adminDorri PartainContributor Would you dare to ride 3,470 feet of twisted terror? When completed in 1980, Worlds of Fun’s Orient Express roller coaster offered coaster enthusiasts a completely new experience.…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Have you ever eaten here – where everything’s so dog-gone good? Started as a summer opportunity to earn money, two music teachers from the University of Illinois opened…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor After years of working as a bank clerk, William S. Burroughs (1855-1898) switched vocations to concentrate on creating a better adding machine. The son of a machinist, he…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor From the ancient Egyptians to the movie stars of the silver screen, eyebrows have been shaded, plucked, and elongated as styles changed through the centuries. Using carbon and…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Insert your coins and watch as a unique toy is created before your eyes! The novelty of Mold-A-Rama vending machines appealed to all ages. First introduced at the…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Giddy-up! Young, aspiring buckaroos looked forward to the weekly trip to the grocery store to insert a coin and gallop away, for a few minutes at least. Whether…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Baby’s first shoes and first steps can be remembered and displayed using a process that will preserve them forever, while also creating a useful object. Preserving tiny shoes…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Which came first- the deviled egg or the deviled egg plate? The versatile egg has been boiled, sliced, diced, chopped and shredded since ancient times, but the popular…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Hey, shoppers! Save 15 cents off the price of the cereal that is “a glowing part of a good breakfast.”As developed by General Mills, “ET” cereal was a…
Dorri PartainDecades prior to being officially renamed by the City Council, a two block section of 11th Street had earned the nickname, “Petticoat Lane.” As 11th Street heads east from Grand…
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