Saw a thread on Facebook today over the passing of Benigno Pena, 81. I had no idea who he was. Or so I thought.
Many of the comments were posted that he was the past owner of Whispering Wheels Skating Rink in Decatur where some of my best child hood memories were created. What really got my attention were comments like "Everybody Skate", "Couples Only", and "Progressive skate. Girls on one end, boys on the other." For those few of you that went to that skating rink in the 70s, those words, which boomed over the PA system, are happily burned into your brain.
So, my question, was he the owner of place during the 70s? Or did someone else take over the place and keep the traditions going.
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3.15.2010
A Little Decatur History? Anybody?
Saw a thread on Facebook today over the passing of Benigno Pena, 81. I had no idea who he was. Or so I thought.
Many of the comments were posted that he was the past owner of Whispering Wheels Skating Rink in Decatur where some of my best child hood memories were created. What really got my attention were comments like "Everybody Skate", "Couples Only", and "Progressive skate. Girls on one end, boys on the other." For those few of you that went to that skating rink in the 70s, those words, which boomed over the PA system, are happily burned into your brain.
So, my question, was he the owner of place during the 70s? Or did someone else take over the place and keep the traditions going.
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It's been a while, but I think the family that owned the rink in the 70's were named Rosenburg(sp?). I think they also had a convenience store/ service station near where Yesterday's Texas started. But I could be mistaken.
He absolutely was not the owner in the 70's. The owner was none other than Tommy Rosenburg. I remeber those days like yesterday -- every Saturday morning it was the whispering wheels. Incidently Tommy also opened and ran the convenience store located on Hale street just down from the Whistle stop cafe. I still think of that place as Rosenburgs.
Tommy and Bernice Rosenberg were the original owners of Whispering Wheels.
DO ya'll remember when Tommy had the go carts on the north side of the skating rink... ????
Double Fake Donna Fargo's "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA".
Double Fake "Whipeout"
Double Fake Dibs on the Foosball Table!!!!
GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!
Wipeout....da na na nana nana na...
The Rosenburgs definitely ran it during the 70's. I spent many a Saturday night there. Anybody remember the mini bikes?
So who ran it back in the 70's?
Tommy Rosenburg had the original quote "Boys on one side, girls on the other" and "That's all there is, there ain't no more". Good Times!
I believe the Rosenburgs sold to the Penas in the mid 1980s.
Tommy and Bernice were the orginal owners I know for sure back into the late 60's and into the 70's. Don't forget the sockhops either!!!..... It was 50cents for the skate rental, 25 if you had your own!! They were GOOD people!!!
8:51, you're right, the east end was the store and the west end was a washateria! Ray Mosley bought it from the Rosenbergs.
Everytime I hear a door lock buzzer I have skating rink flashbacks, my cousins lived close enough we walked. Since Barry started the walk down memory lane how about "sweets pinball palace"?
Dadgum you bunch of old fogies remember the putt putt out on hwy51?
I remember the late 60's & 70's - it was the Rosenbergs. What a trip down memory lane. Remember -After couples -
"Everybody skate"
What was the one where girls chose the partners?
"Girl's choice."
I don't think that was it. Anybody?
I do remember -
"Ladies only"
Only girls skated although the girls were children, he still called them ladies.
good times, good times.
Thanks Barry - I am older than you - these are great memories.
This is good stuff. Memories. How many of us have lived in the same place for a lifetime? Good stuff.
Yes I remember the mini bikes. I had a friend of mine that ran one into the creek bed and Mr. Rosenberg told us it was time to leave because he couldn't keep repairing machines. Fun times.
10:07 I seriously hope that your being facetious........
I remember when there was a miniature golf course right beside Whispering Wheels, too. My family used to go there to play golf after dinner sometimes in the evening in the early 60s when I was a little girl.
I remember watching the "big" kids skate in the late 50's. They were so good at it and I wanted to be like them. Mr. Rosenberg would turn the lights down low and put on the flashing colored lights and I thought it was way cool!
I still think of that convenience store as Rosenberg's too, though it's been 30 years since they owned it.
