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DaveKamp 
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 Posted: 01 Jan 2019 at 2:50am |
History wise, Musco is out of Osky, but the name comes from where it was originally...
-- "In 1976, Joe and Myron purchased the Muscatine Lighting and Manufacturing Company in Muscatine, Iowa, which marked the start of Musco Lighting."
The Iowa80 truckstop is just within incorporated limits of Walcott, Iowa, and it is constantly expanding to maintain the 'World's Largest Truckstop" status. I'm not certain what the metric is to make that determination, but Will and Delia are always expanding it, and I am NOT going to walk into either of their offices to ask. ;-) I've been told that at night, it's actually clearly visible from the International Space Station... I'm not sure wether that's a good or bad thing... but it is... and probably moreso now that the parking lot has been expanded, and all the old HID lighting has been replaced by big, tall towers bristling with LEDs courtesy of MUSCO Lighting's manufacturing facility on Houser Street in Muscatine.
Nevada, Iowa has a manufacture of really substantial food
refrigeration/quick freezing systems. I don't recall OTH if they
started there, but I believe they're owned outside... They also are
home to a very large high-tech Ethanol manufacturing facilty that was
built at a very, very high cost... and never put into operation... very
big white elephant.
LeMars, Iowa is the home of Wells Blue Bunny... GREAT ice-cream and dairy products.
Davenport, Iowa has a several-million-dollar superelevated bridge that goes from a hotel, across River Drive, to... absolutely nowhere... Conned into it by a casino organization, now they're stuck with it. They SHOULD take it down, cut it into three pieces, and use it to put pedestrian walkways across Kimberly Road... where they'd actually do some good... (sigh).
But there's lots of cool places. Sutliff Bridge, in Solon... innertubing on the Upper Iowa river around Waukon... bicycle paths on old railroad trails all over (Dubuque to Dyersville)... going to the Old Thresher's Reunion in Mount Pleasant, or the Heritage Park in Forest City... anything on Lake Okoboji... catching a sandwich at Pete's Kitchen in Mason City... or boating the Mississippi from Dubuque to Harper's Ferry... Balloon Classic in Indianola... all great things going on.
Now... I'll Hijack this wonderful thread... someone pick another state, and tell me what I should see next time I pass through. Don't tell me the OBVIOUS places... tell me about the places you wouldn't find advertised. Off the beaten path... in YOUR state!!!
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 01 Jan 2019 at 9:09am |
I heard the Iowa Hawkeyes cheerleaders graze on the field at halftime.... 
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Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:56am |
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Spencer, Iowa home of the world's largest county fair. Drive In theater in Superior, Ia.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 11:13pm |
New Hampton - Birthplace of McGrath Implements now known as Ag-land. St. Lucas - Birthplace of my mother Nashua- Birthplace of my father
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Posted: 02 Jan 2019 at 11:14pm |
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Templeton - for some darn good whiskey
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shameless dude
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Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 7:47am |
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Mo Valley for loose gals...oooops...
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Lonn
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Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 8:22am |
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I had to go to the urban dictionary fer that one
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Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 8:27am |
Now being Minnesotan I just gotta ....................
Why does all the corn in Minnesota lean to the south?
Because Iowa sucks. 
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Les Royer
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 1:27pm |
Boys youi guys all missed the boat.
Council Bluffs Home of the black squirrel Lewis and Clark camped the winter here along with the mormons on the mornon trails.
Birth place of the Union Pacific railroad leading to all points west.
General Grenville Dodge, civil war greneral to oversee construction of the railroad lived here.
It's also the Eastern Terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad that was completed wiuth the driving of the dolden spike May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah
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I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 3:27pm |
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Shameless, MO Valley has gals that are poopin all the time??
Ames Iowa, where there is a BIG parkin lot where me an a gal got into the back seat of my old,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,aw never mind, you don't need to know that.
Brownsville where you can (used to get) the BEST catfish cheeks in the world! Right Phil (wf32)!?
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Kenny L.
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 3:38pm |
Lonn wrote:
Now being Minnesotan I just gotta ....................
Why does all the corn in Minnesota lean to the south?
Because Iowa sucks. now Lonn you know that the corn in Minnesota just what to be in Iowa so that it can yield like it should.
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:10pm |
From Algona, the Algona Brownie's and J.L. Wilkinson who started up the negro baseball league. He signed Jackie Robinson and later lost him to the Dodgers. He also held the first lighted night game 5 years before the MLB.
Snap-on Toolbox MFG.
We have the largest K-mart you are likely to find.
But ,,, we don't have a Pizza Hut anymore, and that really hurts.
