Avalon Court – Hotel Bar Soap (Ivory)

“Truoc Nolava”

Another motel soap, this one quite old, from the long-gone Avalon Court in Paris, Tennessee—birthplace of Cherry Jones—and “Home of the World’s Biggest Fish Fry”—sorry Milwaukee! The only other info on the wrapper is: “Phone 728”—which indicates it’s back from when phones had cords. Also, a large letter “A” which, if it doesn’t refer to Avalon Court, then, who knows! As usual, the best info online comes from postcards for sale—there’s a couple of cute ones of this old motel and restaurant on Highway 79. Paris, Tennessee—known as “The Paris of Tennessee”—is famous for a replica of the Eiffel Tower which is actually bigger than the Eiffel Tower! Not to mention a Dollar Tree. Also, it’s about halfway between Nashville and Memphis, and Paris, France is not. You don’t have the Seine, but there’s a shitload of creeks, which are better anyway because even I could build a bridge over a creek, given the right tools. The single-use size soap is Ivory, you know, Ivory—which floats, though no one really knows why—a mystery more than a few scientists have gone mad trying to get to the bottom of.

Soap Review No. 233