Anyone remember DICO where City Hall is now? We used to get ice there to make ice cream. Also, went there to get bread and milk because once Pinkerton's and Lee's were closed, no one was open after 5 except the DICO. We had Pinkerton's grocery, which had a big fat cat sitting in the back beside the water fountain. And old Mr. Pinkerton always had candy canes in his pocket for us kids. There were two other groceries...Lee's and Musgrove's but Pinkerton's was where we went....and they even let you run a charge account and only pay once a month! Great days in the 50-60s in Decatur.
"Couples Skate, Girl chooses Boy!" followed by a nervous wait at one end of the rink... butterflies in the stomach worse than waiting to get picked for playground baseball.
Yes, those were good times.
They had a great pool room if I remember...
That was also the first place I ever saw a video arcade game. I believe it was Asteroids and was the kind you sat down across from each other to play. (Although it was followed closely by two Donkey Kong machines... one in the Bridgeport DQ in the back where the "flip advertisement" clock was and the second over at McClouds convenience store... the local mecca of video gaming).
11:08 PM...
I remember it had a little game room with a shuffle bowler. I also remember it being flooded at some point, because a water hose that was being used to water the grass was accidently left on over night.
Was it called Golf Acres? It was right next to a trailer park and years after it was gone the sign remained.
I guess this confirms it....I AM OLD! I remember it all.... Tommy Rosenburg and his wife Bernice, the sockhops, the minibikes (litte Honda 50s), SWEETS off the square (met my husband there), the putt putt off 51, AND Rosenburgs' grocery. (and I still tend to call it Rosenburgs little store, too). Tommy and Bernice used to throw the best birthday parties there.... remember the pennies? Party goers would line along the end wall, Tommy would throw out about 300 pennies and then the scramble was on. Whoever came up with the penny that had the red mark on it, won a prize. If you didn't get that penny, you still got to keep all the pennies you picked up! What fun!
So who all remembers hanging out in front of Flusche's (the old one across from the railroad) and making the lap on Sat. nights? I don't know what kids do for fun in Decatur these days, but I know they'll never match the 70s fun!
Had a birthday party for my daughter there a few years ago. Still has a pink and blue party room just like it did the first time I saw it as a kid. Lots of memories of that place. Still hear songs on the radio that instantly bring that place to mind just like it was yesterday.
"She wore bluuuuuuuuuuueeee veeellllveetttt, ohhwooeeee ohhhwoooeeeee.... "
Don't forget the dances at the Armory and the Women's Building, not to mention the Bridgeport Teen Club. We thought Decatur was pretty boring then, but we had local bands, fairly regular dances and no shortages of hangouts: Motes, Lesters (friday night all you could eat fish), two DQs, the Sunset Drive in and Sunset Hill, 2 pool halls on the square before Sweets. And we could see them all in a 5-minute lap.
Whispering Wheels was still the cool place to have your birthday party when I was young in the early 1990's. Is it still around?
"Go to the potty room" was our big inside joke.
"Kock three times on the ceiling if you want me" played as the skates would pound the rink three times in rythm. I had pink & white pompoms for my skates and I could hardly wait for the "Girls on one end, boys on the other" just hoping that the cute little boy that I had a crush on would come ask me to skate.
Yes, those were absolutely the best times!!
wonder how many kids were conceived at the Sunset Drive in?
Remember cramming friends in the trunk so they could get in free? hahaa
this is good ole memories that all the moves in's know nothing about........
Sounds like Decatur was quite the white trash playground back in the day.
The drive-in was waaaay cool. I remember sitting up on the patio out front of the concession stand and eating popcorn. Loved those speakers and attaching them to the window.
REmember Dairy Mart where the Wells Fargo parking lot is now on Walnut? WE used to go there for a burger on special occasions and the car hop would put that red tray on our window and we had burgers, fries, and shakes.
Sweets was the hangout when I was a teen, but the best was making "the loop". Just driving around and around to Motes and then around by the square and down by the railroad tracks and back on the other side back to MOtes. We used to hang for literally HOURS in the Motes parking lot, buying cokes and talking. That was the days before cell phones, so to see everyone, we cruised to Motes.
Whispering Wheels --- the first place we ever got paid to play.
I can still hear that door lock buzzer!
Decatur was a wonderful place to grow up, regardless of your sarcasm, 9:11. I was a kid here in the 50-60 and you couldn't find a better place for a kid. It was safe, you knew everyone, and life was simple and great. We rode bikes all over town without anyone's parents having to worry about all the crap you have to consider nowadays. I think life was much better back then.
