Sandy's in Pensacola became legendary sites as they remained Sandy's along with 10% of all other Sandy's instead of changing into Hardees in 1973!
10/27/2006 ... Buddy Macon remembers Sandy's in Pensacola, Florida!
Sandy's in Pensacola Florida was THE hangout. Remember the tenderloin and Big Scot sandwiches?! The Big Scot was King Kong of sandwiches, served in a circular cardboard container wrapped in foil.. Now, for the question, does anybody remember the recipe for the Big Scot sauce? Surely one of the former burger bosses has the recipe… Just to taste a Big Scot one more time would be nirvana.
Buddy Macon
11/18/2006 ... J. Shaw has joined the legends club on this website. He drove to Sandy's legendary Pace location in Pensacola and took pictures of what the site currently looks like today!
I was recently in Pensacola on business, and having visited your site, I decided to do some research. I now know that the addresses of the two Pensacola Sandy's were 3000 N Pace Blvd and 740 Navy Blvd. The Navy Boulevard location outlasted the Pace location judging from the phone directories, but incredibly the Pace Boulevard building remains today, while the Navy Boulevard building has apparently been demolished. Below is a picture of the Pace Boulevard building.
The two Pensacola Sandy's first appear in the Pensacola telephone directory in early 1961!! They were among the earliest of Southern locations, and lasted into the early 1970's. If I remember correctly, the Navy Boulevard location outlasted Pace Boulevard by a couple of years. There could have been some connection between the Pensacola and Memphis locations, in that these opened around the same time, and two other curious facts. Memphis had a Naval Air Station at Millington, and Pensacola had (and still has) a Naval Air Station, and Pensacola Beach is a preferred resort destination for Memphians (although replaced by Destin more in recent years). All circumstantial, but interesting.
Special thanks to J. Shaw for this incredible detective work! 3000 N Pace is now Express Insurance & Tax Services as of November 2006. The building itself has been squared off and is no longer recognizable as Sandy's. However, look closely as the kitchen/storage area of the Sandy's building can clearly be seen in the current picture of the Pace location. The only other visible sign of Sandy's is quite possibly the classic front roof fin may still remain hence the circa 1970 design of the building's roof. The side roof fins appear to have been removed.
To see what Sandy's Pensacola locations looked like, click here to see Pensacola's identical twin location in Largo. Largo and the two Pensacola locations were Sandy's #199, #200 (Navy Blvd) and #201 (Pace Blvd)!
Frequent contributor to this website Rob Delius provides a shot of the Pensacola city directory listings for Sandy's.
This is the 1963 listing.
This is the 1974 listing.
I checked the Pensacola directories. Both Sandy's were still listed in '74 Pace was still listed in '76 but not in '77. Scuby's Subs was listed at that location in '77 with Subway appearing in '86 and '93. Navy was listed as Jack's Beef Burgers in '77 not Sandy's in '76.
3000 pace is listed as Sandy's Bubescott Inc Drive-In. I do not know for sure but perhaps this was the owner.
Robby
If you have any memorabilia, pictures or stories of Sandy's, please email me!
