During this holiday season we’ve on the lookout for a Main Street that works for you – a Main Street that is inviting, that makes you feel good, and that provides you convenient access to the goods and services you need – in a way that fosters a sense of community and a sense of place .
In this conversation, we speak with Elizabeth Muse from A Day’s Outing about Christmas Season visits to downtown areas of small towns….. like Stanton, VA , Ashville, NC, Charleston SC.
Access to this podcast is available @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=334
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Podcast: Lincoln Highway the Way It Was: Tiny stretch of bricks keeps Omaha suburb alive
Folks doing business in historic downtown Elkhorn know that they are in the midst of a much larger city, having been annexed by the City of Omaha a couple years ago. But they still have their brick streets in the mingle of quaint restaurants and shops as well as one of the most pristine remnants of the old Lincoln Highway – in the original brick and narrow lanes. It has sparked a neighborhood revival.
Leona Anderson of Little Scandinavia from Elkhorn joins us to talk about it in this “Journey into Nebraska”.
You can access this podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=291
Leona Anderson of Little Scandinavia from Elkhorn joins us to talk about it in this “Journey into Nebraska”.
You can access this podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=291
Podcast: How a Texas Business Became a Destination: A Nursery, Tea Room & The World’s Largest Teapot
Located on Hwy 6 in Navasota, 15 minutes south of Bryan-College Station and just an hours drive from Houston, Martha’s Bloomers opened in 2000 as a Home and Garden store and has grown into a dining experience and all-day shopping destination.
We speak with Sturat Thompson, founder of Martha’s Bloomers about how he started this business and how it has evolved over the years. We were especially interested in the World’s Largest Teapot, which came as an outgrowth of a tea room he installed to go along with the garden shop.
It also has one of the largest green houses in the area filled with lush tropical plants.
In addtion, there is a pottery house , which was originally a 90 year old, barn-type treasure, was spared from demolition and moved from its original location in Brenham to Navasota. The pottery house is overflowing with glazed and terra cotta pottery from around the world.
It’s a unique success story that we are happy to share with you.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=253
We speak with Sturat Thompson, founder of Martha’s Bloomers about how he started this business and how it has evolved over the years. We were especially interested in the World’s Largest Teapot, which came as an outgrowth of a tea room he installed to go along with the garden shop.
It also has one of the largest green houses in the area filled with lush tropical plants.
In addtion, there is a pottery house , which was originally a 90 year old, barn-type treasure, was spared from demolition and moved from its original location in Brenham to Navasota. The pottery house is overflowing with glazed and terra cotta pottery from around the world.
It’s a unique success story that we are happy to share with you.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=253
Podcast: Orphan Motor Company: Nebraska’s last Packard Dealership gets new life
Bob Cox lives on a sprawling ranch in the Nebraska Panhandle. He sells ag real estate and insurance. He collects old cars, cars that are now orphans. Packards, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles. He also restores and sells a few, prefers to drive old Mopars like his rare 1963 Chrysler 300H and a 1965 Barracuda. A year ago he bought and restored the state’s last surviving Packard dealership in Scottsbluff. The dealer went out of business shortly after the last Packard rolled off the assembly line in Indiana. Today there’s a 1946 Packard in the showroom again, reminiscent of the one that his folks brought him home in from the hospital.
In this “Journey into Nebraska”, we speak with Bob Cox about the Orphan Motor Company, and just what it has meant to him, others and the community.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=258
In this “Journey into Nebraska”, we speak with Bob Cox about the Orphan Motor Company, and just what it has meant to him, others and the community.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=258
Podcast: A Triple XXX Family Restaurant
It’s not what it sounds like.
The Triple XXX Restaurant in Lafayette, Indiana is not only a family-friendly place, it has been revered by adults and kids alike for generations.
Based on a famous line of root beer, it is now serving up a new generation its classic cuisine and atmosphere.
Owner Craig Ehresman explains some what continues to make the Triple XXX so meaningful and make it a place to go.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=267
The Triple XXX Restaurant in Lafayette, Indiana is not only a family-friendly place, it has been revered by adults and kids alike for generations.
Based on a famous line of root beer, it is now serving up a new generation its classic cuisine and atmosphere.