Where was and what was Motes?
Reading this has really brought on the nostalgia.
Thanks, guys - I am just sitting here reminiscing now.
Sweet.
I remember a store called
"Musgroves", but cannot remember where it was located. And Lee's grocery became "Davids". There was a putt putt golf course on FM 730 North just past the National Guard Armory. Also had a Ben Franklins store on the square. Wow - this has been fun going down memory lane.
How about the movie theater on the square in Decatur located where Woodruff & Wren law office now. For 50 cents you could see the movie, get a Coke & popcorn.
10:00---I'm a move in. I do have to agree though. The reasons you stated that Decatur was so great for kids, are the same reasons I think my hometown was the best to raise kids. Small Town Texas (yes I'm biased) was great back then-----our problems were SOOOO different than the ones kids today face. To me it's very sad that today's kids missed out on so many good times. Of course, 40 years from now, they will be saying the same things about their childhoods! Every small town had a cruising strip! Ah, those were the days! And my good times were later than 50-60s. Mine were early 80s. Funny how we remember the same things vrom very different years!
Don't forget Mister Buster's on the hilltop (Best Burgers)
10:04
Motes was a drive inn restaurant with car hops.
Later became Mr. Busters then KFC then Popeyes and is presently China Palace. I really miss those Mr Buster charcoal hamburgers.
10:04
Motes was a drive inn restaurant with car hops.
Later became Mr. Busters then KFC then Popeyes and is presently China Palace. I really miss those Mr Buster charcoal hamburgers.
Pena bought it in 1980 and still owns it...it is just being managed by someone else.
Musgrove's was beside the old post office in the building that has a title company now. Wow it seemed so much bigger then.
As did Pinkerton's.
Anybody remember the band that played at a lot of the dances? I remember thinking that they were really good. They were a few years older than me, but when you're in high school that seems like a lot older, doesn't it?
Was it The Black Olive? That doesn't sound right. Anybody remember?
My favorite song that they played was Cream's "Badge" ("Thinking about the times you drove in my car.....") The title never made sense to me so I provided the opening lyric to jog your memory.
And did they also play Clapton's "White Room"?
pena was IT in the 80's...my sister and i still use the phrase "everybody skate" to mean, let's all go or we're all in.
man, i loved that place!
Yes, I remember the movie theater on the square.
I remember the tickets were .35 for kids, .60 for adults.
I remember seeing "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis & that movie scared my child's mind to death. (I have no idea why my parents let me go to that - probably just didn't know what it was about.)
I also remember the "colored balcony," We've come a long way, thank heavens, from that day..... or at least most of us have.
And Lester's was where Yesterdays is now. The whole DHS football team & fans would eat there after away-games. Everyone would clap when the team came in. The whole team fit in the back - the fans were in the narrow part.
Were there really that few people on the team to fit in there? It's the same building as Yesterdays. Hmmm....
Great memories....but some funny too.
My sister fell and broke her arm at Whispering Wheels on the fast song...wipe out..ouch.
What about the huge wooden slide at the Reunion grounds....I got about a thousand splinters in my hands going down that one morning.
The bus depot near the Methodist Church that was also a little diner...what was that called?
Anyone remember getting blocks of ice from the feed store?
My favorite funny is my mom washed clothes at the Rosenburg store and I was 4 years old, five kids, and we played in the sand and dirt in the back....She finished and loaded all the baskets, my siblings, and forgot one kid. The man running the store..unsure who.....but he waited a while then called my mom at home...she was so embarrassed she left me, but we have a good time teasing her about that. Takes a village sometimes.
Yep, I recall the theatre too. Saw "Bonnie and Clyde" there.
I think there was another theatre long before that one, and it was on the other side of the square?
I don't recall Motes and Sweets being during the same era. Motes was on the "hill" on 287, in the 70's it was Mr Busters. I recall going to Motes with my older sis many times during the 60s. Remember the little plastic animals that came on the sides of the drinks? Kids would "collect" them and place them along the edges of their sun visors in their cars. Was the local drive in restaurant. Now the newest China buffet is in a building on that spot, but the old Motes building is long gone.
Sweets came around during the early 70s. I think I was in the 8th grade ....we used to go eat lunch there and enjoy a game of fooseball. By that time, Motes was Mr. Busters, owned by Glen Smith ( who was one of the biggest Decatur Eagle fans/supporters of all times). I believe his son still lives around here.
