By Jay Whipple
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Real Soul Food!
This eatery is located in a somewhat not-well-known section of the
Queen City especially if you are a newcomer. It is
situated in what used to be either a Burger King or
McDonald’s Restaurant located a stone’s throw
away from the expansive Hampshire Hills development and
shopping center located due north. This neighborhood is one of the oldest
predominately Black/African-American middle class
neighborhoods around Charlotte. In fact, a few of my
former Duke Power co-workers either live or lived there
back in the day when I myself was new to this bustling town. The
development does not seem that expansive until you try to find
someone’s house without the aid of a Garmin Nuvi or
equivalent GPS. Believe it or not, those gizmos did not
exist back in the 1980’s and earlier so you were
relegated to the directions given to you which were often missing that one
turn that if missed would put you in a tail-spin – sort of speaking
– and dump you out clear on the other side of The
PlazaTrend Magazine Online™
Real Soul Food!
I once worked this area as a distribution engineer with good ole’ Duke Power and in the process learned some pretty neat shortcuts to avoid rush hour traffic. One of them takes you from The Plaza through Hampshire Hills and dumps you out on Orr Road. It took me quite a few trials to get that one straight. I also remember donating one of those bouncy rubber things that young people love to play in for the Northeast Community’s annual outdoor festival. That was when I published a local business directory called The Black Pages which was later stolen from me by an unscrupulous attorney and the courts. God Bless America! On a lighter note, one of our advertisers was The Medicine Shoppe which – believe it or not – is still there and right across the street from this 250-Watt High Pressure Sodium Vapor outdoor light with a 24-foot arm that I had installed (Not literally) while employed by Duke Power Company. That means we both knew what we were doing. Smile! Well, enough for reflections.
