Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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By day, he's a waterworks operator for a rural township water authority. By night, he manages Twirly Top, a popular local drive-in restaurant.
Now one of his passions is maintaining Twirly Top--a summer-months-only restaurant that was built in the mid-1950s.
Four years ago, when Sedell's parents wanted to sell the restaurant, Thorpe and Sedell decided to buy it. Now, after finishing the day at the water authority, Thorpe heads over to Twirly Top. He's there six nights a week.
"If you are in a restaurant even if they have Pepsi, you ask for Coke. You associate that with being the product. When you associate with it being top hires, you just think Harvard," he says.
I am riding the buzz. It is a buzz I built, albeit by accident. The buzz started last month, when I got a random call from Jed Weitzman, an ambitious 28-year-old manager at Brillstein-Grey. He told me that he really related to the pop references in my...