Road trip memories blend families during Minnesota travels
Cathy Hamilton recalls a road trip with her family across Minnesota, detailing quirky in-car rituals and changing comforts from iPods to whiskey with Coke and Texas Hold Em. The piece mixes nostalgia with playful anecdotes about kids, meals, games, weather, and a late night arrival into Missouri, ending with self deprecating humor from the host of Home & Away.
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Missouri
Nixon
Lincoln
Texas
Minnesota
Kansas soda fountains keep small towns connected
In Ottawa and across Kansas soda fountains remain local gathering spots with Corner Pharmacy in Leavenworth and other towns preserving a 1960s era fountain culture. Veterans like Vera Mann toured the state tasting drinks while locals recall decades of coffee, talk, and small town camaraderie beyond shopping malls and desegregation.
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Leavenworth
America
Booth
Grace Freeman
Freeman
Vallejo
Calif
Kansas
Vera Mann
Hutchinson
Green River
Heritage Corner
Bird City
Kansas-Colorado
Mann
Fraese Drug
Soda Shoppe & Deli
Hays
Hallmark
Anne Funderburg
New Orleans
South
Funderburg
Ottawa
The
Explorers Club
Allegre Pharmacy
Kramer
Jim Grogan
Main Street
Clay Center
Grogan
Kramer Drug Store
Linda Goyer
Goyer
Lee Shelden
Shelden
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Cathy Hamilton
Sunflower Broadband
Lawrence
Main Street America
Ron Booth
Laura Berger
Starbucks
Terry Rombeck
Mike Yoder
Journal-World Photo
S. Main St
Soda Fountains
Holton
Roger Varie
Atchison Ball Brothers
Reynolds
Kansas City
Abilene
Ove
Loosa
Topeka
Otwin Dru
Lington Nson
Pharmac
Osage CI
Jleavenworth
Jgardner
Gardner Pharmacy
Wellsville D
Karl Gehring
Journal-World Graphic
Lawrence Therapy Services
Chamber of Commerce
Harvard Road
Suite 101
Iowa
Lawrence Ther
Kawasaki
Foo Prairie
Ake
Kaw Valley
E. 23Rd
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