Tag Archives: Jokes

KENREX Album Available on Amazon

Music by John Patrick Elliott from the London Production of KENREX about Ken Rex McElory is available on Amazon Music (you can also listen to it online)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on KENREX Album Available on Amazon

Proposed $4 Billion White Cloud Acres AI Data Center in Rural Barnard

A proposal by Scale Microgrids to open the White Cloud Acres $4 billion AI data center that is expected to use 600 megawatts of electricity from what sounds to be another natural gas generating station, and would be across Highway … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Proposed $4 Billion White Cloud Acres AI Data Center in Rural Barnard

Fraternities Throw 1971 Tower Yearbooks into the Fine Arts Building Fountain After Book Snubs Frats and Does Spread on Hole in the Wall Bar

In 1971, Northwest fraternity members threw Tower Yearbooks in the fountain at the Fine Arts Building after the yearbook for the first time in college history snubbed any special section about fraternities and instead posted a double-page spread about Palms … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Fraternities Throw 1971 Tower Yearbooks into the Fine Arts Building Fountain After Book Snubs Frats and Does Spread on Hole in the Wall Bar

Allison Fisher Flies Planes Solo and Owns a Cessna in High School in Preparation for a Colorful Aviation Career

Allison Fisher and Gordon Miller, queen and king of the French Club Mardi Gras, AI colorized/enhanced from the 1970 Maryville, Missouri, High School Maryvillian Yearbook. Allison Fisher was flying solo in planes and co-owned a Cessna during her junior year … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Allison Fisher Flies Planes Solo and Owns a Cessna in High School in Preparation for a Colorful Aviation Career

Maurice Chick’s 1953 Escapade That Landed the Original Spoofhound in the Nodaway Valley Bank Vault

Here’s an amazing 1953 story about Morris Chick, one of the players scolded by L.E. Zieger in 1921 as “a bunch of Spoofhounds,” who wound up with one of the plaster casts of a Spoofhound that was sold during the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Maurice Chick’s 1953 Escapade That Landed the Original Spoofhound in the Nodaway Valley Bank Vault

Nat Towles and His Orchestra Arrive in Style Direct from Chicago Savoy Ballroom to Club 71 in Pumpkin Center

Club 71, from a DX gas station in Pumpkin Center, had to be one of the most exciting and eclectic music roadhouses anywhere.  It could be hosting square dances and fox hunt dances, and, seemingly most out of place, the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Nat Towles and His Orchestra Arrive in Style Direct from Chicago Savoy Ballroom to Club 71 in Pumpkin Center

71 Club – Pumpkin Center (1938-1941)

The backstory of the 71 Club in Pumpkin Center is probably the most interesting of many interesting stories about nightclubs in Nodaway County.  The Club ran from 1938 to 1941 and was in a DX Filling Station.  The club offered … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on 71 Club – Pumpkin Center (1938-1941)

Containered H2O

I have never heard bottled water called “Containered H2O,” but this map says the phrase is an Upper Midwest term, including Atchison County north to South Dakota and the Kansas City metro.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Containered H2O

Scenes and Background from KENREX NYC Production

Facebook Discussion

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Scenes and Background from KENREX NYC Production

Daisy & Queen College Farm Mules Who Built Martindale Gymnasium 1926

The original 200-acre college farm (on the northwest side of the campus, mostly south of the Wabash tracks in the high-rise dormitory area). This farm was part of the original massive Faustiana Farm, which stretched around the college on the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Daisy & Queen College Farm Mules Who Built Martindale Gymnasium 1926