This series is the sister series to the
Local Landmark series. Unfortunately, caches in this series
will not qualify for LL's because they have drifted into the vast
expanse of time. Gone but not forgotten. Thanks to
mgbmusic for starting another interesting series in the
area!
The night after scoring the FTF on
DGB 1, I decided to place this cache on my way home since that
first one reminded me of my favorite ice cream place from when I
was growing up! So, after looking around for a suitable
location I made a quick stop across the street for supplies and
made the placement.
Toots would have actually qualified as a "Hole in the wall" as well
as a "Local Landmark". It really was just a shack on the southwest
corner of the street. The regular food wasn't all that great, but
the ice cream was wonderful, and very inexpensive. On a hot summer
night the line to get in stretched down the street.
The other great thing was that they were open late back in the
days when almost nothing was open late. I went out with a girl who
lived a few blocks east of here. We used to make a lot of late
night ice cream walks every summer. My personal favorite was the
Zebra Cone, dipped. The kids who worked there would load the
cone up so high you always needed a fist full of napkins in a vain
attempt to keep the ice cream from running down your arm as you
tried to eat it faster than it would melt.
Like DGB 1, this piece of history closed and, according to the
signs on the construction site, will soon be a yuppie ice cream
parlor.
This is actually a DGB two-fer. Besides Toots, this corner
used to also be dominated by C Davis tool and truck rental.
Before the days of the super home improvement stores, C Davis was
THE place in the neighborhood to rent all the home improvement
tools you needed. C Davis has been gone for many years, and
now it looks like something will finally be moving in.