This was one of my favorite hang outs when I was a kid. Ice cream, sundaes, floats, Ernie served them all up quick and with a smile. If you wanted an extra squirt of cherry syrup in your Coke, no problem. If you wanted nuts on the ice cream, he had that too. Chocolate sauce or a cherry? That wasn't a problem either. And sometimes if you ran an errand for him he would pay you with a single scoop cone. That was better than money.
You could get what you wanted to go or sit in one of the booths that lined the outside wall. It was a wecomed cool spot in the summer. And in the back, just inside the back door and right next to the battery tester, was the jukebox. Three songs for a quarter, I think it was, and for some reason my all time favorite song on that jukebox was "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge.
I have no idea why I liked that song, I just did, and I wasn't even a teenager yet. When I hear it now on an oldies station, I am right back there in one of those worn wooden booths, eating a chocolate cone or, if I had extra money, sipping on a Coke float.
It's this week's oldie clip. Sing it Percy!
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