Wow, we really didn't know how good we had it, did we!
Am enjoying reading about all the memories some of you have about Decatur.
Buying the ice blocks wasnt' at the feed store, but was by the feedmill, (now torn down). That place was mentioned earlier and was called DICO. The little diner near the Methodist Church was called TACKLES (well, that was on walnut street), but the old bus stop was on that corner near the methodist church and it had a little diner in it also. Someone named Betty used to cook there when I was in jr. high, and it (along with sweets) became our lunch hangouts. Yes, we had off campus lunch even in jr. high! Betty served the best chalupas ever!
Now, let's not forget the swimming pool by the football field. Wow...awesome summer fun there always! Who was the idiot that filled that pool in with dirt and destroyed summer fun for kids in Decatur from then on????
GLENN SMITH BRING BACK MISTER BUSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GLENN SMITH BRING BACK MISTER BUSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen
Glenn Smith was the best of the lot.
Good man.
How about Lee's Grocery? It was the first place in Decatur to sell Playboy magazines. I still remember trying to glance over at the magazine rack...
11:29, Are you thinking of the old Terrells Restaurant? That is where the teams used to eat AND every Friday morning of football season, there was the eagle breakfast. Can't recall what it was called... eagle booster breakfast? Anyway, the head fb coach was always the key speaker for the morning and would make predictions about the evenings game. Sometimes, would have to explain the previous week's game as well. Many of the town's men attended those breakfasts as well as the football team and cheerleaders. It was EARLY morning....began at 7:00am, I think. Sure miss Terrels...it was great too! It used to be where Verono's Italian restaurant is now. In fact, back in the day, Terrels and Motes were side by side. That hill was the only place the restaurants were.
Hey, who remembers when the one and only snowcone stand was where Taco Bell is now? I do!
Dunn's Hardware, Pasquals, Perkins Timberlake, Russells, Coke Gages, Hotty Lee's Poolhall, Empire Drug Store, Renshaw Rexall Drug Store, Getty's Insurance, Mrs. Stem's and Mary Nellas (quick tour early 1970s tour around the square sans attorneys)... Someone can probably fill-in the blanks but this is a start.
Did Rosenburg's laundry have ringer-type washers? I remember the
Easley's laundry in B'port had the old style ringer-type washers. And Glenn Smith owned the Dairy Mart in B'port in the 60's & 70's. Then he also opened a Mr. Busters too.
musgroves was where guardian title is across from the messenger. lee's grocery was where thomas laird;s business was across from allsup's.remember collecting the little animals that came on your straw from motes. who could ever forget red ray's barber shop on the square. "Bakers Best beats all the rest" hair tonic to grese down the flattop
M & M grocery store on the east end of Walnut street - Bill & Lavell Mann were the best folks around & would help anyone that needed help. Also there was a cafe ran by Laverne Meador located where the parking lot is at Hawkins/Coker funeral home. We had Western Auto & White's Auto on the square along with the A & P grocery store located where Bishop's law office is now.
the Rosenburg's owned the skating rink in the late 50's as well. I floor bounced there for a while and everything that all the bloggers have said about the Rosenburgs and the the way the ran the rink was so true. They had a daughter and my old timers won't let me remeber her name but she was just like her folks.
Their approach to the operation of Whisping Wheels, the way they dealt with the small children, the big kids and the parents, all contributed to their success and everyones great memories.
Eating places, we would be remiss if we did not mention in this BLOG: The Cedar House, Terrell's and Bevo's. or back further the all-night cafes in Decatur's infamous motels.
DICO's was like 7 to 11's in the old days they had an open front. We'd go by there late at night get big bag porkskins and hot sauce. then drive across the tracks to the eastside to well known location to procure beverages that comes in quarts.
as far as the white trash comment by whoever!!! you could park your car anywhere in Decatur or Bridgeport on the main drags and leave it unlocked without worrying about it. Kids walked every where day and night.
I also remember Rook Ramsey ...thats when Law inforcement was still a public service and not a business like it is now.We rode to Decatur with a friend to go to a funeral, my best friends Uncle had died.We were teens and were walking home on 380 thinking we were being sneaky drinking a beer Rook pulled up "where you boys going" we told him the story he said"pour the beers out and get in.We had them hid pretty good but he was pretty sharp.And the man gave us a ride back to Bridgeport.
