Posted on 10/21/2008 5:56:58 AM PDT by rvoitier
I was just gonna reply that I too saw the Wiener Mobile while I was heading up 93 Towards NH about a month and a half ago.
What a coincidence.
Last week at a rest stop heading back to NH i was walking back to the car and saw a big old Caddy heading towards me with a “The King” sign on the grill, I looked up and actually saw the King himself driving!!
Pretty cool.
I love the Landmaster!!
haha..
that is too funny..
I proposed to my current wife at the Alex on the 1995 New Years Eve of the grand re-opening after being remodeled.
We’ve spent some great times there since.
I’ll tell you my childhood moment in the sun.
My parents split up when I was three. I went to live with my grandparents in Missouri. At eighteen, I returned to California to visit my dad. That summer they took us to the Rose Bowl for fireworks on the Fourth of July.
We walked into the stadium and were handed programs. On the program it heralded the fact the the Lone Ranger would be there riding Silver. He would be awarding a mini-bike, a pony, and a stereo or something, to people who entered the drawing. The programs had the entry blank on them, and folks were tossing those in the trash.
My dad and step-mom, my two half brothers and a half sister went on up to the stands. I ran around grabbing programs and filling in the entry blanks. I wanted that mini-bike so bad I could taste it.
Well I filled out about 102 entries, stuffed them in the entry bins and took my seat.
I’m thinking this will be a very cool thing for my little brother to do, go down and see the Lone Ranger and Silver, if we should win. I put his name on the entry forms.
As luck would have it, out of about 90,000 people there that night, we did win. Mini-bike? No. We won the pony. My dad and my little brother went down to get the information on where to pick up the pony. My brother met the Lone Ranger, and saw Silver. And about thirty years later told me he didn’t even know who they were. LMAO I was he one who grew up knowing who they were. He didn’t. It meant nothing to him.
My dad had to scramble to find a place for the pony. The kids really loved the thing. I grew up on a farm. It didn’t interest me at all. About ten months to a year after we took delivery of the pony, it delivered a colt.
I had won two ponies. We had not idea when we took delivery.
I saw it straddling a few spaces in the parking lot of the Wyndham Hotel late one night. When I went out the next morning to see it in daylight it was gone:(
Back to the Alex, as a hint to how long it's been for me....we teenagers were still allowed to smoke in the balcony.
I don’t remember that specifically, but I do remember when there was smoking in there.
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