THROW-BACK THURSDAY
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Johnny West
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I worked at Woolco and was always asked to do the Blue Light Special announcements because (according to my boss) "No one does it better!" Attention Woolco Shoppers!"
BTW, the little cafe was not half-bad back in the day, but it could not complete with Woolsworth's.
Johnny West
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Johnny West
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Saturday is the last day for Schlitz beer after 177 years. The beer that made Milwaukee famous.
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John A and I ate here quite a few years ago. They added on to the original shack…. Red Robin. Yum.
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BILLY CARTER'S GAS STATION
"In the autumn of 1976, with the presidential election just weeks away, a photographer captured one of the most genuinely human moments in American campaign history a future president of the United States sitting inside a small-town Georgia gas station, sharing a plate of barbecued chicken with his younger brother like they had nowhere more important in the world to be. Jimmy Carter had swung through Plains on a campaign stop, and when the chicken came off the grill at Billy Carter's service station, Jimmy didn't stand outside shaking hands for the cameras he went inside, pulled up a seat beside his brother, and just ate. That gas station, which Billy had purchased in the early 1970s, was no ordinary filling stop it had quietly become one of the most famous pieces of real estate in America during the 1976 campaign, serving as the unofficial headquarters for the national press corps who flooded into Plains to cover Jimmy's extraordinary rise from Georgia peanut farmer to Democratic presidential nominee.