re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Don't know if I will tell the model that she is posing as a prostitute...but feel that I should, eh.


Just hire a prostitute to be the model. Problem solved.

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Preferably hotter than the old hooker.

I was going to say no wonder I don't remember this place, except...

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They had another one built after that; I can recall going there in the late 1970s with my grandparents.

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I was a wee tot in the late '70s when my family took several white-trash-weekend vacations on the redneck riviera. I don't remember Baricev's at all -- and "Baricev" is a name I would remember. You weren't likely to see a name like that in Biloxi, at least in those days.

I do remember driving past the Sambo's on the highway, although we never went in. I recall wondering even then how they got away with that name. (Apparently there was a Sambo's in BR, on Acadian. Even though I was at LSU in the late '80s, I have no memory of this place at all. Weird.)

Is there still a Rose's in Biloxi? I very vaguely recall eating the greasiest fish patty in history for lunch at their in-store cafeteria.

San Bernardino

Marilyn Monroe with her half sister (left) and mother (centre). Marilyn’s sister Berniece is still alive and turns 102 years old this July.

HEALTH FOOD FANATICS ATTACK ROCK GROUP

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I don't remember Baricev's at all -- and "Baricev" is a name I would remember. You weren't likely to see a name like that in Biloxi, at least in those days.

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They were one of many Balkan immigrant families (mostly Croatian) to settle in Biloxi in the early 20th Century.
Biloxi Fox Affiliate Story on Baricev’s

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Sambo’s

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Was a nationwide chain of restaurants co-owned by Sam Battistone. Started in Santa Barbara, CA in 1958. It grew to over 1,100 locations by 1979.

Battistone bought the NBA’s New Orleans Jazz franchise and moved them to Salt Lake City in 1979.

The restaurant chain was bankrupt by the early ‘80s.

Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese or English. The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 dollars Australian.

Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."

Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.

In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".

After the war she became a sensation back in the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.

Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.

Where is that lighthouse?

1949