Mystery solved

"I think there was an ice cream place nearby, too. The Creamery? Great 'real' shakes!"


That was Cream Top Creamery and it was on the corner of Taylorsville and Bardstown -- right where the Subway is now.

A neat outdoor feature was a big neon Milk Shake on the corner of the building and a screen on the corner of the roof overlooking the street where different ads would be projected about every 15 seconds. Probably the area's first "animated" billboard.

As a 10-year old sitting in the car wondering how much longer it was going to take to get to my uncle's farm in Fern Creek, I was fascinated.

Thanks, Fred! Cream Top is right. I remember the sign, too. La Normandie was a few doors down on Bardstown not Taylorsville as I originally posted.

Dose anyone remember Gruber's restaurant ...
It was right where Mc Donalds is now at Taylorsville Rd @ Bardstown Rd

At some point I think La Normandie moved to Bardstown Rd. somewhere kinda across from the Homemade Pie Kitchen?

Yep, they had great fried chicken. There is a new real estate building, facade actually, going up there now. Hickory house was good, but they started having problems with it keeping it clean, as I remember.