"START YOUR ENGINES"

The MTV Race Track was just off Fairfield Road. They raced stock rather than midgets. It was there that I was introduced to the Snowcone Lady.

Probably everybody knew the Snowcone Lady, Mrs. Walls. Her little stand off Old Fairfield Road was an institution for decades in the King City. The best shaved ice anywhere with a ton of flavors including rainbow for those who either couldn't decide or couldn't resist a ton of flavors.

More than once did I wear some of the juice home. My favorite throughout the years was strawberry though for awhile I blue eagled it or vanillaed it. Mrs. Walls was especially fond of her Summersville kids, but she liked just about everyone.

She retired and passed away not long afterwards if I recall. Somedays the Southern Illinois humidity would nearly get the best of her out in that stand, but she seemed to take the heat well. Maybe because she had a lot of ice in there. Like lots of locals, she was an institution.