Posts filed under ‘Time Travel’
In The Weeds, 10/6/12: Neon Cowboys and Pink Ladies
The Denton Courthouse on the Square will host a photography exhibition of the work of local historian and former city councilmember Mike Cochran entitled “Neon Cowboys and Pink Ladies” from Oct 16th to December 31th. This is a collection of photographs of neon signs in the Southwest in the 1970′s. I’m anxious to see this because I have an “old sign” fetish myself and find it nearly impossible to pass one wherever I see one without taking a picture.
Neon Cochran
Along those lines, we have the following titles at the Denton Public Library that might whet the appetite:
Time traveling with the Ju-Cy Pig.
Someone recently gave the Special Collections Department at the Emily Fowler Library two menus from Burch’s Ju-Cy Pig Restaurant dated1966. The menus sport two different covers, but their insides are the same. Victor Cornelius, Inc., a company out of Eastland, Texas printed them.
Anyway, a couple of the staff perused the menus and wondered just what the difference was between a Chocolate Milk “400″ and “800″ were. One of us thought it referred to size, but the others were hoping that it referred to more of a “kick.” I sure hope so.
Then I mused: what if we got an old telephone and plugged it in and dialed the number? Would we get the Ju-Cy Pig? And if we ordered a milk shake over the phone and asked if they could deliver, would somebody show up? And if they did, would it only work if we had pre-1966 money?
Can you tell I’ve recently read Stephen King’s, 11/22/63?
-Leslie
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