Nice to see some other Mills county folks on here! Most of our old "booze cruising" roads were between Gwood and Tabor.
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Nice to see some other Mills county folks on here! Most of our old "booze cruising" roads were between Gwood and Tabor.
Sidney. The rodeo is a pretty good time. It's too bad that they couldn't get some better country acts to perform after the show on the main nights. I heard that they used to get some pretty big names.
Can't really argue, except that I don't think they were any cleaner in Montgomery county!
Ottuwma, also known as Oscumwa.
Moved to Ottumwa at age of 14 from Tokyo. Don't ask me how I ended up in Ottumwa from other side of the world. I wanted to cry when I landed in DSM for the first time, then I realized it wasn't Ottumwa quite yet. I really wanted to cry when I actually got to Ottumwa. Good ol Ottumwa.
Moved to Ottumwa at age of 14 from Tokyo. Don't ask me how I ended up in Ottumwa from other side of the world. I wanted to cry when I landed in DSM for the first time, then I realized it wasn't Ottumwa quite yet. I really wanted to cry when I actually got to Ottumwa. Good ol Ottumwa.
I haven't gone through the whole thread yet so maybe this has already been brought up, but in northern Iowa where I am from there is a couple other towns in the area called Manly and Fertile. It's been quite a few years ago but I remember a heading in the local paper that word for word was ....."Manly man marries Fertile woman"........:twitcy:
About me?
born in Casper Wyoming
then to Phillipsburg Kansas
then to Farmington New Mexico
then to Britt Iowa from the 6th grade forward.
I happen to be a Orab Graduate, I take it you graduated Orab too?
Pretty confident in saying that had I stayed there any longer then the two years we lived there from 3rd to 5th grade, I would either be in jail or dead by now.
I get the feeling the 12-pack would just be an appetizer for a later entre of Templeton Rye.
Puh-leeze! That would be like saying Mike Tyson's rep would take a hit if he was caught for public consumption. The reputation was in place long before that.
Note: Scarlett O'Hara's does give Ft. Fun at least one redeeming feature.
Corydon? I used to do a lot of surveying work down in Wayne County back in the 90's. We used to stay at the Nodyroc Motel (Corydon spelled backwards. CLEVER!) and walk over to that great restaurant on the East side of the Courthouse square for dinner. Wasn't it the Dutch Mill or something like that?
I am surprised by the representation that Winterset's got on CF. Rah Huskies! Go! Fight! Win!
Not too far away from where I grew up.
Milo, IA Southeast Warren school district
Lived in Bloomfield until I was 11.
I can't remember the name of that restaurant. It's changed a couple times since then. But it was definitely a good place to eat. Now it's kind of dropped off, though. Ludlow's Steakhouse is where you'll find some of the best steak anywhere (it's in the building where Keller's Flower Shop used to be, and named after the old Bassett hound that was practically the shop's mascot), though a little pricey. If you want more affordable steak, the Lodge on the north side is the place to go. Still very good food, and it's been doing quite well.
Corydon's (and Wayne County, for that matter) in the middle of nowhere, but it's a nice little town as far as I'm concerned. Got a lot of good memories there. Doesn't hurt matters that my two favorite Hawks of all time are from Wayne County: Chris Street and Tork Hook. Both are family friends, I'm named for Tork and my sister is named for Chris. (Yeah, THAT didn't have any kind of influence on where I'm going to college
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