A Good Plate of Georgia Bar-B-Que Is Not Very Far Away!
Town Square, Crawfordsville, GA. After leaving the Southland's, and traveled East, I planned to renew memories of Crawfordsville, local area, and see if there had been any changes in Bonner’s Private Club, a restaurant my family and I had visited many a time as we traveled old Rt278 (pre Interstate days) on our return trips from family “up North”. I had the time and had not been there in 20 years. And why not get lunch at that restaurant in Crawfordville, GA? I got off I-20, traveled backcountry roads "to-get-me-my-lunch". It was after 1:00 p.m. I was getting hungry with anticipation. .. But time has changed Crawfordville. It is practically a ghost town! Over half of the old businesses were closed, including "Bonner's Private Club". Interstate-20 was built through this area 30 years ago. The restaurants could not stay in business with all the customers now ten miles away. While taking photographs in Crawfordville, I saw a “Hickory Smoked Bar-B-Que” sign. That settled the matter. It had been over 3 months since I had a "good-plate-of-BBQ". But oops, the sign pointed west. Wrong direction! I had to go East to South Carolina and home!! With increasing hunger and feeling of low blood sugar, I followed the slow congested old main highway US 78/278. Thinking hour after hour, surely a great BBQ would be just around the corner. And usually they are. I was really hungry when, 45 miles later I found the first hint of BBQ on the East side of Thompson, GA. It was nearly 3:00 p.m. (Continued next.)
************************************
(Photo = 130-3027 ...... ZMM Page = None ...... WayPt = 537 0605ft)