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Posted by Val on April 16th, 2010 at 1:33 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |
Here are a few photos of the Gemini Giant and Launching Pad restaurant from my first trip there back in 2007…
Site: Gemini Giant at the Launching Pad Restaurant
Location: 810 E Baltimore St, Wilmington, IL
Cost: Free to see. Lunch/dinner extra.
Hours: Always visible.
Date: July 13, 2007
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Posted by Val on April 16th, 2010 at 12:02 pm | Permalink | 1 Comment » |
The Gemini Giant is a 28-foot tall green space man who stands outside the Launching Pad restaurant in Wilmington, Illinois. In his hands he holds a giant 80foot rocket. He’s one of many muffler men spread throughout the United States.
Here are a few pics I took of him this past weekend. Stay tuned later today for some photos from my first trip there back in 2007.
Site: Gemini Giant at the Launching Pad Restaurant
Location: 810 E Baltimore St, Wilmington, IL
Cost: Free to see. Lunch/dinner extra.
Hours: Always visible.
Date: April 9, 2010
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Posted by Val on April 9th, 2010 at 12:41 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |
You’re in Milwaukee and walking down a nondescript alley.
You come across a plaque for an importer/exporter business.
It’s something you wouldn’t normally pay attention to, but for some reason you are drawn to check it out. So you open the door and peak inside.
A woman greets you and opens the red velvet rope to let you into a small waiting area. She asks you for the password.
No sure what to do you exchange glances with your companions.
“You don’t have a password?” she asks. No, no you don’t.
“Well then,” she says, “you’re going to have to work to get in.” At that point she tells you that you have to waddle like a penguin for thirty seconds. And you do. And after the thirty seconds is up a wall slides open to reveal a whole other room, and you step inside.
Where are you? Is this crazy place really and importer/exporter or something else?
Well, if you happen to happen upon the situation above, have no fear, you’ve made it to none other than Safe House.
Safe House is a secret refuge for spies engaging in covert operations…or, maybe a restaurant.
Like any restaurant you get to eat. I highly recommend Great Texas Cover-up Spyburger.
But unlike most restaurants, there is a spy theme at every turn! From real memorabilia to James Bond posters the place is packed on every inch with a spy-theme.
My favs included this sign on a bathroom stall…
And a little nook to look in that showed a video of you!
In order to get out you enter a little room with a payphone and feed it a quarter. The phone gives you a password to enter and once you have the wall opens and you are free to leave down a dark corridor.
But it’s always nice to know that if you’re on a super secret spy mission in Milwaukee, you have a place to be safe.
Site: Safe House
Location: 779 North Front Street, Milwaukee, WI
Hours: Lunch: Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. / Dinner: Monday through Saturday from 5 p.m. / Sunday Dining: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Date: April 3, 2010
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Posted by Val on June 19th, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |
Flopsy like the Guberburger so much that he ate the whole thing!
The Wheel Inn
2103 S Limit Ave
Sedalia, MO 65301
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Posted by Val on June 19th, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |
This is the reaction many people have to the famed burger served at The Wheel Inn in Sedalia, Missouri: EW!
Their burger, the Guberburger, is a beef patty on a white bun topped with lettuce, tomato, mayo…and…peanut butter. I have to admit I thought ew myself but not for the peanut butter, I was fine with that…but for the lettuce, as I adamantly hate lettuce, but I felt I should get it as they thought it should be served…and it was pretty darned delicious!
Since the 1940s The Wheel Inn had been pumping out burgers, unfortunately they were forced to close their doors in 2007 due to a highway expansion project. Luckily for everyone a former employee, Judy Clark, reopened the restaurant in a new location, and the guberburger lives on!
So while your first reaction might be “Ew” I beg you to stop in Sedalia for a hot peanut butter slabbed burger. It’s a taste sensation that definitely should not be missed.
The Wheel Inn
2103 S Limit Ave
Sedalia, MO 65301
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