Buckles Blog: "Big Burma"

Friday, July 27, 2012

My dad and Spencer were co-owners of "Burma" at this point but she somehow managed to get swallowed by Jake and Jack Mills in 1942.

Chic Silber said...: Now that's what I'd call a big gulp

(forget Bloomberg's 32oz drinks); 27 July, 2012 11:06
Ole Whitey said...: Chic: That's nothing. Ben Wallace once swallowed a boxcar.

Before computers, railroads frequently didn't know where all their cars were and sometimes they'd be left on some siding for weeks.

One such orphan car was sitting next to where the Great Wallace train unloaded and during the day it was magically painted to match the show train. The patch worked out a deal with the train crew and the show train left town a car longer.

They say that by the time they got back to quarters they had a car load of T-rail and the Elk statue which can be seen today in front of the club in Pee-roo.

At least that's the way it was told me, albeit not by Moses.; 28 July, 2012 18:48
Chic Silber said...: Any word Whitey on which Elk's Club

lost their statue; 29 July, 2012 13:31

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