Miscellaneous Stories
The Varsity
I spent some time in Atlanta in the mid 60's. I helped open the UPS hub in 1966, which was their first operation outside the mid west. But I digress. What I remember about the Varsity (Drive In, near Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta) was that the food was pretty good and cheap, it was a place to hang out and see your friends and meet girls. At that time they only hired black males for the drive in customers (I never went inside, don't know if there was an inside?). The black men who took your order and brought your food and drinks had to pay the Varsity something in the neighborhood of $1 an hour to work there. There was a waiting list to get hired. I had a window tray that I swiped from there for many years, before I lost track of it.
Treasure Map
I was working in a gas station in Atlanta, when brother George called and said he and some buddies were going to Kansas or Nebraska, or somewhere up there to get some marijauana. They said it was growing wild and there for the picking. They had, no kidding, a treasure map. They stopped to see me on the way up from Florida in a VW bug, 4 of them. They did in fact find the fields and harvested a sea bag full each. The sad part of the story is that it wasn't really pot, but hemp, that had been grown during WWII, for rope.
