re: Favorite nostalgic memory about the Sherwood Forrest area

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Country Store at the corner of Sharp at Old Hammond. Getting potato logs. Mmmmm

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Wasn’t that Delley’s Corner where Barry Root was murdered? They knocked that building down. That must have been 20 years ago.

Wonder if they ever caught anyone.

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How are these two areas as of recent

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Tara and Broadmoor? Doubt they are still throwing eggs at each other during football season.

frick this thread is bringing in the nostalgia hard. We lived off Goodwood in Sherwood Forest (mid 90’s-2006).

Street had 2 coldasacs so few cars, played tackle football in the street, fished in that ditch that ran to the Winn Dixie. Used to shoot BB guns all up and down that ditch actually, in the middle of the city

Spent pretty much every weekday morning over the summer at aquatic club, members of Sherwood country club when it was private, lots of dumb summer days out there golfing and doing dumb shite as a 10-12 year old kid.

I remember after Katrina riding around with my dad and the fricking China Roll King was open probably 30 cars in line, a guy offered us $100 to drive him to those sketchy apartments off Sherwood Forest rd and Goodwood, we gave him a ride for free.

Sports Unlimited GOAT, K&B GOAT, Piggly Wiggly and Jumbo Sports Trash

Used to hit up the blockbuster by Jumbo Sports to rent video games for the N64.

Walked to that park on the other side of Trammel dr. by Twin Oaks elementary to play baseball, hit golf balls, do other dumb shite.

I sliced my foot wide open jumping into that ditch by Winn Dixie off Sherwood with no shoes on chasing a dog

We used to have neighborhood wide air soft wars with our friends, jumping people’s fences and shite with fake guns, probably would be arrested or shot for that now a days... only rule was you weren’t allowed to wear shoes, for some reason

Man I miss being a kid in that neighborhood in the 90’s-early 200’s

ETA - Reading this thread and people are bringing up Tony’s donuts, place was good but Mary Lee was the best!

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Wonder if they ever caught anyone.

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don’t think they did. I thought that was across Sharp 2003-ish?? and the highway Dept took the building down afterwards to expand the intersection.

My parents lived on the north side of Goodwood. Woodcliff drive had lively Bayou behind our house. We used that canal to fight enemies and to read dirty magazines. Lost a football on woodcliff street. It went into a gutter. My dad and brother went into the canal and found it days later. Brand new college style football. My dad almost kicked my arse.

That bayou ran behind my house on the southside, too. I feel like the Ponyboy to your Cherry Valens. I would catch crawfish and break any piece of glass I found. Growing up, the closest thing I had to knowing a celebrity was the owner of Cullen's Playland lived on the corner. I served two tours. 1985 - 1998 and 2000 - 2002. These westsiders don't know what it was like. God speed.

What was the name of the video store in the trailer park on Flannery before you hit Brunet's? I wore their Big Trouble in Little China tape out.

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Tiger1242

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 (mid 90’s-2006)

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Used to shoot BB guns all up and down that ditch actually, in the middle of the city

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We have probably exhanged gunfire. No hard feelings. It was just business.

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Egg Roll King

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Greatest lunch specials in history. They taught me what General Tso Chicken was and made a man out of me. Little Caesar's on Millerville had the most perfect coke-syrup-to-seltzer ratio known to man, but the restaurant always had a metallic, rythmic screech, like some kind of torture wheel was in the back. I always imagined it was like Motel Hell. Great cokes, though.