Pena no longer owns the skating rink. It's now owned by Don & Irene. The Pena family still owns the house nextdoor.
A few more....
Cedar House, JJ's, Ray's (on Hale Street), Sue's, White's Auto, Ben Franklin, Walker Chevrolet, Renshaw's Greenhouse.
My, how things have changed...
#2 Hickory Burger with cheddar cheese and pickles from Mr. Buster's would sure be good right about now.
How did Shotgun Fellers get his name? I was always told it had to do with a hold up at DICOs or the Ice Plant??
Did anybody mention the 8'er from Decatur cafe? Late night or early am chicken fried steak or greasy hamburger for buzzed out kids. Mile High beer & Pagan Pink Ripple wine! Too much fun to remember.
Thank all of ya'll for the memories. This sure beats bashing school board members,Chico/Alvord, DWI's,political analists, or fat people (who get free healthcare).
Yeah this is much better, thanks again.
Was there a cafe on the corner of Washburn and Walnut where that produce place is around early '70's?
1:08 - I am not talking about the morning Eagle Club meetings at Terrell's. If my memory is correct (& who knows if it is?), the morning meetings at Terrell's came along several years later. But Terrell's & Lester's were up there on the hill together during the same time period. Terrell's building burned, but it is on the spot where Verona's is.
Lester's - same building as Yesterdays is now - was where the team went AFTER the away-games - this was somewhere around 1969 to 1973.
Memories...
I had projectile vomiting at "the pit", so you know I had fun!
"Space Wars" actually preceded Asteroids. Space Wars was just two opposing ships, one a triangle shape and the other had an "Enterprise" look to it? Anyone? Anyone?
The Y Cafe at Washburn and Walnut. Mr and Mrs Talley ran the bus station and diner there. Jeff Meador had the first sno-cone stand located where M&M's was. Hottie Lee and Tracy Lee were two of the best skaters in Decatur. Once you were in Jr. High - up into the early seventies- you could leave campus for lunch. Most kids went to Tackel's. Shorty's stop was the Bar-b-Q place across from the original Allsups - where the parking lot for the hair salon is now - and was next door to Al Chesney's Dry Cleaners. Going north from Woodruff and Wren, which was the old Plaza Theater, was Renshaw Feed and Seed, Red and Ralph's Barber Shop and then I'm not quite sure what was next but White's Auto was at the end of the block. And on and on.
Who remembers Mrs Tackles restaurant near the current day La Cena. How about Pinkies? Briar? The Peanut Mill? Spanish Hole? Head Lake? Blue Hole? Do you remember the old jail near the Lions Club building? How about when The Messenger was down the hill from Talley's. All the good ole places have been replaced with lawyers circling the courthouse like buzzrds circling a carcass. The world will never be the same.
What about the deep creek to the south of Whispering wheels which is where everybody went after skating.
What about Jobe's bait shop near the current day Taco Bell.
What about the nightwatchman that made rounds checking that the doors were locked at all the businesses. Remember the key boxes that were attached to the telephone poles.
What about Holmes auto located across from Sweet's pool palace.
How about the old TP&L located in the building behind the FUMC
How about the Starlight Starbright about 4 a.m. every night of the reunion
What about the Decatur PUBLIC swimming pool????
Whispering Wheels -
"Everybody was kung foo fighting.. Hoo Haa. their fists were fast as lightening"
The Big Park and the Little Park.
Do you remember the "ward Building" which served as a Youth Hall for FBC under the one, the only Charlie Fowler.
How could no one have remembered M&Ms behind the current day Coker's Funeral Home.
Ann's flowers down the hill from the Lion's club and even furthe down the same hill on the right was the Hospital.
How about that infamous night when the President of the reunion committe forced Diamond Rose to stop playing at 1:00 a.m. The nasty crowd spontaneously broke into a deep chant - "Kill Don Niblett, Kill Don Niblett"
The corner drugstore located at the current day "Sweetie Pies" owned and operated by John Hoefle
Remember the little cafe where Al Jacobs sold bugers 5 for $1.00
He also gave free lunches to the football players on fridays.
