Word: bergh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't think a restaurant would go when it first started," Daryl Bergh said and then dug into his eggs. "They started in that old one, the Havana Cafe. The building was falling apart. There was nothing left of it. You had to < shim up the table to keep your coffee cup from sliding...
...mayor, Orville Bergh, Daryl's father, came in and took no credit, saying, "They got all this organized while I was up in Milwaukee. Not bad for a little jerkwater town like this." Mayor for six years, he said he had been mayor for too long. "They complain about everything." He is paid $15 every time the town council meets. His Norwegian father was born in a sod shanty in 1883. His proudest bureaucratic achievement is a $6,000, 500-ft. concrete sidewalk that runs alongside Main Street, which is dirt. "That boy is mine too," said the mayor, pointing...
...table, David Bergh was explaining, "A 90 mile-an-hour fastball takes .44 seconds to reach home plate...
...just an old retired town," he went on, "but we do have some kids. I mean you got your Berghs at that big table back there in the cafe; their reproductive rate is quite something." Back in the restaurant, a no-nonsense 32-ft. by 56-ft. steel building, David Bergh was saying, "The only good Republican is a dead Republican...