Truck stops 25 years ago

There is a REAL good place here in IL still Exit 112 off I-80 the old Ambest now a TA franchisee The R Place. Srtill will blow you away with the Grub and the service is still as good as it was when I was running in the late 90's. Put it to you this way drivers I lived 30 mins away and I perferred to stop there and eat rather than go home and grab something there instead that tell you anything. I would take a Truckstop over HOMECOOKING and that being my MOMS cooking.

 

Hey Bronco there was a Union 76 in New Caney Tx.Had a waitress that must have been in her 60s always whistling and she done her job like she enjoyed it.Made the young ones look bad.I think everyone liked her.

 

Your right on that one.Last trip I made to Alabama I stopped in some of the T/S that was there in the 70s good ones too now they are dumps owned by sand man Some was so bad the lot lizzards didnt work them now thats getting bad.

 

New highways killed most of them These new fancy Travel Plazas had the money to bye land and build so left Mom & Pop on the old roads some still toughing it out but not many,But yall have to remember we was young back then and Mom & Pop was up in the years most of them are in Truck Stop Heaven now.

 

Either that or they will turn them into trash cans like many of the T/A s....

 

East of Boise idaho on I84 is the Stage Stop Truck Stop, inside the restaraunt is a sign that reads, this is a truck stop, if you dont like the people here due to how they look act or talk then feel free to leave. dont know of any other places that have signs like that. I noticed the little truck stop on I 80 in wyoming west of laramie on the south side of the road shut down, was that a mom and pop shop that shut down due to high fuel prices??

 

I have always love the Petros over everyone else.. The one thing that I can't stand are the Pilots/Loves because their parking is not enough and small as hell, and all they do is sell fast food.. I have alwasy tried to avoid them but sometimes it was not possible..

 

20 back would be 1988...Roll on back to the 50's.
Is anyone here "senior" enough to remember one of these?

Jacks Truck Stop -Columbus, MS -US 82 East
Britt Chisms - Shannon,MS - US 45A South
Doyle Chisms- Centerville,AL - US 82 East
Thrashers - Selmer, TN - US 45 South
Art and Dots- Horse Cave, KY - US 31E South
Sheriffs Western Texaco -Las Cruces, NM - US 80 West (Just off scales)
Tooleys Truck Terminal -Jersey City, NJ (Somewhere in there)
Tuscon Truckers Terminal - Tucson, AZ - US 80 East
Shacks #19 - US19 and 98 near the Crystal River scales in FL.
The Owl - Dwight , IL (IL47 & US6)
The Guinea - Dothan, AL - US 231
Lillies - Tallapoosa, GA - US 78 - First log cabin building on the right across state line. She could phone call bond for you all over GA, AL, SC.
Betty's Truck Stop - Athens, GA -US 29 South
Red Davis Truck Stop - Greenville, MS - US 82 East
The Little Rebel - Milan, TN - US 45 South (Across from Milan Arsenal)
and many more who were so very, very, helpful to us guys back then.

 

I remember the Orange Ball well. In Ohio, there was one on I-75 at exit 36 and another one at exit 169??, I think. It was in North Baltimore, Oh.

The one at exit 36 has been closed for years and the other one was a Petro the last time I was up that way.

The 76 truckstops used to be nice but they were really run down before they went out of business.

There's a Mom and Pop TS in Ohio at the intersection of US33 and US127. It has room for about 20 trucks and has great food and friendly people. It was there around five years ago so guess it's still around.

 

Does anybody remember the 76 in the neighborhood of Fontana, California. It was the one with the dust bowl for a parking lot. I'm pretty sure the truck stop is long gone. I'm trying to nail down the exact location of the place.

Etiwanda Avenue? I can't remember for sure. It's 15 years or more since I've been there.