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| Now (well, last summer). |
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| The deed is done March 13, 2009 |
Five years ago I bought an old cafe/gas station in the Ozarks for $22,000. Mike (left) had bought it, but his fiance had no interest. I'd
had my eye on it for years and bought it with a credit card. Property taxes are $48 a year. No, in a dis-incorperated town (pop @50) half an hour from the nearest grocery store we don't get many services. The post office, store, gas station, bank, cannery, school, Harley Davidson dealership and etc have all long since been shut down. The River's Edge Cafe across the street (by the river's edge—hello!) drew folks from 100 miles around but, alas, there are very few people for 100 miles
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| When buyers' remorse set in. March 14, 2009 |
around—Mark Twain National Forest—and the cafe gave up the ghost.
"Why the Ozarks?" people ask me. "What on earth do you do out there?" (BTW people in the Ozarks ask me the same thing about New York City.) Here were
my answers. Come to realize, that having spent my childhood on the other side of the Missouri/Arkansas line, the landscape just feels right to me.
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| Now. Well, last summer. Place has been shut down for winter, tnx god. And it has been a really cold one there. Atypically. |
Well, here's what I have to say about that.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, you forgot the reason you like it is I like it, too.
1)You predicted The Police Would be huge, before anyone else had ever heard of them.
2)You sensed Warren Zevon was seriously ill 3 years before he was diagnosed.
3)You knew the Boss was going to divorce what's-her-name months before he did.
4)You knew The Goose would have golden.. fans.
Better get out that "I Ching Read Here" sign and hang it back in the window.
The only downside of this remarkable 7th sense is now Thomasville is in danger of becoming the new 98 Riverside Drive.
Now, aren't you glad you bought it!!!
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