Building have history of their own

When you are as old as “some” people are and have roamed the streets of Eunice for as long as “some” people have, you marvel at the changes that have taken place but also regret things that “used to be”.
Took a ride through the downtown area late one afternoon and began a conversation of “remember whens” that extended well into the night.
They say time and tide wait for no man but then neither does progress.
Some of us have seen changes three-fold for the allotted time we’ve been here.
The building at the southeast corner of Second Street and Vine Avenue, that houses a law firm today was once the home place of both the Crystal Lounge and Muffoletto’s Spaghetti House. And at the rear of the spaghetti house was an ice cream parlor.
At the time, there were no fast-food places, with drive-in windows. At certain times of the day (usually late afternoons) the ice cream parlor opened, with all of the street-side parking on the block. You had the choice of going inside (teenagers) or curb service for those with very old and very young in the car.
A car-hop, or a fender lizard as most were called, would come out and take your order and return with it on a tray that hooked to the window on the driver’s side of the car. The tray wasn’t keeping you from running the a.c. because for the most part, that hadn’t been invented or was yet available for cars. That accounted for the “odor de vanilla” in most family vehicles from all the melted ice cream cones.
And as mundane as this seems today, it was considered quite a treat in the “old days”. Sure beat having to sit on a hank-cranked freezer outside under a tree, even though those events turned out some pretty tasty treats.
Time to go get me a “sasso d’crème” as the Cajuns called it.
Georgie Manuel