic flooding we were faced with.
23) Why Dad picked Central Dairy for this photo essay escapes me, save that maybe he's trying to photograph a location so obscure that nobody but Mark and I can possibly remember it. But I do. It was a few blocks from Thorpe Gordon Elementary . At the end of the school year we would sometimes be taken on a field trip to get ice cream there. It was yr. quintessential Olde Tyme Ice Cream Parlor, with checkered tile floors and vinyl stools at a bar. I haven't even thought about it in probably 20 years, and I'm surprised it's still there.
24) I am 90% sure that this is on Merlin Circle/Cimarron Drive up the hill from our house, but I could be mistaken.
What a blast from the past. I'm surprised that there is so much snow in these photos. I'd really like to see it in summer or fall when the area is dense with jungle.
Do I get the blizzard?
I remembered about 75-80% of the locations depicted in the photos. I couldn't do better than Matt or Mark for sure. The blizzard goes to one of them.:(
When Adam and I drove through JC in 2004 we took a whole bunch of pictures in the summer time of many of the same places. To please Matt, maybe I will post some of them sometime...or maybe not.
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