New Orleans Popeyes Memories

I was re-reading my post about Grandy’s and I realized I had one other core memory around such fare.

Somewhere around 1980, when I was a definitely still a tot, my Dad took me to the Popeye’s on Magazine street in New Orleans. It was on that visit that I heard, for the first time, the music of Queen as “Another One Bites the Dust” played.

It must have been Summer because I remember my toddler’s legs sticking to the plastic bench as I waited and idly kicked my feet back and forth. Still waiting, I remember hearing another landmark memorable song: “Funkytown” by “Lipps Inc.”

I guess it’s relevant to note that in that time, music was slightly less rigidly bound by format than it is today. It wasn’t so strange to want to strut your stuff in shorty-short, white-piping-edged shorts with long tube socks to disco-inspired British rock and then want to trade in your “running shoes” from “Ney-kee” for some roller-disco scates with glittler-spangled wheels while “talkin’ ‘bout talkin’ ‘bout mooooovin’.”

All the more likely to happen if you’re going to meet a lady like…Natalie flipping Wood at the roller disco.

Natalie Wood just killing it out there in white-piping shorts and tube socks