That was the Dippy Whip

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October 25, 2011

Tim Preston The Independent The Daily Independent Tue Oct 25, 2011, 12:28 AM EDT

FLATWOODS — A familiar scene from a restaurant included in the Picture This section of Monday’s edition was quickly identified as an image snapped inside the Dippy Whip, formerly in Flatwoods.

The Dippy Whip was on the lot known to current Flatwoods residents as “The Drop,” where skateboarders tend to ride.

Missi Baker recognized “the tall kid on the left” as Steve Blaine.

“He's a great guy and owns a little pawn/jewelry shop (Steve’s Pawn & Jewelry) on Lexington Avenue in Flatwoods,” she said, adding she couldn’t actually recall the name of the Dippy Whip, explaining “I was a downtown Russell kid who wasn't allowed to roam way out in Flatwoods.”

Blaine said he remembers the place quite clearly, and recalled a specialty ice cream dish that was served nowhere other than the Dippy Whip.

“They fixed a french-fried banana split,” he said, explaining it was a dessert that required teamwork from a crew of five to six people. “You had to use a glass boat. You deep fried a banana for a couple of minutes and then you pulled it out and split it in the boat and everyone would have their scoops of ice cream and toppings ready and you’d hand it right to the customer.”

Otherwise, he said the place was known as a full-service restaurant with menu items including bucket fried steak, burgers, onion rings and “any kind of ice cream or ice-cream dish that you could want.”

Blaine said he always hated clip-on ties, but learned to wear them while at the Dippy Whip, explaining a traditional tie could easily get a person injured or killed in a high-speed milkshake machine.

An anonymous reader dropped a note by the newspaper office identifying Lee Fitch as the man in the center, adding he was the manager and later owned and operated the business as Lee’s Drive-In.

Carla Thomas said she immediately recognized the teen on the far right as her brother.

“He is Keith Jackson,” she wrote, adding she wasn’t certain of the photo’s exact time frame. “I believe Keith was around 15 or 16 at the time and he is now 60, so it is pretty old.”

Thomas said Jackson recently retired from Evansville University, and now lives in Raleigh, N.C.

Looking at the photo and making a few quick calculations, Blaine said “I was 17 years old. This would have been 1968.”

TIM PRESTON can be reached at tpreston@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2651.

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