More From Our Survey: Part C, Some Favorite Places

It was with sadness and regret that we mourned the passing of Snelgrove's Ice Cream Parlor. Most of us grew up taking Snelgrove's rich and creamy ice cream for granted: a place to take a date after a movie, a place to celebrate after a sports victory, or a place to just hang out looking to see who else had nothing else to do that night. Sometimes the line was back to the front door. The 'magic eye' doors were ahead of their time. The back wall was covered with the names of dozens of flavors of ice creams and sherbets. Is it my imagination, or was the lighting at the edges of the parking lot blue? One thing was certain, if you waited for a booth-then waited for your ice cream, you waited a long, long time.By 2008 the franchise had been purchased by Dreyer's and the store closed, leaving us only with fond memories of carmel pecan malts, cashew conquistadors and banana splits.

The Cottonwood Mall is another favorite Bengal hangout that has passed on into history. Who can forget the novelty of first shopping "indoors"? Let your memories take you back to ZCMI, lunch at the Hot Shoppes cafeteria, the circle stairway to the second level, Bud's Duds, Florsheim Shoes, The Record Shop, Hart Brothers Music, the "Singing Christmas Tree", Woolworths, Skaggs Drugstore and Penneys. How much time, youth and money was spent at the lower mall, either at the bookstore or at the slot car track across the hallway? You could buy your groceries at Albertson's, get your hair cut, go bowling at the Cottonwood Lanes and eventually see a movie at the Cottonwood Mall Theaters. And with a good imagination it's all still there, just like it was in 1972.