Fun at the airport

Lance F

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My airport, to me, is kind of like the bar in the old TV show "Cheers". It's a fun place just to hang out, talk to people you like and do things you like to do. This morning was the EAA chapter's monthly pancake breakfast which makes it an even better day to be there.

My son came down to help with a maintenance task on the Mooney and brought my one and only (so far) granddaughter. At 18 months she likes the pancakes, the eggs, the sausage and THE AIRPLANES. You can see by the picture Katie liked hanging out at KCVC too.

It was just a fun, low key Spring morning. I enjoy life this way.
 

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Print that and frame it. That is a lot of cute right there!
 
Nice,another pilot in the making. Did a young Eagles this morning,we always start with a free pancake breakfast.
 
My granddaughter is about the same age too. They are so much fun.

I enjoy hanging out at the airport too. I wish you guys did lunches for your meetings like we do for our EAA172 meetings. If so, I would fly over from Augusta some time. Breakfast is just not doable.
 
I agree, thats a great picture, looks like a future aviator sitting on that wing ;)
 
Yup. We called ourselves airport bums (in a good way). The small local FBO was the social gathering place for us aviation enthusiasts.
 
Good to hear. (Very cute pic!) I keep hearing that airports are desolate destinations. But several here in central arkansas are very much like cheers - ok, mostly without the alcohol.

Where is there a family centric destination? Hmmm... The airport?
 
brian];1735079 said:
Good to hear. (Very cute pic!) I keep hearing that airports are desolate destinations. But several here in central arkansas are very much like cheers - ok, mostly without the alcohol.

Where is there a family centric destination? Hmmm... The airport?
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Mine is including the booze for free every Friday night this month... I still need to make it out to one of those, though.
 
brian];1735079 said:
Good to hear. (Very cute pic!) I keep hearing that airports are desolate destinations. But several here in central arkansas are very much like cheers - ok, mostly without the alcohol.

Where is there a family centric destination? Hmmm... The airport?
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Brian,

Where in Arkansas are you located? My friend and I were on our way from Dallas to Dayton, Ohio a couple of years back, and we stopped in Pochahontas, AR. A guy there was all over us about my buddies Bo. Said he really wanted to buy one. Was that you?

Rich
 
brian];1735079 said:
But several here in central arkansas are very much like cheers - ok, mostly without the alcohol.
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Hell, the entire state of Arkansas is mostly without alcohol! ;)
 
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It's their own damn fault. :yes:
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I was going thru some of our family history a few weeks ago and I found the following little tidbit. Funny how 100 years later things haven't changed...at either end! :)

The couple being discussed is my paternal grandparents.

About 1914-1915 William was asked to relocate by the railroad from Sprott to Ste. Genevieve, MO. They looked at buying a brick house one block from the Church close to the old cemetery. Anna didn't like the idea of moving into a "town" (she was a farm girl), particularly a town known for a lot of drinking by the young boys (she had 3 boys). Also, she was born and raised
in Conway, Arkansas which was a "dry" state. So these facts - town versus farm and drinking versus no or little alcohol - only helped to convince them not to move to Ste. Genevieve.
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The churches in the deep south held a lot of sway back then. Oh, wait! They still do. :yes:
 
Rcmutz said:
Brian,

Where in Arkansas are you located? My friend and I were on our way from Dallas to Dayton, Ohio a couple of years back, and we stopped in Pochahontas, AR. A guy there was all over us about my buddies Bo. