Word: choo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thematic restaurateurs. In Chattanooga, Tenn., for example, when Motel Operator Allen Casey heard that the Southern Railway terminal was about to be razed, he put together $2.4 million to buy the gracious old building, which boasts one of the highest freestanding domes (85 ft.) in the world. The Chattanooga Choo Choo, as it is now called, has 2,000 seats and food that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination that determines their choice of entree: New Orleans...
...ever got was the view from my Aunt Elida's window. She lived off 145th in Harlem, and if you hung far enough out the window, you could see the Polo Grounds. I had to hang out to my knees, but I knew the team anyway. Kranepool, Ron Hunt, Choo Choo Coleman, Hot Rod Kanehl, Roger Craig, A1 Jackson, Jim Hickman--this is a litany from somebody who never seemed to collect baseball cards. With Stengel in the dugout, these simple nobodies became a dangerous crowd of misfits. It was an easy charm. For these were lean years...