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

The store is closed but the restaurant is or was still open a few months ago. Mrs.Noble is over 90 years old and when shes gone I dare say the restaurant will close too.

 

Yea, I used to stop in once in a while when in the area. The garage and truck wash are still open. It is a shame that they have not reopened. There are not many truck stops in that area. I get really tired of all these chains like Pilot. It seems that real truck stops are becoming a thing of the past. I have always enjoyed sitting down at a truck stop that has a good restaurant. It is much more relaxing than what passes for a truck stop today. Pilot and Loves are NOT truck stops!!!

 

How About Diamond J's on 80 in Pa. Huge lot, great food. Back in the Day I spent some good times on the back row at the Detrotier.

Down in Birmingham there was a 76. ( now a Pilot) It was a dump but there was a beer store right there and on a hot summer night it was a fun place to have a few, shoot the bull and give the "working girls" a hard time.

 

I do not patronize Pilot or Loves....or Flying J now that Pilot has ruined them.

I know what you mean though...The old mom and pop truckstops were great places. There are still a few of them left and whenever I get the chance I go to them.

 

yeah sure miss that place was down there about 2 yrs ago pulled in and just cried. the truckstop on the west side of bainbridge was alot of fun along time ago to the family that ran it used to have alot of fun with us way back then. had one fuel pump out front with full service.

 

say it ain't so!!!

 

Please don't tell me that Louises is closed on I78 exit 13 Clinton NJ???

 

the big cabin trk stop still has full service fuel

 

i just about grew up at the 76 in oak creek, wi. not a mom n pop exactly but was a great truck stop. grandma and grandpa always went there for.dinner and they werent truckers altho gramps was a teamster

 

I never had any favorites. I just remember, being a non-smoker, every truckstop reeked of stale cigarette smoke and cooking grease.
You'd shower and change and exit the building as quick as possible but your clean clothes would stink like an ashtray.
Then you'd walk through the parking lot and wonder if the diesel smoke was any better for your lungs. Nobody shut the engines off when fuel was less than a buck a gallon.

The pinball machines were always busy and the phone banks too.

At 76 you could buy three grades of diesel.

If you collected Gold Bond stamps it was always great when a driver who didn't gave you his.

It was a lot lonelier job without the instant communication we have now. But the freedom was for real.

Some memories... standing in line in the rain at a phone booth at a pickle park or cash box many times,
sharing a tiny dirty shower with ####roaches in OK,
drivers would share their [party favors] and even give some extra to have later.
Seemed to always be a reason to run around the scales.
Better conversations on the CB.

Being in my twenties all the women called me Honey or Sweety. I'm glad that ain't changed yet. Still today even the girls half my age will call me Honey!