“You know you live in Vestavia Hills when you remember...”

1. “Growing up playing pinball at Mack’s Quick Sack.”

Molly Spink Packard

2. “The old Sol Azteca at bottom of the hotel.” 

Ashley Bragan Brazelton

3. “Davenport’s Pizza on U.S. 31 across from Greenbriar.”

Katherine McLean Taylor 

4.  “The Amico gas station and Taco Bell off Morgan Drive.”

Shannon Goff Flanagan

5. “Walking to Baskin Robbins (where Walgreens is now).”

Kelley Smith Evers

6. “There use to be a Burger King about where the car wash ( by Honey Baked Ham) on U.S. 31.”

Rachel Flowers Harwell

7. “That the Vestavia Hills Library used to be in the Vestavia Hills Civic Center, across the street from where it is now.”

Rachel Flowers Harwell

8. “There were actually two different drive-ins on U.S. 31. One where the Red Lobster is and the other one adjacent to the bowling alley.”

Vicki Oliver

9. “Friday concessions at PMS included sheet ice. Big B Drug’s was the local drugstore. Showbiz was the best place for parties.”

Valerie Guthrie

10. “That the City Center use to have Parisians...Yieldings...Sears...Sneaky Pete’s. Then there was the strip mall where Western Supermarket was.” 

Alice Neville Krug

11. “You were one of the first classes at VHHS and you have Vol. 1 of the Revielle but were only in the sixth grade. Grades 6-12 were in the same building.”

Pam Cook

12. “Driving by Moe’s Original Bar B Que and you remember when it was a Taco Bell and there was a gas station in front where all the kids hung out in high school and you could buy Jolt Cola.”

Taylor Hill

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