My sister, being 4 years ahead of me in school, of course, got her drivers liscense and looked for any excuse to take the car out...was easier for some reason if she offered to take me along. She ran all the errands at that time but always had to make a loop around the forks. I never did see anything going on so I never quite figured out what the attraction was. Since she went to Comer and her boyfriend, later husband, Don Bulger, went to Sylacauga I just sort of figured it was a Sylacauga High School thing and she was checking it out. Those kind of things I just did not question at the time and now I wonder....not that it is important.

It wasn't just a SHS thing. I worked there as a carhop for quite some time when I was a kid. It was lots of fun. Get Cubby started about The Forks and Claude Newman and Jim Nabors. Jim's folks ran the service station next door, while his uncle Claude ran The Forks.

Jimmy