Originally Posted by Fattyfireplug
Bear Meat Cabin Road. Never heard of it. Grew up all over Jefferson county. Old enough to remember when 20/59 was finished.


I remember when they built Red Mountain Expressway. When I was a little boy I grew up in Cahaba Heights and when my mom would go to downtown Birmingham to go shopping we had to drive through Mountain Brook Village and English village to get there.

I remember when we would go visit my grandparents in Sylacauga we had to drive through "The Narrows" because none of Highway 280 "Florida Short Route" was 4 lane.

I remember when some of the roadhouses just this side of the Cahaba River in Jefferson County on "The Florida Short Route" were still open. I think I drank my first beer at "The Clover Club". My dad and Mom met each other on New Year's Eve 1954 at one such roadhouse called the Miami Club. My Dad told her data that he'd buy the drinks if he went and got them. When the guy was gone he asked my Mom out.

Last edited by Irishguy; 08/23/26 03:46 PM.
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