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Unit3
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:15pm |
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Kanawha has a little bar on their main street called Town Tap. And they have a 100+ year old 5' x 10' Brunswick snooker table. Very Cool.
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 8:51pm |
Dubuque: That was THE city when I was young in SE WI. Also because my aunt and her family lived there and ran Hendricks Seed and Feed.
Farley: Always thought that two steeple church was cool. Also because my aunt and her family lived there and owned and operated the Greenwood bowling alley.
DeWitt: My brother and his family live there. Also because if you drive thru town, it appears to be one of the cleanest towns you will ever see. Oh, and there's a bar on the outskirts of town where I had my first pizza with sauerkraut on it. Darn good pizza!!!
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Unit3
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Posted: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:31pm |
While going through Dubuque, we had to stop and eat at Rings restaurant.
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 10 Jan 2019 at 10:52pm |
Unit3 wrote:
From Algona, the Algona Brownie's and J.L. Wilkinson who started up the negro baseball league. |
Algona has a wonderful little museum dedicated to the history of a substantial Prisoner Of War camp that existed at the current site of the municipal airport. A very fascinating tidbit of history, and interestingly enough, many of the POWs who were repatriated to Germany after the war, found that there was nothing left for them there, emigrated back to America, and many moved to northern Iowa, to return to the communities they worked in as WW2 prisoners.
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Unit3
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Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 9:03pm |
Algona was given a gift from a handful of POW's in the from of a nativity scene. How about that, Germans building a shrine to a Jew here while they are doing nasty things to them back home. It really doesn't mater how far you have to drive, it is well wreath it.
I have heard some great stories of life after the war. A man from Mason City was in the US army in Germany in the 1950's. He told that he and some buddies went into a gas house (bar). Once inside all talking quit because these strangers were in US military dress. He said a man came over to take their order. He asked them where they were from in the states. Our man said Mason City. The German shouted Mason City? Why I know Mason City. I was a POW in Algona. I went on work detail in Mason City.
There are many rich stories like this.
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Ted J
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Posted: 14 Jan 2019 at 10:09pm |
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Maytag blue cheese is made here. As much as I like Wisconsin cheese, Maytag blue is hard to beat. |
HOLY CHIT!!! IT better be GOOD!! I just went and checked on it and they have a catalog you can download. 2 lb. Wheel – $37 ONLY TWO Lbs.... I LOVE blue cheese dressing and I have one of the worlds best recipes (don't ask) but ....... Crumbles 2 – 8 oz. Cups – $24 That's a little steep...
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:00am |
Ted J wrote:
IBWD MIke wrote:
Maytag blue cheese is made here. As much as I like Wisconsin cheese, Maytag blue is hard to beat. |
HOLY CHIT!!! IT better be GOOD!! I just went and checked on it and they have a catalog you can download.
2 lb. Wheel – $37
ONLY TWO Lbs....
I LOVE blue cheese dressing and I have one of the worlds best recipes (don't ask) but .......
Crumbles 2 – 8 oz. Cups – $24
That's a little steep...
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It's good. You can get it in much smaller wedges, I buy the 2 lb. wheels. Takes quite a while to eat one.
Now if the 2 year cheddar from Mullin's and some beer from New Glarus were a little closer it would be nice!
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 9:27am |
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Ted if we had and shared Mikes money, we could throw ours away.
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Ted J
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 8:04pm |
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Wouldn't take much throwin from my end Elliott....
I LOVE blue cheese, but I guess I don't love it THAT MUCH...
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Posted: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:39pm |
Unit3 wrote:
Algona was given a gift from a handful of POW's in the from of a nativity scene. How about that, Germans building a shrine to a Jew here while they are doing nasty things to them back home. It really doesn't mater how far you have to drive, it is well wreath it.
I have heard some great stories of life after the war. A man from Mason City was in the US army in Germany in the 1950's. He told that he and some buddies went into a gas house (bar). Once inside all talking quit because these strangers were in US military dress. He said a man came over to take their order. He asked them where they were from in the states. Our man said Mason City. The German shouted Mason City? Why I know Mason City. I was a POW in Algona. I went on work detail in Mason City. Our man told me that any time they went back to eat there, the German never billed him for his meals.
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Edited by Unit3 - 15 Jan 2019 at 10:40pm
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:15am |
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My Danish grandpa would eye rye bread with a big hunk of blue cheese on it with a cold beer out of the well. I like blue cheese also but mostly just on salads.
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Posted: 16 Jan 2019 at 7:45am |
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as picky of an eater as my old lady....oooops...I mean my loving wife is (don't like anything that might be good for her) she don't like blue cheeze, but does like purple goat cheeze. go figger!
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