Post by BuckSkin on Nov 23, 2023 6:50:17 GMT
Derby City South Truck Stop
Saturday_07-October-2023
If you want to take a trip back in time, eat a real sit-down meal, and be treated like a human, then this is the place you are looking for.
I stop here every chance I get, even if it means taking a bit of a detour from my intended route.
The food is great and the restrooms are immaculate, the cleanest I have ever been in anywhere.
I don't smoke --- never did --- but I like that there are ash-trays on every table and there is not a "No Smoking" section.
Gone are the complimentary phones that used to be at every booth, where drivers could call anywhere in the U.S. on the truck stop's dime and receive calls right at their table.
Don't let the relative emptiness in the photos fool you; by the time my food arrived the place was packed.
There used to be several of these Derby City stops scattered around; this one was #5; the fuel was Spur brand; the big blue and white oval with a spur rowel on the tail of the R; independently owned, now she is the last.
Whether you're buying 600-gallons of fuel or just supper, you had better have green-back; they don't do plastic or any kind of funny-money here; I never have a problem with that.
I meant to take a picture of my supper and somehow got distracted and forgot to.
I had chicken-fried steak with white gravy, hash-browns, fried okra, and four big slices of corn-bread; I could have divided my meal between four hungry men and all would have had enough.
The hash-browns were the best I ever ate.
I brought most of it home and worked on it while watching Gunsmoke and finished it off the next day.
I gave the cute heavy-set blond at the fuel desk a big twenty and she gave me back a ten and some coins.
As for this ice-cream freezer, I snapped these photos on account of it being a Cumberland All Star Dairy freezer; this is the first time I ever saw the label where it lacked the word "Cumberland" with five small stars underlining Cumberland in the upper red portion of the shield which is taller on the ones that do say Cumberland; I don't know what the deal is with that but I intend to find out.
Cumberland All Star Dairy went out in the early 1970s, absorbed by Southern Belle, which now has been devoured by Prairie Farms; two of my now gone buddies worked as delivery drivers for Cumberland All Star right up until they were no longer and then continued to work for Southern Belle.
When I was a kid, you could open one of those lids and reach in and get a Drumstick, an Ice Cream Sandwich, a Fudge-Sickle on a wooden stick, or a genuine Pop-Sickle that was so good you would eat the twin wooden sticks -- far better than these awful things they have now that taste like floor polish.
You could also get a Strawberry Sundae complete with a little flat wood spoon stuck to the paper lid; and, of course, chocolate-covered Ice Cream Bars, also on wooden sticks.
And, unlike the politically correct environmentally friendly coolers of today, where the ice cream is already dripping out of the package before you get it out of the cooler, these old freezers only had one setting and that was about forty-below.
She is plugged in and running right now.
North US Hwy 25 - I-75 Exit #62
Mount Vernon - Rockcastle County - Kentucky
