The Steak And Shake over by Wally World was decommissoned and closed
by the powers to be. Not that I used to go eat there, in fact I think I
ate there about three times in the ten years it was there. Steak And
Shake had some great places over in Galesburg to which we would stop
before going to Grandma's in Lincoln. But I never cared much for those
shoestring french fries that they had.
Time has flown by. It was five years ago that Mi Casa in Mount
Vernon closed their doors. They were the best Mexican place in the area
and unfortly, the location didn't suit them very well. They were
across the tracks on highway one. and they actually knew me by name.
But for almost four and half years, Mi Casa managed to bring out the
masses with great burritos, chimachungas and had they stayed in
business, I'd be weighing three hundred pounds. An old classmate of
mine, Jenny Palmer used to bring her family down there to eat. Their
food was so great that a engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad stopped
his train and placed an order before going down the line. Today, Mi
Casa's building was torn down and is now a storage place, but once upon a
time for the best Mexican food, Mi Casa was second to none.
The Kum And Go on C Ave/Bowling Street was torn down and the first
avenue Dairy Queen to which made the headlines as the Cedar River
shallowed it up during the forty days and nights rains and thirty one
foot floods, also will not reopened, two more businesses done in by the
Epic Surge of 2008.
As of this writing The Cedar and Wapsipinicon Rivers which turned
everything into oceans and lakes are now around four feet deep. In
fact, you can probaly walk across the Wapsi at Matsell's. Hard to
believe that three months ago, the river was raging but seems to be
drying up. But I suspect come springtime, we'll have enough rains to
get them back up to normal levels.
