Things I remember…

I would like to write them down BEFORE I forget! Hey, never know, somebody else might remember these places, also. Stuff from the Quad, from when I was a kid. Besides, I am getting old now. I have to document stuff.

I remember Skateland in East Moline. I must have been there every weekend. I spent way too much time there. Loved the New Years Skate, when you could stay there until the wee hours of the morning. Hell yeah. Had my speed skates, loved it! Closed down now.

Skate Ranch in Milan. I didn’t spend as much time there, but I liked it. Closed down now. Had this really groovy dance floor in the middle of the skating rink. Also had volleyball outside and a mini movie theater. Milan used to have a lot of entertainment options…from what I understand, it is pretty much dead now.

Hmmm, speaking of Milan, it used to have the kickass Showcase Cinemas and Razz-Ma-Tazz. Razz-Ma-Tazz was this pizza place, kinda like Chuck-E-Cheese but a lot bigger. Milan was the fast food mecca, also…Rudy’s Tacos, Happy Joe’s, etc. There was this great pizza place called the Pizza Joynt that was outside of Milan proper, on the way to Andalusia, I believe. I spent a lot of time in Showcase Cinemas.

Theaters-Parkway Theater in Moline, near Southpark Mall. Closed down. Sierra Theater, on 23rd Avenue. Closed. I don’t think they call it 23rd Avenue anymore…

There was this weird restaurant I remember going to when I was a child. Called Drawbridge Restaurant, or something like that. It looked like a castle. I don’t think it lasted very long…it was cool.

Showbiz Pizza, Davenport! Had two birthday parties there. Turned into Chuck-E-Cheese. Bummer.

Duck Creek Plaza in Bettendorf! That place was usually dead, but it is gone, anyway.

Used to like the Book Emporium in East Moline. Bought many, many books there. Gone.

Remember those fountains in Southpark Mall in Moline?

Wacky Waters…Davenport. Gone.

That is life, I suppose…I wish I had pictures of these places that I remember once in awhile. Would be great.

A lot of great stuff is gone, which is rather disappointing, but there is still Harris Pizza and Frank’s Pizza. I hope. Doesn’t do me a lot of good here in rural Canada, but miss it all the same.

 

January Dreams

*I am going to start posting the dreams I have. I will not use last names to protect the innocent…lol. As usual, if any of these dreams resonate with you…or they mean something…please email me or leave a comment. Thank you!!*

January 3rd

Big Pat and I were in a house. There were many different levels to the house, and we were trying to get to the top level.

January 4th

I was outside and there were overturned grocery carts all over the place. Garbage was on a conveyor belt, moving from outside to inside.

January8th

I was stuck in a house. It was like it was in the X-Files. There were huge movie screens in every room and there was a very large swimming pool.

January 11th

A bunch of us were going on a road trip. We were going to a mall in Memphis, Tennessee. I went into some woman’s apartment. Her fridge and stove were missing. I was crying and drinking a glass of wine. I was in the mall, and going down the escalator. Some people were messing with me and tied me to a guardrail.

January 12th

I was a teenager. I was on a bus. We stopped somewhere to get a pizza, I think it was Harris Pizza. While waiting for the pizza to get done, I was trying to make phone calls. I could not get ahold of anybody. Someone wanted to bomb the bus. My pizza got done, but they gave it to the post office. They said if I wanted a piece of pizza, I would have to come to the post office to get it. I had to walk to order another one.

January 13th

I was scared. My father was Michael Landon and he had a gun.

January 14th

There was a man with a gun. He was trying to kill a lot of people.

January 16th

I was visiting my parents. I went down to the basement. The stairs were dilapidated, they were in bad shape. My dad was trying to fix them. There was turpentine dripping from the walls, getting on my skin. I was trying to get ready for church. I was wearing a big blue hat, like a bonnet. I started to cut my hair.

January 18th

I was with Kevin and Jenn at the mall. They did not have enough money to pay for lunch. I went to see a movie. There was a group outside the theater taking surveys to determine people’s sanity. The test said I was crazy.

January 19th

I was in an airplane. We were following the Mississippi River. Something was wrong with the river, like it had flooded and changed course.

January 20th

I was in a mall. Patrick and I were looking all over for a restaurant. We found a map with little islands on a river, there were strange bridges.

January 21st

I was in a forest. I was being chased around by strange men. I ran to a ledge and jumped.

January 26th

I was looking all over for Patrick. I could not find him. I ran into Big Pat. We were trying to work on some computers. There was a dead body in his attic, we were near the dam in Illinois City. The police came to look, but he had hidden the body very well.

January 29th

I was in the mountains, the Alps I think. I was looking down at a bunch of smaller mountains.

January 31st

I was in a basement. There were aliens all over the place. There was a group of us trying to defeat the aliens. We had to go out at night to be safe from them. They were reptilians.