My memory of eating at this Pensacola landmark.
For the young and innocent among us, let me set the stage for my story.
Hopkins Boarding House was opened in 1949 with rooms to let for the ones needing a place to call home until jobs and circumstance moved them on.
Arkie "Ma" Hopkins operated the boarding house and cooked meals to serve to local telephone operators, railroad men or anyone needing to eat.
Some years later the Hopkins family bought a big old house across the street to reopen as a restaurant with Blanche Hopkins doing the cooking and running of the business.
My earliest memory of...
