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Story of the Tennessee Agricultural Museum
I love history and learning the story behind the story! Thanks to friend and tractor collector Buddy Woodson for the invite to the Spring-Crank Up 2024, antique tractor show. During our visit to the show, and Tennessee Agricultural Museum, Buddy gave me a tour of the grounds of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Since then, I have been diving deep, and learning about the history of this…
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1940 Night View Entrance to French Lick Springs Hotel Indiana IN Postcard
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How West Baden Springs Hotel Played into Basketball Shape for Larry Bird's Camp
French Lick Springs Hotel
French Lick, Indiana
1940s hotel
When a Game of Streetball made bitter rivals friends
Their rivalry began at the NCAA
With Magic getting the lead in championship wins (1979 NCAA Final and 1980 NBA Finals), Bird thanks to his very competitive nature developed a professional animosity towards Magic which he displayed whenever he crossed paths with him
Even the pregame greetings were ignored by Bird which made matters reach a point of no return
The Streetball Game
@converse had designed shoes for these two and they wanted to create a TVC for launching the new range of basketball sneakers called The Weapon. Bird’s shoe was dark green and white while Magic’s shoe having Lakers colors of yellow, purple and white
Bird, giving into his ego, wanted the Ad to be shot in French Lick, Indiana instead of Los Angeles. Both Converse and Magic agreed to it and when the time came for the shoot, both players were asked to shoot some hoops minus the aggression.
At that moment, something happened to both players as soon as they realized that they were supposed to display a casual style of play that would serve as the feel good factor for the Ad. They felt that the weight of competitive aggression they were carrying, had just been lifted
Thus Bird and Magic played streetball with each other that day while Converse kept on rolling the cameras and during breaks, both players would talk with each other about the things that were common between them. Family life, school, college life; things that affected them as human beings, as Americans, as pro Basketball players
Bird invited Magic to his home for lunch where his mom would cook speacial meals that would make Magic feel at home during his stay in Indiana
This was the time when they bonded, as friends and this relationship lasts to this day
It’s amazing what a game of streetball can do to you
wunderbar Wednesday!
Not to be confused with THE Wunderbar in Covington KY but a trip to a German restaurant for sure. Today will be my first visit back to the German Cafe in French Lick since...my last visit (obviously)...two years ago? Inconceivable!
Well 2020 was an even year after all and any competent reading of entrails would warn the reader it's inauspicious to eat in a German restaurant operated by Germans in a town named French Lick in Orange County, Indiana in an even year. Muendo Merde!
Why is there a town in Indiana called French Lick? Asking for a friend.