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Rex Booth

Pop's Drive-In on West 2nd. 

With a large sign out front that said:  "Worst food in New Mexico"  !!

When we pulled into one of the stalls, Pop would come out and talk to us. In fact he talked to just about everybody that came to his Drive-In. Was Pop a forerunner for a present-day social worker..? 

Barrel House on West 2nd -  At age 4, I remember my folks and I parking our car in front and standing in line to order an ice-cold frosty root beer.  Yummy!!

Don Ervin

I have never ate as good a corn dog as I did at Pop's.  If you went inside and saw his son who was a cook you would have never eaten there.

John Doyal

Pop's definitely had the best corndogs I have ever had.  What most people did not know was he also made the best pies.  While on th pd, I would do door checks and his would regularly be unlocked.  We would check to see no one had bothered anything, including the pile of grease(that never caught fire behind the stove).  When called, he would say just lock up after you have a piece of pie.  I also remember my dad taking the empty gallon jug to A&W to be filled.   Pop's corndogs followed by a rootbeer float was the best.

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

Happy Anniversary, Mack and Alice.  Two beautiful photos of you guys.  May you celebrate many more!  Love you.  Pat and David

Bob Gilmore

Bob Gilmore

Don Ervin

Happy Valentines Day to all the ladies of the class of 62!

To all the girls I wished that I had  loved before.

Lynn Snipes (Allensworth)

Thanks Don!  Happy Valentines to you to ~ a day late!  Hope you had a good one!!!

Lynn

Rex Booth

Folks, 

Don't buy into this video  'story' about "Their" favorite spots to do homework... It was just the opposite: It was truly a sign of our “mis-spent” youth!!  If the truth was twisted any better it could be buddies J.A.  & J.H. who downed a few cool ones in the parking lot before football practice. But Wait!!  Credit is most certainly due to our RHS administrator who put this video 'diddy' together.  I am sure both Bill and Jack would approve this message. (RIP)       

Kay Schrimsher (Shields)

Don, you are something special❤️

John Landess

Johnny,

I watched the video with Billy and Rex..... It was almost as confusing as the Roswell Incident of 1947!

Did all those bars and package stores HAVE to change their name after Billy and Rex visited them??

Rex Booth

Johnny,

I'd  like to obtain the videos and pictures you have (if not for posterity) then... for our RHS '62 classmates down the road!!

El Juan aka "The John",

If you'd quit imbibin' from yer granpappy's stills in the hills 'o Tinny-see, yo maht be less kornfuz'd.... Ain't yo nevah watched Robert Mitchum's Thundah Road?  Yo 'sposta 'haul' moonshine not drink it...

Mettie Cummins

Pop's was the best. Remember when he put in the trampoline center there? My Dad put that in there for him I worked there one summer and ran the trampoline center. Had a lot of Pops corn dogs that summer! 

Pat Sullins (Carpenter)

Oh Mettie, I don't guess you learned how to make them did you?  I would love one of those!

John Landess

Rex, You must have forgotten how thud-er road ended,,,, stay away from them corn-squeezin's. Lead a clean life!!!

Speaking of that, I just returned from Missouri where I attended my Uncle's 100th birthday party. He is in the Missouri Veterans Home and they made a big thing of it. TV, newspaper and the works. Also. must have been 100 of us that were related in some manner. The weather even cooperated to some degree.. (pun) as it was cold but clear.

Mettie, was that the trampoline park that had the trampolines on the ground with a hole excavated underneath? Someone else once commented on working there, and have to check under them, to make sure no rattlesnakes fell in during the night! That would have made some exciting jumping.

Mettie Cummins

Hi Pat.Sorry, did not learn how to make the corn dogs. Never have been much of a cook. John,yes, those were the ground trampolines ..... my  Dad put centers in all over New Mexico & in our back yard. It was quite the hit with all the neighborhood kids. My brother and I were pretty good trampoline gymnast. Did lots of flips and twist I taught gymnastics in the high school I taught at in California for many years until they took them away from us because of insurance reasons. .... school politics!!  O ram tje cemter at {p['s ............we had them in a couple of locations in Roswell. Don't remember about the rattlesnakes. 

Mettie Cummins

oops! Suppose to say: I ran the center at Pop's. Took money...........gave out tickets, over saw the grounds, Taught lessons, kept it cleaned up...........made sure things ran smooth. 

Rex Booth

El Juan... 

Some trivia to add to Tenny-sees beloved Thundah Road.  Some believe the movie was based on the famous moonshine driver Junior Johnson who drove winning over 50 races in NASCAR 1950 - 1966. Others claim the movie was based  loosely on a driver transporting moonshine who crashed to his death in 1952 on Kingston Pike in Knovxville,Tenny-see around Bearden Hill and Morrell Road. It may have been witnessed by James Agee a writer in Knoxville of  who passed the story on to Mitchum.   

So El Juan, eventhough "the lawmen never got him and the devil got him first"... Mitchum was reincarnated and came back to life becuz... he sang 'The Ballad of Thundah Road" a 'hit' from1958-62 and went on to make more movies like "Cape Fear" and other greats!

Put on Full Screen

John Landess

Well, I don't know how the screenplay came about, but I would think the moral wuz "moonshine and hi-speed don't make a good mix". You do know who played his baby brother??

FYI my daughter and I often drive Kingston Pike to the best asian market in East Ten-o-cee. I drive sedately, so no need to dump oil to corn-fuse the local po-liece.

Rex Booth

El Juan,

What...? "Best asian market in east Tenny-see"? Hope it's not run by relatives of the one in Wuhan.  Checked yer temperature lately? 

John Landess

Rex,

Not to worry, they said they were from Shang High. I didn't ask, but isn't that a school in Del Rio, Texas??

Well, today being a rare 'leap' day, I am gonna leap right into March and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all the Marchites out there!

Diane Alley ((Webb))

John Doyal

Happy birthday to all those spring bringers.  How many have noticed that newspaper and book pages are a pain to seperate so you can go to the next page?   The same with opening bags.  It is pretty bad when you notice this when reading the local 8 page newspaper to make sure you're not listed in the obits.

Rex Booth

JD, 

I was sure El Juan would pounce all over this topic of why newpaper pages and plastic bags stick together which require surgical skills to separate them.  Same goes with the 8 page Roswell Daily Rag (which has other undesirable crapola connotations).  I kinda like the title of your newspaper... Carlsbad Current-Argus.  I understand the German word 'Argus' means "watchful guardian".  RDR circulation must be way down becuz... all news about crime, murders, and mayhem have been moved from pages 2 & 3 to Uno Numero  "Front Page".  Wudda thunk all news about Harvey Weinstein would have made the front page and not (relegated to the back page).  Doesn't sizzle still sell?  

John Allensworth

Happy Birthday to my favorite Cousin

Mary Ann Allensworth

and we also want to recognize our newest member

Sherry Hester