I saw something about that truck stop on the food channel--IIRC.  Wasn't 
it somewhat politically incorrect?

I don't think the RIAA wants any part of those truck drivers.  They know 
places to hide bodies you can't find on a map.  Most are good guys, but 
some are like the grim reaper.

Phillip

Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "phillip holmes" <[log in to unmask]>
>   
>> I didn't say I don't have several ZZ Top albums myself and the George 
>> Jones Box Set.  Just talking about truck stops.  You ain't lived till 
>> you had a truck stop chicken fried steak at 3 AM and bought a greatest 
>> hits collection at the counter.
>>
>>     
> I have the ZZ Top discs (or did...LONG story...!); however, I can speak
> with some authority on "truck stops!" I went to high school in McLean,
> Ill's., site of the (evidently) no-longer-extant Dixie Truckers' Home
> from the twenties onward! "The Dixie" was our regular hangout as teens
> (and onward...). The original "Dixie" burnt down...IIRC in the sixties...
> and was replaced by a larger, newer "Dixie" withing a couple of months.
> In fact, my first wife was a waitress as the joint...and I regularly
> picked her up at the end of her shift and gave her a ride to her house
> (out on a farm...) so I spent many, many hours in that truck stop!
>
> I also used to stop at truck stops when travelling...the food was always
> more than ample, affordable and usually quite edible!
>
> And, yes, most of them sold cassettes (and 8-tracks back in that era...),
> the legality of whose origins were probably dubious at best. Wonder how/why
> RIAA missed that...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>