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10. Shirley Lesniak - 2009-05-09 18:07:46 |
| Here it is Mid-May, and you aren’t writing about Hanson’s. Don’t you want to hear from friends. There were more than 4 or 5 cars at Hanson’s during the week. Bobby, this is an excellent web for everyone from LaGrange. Wish everyone would write in. We may be old, but not dead yet. Thanks to the ones who have written. COME ON LET US HEAR FROM YOU. |
" target=_blank> 9. Bobby - 2009-04-24 19:37:58 |
Joy and others - you don’t have to remember everything the first post - keep this going as I am enjoying all the comments. I have my order in for Dale’s Sauce on the next trip to the grocery store.
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8. Joy Shepherd Ward - 2009-04-23 15:10:23 |
| For fear that I might forget something, I have waited to sign in but here goes.At times I feel like I spent a lot of my childhood at Hanson’s. I would go with my mother to check the juke boxes on the inside and out. Later, James Crews did that for us, and later still, he bought the music company from mother and then bought Hanson’s from JW and Sarah. Hanson’s was open on Sunday’s because we went after Church every Sunday and took my cousin Diane Underwood. I ALWAYS had the Blue Ribbon Steak. I loved the tip about Dales Sauce. I went right out and bought a bottle and now I put it on everything, even plain lite bread {reminds me of Blue Ribbons} During the week nights, mother and I would go to Hanson’s and sit out in the car. The order was either a Cheesburger {just cheese and meat} with onion rings or a Steak sandwich with a shrimp coctail. Oh my how good everything was. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the little car hop Bobby Moore was my sweetie.The friendships made at Hanson’s between my mother and all the Hanson’s continued through out the years.JW, Sarah, Eli and Dot Hanson {JW’s brother} and their children Phyllis and Butch, along with Bobby {Robert Hanson Moore} have all passed away. My mother Mildred Shepherd still is going strong at almost 94.The legacy that Hanson’s leaves is that all their crusin teens of that era usually turned out pretty good. Thanks JW and Sarah. You did good. |
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" target=_blank>7. Bobby - 2009-04-22 23:36:36 |
Welcome to the site Shirley!  I think most everyone from LaGrange/Troup County has a good Hanson’s story. I did not remember that Hanson’s opened on Sunday. I wonder if the outside carhops worked on Sunday also.  |
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6. Shirley Lesniak - 2009-04-22 16:07:33 |
I, too, remember Hanson’s. My parents always took us to Hanson’s for dinner after church on Sundays. We always had one of the little rooms. What memories. Also, when I learned to drive, I loved cruising to Hanson’s with my friends. I, too, met my future husband at Hanson’s. He was a soldier at Ft. Benning, but 46 years later we are still crui  sing. We cruise in a different state now---South Dakota.
Bobby, I love your web page. I graduated from Troup High, but cousins of mine told me about your web page and of the new Hanson’s link. Thanks. SJL |
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5. Mable Horne Shortt - 2009-04-20 22:04:43 |
Hansons is where I met Russell. A friend and I were riding around on Sunday afternoon and met a car with two guys in it and we went to Hansons and parked and they pulled in beside us. The two guys were Charles Lewis and Russell Shortt. We sat and talked a while then had to leave to get ready to go back to church that evening. As we were leaving Russell asked for phone numbers and my friend gave him mine. He called me the next week and the rest is almost 50 years of history.  |
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4. Jane Underwood Calhoun - 2009-04-17 03:37:09 |
Hanson’s was always the place to go if you weren’t skating at my dad’s skating rink next to the drive-in. I knew J.W. and Sarah and Mary was his sister who cooked the best ever steak sandwichs. She gave me her recipe one day years after Hanson’s was gone but mine just didn’t come close to hers. I just gave up trying. Grapette was one of the carhops too but Fox I think was the first one.  Our kids have no idea what a place like that was and what fun we had.
If anyone has any old pictures of my dad’s skating rink, "Underwoods" next to the drive-in on the New Airport Road, I will be glad to pay for copies of them. I especially would love to have one when it was first moved down there from the West Point Road. Email me if you have any; . Thanks |
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3. Ken Holsombeck - 2009-04-16 19:12:03 |
| I too enjoyed the steak sandwich and the blue ribbon steak. For years I wanted to know the recipe for the sauce on the blue ribbon. One day I made a great discovery.I tried a bottle of "Dale’s Sauce" and it is the secret sauce. I now use it on everything. I think it may even be a cure for cancer. Try it if you liked the blue ribbon. |
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2. Joe Thrower - 2009-04-15 12:30:37 |
Crus’in Hansen’s was the hip thing to do back in the 50’s to see all your friends in a different setting other than school submitting to commands of teachers and studying and such. It was kinda like being free to do your own thing.( not all together good sometimes ). I can still hear the sound of the PA system. "Pick up Rabbit or Fox" while those rock & roll hits played loud on the juke box in order to drown out those loud mufflers and horns honking. Wish I could still get some of those $.15 Bar-B-Que’s again.
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" target=_blank>1. Bobby - 2009-04-14 17:41:22 |
The Guest Book is open for Business
Let’s hear your stories and comments about Hanson’s
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