How about Auther Brady selling his bluebonnets paintings at Jule Tackells?? My I wish I had one of them today. Remember James Bennett the cop that got shot he was the best
I could go on an on.
Was it The Ripe Olives or The Black Olives? They drove a hearse...I remember that much. Who was a memeber of that group?
Western Auto, Rynearson's Furniture Store ( previously Rieger's furniture ), and surely others recall the old men who used to sit along the window sills (usually at Renshaw Drug Store on the square) to whittle and spit tobacco!
Young Citizens shop with the yearly visits from non other than Mr. Peppermint himself! Hey, Tim Terrell, wasn't it you that won the little cart in the window one year when Mr. Peppermint came? Anyone else there that day remember this?
The Band WAS The Ripe Olive!
I knew The Black Olive in my mind didn't sound right, but that was all I could come up with.
Thanks 8:29.
Hadn't thought of "Big Park" & "Little Park" in sooooo long.
All the doctors in town would close shop about 10:30 and again about 3:00 every day and walk up to Renshaw Rexall Drugstore for a coffee break.
But of course "all the doctors in town" numbered maybe 3 or 4.
Dr. Valcik, Dr. Inabnett, Dr. Merritt - who am I forgetting?
2:01 The name of the daughter was Annette. I wonder if she stayed around Decatur.
The Ripe Olive - Pat McGraw, Mike Rhiney, anybody remember more names?
Ripe Olive: Pat McGraw on guitar, David Skinner on organ, Jim Riney on vocals, Lanny Goodman on drums (later Gaylon "Devil" Harvick), Barry Nalls on bass (later Sammy Davis, who owned the hearse).
The Ripe Olives also had a cabin at the Reunion, called the "Snake Pit". Remember that!!!
Bring back The Ripe Olive!! When is there Farewell Reunion Tour??
Ripe Olive: Pat, Mike, Barry Nalls and one other guy...can't remember.
Not only the doctors but the lawyers in town always hung out at Renshaws in the 50-60 and smoked cigars and drank coffee every morning.
The Snake Pit was not owned by the Ripe Olive. They just hung out there. The cabin was owned by Tim Rieger's parents.
Either Mr Pena or his brother used to be a Doctor in Decatur and delivered me at Decatur Hospital in 1981...And I remember skating at Whispering Wheels as a child... I have lots of memorys there, as I am sure many others do...
Going east off the square on Walnut - Chevrolet House ( the Long's lived overhead) Rodgers Hospital, Dico, Feed Store, Bowling Alley and Washateria, Decatur Veterinary Clinic, three houses, Shortys BBQ, Jeff Meadors station, a feed store R. D . Caraways house...there was also a little store over by the old Catholic Church on N. Trinity and Jobe's where Coker's is now. The Ripe Olive used to rehearse in the old Ford House on E. Main., across from Holmes Auto. They later became the Brutal Frenship with a horn section - Tommy Carson and Ken Atkins.
The Diamond Rose Band was always causing some sort of trouble. Who was in that band, anyway?
I worked at Mote's and the Dairy Mart in the 60's. Playing the juke box cost us all a lot of money.
Remember the A&P grocery store on the south side of the square, next to Joe's pool hall?
I remember Trader Vicks on the east side.
How about the magazine store owned by Billy Rutherford, just west of what is now Sweetie Pie's?
Bill Lewis was in Diamond Rose - great band. Causing trouble? Nope, not in my experience, just playing great music.
Tim Terrell won the next year when mr. Peppermint was there. A 3 ft. stuffed tiger. Hey, who remembered this?
Tim Terell won the next year when Mr. Peppermint came . It was a 3 ft. tiger. Hey, who remembered this?
I remembered it... but remembered only the little cart, not the tiger. Are you saying he won two years in a row? HEY, that sounds like it was fixed! hahaaaa!
My sisters and I all worked for Glen Smith at Mr. Busters and we all agree that he was the best boss you could ever work for. We spent our paychecks at Young Citizens so we'd have cute clothes to wear to "Sweets". GOOD TIMES!!!!!
Danny Wood owned Mister Busters after Glen Smith.
Him and his wife (Pena's) were the owners during my time, I was obviously born in the 80s so I knew them when they were the owners. I think they sold it after many years because of old age. He was my uncle whom I will truly miss. I miss those days, he was the one that gave me my first skates. =(
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