You Know You Grew up in Tallahassee When...

The following nostalgia trip made the e-mail forwarding rounds a few months ago. We were unable to discover where this gem originated, but it makes for an enjoyable stroll down Memory Lane.

1. You remember the Tiger Sharks, the Thunder and the Scorpions, and you still have a hockey puck from one of the games.
2. You used to stop at a Sing Store or Suwanee Swifty for an Icee.
3. You know every canopy road.
4. Your mom shops at the Farmer’s Market, Market Square or Tomato Land.
5. You’ve never seen the Prince Murat sign completely lit.
6. You remember King Love.
7. You call Momo’s, Decent Pizza and Gumby’s before Domino’s.
8. You’ve shopped at Kevin’s Sporting Goods (you had to have a Browning jacket).
9. You went to St. Teresa, Lake Ella, Alligator Point, Wakulla Springs, St. George, Apalachicola and Panama City every summer and called those places “The Coast.”
10. You have giggled about the suggestive appearance of the New Capitol (and remember school field trips when they took you to the top and you tried to find your house).
11. You hate the flyover.
12. You survived FAMU homecoming . . . and the Kappa Luau.
13. You’ve eaten at East Side Mario’s, Jim & Milt’s Bar-BQ, Barnacle Bill’s, The Mill Bakery, Eatery and Brewery, Noble Romans Pizza, Buckhead Brewery, Paradise, Posey’s, Angelo’s, Barnaby’s, and Mom and Dad’s (and you miss The Mill because they had the best muffins on the face of the Earth).
14. You used to love the Junior Museum and refuse to refer to it as the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science.
15. You ran in the Jingle Bell Run or the Turkey Trot.
16. You played sports at Forest Meadows, Millers Landing, Winthrop Park, Levy Park, Messer Field, Tom Brown Park, Capital Park or Myers Park.
17. You have gone on a date to Lake Ella (or your grandmother took you there to climb on the big, uprooted tree and feed the ducks).
18. You saw shows at the Thunderdome, Floyd’s, Cow Haus, and The Moon (and thought you were so cool cause you knew someone – or everyone – in the band).
19. You’ve watched the fireworks at Tom Brown Park (and didn’t care if you were dripping with sweat).
20. You drive through Dorothy B. Oven Park every Christmas (and pronounce it “Oh-vin,” not “Uh-vin”!)
21. You went to a birthday party in the caboose at McDonald’s on Thomasville Road.
22. Skate Inn had an East and a West.
23. You can remember Leon always beating Lincoln in football.
24. FSU football games were for walking around looking for your friends.
25. You remember Mugs and Movies, The Varsity, Capitol Cinemas, Northwood Mall, Turtle’s Record Store, The Record Bar and Good Times Pizza.
26. Killearn Lakes was way out of town.
27. The Old Sing Store (Thomasville Road) was where the Leon people went, the New Sing Store (the Killearn store) was for Lincoln people.
28. You went to Camp Indian Springs.
29. You love the North Florida Fair.