Exploring Montgomery

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Elite Cafe — The site of Montgomery’s renowned Elite Cafe (pronounced E-lite) at 121 Montgomery Street. It opened in 1910 and during its 1940s-‘50s heyday, it was known region wide. In that era, all the guests at the numerous masked balls would reassemble here after the dance was over and continue the revelry […]

Elite Cafe

July 15, 2016 in Commercial tagged cafe / dining / elite

Green Lantern — It’s at the corner of Carter Hill and McGehee Roads and where I banked. Back as far as the “Roaring 20s”, out on the outskirts of town, there was this notorious dive called the Green Lantern on this site. It was “gangster built”, dark inside, had a dance floor, served platter-sized steaks. […]

Green Lantern Branch Bank

March 14, 2016 in Commercial tagged bank / dining / green / lantern

Martins Restaurant — has been in operation since the 1930s, and is located on Carter Hill Road at Narrow Lane, in the Country Club Shopping Center. In the 1950s it was in an old house about three blocks further West on Carter Hill. I had a business partner who adored the place, and […]

Martin’s Restaurant

February 22, 2016 in Commercial tagged dining / martins / restaurant

CCC Lobby — The CCC, as we called it, was actually an arm of Club Corp of America, headquartered in Dallas, and which owned some 230 national and international private clubs. In 1992, when the Tower episode began, CCC was located on the top (3rd) floor of the old Pizitz Department Store building […]

RSA Tower – The Capitol City Club

February 21, 2016 in RSA tagged capitol city club / dining / peril and intrigue / rsa / tower