Good news: Wife and I now own 1/3 of the family businesses at the Wisco State Fair -- Derynda's Dairy Lane, Adeline's snack bar, and the beloved Corn Shack (no official name, but that is what we call it) Bad news: had to spend a week helping set up for the Fair. Real vacation right there. Good news: I have a real job, so I get to leave today. Fair starts tomorrow. Bad news: I can now NEVER retire. If I do I'll have to work the Fair. So I gotta design boats til I'm 90. Good news: if you're a board supporter going to the Fair, I might be able to hook you up with a free ear of roasted corn -- best at the Fair. (Or even more if your name rhymes with "Wim Jeisse.")
Dairy Lane is kinda slow -- we sell the wrong products. Baked potatoes? barbecue beef samich? Malts? soft serve?Low demand. Good, but low demand. Better ice cream is inside the cream puff building at our friend's ice cream stand, but I think our malts and shakes are good. The roasted corn at the corn shack is our big seller. Uncle goes out to local corn fields and samples raw corn off the stalks. Says if it is good raw, its great cooked. Buys the stuff that tastes the best. Father in law is the only one who escaped Wisco to sunny FL. Visited St. Pete during a cold cold Wisco February 50 years ago -- when he arrived his friend was washing his car shirtless. Turned to his wife and said "We're moving." Long drive every year, but nice family reunion. Kids and cousins love it.
The Wisconsin State Fair has been a big deal for decades. In 1955 our Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing Stratocruiser made a special stop in Milwaukee because of the state fair. We then went on to Minneapolis. The plane went on to Singapore. This was a hell of a long flight in propliner days. The world had not gone nuts in those days, the cockpit door was open and the pilot walked back through the cabin and gave each child a chance to visit the flight deck. I was in the cockpit for about 10 minutes. It was then that I decided that someday I would be a pilot. It's sad that the kids of today will never have the same experience.
My daughter have been invited into the cockpit within the last 5 years on flights departing Seattle! It's not what it used to be, that's true. but Northwest/Delta (see what I did there?) is still pretty cute with the kids (ie Wings and all).
https://www.cbs58.com/news/as-long-...returns-to-wisconsin-state-fair-for-66th-year. Uncle Ted at first, then my wife holding a pic and yakking, then my middle daughter dipping corndogs. Good times. Corn dogs -- Mraughruaghraughraugh.
