BIRMINGHAM REWOUND remembers December 1978

December 1978

A holiday tradition
	"Burger Queen" provokes, ummm, interesting thoughts. I'll just leave it at that. In the late '70s, I was living in southeast Missouri, and there were Burger Queen locations throughout western Kentucky and parts of west Tennessee (it never made it into Alabama, not that I'm aware of). Commercials for the chain aired on a nearby TV station out of Paducah, Ky., and featured BQ's mascot, named - strangely enough - Queenie Bee....... I remember one all too well: "That's B-U-R-G-E-R, Q-U-E-E-N." Kids in restaurant: "Huuuuuh???" "Haven't you ever heard of a 'spelling bee'??" Some Burger Queen items are on display at a website I just discovered while Googling this 'dead chain': Hopkinsville Nostalgia.com It's a REWOUND-style treatment of a small city in west Kentucky. Go have a look. (PS: If you remember the old BIG K discount chain - we've touched on it here a time or two - there are a good number of adverts to be seen)


(Plitt had just bought the ABC Theaters chain ... it looks like the Plitt insignia above was simply pasted over the previous ABC circle logo)	(special thanks to Allen Culp for 'cleaning up' both this and the Pizitz "Darth Vader" advert two rows above)

	*In December 1978, The Birmingham News* ran a lengthy feature piece on the city's radio scene, profiling some of the biggest names, such as Tommy Charles and John Ed Willoughby (left). The article is in two parts, below: PART 1 \| PART 2**