The White Spot:
A Little Slice of Charlottesville

From John Meyer (UVA '84), May 24, 2005.


Dear Mitchells,

I like Patricia's writeup of the White Spot. I'm trying to remember how the Motor Burger got its name, and I'm coming up blank. The Gus Burger was named after “Dr. Gus,” who used to work across the street at the hospital long ago, and who habitually ordered up a cheeseburger with a fried egg on top. Another favorite was the ice box pie (Jell-o mix and milk on graham cracker pie crust put in the refrigerator to congeal — apparently a popular WWII-era concoction). And of course, the sausage gravy made by Nat Pritchett was a great soak-up-the-booze hangover antidote on Saturday and Sunday mornings. But chicken souvlaki? Boy, they've gone upscale since we were there ;-)

The other great thing about the Spot was that at any given time, it was a little slice of Charlottesville: the students, the mailman, the cop on the beat, businessmen, etc. Fun times.

Some other tidbits of memories:

It's funny how after all these years, I still haven't found a better name than wspot.net for my website — my friends in the UVa class of '84 spent a lot of good times at the Spot and I hope to do the same with my pages.


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