High Notes 11-16-2017
I stopped at The Riverside Inn, restaurant and bar for lunch, and enjoyed one of their steak sandwiches with sliced white onion, and steak sauce. That is a weekly treat, and on Tuesday, I couldn’t get the sandwich out of my mind, so Jim Shaw, the restaurant co-owner with his wife, Pam, was manning the grill this day. I told him that I wanted a big slice of white onion and sauce.
What a good sandwich!
Another regular sandwich treat for me, is a Pork barbecue, from the New Boston Dairy Queen. That sandwich is good with coleslaw as a condiment. Their barbecue is reminiscent of that of “The Liberty Café, and The Park Shoppe sandwiches”. I remember many times eating one of The Park Shoppe 50 cent Pork sandwiches with French fries. Um, Um, good!
I can remember that Thomas Nichols a member of The Portsmouth City Health
Board reportedly said that “Fergie’s Lunch, a restaurant at 233 Second Street, was so clean one could eat off of their bathroom floor!”
Recently, Louis Boerger, the current Health inspector told the Shaws, “If all of my places looked clean as this, I wouldn’t have a job!”
The Shaws bought what was then known as “The Fourth Quarter”, from Mick Sturgill, and they took it back to the old name, 37-years ago. Jim and Pam live at Forest Heights, in South Shore, Ky., and they have two kids…J. D. 33, and Sarah, 27. They are both former banking company employees…Pam retired four-years ago, after 35-years. She became Vice President at The Portsmouth Banking Company, and was in charge of their branch banks. Jim worked at Bank One as a loan officer before changing careers, to become a restaurant owner.
You would be hard-pressed to find a cleaner establishment than The Riverside. They have a big collection (15-pieces) of colorful beer-advertising neon signs.
Now, all this, and I have to start thinking of Turkey with all the trimmings, during our annual Kegley Thanksgiving get together at Beaver Creek, Ohio as guests of Mickey Lundy, a State Farm Insurance agent. A good time will be had by all!
Happy Holidays!
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