a place/moment in time that brings you a specific LW song

Ok, here’s mine. This was in the early 1980’s, I was about 4 or 5. My great grandmother lived in Flippin, Arkansas (North Central Arkansas). We lived in Picher, Oklahoma so it was about a 4 hr drive. With the way my grandpa would drive and the stops we made, it would take about 6. We’d usually stop and buy apples, go to Dogpatch USA http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/Dogpatch%20USA.htm in Harrison or Land of Kong http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2008/03/abandoned-dinosaur-world.html in Eureka.

Not much ever changed in Flippin. It was a rural town. My great-grandma was in her 80’s, widowed and dipped snuff, great woman. Some of the rooms had newspaper for wallpaper (if I remember correctly) and a huge feather bed in the living room. Sounds strange but cool for a 5 year old.
She made everything from scratch and bacon grease. So the entire house smelled like coffee eggs and bacon. I remember her dog Rover and a yard full of chickens.

All the visuals of that age come back when I heard “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road”. The car ride, the telephone wires going buy, the smells etc.

All this reminiscing makes me want to go back to Dogpatch or start dippin snuff. lol

@coffee4throad wrote:

how about the line “when i get back, this room better be picked up…”
ever heard that one before?

My Mom used to say that all the time… 😉

Also from CWOAGR, I like the line, “there goes the screen door slamming shut” – there is something unmistakable about the sharp slap sound of a wood-frame screen door on a front porch slamming shut when it is pulled closed by a large spring. It was almost always immediately preceded or followed by someone’s Mama calling out after her kids…

Tom