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That looks like Southern Cooking, Chicken Fried Steak, mashed taters ‘n gravy, corn and a dinner roll w/Land O Lakes butter. Where’s the cornbread and fried okra? Must be ‘some city’, N.C.
Who’s Art Stone?
He’s related to Carmen Sandiego, and possibly John Galt.
Here he is.. a recent photo:
http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/06/91096,xcitefun-selection-117-17.jpg
It is not where “is” Art Stone, it is where “was” Art Stone at 2013:09:17 16:11:34? He was 35.67166 degrees above the equator and 79.83466 degrees west of Greenwich England.
The first photo was later at 2013:09:17 18:08:05 and the third photo was at 2013:09:17 16:19:08
Opps. missed 4th photo shot earliest at 2013:09:17 15:00:09…. John Titor has it in Reverse gear. 😉
I added the 4th photo after the fact as it has a few more clues. The K&W cafeteria in the pictures is about 40 miles from the big city pictures
I’ve been to Asheboro but not recently – its claim to fame is it’s the home of the North Carolina zoo which was built in the 1970s. At least when it was built, it was pretty unique – it has a lot of land and not convenient to a big city. NC’s climate is close enough to subsaharan Africa that animals like that can live outdoors and have a pretty wide range – however they don’t let the lions eat the gazelles
When I visited the zoo years ago I was told that Asheboro was selected not just for the abundance of open land (the NC zoo is a ‘natural habitat’ zoo with lots of space for critters to roam), but also because it is roughly the geographic center of NC.
Advice to anyone visiting the NC zoo — bring your walking shoes — every exhibit is a decent hike apart.
The zoo is currently in mourning – in the same week, they “lost” a polar bear and a gorilla. Polar bears are big in subsaharan Africa
Hmmmm……..Polar Bears are as big in the sub-Saharan Deseret as are Narwhales.
If a polar bear could survive a day in NC heat, then it seems unlikely global warming will kill them.
I see NC is hot and heavy now into “water management” – creating rules about when you can use water. Since this summer was 28″ above average rainfall, that might slow their plans a bit, but this is how it starts.
More government employees needed when there are more rules – that is the end game.
If there is not enough water raise the price to both slow demand and if necessary (it won’t be necessary for NC) build desalination plants.
Worst case, do what most governments already for for electricity – have one rate for the minimum people need, and a higher rate for people that watch use too many electronics or electric heat/AC.
That sounds very plausible.
Goggle the lat/long and zoom in on the map. 😉
Opps – in order to beat Nidster and Parrott and win all the StreamingRadioGuide points for myself so I could send my first born to college, I picked the opposite side of the building….. wanted to give everyone a chance, yeah, that’s the ticket. 😉
whoops, I hadn’t seen your post CC ! dam, sorry about that.
parrott
Definitely south of the Mason-Dixon line. K&W Cafeterias are a small chain with locations mostly in N.C. and some in Virginia. Looking at the skyline, we can probably eliminate Norfolk, VA. Winston-Salem maybe?
If Washington DC can be browbeaten into dropping the name redskins, how can we possibly still allow a city to be named after 2 brands of cigarettes??? Just think of the PTSD effects on the children when they realize the truth that they were exposed to second hand smoking names!
Last time I was in Winston Salem I don’t remember any skyscrapers. Greensboro would be a better wrong guess
Maybe they should update “Winston-Salem” to “Windows-Settings”?
Hey Art: Winston Tower was there wasn’t it ?
Its pretty old isn’t it ? I will have to look
parrott
There do seem to be some tall buildings now in W/S
I heard a rumor the city is going to be renamed iOS7
That would be Interstate 677 for you old schoolers. 😉
He’s in Charlotte/ Mecklenburg county area,
I think I-85
Parrott
Here’s what threw me off – this photo via John Titor
http://www.heartofnorthcarolina.com/uploads/organizations/2240-KandW-WS.jpg
It looks like Art’s photo, but from somewhere back in time with the trees smaller. The site focuses on Randolph County, and a quick goggle query of the K & W web site locations shows that the location I had picked was the only one in Randolph County.
Google street seems to show Art’s trees on the opposite side of the building than I had originally selected. I did my original lat/long post without checking google street.
Art – Pls take another photo with your Apple camera but this time, change the setting to turn on the GPS tagging. 😉
Well, I created confusion – the K&W is about 40 miles from the big city pictures. It’s a bit blurred, but you might be able to make out “John Belk Freeway”.
I wonder if the K&W is in Statesville ?
God , my parents visit the K & W in Myrtle Beach when they go there !
parrott
Is that a good God or an OMG!?
I was at the K&W in Statesville on my last trip to NC about 5 years ago and have fond memories
If that’s a K&W you’re probably on the john right about now.
It’s interesting – I went to the one in Matthews and while I didn’t get sick, it wasn’t all that good and not what I remembered. The one in the pictures is in Salisbury was exactly what I remembered and I enjoyed it a lot, and had a long conversation with a woman I just randomly met in the parking lot. Stay tuned 😉
I’ve made an offer for a condo in Charlotte, but it has enough “issues” it may not close. We’ll see. A lot of people in Charlotte want to live in Charlotte, but not in North Carolina – I’m pretty much the opposite. We’ll see how it goes 😉
If you make it to a neighboring state (TN, SC, VA), be sure to try
http://www.piccadilly.com/locations
They include what is left of Morrison’s in FLA.
We used to go to Morrison’s when we travelled. I knew that Picadilly had acquired Morrison’s – it’s a tough business.
One of my othe memories as a child was my mom wanting me to experience an Automat in Philadelphia. It’s another concept that came and went.
And who can forget Woolworth’s?
