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Small Town Restaurants and Entertainment

Let’s start with NOW. I assume that there’s plenty of food and entertainment within 10 miles of the smallest town. Let’s highlight these establishments, not by sterile business listings but what they mean to their patrons and to the citizens of the town.

Now let’s go back in time and find out what we did for entertainment 20, 40 and 60 years ago … and of course … once discovered … find pictures.

Town events will also fill this section. Histories of such events will probably lead us to earlier events.

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08-16-2012
1890’s Small Town Entertainment: Buy an Instrument and Join a Band.
by Myrta Grace Paugh and Others.
CONTAINS: What did we do before electricity? Our authors give us an amusing look at bands … “members were able to make some kind of noise.”

04-10-2012
Larry Paden, Much More than a Banjo Picker from Tuscola, Illinois
by Stu Moment
CONTAINS: Enjoyable background & sound clips of a young [Bluegrass] musician’s styles and instruments.

02-09-2012
Make Tracks to Danville Illinois’ Gross’ Burgers … a Diner with a Unique Atmosphere
by Stu Moment

08-12-2011
Sidney Saloon: Adding to the Social Atmosphere of Sidney Illinois
by Stu Moment