The Fair had better shows and rides in the Midway, but these guys never got a chance to work there.Ĭhris and his friends ate at the Tic-Toc Drive-In and Ruby’s café. They finally got jobs and ran the candied apple stand or the fish “everybody wins” game.
He and his pals would sneak in at the fence’s weakest point. Chris recalls the excitement when the Tennessee Valley Fair came to town. Reading Wohlwend, you see a suburban community, Burlington, where Beaver Cleaver played with and tormented his older brother, Wally. A weakness is his fake names for characters.
In his five years at UT, he knew Tom Jester, Vince Staten and more.Ĭhris hung out with football players and even set up an off- (but close to) campus apartment with a living room dubbed “The Saloon.”Īs a copy editor, Chris writes crisply and doesn’t misspell stuff. He was pals with Grady Amann and Jim Dykes. Well, if you’re a guy.Ĭhris Wohlwend has this memoir off the press and available via Kindle or in paperback, on or wherever you get your books.Ĭhris was a reporter and copy editor for the daily Knoxville Journal – back in the days of Tom Anderson, Ralph Griffith and Guy Lincoln Smith. If you grew up in Burlington in the 1950s and ’60s, this book is for you.
