Dixie Inn in Woodstock, Ga

 

Actually this is a copied and pasted blog from years ago.

Ed Mulkey, Jr.  died two weeks ago.  He worked with my sister Frances at the First National Bank in Marietta.  When I hear his name I don’t first think of the 1^st National Bank of Marietta, but of the Dixie Inn in Woodstock, Ga, just north of here.  His father, Ed Mulkey, Sr. owned it.

 

I remember the Dixie Inn well.  It was in Woodstock on Canton Road, about just north of Hwy 92.  My family liked to pick up fried chick in white to-go boxes on sometimes on Sundays.  I do not know if it was the fried batter or the thin white boxed that kept the heat in, but whatever, it worked!

 

I worked as a carry out boy at the Big Apple Grocery Store on weekends when I was in high school.  If they had a special  worth driving to Woodstock for after work chances are we would go.

At times, we have bought their specials and then go to the Drive-In Movies.  

 

The evening that I remember with a chill they had “all you can eat” fish, I think it was red snapper. 

 

While enjoyed the fish and seeing how much I could eat suddenly a fish bone lodged in my throat.  I fell to the floor kicking.  I thought I was dying.  I couldn’t breathe.

 

No one seem to help me.  I think a waitress, ignoring me, had to step over me to deliver her food.

 

Somehow, it wasn’t my time, the bone popped out.  And I jumped up back into my seat, somewhat embarrassed.

 

And I’m still here.

The Dixie Inn isn't.  The building is a tire company now.