eating contest at Chester's 40 flavors

[Michael Eisenstadt]

shelton wrote:
> 
> Billy Jim Strong mentions the Green Monster eating contest between the
> DAILY TEXAN team and the RANGER team.  I remember it well, having been
> present at the event, although thankfully not as a contestant.
> 
> There was an ice cream parlor on the corner of 24th and (Rio Grande?)
> which had 36 flavors of ice cream (This shop has been immortalized by
> Lieuen Adkins in his poem "Willie and the 36 Flavors).  

As I remember the name of the store was Chester's 40 Flavors
it was on 24th at or near Rio Grande.

Chester was a character, he wanted my sister-in-law (to be) 
to paint a portrait of him but in the nude. The 40 flavors 
were all different colors but all tasted the same -- nasty. 
They may not have been WW II Army surplus but the syrup for
Chester-Cola was, it came in big drums with US Army markings on 
them. I tried Chester-Cola once: unbelievable.

Chester's girlfriend, a hairdresser lived in the same rooming
house as my sister-in-law, also on 24th. This was an old frame 
house with a beauty parlour on the first floor. Anybody
else remember? Carolyn, you remember all this doncha?