From 1966 until mid 1969, I lived in The Beaches, very close to the intersection of Glen Manor Drive West and Pine Crescent:
Back then, 'The Goof':
only had a few non-functioning neon letters. I have no idea when they changed the colours on the other letters.
Across the street is The Fox movie theater, ('A' on the map), then and now an Indy rep house. My father's idea of quality family time on the weekend was either 'the Sunday drive', where we just drove around for a few hours, without stopping anywhere, or whatever the Disney movies double feature was on Sunday afternoons at The Fox.
Of course, it would never have occurred to him to check the starting times of the movies, so we always came in half way through a movie, then we watched the second feature, and we left half way through the repeat of the first movie. I suspect that Quentin Tarantino may have seen movies this way as a child, which would explain why
Pulp Fiction was edited in non chronological sequence.
Just East of this location is a grocery store. The last time I was in that neighbourhood, it still had the mechanical horse ride in the front of the store. Those used to be everywhere; the deal was that if the kid behaved themselves while mom was doing the grocery shopping, they got to ride the horse after checkout. Back in the day, stay-at-home moms used to pay for their groceries with personal cheques from the father's bank account, but the local stores knew their customers, so there were no credit checks, or things like that. Imagine businesses doing something like that today...
