On the final evening, friends, family and former employees gathered one last time to pay tribute to Yvonne; for her hard work and dedication through the years, for keeping the Goody Goody open for so many years, and creating life-long memories for all her dedicated customers and employees.

    

GG Coca Cola memorabilia by front door - Mike, William Mote (Manager in the Stayer years) & Yvonne - Gainsborough's Blue Boy reproduction hanging in kitchen by oven

 

 

 

Doug Freeman (Yvonne's son) finally gets to relax after a long hard final day of cooking hundreds of Goody Goody burgers and fries and thousands over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      

               

 

 

 

 

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Yvonne is Tampa's Queen of Hamburgers for 48 years.

 

  

 

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And after that evening, this sight of an open Goody Goody door was gone forever.

 

Goody Goody p1   |    Goody Goody p2

  

The End of an Era:  Last Day P.1    |   Last Day P.2   |   Last Day P.3   |  Last Day P.4    |   Demolition
 

Scene from the movie "The Punisher" filmed in the Goody Goody

  
 

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