Owner Craig Ehresman explains some what continues to make the Triple XXX so meaningful and make it a place to go.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=267
Podcast: In Pursuit of Elusive American Landscapes
Vanishing America, In Search of Our Elusive Landcapes – Counterpoint (October 1, 2008), author James Conaway has written a mixture of travelogue and personal narrative. Conaway’s essays offer a depiction of his journeys between Washington, D.C., and Big Sur, California. In it he tries to understand what has become of the places, people, and traditions that were once so precious but have now been irreparably changed.
In this conversation, we speak with James Conaway of his pursuit, what he saw in various places and taken together what it might all mean.
You can access this podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=238
In this conversation, we speak with James Conaway of his pursuit, what he saw in various places and taken together what it might all mean.
You can access this podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=238
Podcast: Where They throw Rolls at Those Dining
Lambert’s Cafe is known as “Home of the Throwed Rolls”. Though it is distinguished from other restaurants by its policy of providing large 32 oz.. drinks, a list of side items that are passed around to all customers, and free refills on nearly all entrees, it is most famous for throwing their homemade dinner rolls to the customers.
We speak with Jerry Johnson from Sikeston, Missouri about the roll-throwing tradition, and how Lamberts has pleased customers from its early days on Main Street in Sikeston until today – where Lamberts touts three locations (Ozark, Missouri and Foley, Alabama) and brings loyal customers from far away.
For more on Lambert’s Cafe: http://www.throwedrolls.com/
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=202
We speak with Jerry Johnson from Sikeston, Missouri about the roll-throwing tradition, and how Lamberts has pleased customers from its early days on Main Street in Sikeston until today – where Lamberts touts three locations (Ozark, Missouri and Foley, Alabama) and brings loyal customers from far away.
For more on Lambert’s Cafe: http://www.throwedrolls.com/
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=202
Podcast: The Nebraska Town Where Glenn Miller Honed His Skills
Andela Taylor joins us in this “Journey into Nebraska”. Andela is the economic developer in Cambridge, Nebraska - a south central Nebraska community that lies along Highways 6 and 34, the old DLD [Detroit-Lincoln-Denver] Highway.
She and her mother, B-n-B owner Gloria Hilton, have been at the forefront of a local effort to celebrate the big band music of Glenn Miller, who played with the Tommy Watkins [he was a Cambridge native] Orchestra in the second floor ballroom downtown known as Thorndike Hall.
The ballroom is listed as one of Heritage Nebraska’s Fading Places and a move is afoot to restore the space. Watkins was credited with finding the young aspiring musician [Miller] in Denver and helping him hone his skills in a Nebraska community.
Miller later moved on to California and started his own band.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=197
She and her mother, B-n-B owner Gloria Hilton, have been at the forefront of a local effort to celebrate the big band music of Glenn Miller, who played with the Tommy Watkins [he was a Cambridge native] Orchestra in the second floor ballroom downtown known as Thorndike Hall.
The ballroom is listed as one of Heritage Nebraska’s Fading Places and a move is afoot to restore the space. Watkins was credited with finding the young aspiring musician [Miller] in Denver and helping him hone his skills in a Nebraska community.
Miller later moved on to California and started his own band.
You can access the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=197
Podcast: The Worlds’ Only Lifesize Chocolate Moose
Home-made chocoalte is a New England tradition in places like Route 1 in Scarborough, Maine.
Len Libby has been a regional fixture since the 1920’s. But since 1997, Len Libby has become a destination ofr something else as well.
There, at their retail store, one can have the experience of coming across
Lenny, the World’s Only Life-size Chocolate Moose, all 1700 pounds of him in chocolate.
We speak Maureen Hemond from Len Libby about Lenny and other Len Libby traditions.
For more: http://www.lenlibby.com/
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=196
Len Libby has been a regional fixture since the 1920’s. But since 1997, Len Libby has become a destination ofr something else as well.
There, at their retail store, one can have the experience of coming across
Lenny, the World’s Only Life-size Chocolate Moose, all 1700 pounds of him in chocolate.
We speak Maureen Hemond from Len Libby about Lenny and other Len Libby traditions.
For more: http://www.lenlibby.com/
You can hear the podcast @ http://conversationsontheroad.podbus.com/?p=196
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