OLD SOUTH BBQ HAD BLACK-EYED PEAS ON NEW YEARS DAY 1968

On the local TV news this evening they had an article about Wendy Hill Road going through Smyrna and how the road is being redone. Now, it looks like a driver’s nightmare. When everything is re-done it looks like some of the Windy Hill stretch will be underground. It looks like a big undertaking. I perked up when part of their story included OLD SOUTH BBQ, which is on Windy Hill, just a block from South Cobb Drive. They interview the owner. We have known her since the late 1960s. We visited them on News Year Day. On NEW YEARS DAY we called around to various restaurants asking for Black-eyed peas. Old South did. We have been back many times since then. Watch the smiling owner grow into adulthood and just a joy to watch and never seemed to let the pressure bother her. One thing I was impressed from the first day was the band of adolescents coming in from the neighborhood , after playing football in the yard or cowboys and Indians and helping themselves to the soft drink dispenser. Then, running back out with their drinks. Another thing impressive was I think just about every time we have eaten and we have rode by there was a public service vehicle such as an ambulance or a police car; not on business but for fellowship. We hope they get to stay there.