10/16/2006

 

Cafe Risque and other Fla. Institutions

I have warm, fond memories of sobering up post-midnight while eating biscuits the size of pancakes sitting in a puddle of sausage-flaked gravy at a Skeeter's Big Biscuit.

Open all night. Often with somebody playing bad country music in the background. The late, lamented chain was a big part of Central Florida's roadside cultural landscape in the 1980s.

Fast forward to the present, where the son of Skeeter's founder puts billboards up and down I-75 for Cafe Risque. They are how I measure my progress when driving that route to Tallahassee. ("We bare it all!")

They are so ubiquitous they inspired Tom Gallagher to include a crusade against "adult billboards" as part of his doomed, righter-than-right platform for governor.

Well, the man who gave us that bit of roadside color now is dead and his son pledges to carry on.

(Thanks to Sayfie for straying from politics to include this bit of cultural news.)

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# posted by Lane @ 10/16/2006
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How could I resist?
# posted by Blogger Justin : 9:32 PM
 
I never ate at Cafe Risque, but I sure ate at Skeeters. The best!! Another dead part of Gainesville.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 5:01 PM
 
I am the daughter of jerry sullivan and granddaughter of asher sullivan Sr. and the positive comments always help see past all the negative asswholes.
so thank you!
# posted by Anonymous ciji sullivan : 12:08 PM
 
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