Ohhh, I remember the food drives. They used to do them for the all night fright fests on Halloween weekend also. The Dari-Ripple was good too. Drapers ran it when I was a kid. It’s still open. I was there a couple weeks ago and almost stopped. I have to drive down through Belvidere to pick up my wife at Ohare next week so maybe I’ll treat her to a Banana Split from Dari-Ripple. Remember Doc Knapps? It closed a few years ago, adn I just read a couple of weeks ago that Doc passed on. It bummed me out. He was great to those of us who couldn’t afford to stop much. He’d give us what he called “wonderful water” on our way home from school. It was really Sprite or 7up and it was alway great. Darn, I know your name. I went to school with a lowery boy back in the 1970s. Is he related to you?
I’m just glad to know the old building is still serving the people of belvidere even if it no longer serves its original prpose. I left Belvidere many years ago, but cannot imagine Belvidere without the apollo, the state street bridge, or the dairy ripple. Alogn with Doc Knapps, those entities are the essence of growing up in Belvidere. Does anyone remember Mr. Nickles with his cigars from the Apollo?
Ohhh, I remember the food drives. They used to do them for the all night fright fests on Halloween weekend also. The Dari-Ripple was good too. Drapers ran it when I was a kid. It’s still open. I was there a couple weeks ago and almost stopped. I have to drive down through Belvidere to pick up my wife at Ohare next week so maybe I’ll treat her to a Banana Split from Dari-Ripple. Remember Doc Knapps? It closed a few years ago, adn I just read a couple of weeks ago that Doc passed on. It bummed me out. He was great to those of us who couldn’t afford to stop much. He’d give us what he called “wonderful water” on our way home from school. It was really Sprite or 7up and it was alway great. Darn, I know your name. I went to school with a lowery boy back in the 1970s. Is he related to you?
I’m just glad to know the old building is still serving the people of belvidere even if it no longer serves its original prpose. I left Belvidere many years ago, but cannot imagine Belvidere without the apollo, the state street bridge, or the dairy ripple. Alogn with Doc Knapps, those entities are the essence of growing up in Belvidere. Does anyone remember Mr. Nickles with his cigars from the Apollo?