Where is Summer????

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THIS JUST IN! EXTRA EXTRA!!!

Columbus is on a roll with new business!!

-Naset Title Company, downtown on Mill Street (I'll call for a new title for this blog - they must have hundreds of titles).

-Cost Cutters in the Columbus Commerce Center between Walgreens and McDonalds.

-Fan4Ever on Ludington Street in downtown Columbus. Fan4Ever is a leading sports memorabilia store company with locations in Arizona and Wisconsin. Since 1992, Fan4Ever has had a close relationship with Brett Favre in distributing all of his memorabilia.

United Cooperative’s purchase of the former Cenex facility on Town Rd (which sounds important but I'm not sure what this entails).

Naset Title and Fan4Ever joins the 8 new businesses that have opened in downtown Columbus in as many months, bringing the total to 10 new businesses in the middle of the current recession!

Plus - not official but the new Grocery Store is moving along slowly but sill moving in the right direction.
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I took a day off yesterday and as luck would have it Charter's internet connection was down. SO - no blog, no surfing, no information.

I was on vacation because The CW's (Channel 57) The Daily Buzz was in Columbus interviewing a few of us at Julie's Java House (2nd from back left in photo). The interviews will be on The CW 6:20, 7:20 8:20 (AM) and all week long starting Monday the 20th.

Here is a photo of the the four interviewees, Julie and Emmy Fink the interviewer.

We were told to look mean . . . . . I think Dave is just passing some gas though.

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The Columbus 25th Celebration is really going to be big and become a yearly event. The Picture Car Parade had a little adjustment and now the cars will end up in a safer area and parked in the Middle School Parking lot. It'll only be one block away from the main area. Next year it looks like they want to have an art fair down the middle of the boulevard leading to the Middle School.

Picture Cars should be at the High School by 11:00 for the Parade. Any questions contact Julie at 920-623-5540
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Also - if anybody is doing nothing Saturday Kim at West James Gallery is moving the Gallery two doors down the block and the more people we get the funner and faster it will be. DJ and I will be there about 9:00 (not sure DJ knows that yet LOL).

This weekend is also the Relay For Life event themed "Cancer - Public Enemy Number One". Lots of stuff going on at the High School. Volunteers are needed and you can contact Cindy at 623-0570 or Patti at 623-1280.
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News - loosely based from the Columbus Journal articles.

Fifty years ago + 11 days wrecking balls whacked the Kurth Brewery, boiler room and 100 foot smoke stack (where True Value is now I believe).

The Rudalt Theater (yes Columbus had a movie theater) was showing The Revenge of Frankenstein in SUPER NATURAL TECHNICOLOR which the IMDB people were having a FIT over because Technicolor was completely a horrible look and was all wrong and WHAT was Terence Fisher thinking.

The plot (this is true) has Frankenstein evading the guillotine with the help of a dwarf and sets himself up as a physician in Germany.

WELL YEA! Daa! how many times have you seen THAT plot!

OK - looking at the poster would you go see Dr Stein? I'm sure he would not be my first choice for a new doctor.

One review states "this thoughtful mix of mad surgery and tragic disfigurement is one of the best Frankenstein films ever"

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Tilt-a-Whirls.

I was taking photos of Mr. Eds Magical Midway and one of the rides I always liked when I was into unpredictable chaotic motion (like my golf swing) was the Tilt-A-Whirl. I liked it because I'm not real fond of being upside down 30 feet above the ground. Spinning was OK.

The interesting thing about the Tilt-A-Whirl is the weight of the riders directly influences how chaotic the ride will be and oddly physicists have really studied this ride.

The inventor was a wood worker by the name of Herbert Sellner who was a water slide expert in Faribault, Minnesota. In 1927 he sat his son on a chair which was on a old table and rocked it back and forth (haven't we all done this at one time or another?) and a light bulb went off in his head. Thus - the Tilt-A-Whirl was invented.

There have been slightly more then 1000 Tilt-A-Whirls built and some that were built in the 40's and 50's are still in operation.

There you have it!

OH - in case you are looking to by one (Louie? this would be a great addition to your back yard) they only cost about $300,000 and last a long long long time.
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I just bought my first sweet corn of the year which is normally rather tasteless but, it IS the lobster of the vegetable family so I HAD to buy it.

The sweet corn crop is hurting not from lack of rain but lack of heat. We are 6 degrees below average in July. The average high is 82 and we have only HIT 82 twice. It's been a cold summer. Our average high in July this year is 76 and it should be 82. In fact we are COLDER then the average June so far.

The average low this month is 2 degrees COLDER then the average low in June!

I hope summer comes soon.

Rod
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