Roundy Says . . . May 26, 1963
Just a random Roundy column. The State Journal should publish a book of his stuff.
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Attempting to translate: 1) The auditorium probably ended up being the Dane County Coliseum. 2) Sorry, you only fall into a Ron Vander Kelen every once in a while. 3) When I was a kid (70's) seeing a...
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The auditorium was the Frank Lloyd Wright civic center at Monona Terrace. The City fought about that for 60 years until it was built in the 1990s. Reference to the 4th ward is the old Irish ward east...
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madjeff66 wrote:4) Northernaire was a supper/night club in Three Lakes, I would pay to know what Roundy meant by "big time acts"Gypsy Rose Lee was a guest at the Waldorf of the Wilderness, but, alas,...
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Where the hell are all the jackrabbits???!!! Or rabbits???!!!
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Eric the Red wrote:Where the hell are all the jackrabbits???!!! Or rabbits???!!! Texas.
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Eric the Red wrote:Where the hell are all the jackrabbits???!!! Or rabbits???!!!Rabbits taste like chicken...
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I grew up a few miles from there in Eagle River and knew many of these people. The link is to materials from the Three Lakes Historical...
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This "Roundy says" dude was pure gold. I googled "Roundy says," looking for more nuggets, but all I could find were duds quoting dipshits haphazardly named Roundy.
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RichInBunlyGoodness wrote:This "Roundy says" dude was pure gold. I googled "Roundy says," looking for more nuggets, but all I could find were duds quoting dipshits haphazardly named Roundy.There are a...
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Clearly we have to go back even further to find out "When America was Great"
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When I lived at that slum Rust House, one of the guys who lived down the hall was a sportswriter for the Cardinal. He occasionally came in contact with Roundy. Jeff said that Roundy made even less...
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Roundy also was on TV. One of the local stations would give him a one minute sports commentary a couple times a week. It was a real hoot. As noted, Roundy made less sense in person than he did in...
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A book of Roundy's column excerpts covering 1924 to 1933 was published in 1933. It's called The Hand Painted Chop Suey (Translated from The King's English to The Queen's Taste). The Wisconsin...
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TheMonsignor wrote: Roundy also was on TV. One of the local stations would give him a one minute sports commentary a couple times a week. It was a real hoot. As noted, Roundy made less sense in...
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I was pretty young when I heard him on TV, but I always assumed that he was kind of drunk. I mean, that how all the adults around me sounded when they were tipping it back.
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