Nostalgia Addendum...

Thank you Rants of the Scooby for reminding me of the Captain's Keg. The owner's daughter was very beautiful and one of the nicest people you'd ever met. Her name was Heidi, they moved and shut down shortly before or just following Mr. Forester's death.

I did remember a few more faded memories in the process.

• Beryl's Sweet Shop. (Commented this one back to myself... but figured it needed to be properly documented). Instead of waiting in line at the concessions stand inside the Orpheum, we would run around the corner to Beryl's and stock up on gummy coke bottles and fireballs. Rusty used to have a 25-cent popcorn vending machine as well. The sign that reads This is a 3B theatre... B-Good, B-Quiet, or B-Gone has been in existence since my earliest memories.
  
  
• How in the world could I forget Wodlinger's Drug & Photo! Upstairs was pre-Wal-mart, pre-Grand Slam toy heaven. I remember going with my parents and buying the Weeble Wobble Treehouse from there when I was approximately 3-and-a-half. (They made very good play hand-grenades later during our neighborhood fort wars.) Downstairs was the drugstore, candy aisle, and of course the magazine stand in the back. They had nudie mags. We sneaked peeks.
  
  
• There was a chicken buffet place called the Golden Skillet that served KFC-esque food that was on the opposite corner of the Subway building before Cross-Fox inhabited it.
  
  
• El Chicano's wasn't always downtown. This memory is completely fuzzy, but I'm thinking it was either inside the metal building where Joanie's Dog Groomer's is on Mill Bay... or in a building that has long since been torn down right next to it.
  
  
• The bakery mall was a wonderful place to hang. The *only* place for a person to aquire anything resembling real music was located on the left of the entrance. If you couldn't find it, the owner was more than willing to order it for you. I have a slight memory of comic books in that vicinity. There was an awesome deli that is where ElChicano's is now.
  
  
• Skip forward several years for a second on the mention of Deli's gone past. Mimi's Deli (KANA Wellness Center) was awesome. Her Rosemary Chicken Salad sandwich was inspired, that and a sampling of Quiche always made for a great lunch date. * now back to the even further past ...
  
• There was a feature article newspaper printed on 11x17" folded white paper called the Kadiak Times. I don't really remember much except some photographs by Roger Page, who later was accused of really bad things... but in my kindergarten years I made the front page sitting with our gym teacher.
  
  
• The KVOK logo had a graphic of a mouth for the letter O, and there were bumper stickers of that everywhere. The radio personality at the time was Keith Beaver. They had a wonderful program on called "Chicken Man". Come on, you know you want to say it... "Brooock Brooock Broooock... Chiiicken Maaaan...." I think I had a t-shirt. The radio station has gone through so many ownerships, I wonder if they still have the masters of that series. It was classic.
  
  
• When my parents finally signed us up for cable after only recieving the antennae'd version of RATNET (Channel 9), we got two channels: 2 and 4. They had Bugs Bunny & Roadrunner and the Flintstones on in the morning.
  
  
• Back to Baranof Park... (The track used to be all gravel!) I need to make a map of this to truly explain, but I don't have the patience to illustrate it. Where the ice rink is to the end of the skating area / tennis area was located a volleyball area, basketball hoops, and a couple of backboards for tennis practice or hand ball. On the other side was three tennis courts. We used to rollerskate the heck out of that area in our orange giant wheeled 70s disco-style skates... then later, skateboard it to death with our boards decorated with an obligatory DK and Misfits skull.
  
  On the playground side the only thing that still exists from back in the day, is the same Merry-Go-Round. I wonder if you touch it now and have any psychic vibes at all if you feel all of the children spun to the ground and run over by the kids pushing. There was a small section set aside for little kids on the left (near where the office is now), the baby swings, a small slide and a small half-sphere climbing toy was there. Out in front was the big swings, the tall slide, hanging bars, and monkey bars. Following back to the right there was a giant mirrory triangle thing with bars on the upper edges meant for climbing, then the merry-go-round, then the large barred jungle-gym that used to be up at the elementary school with the parallel bars and very unsturdy feeling sliding poles off the top of the monkey bars.
  
  Then there were metal teeter totters, a barred covered slide that was shaped like a witch, and in the middle of everything a giant yellow metal dome for climbing. There was a bunch of sawdust underneath it, as it was so tall... it disappeared fairly early though. I never climbed to the top, someone must have though.

Fading out here again as far as memory lane's paths criss-cross between the real and imagined.