This is an HP Special Report ... a conversation is unfolding this morning on the Facebook social-media platform (fanned by, among others, a star trumpeter in the 1984 Heath High School Marching Band of Pirates/former Boy Scouts of America Troop 4 patrol leader) about the history of Cardinal Point, and it is LIT!
Will advise as events warrant (i.e., comments flow!) ...
I know everyone's refreshing and refreshing this page in anticipation of my observance of the start of th NFL73 regular season on Sunday, September 16, 1973, but I am delighted to blow your minds with this delivery of an NFL74-oriented HP Special Report: The NFL74 Dolphins had a rookie wide receiver named Melvin Baker (82 and helmetless, below)! In fact, this man played four NFL seasons with seven teams. I honestly don't believe I had ever heard of this guy, and I am so, so excited to have been introduced to him by NFL Films and YouTube user "Gray Beard." Melvin Baker and Billie Eilish, both on the same Monday morning! Huge!
My wife and daughter and I stopped through there on our way back from Louisville this evening.
One of the things that really impressed us was the huge array of drink machines--a whole assortment of coffees and soft drinks, slushy drinks and hot chocolates, etc. I do really appreciate that Huck's offers the flavor additives you can spurt into your fountain sodas. I almost always at least throw a couple of vanilla squirts in with whatever I'm drinking.
Huck's is based in Illinois, and one of the oddities about the Beaver Dam store was that Illinois (but not Kentucky) gazetteers were available at the store in Beaver Dam.
Overhead, the store played what it called "Huck's Radio," and we heard a couple of oldies but goodies.
The restrooms were delightfully clean, and I, for one, support the old-school handles and push buttons on the fixtures (as opposed to the sensor triggers to get soap, water and towels, which always seem to frustrate me).
We didn't really much consider getting donuts, though I am sure they would've been delicious.
And we didn't get any too serious about purchasing any Kentucky (but not Illinois) souvenir shot glasses, coffee mugs or Christmas ornaments.
But my daughter did get a cereal bar, for which we would've gladly paid the posted $1.29. But, alas, the gentleman at the counter remembered that the store was offering some 20-cents off coupons on that product and took it upon himself to go find one and apply it to my daughter's order. It was a good opportunity for us to all talk about the everythings of our lives and being creative and bold to do to others what we would have them do to us, and that turned out to be the very best part of a wholly satisfying visit to the new Beaver Dam Huck's Island.
Can barely type ... this is an HP Special Report ... we are getting multiple reports in at the #ohky desk that the Kentucky Terrace Motel on U.S. 41 in Henderson had a pool in the shAPE OF KENTUCKY!
Breaking ... Terry Hutcherson's essential Heath High School Class of 1960 Facebook page has been examining the 1930s of late (everybody's thinking about the 1930s these days), and, today, it has broken news that Heath High School's team colors changed (!) to black and gold--check that, "gold and black"--along about 1937. Here's part of a page from the 1936-37 Heath yearbook ...
Congratulations, Queen Tanner, and well done, Mr. Hutcherson! The HP will continue to monitor developments at his Facebook page and advise as events warrant.