Neither the Brits not the Ozzies:
http://www.woolworths.co.uk/
http://www.woolworths.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/webSite/Woolworths/
About 10 years ago, after y2k, I had to replace a light bulb that had burned out in a lamp. O was surprised to see that the logo on the bulb said “W. T. Grants”… I got my money’s worth.
But do they have lunch counters?
The Australia chain has no connection to the original other than Woolworth’s failed to trademark their name in .au
The British closed their brick and mortar in 2009 if Wikipedia is factual.
I’m just not seeing those two big bushes from your photograph in the google street view…
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=35.088675,-80.865605&cbp=13,285.9,0,0,0&cbll=35.088609,-80.865321&q=8652+Pineville-Matthews,+charlotte,+nc&ei=OAQ7Up6kNPHd4APuuoCADg&ved=0CC0QxB0wAA
Try looking in Salisbury, Mr Stalker 😉
Follow I85 north from Charlotte and look on the NW side of town.
I had been looking here… Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fF8wU4Nl9Y
I am a competitive participant, until I see the green of the bushes, I am going to appeal to the judges and contest your Salisbury answer. lol
Stay out the bushes!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hbSz-MuDLLw/UStBEa3MeoI/AAAAAAAAB0k/pQ7hs3C_Jf4/w800-h800/obamabush-e1360169494293.jpg
Eek. Brain overload.
Have you thought about Rock Hill, SC, Art ?
Parrott
I interviewed for a job at newspaper there when I graduated from college (or was it Fort Mill?)
They wanted a computer guy who could do accounting, but also gave me a typing test back when I was around 60 WPM. They kept stringing me along and never made an offer – I’m pretty sure I flunked the What is your Religion? test
The sellers accepted my offer yesterday – we will close as soon as the lawyer does the title work.
What this means to you is another multiple day outage in about a month as the PCs bounce around in my trunk for the 15 hour drive.
I still <3 Chicago, just now I have family close by. Eventually I'll get them eating Liver Mush sandwiches and grits washed down with Cheerwine.
LOL !
Not being at all familiar with NC, I have no idea where you are.
But…can we talk about that heart attack on a plate meal?????
I’ll start. Let’s see who can correctly identify the items in the third photo from this list:
http://calorielab.com/restaurants/k-and-w-cafeterias/221
I used to eat all sorts of fatty foods as a kid, and I still try to get more of what we had in the ‘old days’. I remember my parents broiling prime sirloin steak ringed with at least 3/4″ of fat on it and loving the taste of the fat. Problem is, if you become ‘sedentary’, as in not that active, then eating fatty foods becomes too many calories for your system too handle.
Just imagine you wanted to hike the Lake Country, just north of Yellowstone National Park, you would need about 5,000 calories per day in order to keep up your strength to hike 20 miles per day.
Now, try consuming that many calories being a “keyboard jockey’ and you will balloon up to quite a large person is very short order, and trying to shed the weight gain is difficult and next to impossible.
In the old days when folks worked up a sweat, not in a gym but in the normal course of day-to-day life, heart attacks were uncommon in the South, even when consuming high calorie meals.
Southern Cooking has a place in my diet, but only when my physical exertion is well above the normal ‘keyboard jockey’ lifestyle.
I have a long time friend a few hundred miles from here that has been obese for decades. I last saw him last year and he had slimmed down considerably.
I asked him how he did it and he said that every day for lunch, he eats one of those pre-made salads sold in plastic bags in supermarkets for $3-5.
He told me the first week was pure hell- absolute torture. The second and third week weren’t so bad. And by the end of the month he was actually looking forward to eating it for lunch.
Much of what we do can be summed up in one word : HABIT.
Since the lower your BMI, the higher your risk for stroke and heart attack – does he know those salads are killing him?
Nidster’s summation was spot on.
Thanks to CC1s121LrBGT for the menu, I’m guessing that is Country Fried Steak with onion gravy (logging in at nearly 600 calories)…then add the mashed potato, gravy and rolls…it looks to be about an 1800 calorie meal.
Since I try to be fair and balanced, here’s the other side of the coin:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html
Lunch yesterday was the 12 oz chopped steak at the Carolina Prime Steak House, smothered in gravy, onions and mushrooms. I have a picture, too.
Awesome !
Maybe I’ll see you out and about in South Park, Art !
One time several years back my wife wanted to do some Christmas shopping and we went down to South Park one weekend and stayed at the Doubletree on site. Once !
It was past its prime, the room was ok but the lock was off the door, the latch had been broken. So I propped a chair under the door knob. Luckily NC has reciprocity with Virginia so I wasn’t too worried.
So now we call Doubletree, ‘Dirtytree’
You will have to drive up to Statesville and take a pic of the Alexander RR, shortline. I think they still run a Alco or two and a older EMD SW.
have a good one
parrott
Already drove up to Statesville but didn’t think to check that out. It was there back when I left in 1980 – my guess is car volume is down unless someone is fracking in Taylorsville (no connection to Andy Taylor)
I left Charlotte in 1981 – at the time, South Park (who killed Kenny?) had been there a couple years, and Eastland was the brand new mall. Eastland is now owned by the city and closed and probably going to be torn down.
Made it to the Carolina Mall over toward Pineville. It was alive but not overly busy. Went up to Huntersville last night to meet someone I know. I think if a hunter showed up there, 911 would be called in about 20 seconds.
“Freedom Mall” is also dead and gone. I have a clear memory of being in that parking lot the day before the Hunt Brothers silver bubble burst and people buying silver in the parking lot at $40 an ounce ’cause it had to keep goin’ up, ya know?
As near as I kin figure, it is now taken over by the welfare people to hand out dem Obamabucks
Might have been Goober buying silver @40 to invest the Mayberry municipal retirement fund.