this is for the old timer's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is one Orange Ball left..only one...and that is on I10 in Blythe CA. Its been a couple years since I've been there so it may be gone now.

 

Nobles is now called Newborns. I20 Exit 4 in GA. Still same great food

 

I think you mean Midway truck stop in Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania. It's still there and popular as ever. I don't think you can fit more than one truck in there at a time, though!

 

The Opaz was well known truck stop complete with strippers, food, booze and other trucker "essentials". Just outside Opasatika On. At night the lot would be full. More than one dancer caught a ride back to the city with me over the years. I don't think its been open at all the past 20 years

 

It's gone. It hadn't been a 76 for a long time.

 

Coles Truckstop Highway 5 south, Marion, AL used to fill the trucks up park them and feed the drivers best food around. Ice cold beer and a banging jukebox! Nothing left but a gravel lot where it was. I worked there when I was 17

 

The one in Pickens, Mississippi that you mentioned is J's Texaco. That truck stop was actually up for sale before the fire, so it was odd when it happened.

 

Do you or anyone you know remember the name of the truck stop on the vacant lot just to the west of J's Texaco on exit 144? It was empty even before J's closed down.

 

Stranger, I am not a truck driver but my uncle used to drive through Tennessee on I-75 all the time and he would tell me stoeies. If I remember right, the one you mentioned above Raccoon Valley was called Green Valley in Clinton. A woman and her kids ran it.

 

You are right...Green Valley. I stopped there more than Raccoon Valley, but the name Raccoon Valley just seems to stick in my head better. But, this was in the mid to upper 1970's too.