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I think about that every time I pass the location while driving on Highway I-20.

About the time the KLLM driver was shooting at I-20 traffic from a motel bathroom window on 80.

I’m in my older years. I realize how 26 years can go by in a blink. Makes it all the more amazing to think that that area was thriving just such a short time ago. I hate it for Jackson but it looks like it’s been abandoned for a century. To think there was once a Sams Club right there.

Say what you want about Po Folks and South Jackson, on game day there was nothing better at a tail gate than a box of Po Folks fried chicken. It was THE best

What a great place Po Folks was. And the clay flower pots turned upside down as lamp shades.

Ahhhhh Po Folks. Use to get full as hell in that place....even managed one of the waitresses into a few fun dates. I miss being single sometimes.

All you can eat Blue Ribbon fried chicken at Po' Folks on Sundays. Good times.

I wonder if the President at the time used this event to try and take guns from law abiding citizens?

@8:21, you mean Bill? No, but his wife is behind in taking them away as we speak. I’m not trying to get political here but we absolutely cannot lose our 2nd amendment rights.

I didn't have enough money to eat at Po Folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25l_c7wtD4

I wonder if the President at the time used this event to try and take guns from law abiding citizens?

It didn't make national news. I think only one person died from that incident too.

I can remember the business layout - there was an IHOP, Pizza Hut, Po' Folks, Sack'n'Save, Wal-mart, Conoco Gas Station, Amoco Gas Station, Oil Change business, Dairy Queen, Fred's, Sam's Club, Bread Thrift Shop. Then across from the thrift shop there used to be a restaurant - I can't remember the name of it - all that was within that square mile of Alta Woods

It is sad that this area was a safe and thriving part of town 26 years ago. How many of the "safe and thriving areas" of the Jackson metro area will be dying and dangerous in another 26 years?

@11:26
Pearl is doing better than 26 years ago. However, it is quickly filling up with so called “new” Americans so only time will tell if things will improve or worsen.

The whole Ellis Avenue corridor from Robinson Road to Mcdowell road was thriving. The above mentioned plus Harlow Donuts, Krystal, Miller Dept. store, Radio Shack, Howard's, Woolco, Long John Silver,big 10 tire, Cotton Bowl lanes, movie theaters, and others. Ahhhhh the Good old days.

Why dont all yall racists just say yall liked jackson better when white folks was runnin shit

And Hutto's is still there.

@1:00 PM

Robinson Road extension to McDowell Road still thrives. No one wants to eat the same tired food over and over again. Krystal's is for the fat, sloppy women with scrubby legs. Can you imagine how the kitchen smells? Harlow Donuts is for lame women with flat asses and abusive spouses. I once knew a "crazy bitch" who loved donuts. I like Cotton Bowl lanes, that's where the real ones hung. Movie Theaters are good. I've a few big screen outputs coming to a theater near you. Long John Silver sells or better yet gives away its stinky, dead, deformed-looking catfish to the "community." It comes splattered with hot sauce, so no need to ask.

Big 10 Tires?

@9:23 AM
It wasn't a restaurant it was an Ince cream parlor

If people like 1:54 enjoy the current state of Jackson then I say good for them.

We should all live where we are happy.

I prefer a different lifestyle so I left, but to each their own.

More trolls like 1:54 should just know, we all hope you are as happy in Jackson now as we were then.

If I recall only person was killed in the shootout which was one poor old black man whose car broke down right beside Po Folks. The Clarion Ledger reporter was shot standing in the drive through of a hotel across the interstate! She was shot in the neck and survived.

1:54 : Ask your parents if they did. Money says they enjoyed po-folks and burger chef as well.