Cracker Barrel, Bowling Alley, Uncle Bud’s and Cops

East Ridge is not my hometown. However, East Ridge is located just over the Tennessee/Georgia state line from my hometown. I’ve never considered it worthy of an anthem, but it has one all the same. And a video to go with it.

Much thanks to Dorie Turner for finding this incredibly accurate portrayal — right down to the town’s long-standing tradition of Draconian speeding tickets — of sub-suburban Chattanooga.

February 14, 2007 – 6:49 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Videos | Comments (4)
  • dorie

    yay! i made Grabbing Sand! woooooo!!!
    the video gave me a nice gut-busting laughing fit. and then i got lost in the memories of time spent at the tri-state bowling lanes on ringgold road in east ridge. they give you a bowling pin-shaped water bottle for your birthday. and they have these neat videos of cartoons depicting different scenes wherein a bowling ball knocks down a bowling pin. for example, in one, the pin is walking down the street and the ball jumps off a poster on a wall and knocks it over. in another, a ball-shaped t-rex eats a bowling pin. good stuff.

  • Rebecca

    I was born at East Ridge as was most of my family, even the Alabama ones. I learned to drive going bast the bowling alley and putt putt. I can’t wait till I am not at work and can see this.

  • http://www.immediatetheatre.org/hblog H

    Oh spectacular! Oh magical land!

    That’s it, I’m moving.

  • Tim

    Very nice video. I bit outdated now… Uncle Bud’s closed down and has been demolished (it wasn’t very popular). It has now merged with Buck’s BBQ to Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia.

    Yeah, the Cracker Barrel emphasis is right. I used to work there, and man, there are families that are there every night! The song should mention the tons of crappy customers who have inferiority complexes or something (oh wait, cracker barrel says we can’t call them customers, they are “guests”, you actually get in trouble for calling them customers).

    Hey, I happen to like the bad Bi-lo! It was the only Bi-lo to keep its “Red-Food” original layout!