Created:
12/09/2006 10:18:32 AM
Author:
Mike Rogers
Key thought:
Memories of Lipsey's
Comments:
El Dorado News-Times, November 7, 2006
Letters From Readers
To the Editor:
On Dec. 1, the second half of the dynamic duo that served so many "Lipseyburgers" over the years passed away. Donald Dollarhide was in the packaging and distribution department at Lipsey’s shop. He stood across the counter from Jim Lipsey (the production and assembly department) and wrapped and handed out burgers, hot dogs and ham sandwiches for almost 40 years.
When I became a regular at Lipsey’s "old shop" in 1960, Donald was there as a curb service carhop. Many stories related to that position came forward, with one of the funniest being that a regular lady customer (presumably a secretary on her break) came to the shop every day at 3 p.m. and ordered a coke and a bag of potato chips. The day they put a sign in the window introducing the availability of the "new" diet Coke, she changed her standing order to a diet Coke and two bags of chips! Donald stayed the course until Jim Lipsey’s death on Christmas Day, 1987. In more recent years, he was a happy and grateful resident of Hillsboro Manor Nursing Home, where he died at age 71. Donald was a fixture in Lipsey’s history as much as the griddle, the chili, and the thousands upon thousands of pounds of onions that he diced over the years. I saw many a tear in his eyes during all that dicing, and to know that he’s gone causes one to fall from mine.
Jay Johnston
El Dorado
Responses:
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