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To: Spirit of Liberty

There may have been some in California, but I never saw any.
Isn’t that the place where lots os “situations” arise?


6,502 posted on 06/07/2021 9:50:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rusty0604

ROFL

Yes, you’re thinking of the correct location for ‘situations’. Waffle House is open 24/7, 365 days. Apparently it’s known as the place to go in the middle of the night to sober up after a night of drinking. Which might explain a lot.

New DC ‘man about town’ video. I’m a little behind. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eye-4l26rB4 It’s about 34 minutes long. It’s a livestream from this morning; he was going to broadcast whatever the training exercise was at the Capitol this morning, but it was done and over before he dropped the kids off at school. Neither house of Congress were in session this morning, so I doubt anything nefarious happened. The quality of the video isn’t very good (blurry). But at least he’s walking! LOL


6,506 posted on 06/07/2021 10:35:15 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: Rusty0604; Spirit of Liberty

Back in the day California’s pancake house was called SAMBO’S.

From article: In 1957, two white men from Southern California were brainstorming a name for their new restaurant. Sam Battistone Sr. was a “short, compact and determined looking” man who had run a diner in downtown Santa Barbara for two decades. Newell Bohnett was a 34-year-old equipment salesman whose father had been the mayor of Santa Barbara. They wanted a name that was catchy, and that would be familiar to the working and middle class families they hoped to cater to. Combining Battistone’s first name with the first two letters of Bohnett’s last name, they christened their new establishment Sambo’s. The first Sambo’s Pancake House opened on June 17, 1957 on beachfront Cabrillo Boulevard in downtown Santa Barbara.

The paintings that adorned Sambo’s Pancake House were a retelling of the hugely popular children’s book Little Black Sambo.

By 1969, it was said that Sambo’s was serving enough coffee each day “to float a 45-foot-yacht.” Sambo’s restaurants were opening all around the country at a dramatic pace — the chain added 125 new restaurants in 1975 alone. At its peak, Sambo’s would have 1,117 locations in 47 states. But civil rights leaders and town councils began to object to the restaurant with the racially charged name appearing in their town. In the late ‘70s, protests and lawsuits challenging the Sambo’s name were occurring in Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio and Michigan.

Go to the link to read about the downfall of SAMBO”S. It was not what you may think.

https://www.kcet.org/food-living/the-troubling-history-of-sambos-pancake-house


6,509 posted on 06/07/2021 11:22:25 AM PDT by Spunky
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