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Waving Hands Make Magic: The Music, Restaurants and Unique Career of Bud Averill

By: Jordan Smith November 20, 2018November 20, 2018

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Sometimes I come across a piece of ephemera from my collection that sends me down countless wormholes and side stories that I seem to lose all track of time and place. Such is the case with Bud Averill’s Airport. The restaurant was the second Bud Averill restaurant at the same location. The first establishment, known…

Idaho Skunks Are Not To Be Sniffed At: The Roadside Signs of Fearless Farris’ Stinker Stations

By: Jordan Smith August 3, 2018August 3, 2018

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“Fearless” Farris Lind had an eye for adventure. Born in 1915 outside of Twin Falls, Idaho, he graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1934. Shortly thereafter he worked as an attendant at a local gas station and then became manage of a small theater. Not too long after, Lind received a “Spanish Prisoner Letter”…

Coon Chicken Inn

By: Jordan Smith December 7, 2016October 19, 2016

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One of the West’s most infamous restaurants

Snelgrove Ice Cream Co. – Salt Lake City, Utah

By: Jordan Smith November 14, 2016November 15, 2016

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Originally located at 1055 East 21st South and 2100 South, the first Snelgrove ice cream shop was established by Charles Snelgrove in (1887-1976) in 1929, later managed by his eldest son C. Laird Snelgrove. Snelgrove’s remained family owned until 1990. Snelgrove’s Distinctive ice cream was founded As Snelgrove’s started to gain a reputation, Charles Snelgrove…