Time Travel and a Hurricane
June 26th, 2008. Filed under: Thursday's Travels.I’m longing for a time travel machine so that I can go back in time about 20 years. I’m missing some of my jazz spots. My city and the surrounding area has always been a jazz hot spot. But I do miss some of the small local clubs and restaurants. One of those is the Hurricane, a small restaurant not much more than a shack on Pass-a-Grille beach. But they had the best fresh grouper sandwiches around. During the day and early evening most everyone sat outside on stone benches at stone tables for meals and beach watching. It was just across the street from the beach and a great location to watch the sun set. That’s the only place I ever had a pina colada in a Styrofoam cup. A person would order through a pass through window and receive a meal in disposables. In order to eat on real plates and drink out of actual glasses, one had to eat inside. That’s where I wanted to be at night, because that’s when the jazz happened. And terrific jazz at that. The only place better for jazz was B B Joe’s. The Hurricane is still there, but the great atmosphere is gone. It was a local hangout discovered by the tourists. Now it’s been built up and out and is just a nice place to eat. They still have jazz and great grouper sandwiches, but the atmosphere is gone. The last time I went there, the round stone tables and benches were gone, too. I guess they could fit more wooden picnic tables into the same space. I don’t bother to go there for the jazz anymore. Maybe some day a real hurricane will come along, sweep it all away and it can start over as a great little place for jazz and grouper.
July 5th, 2008 at 11:35
[…] Time Travel and a Hurricane I don’t bother to go there for the jazz anymore. Maybe some day a real hurricane will come along, sweep it all away and it can start over as a great little place for jazz and grouper. […]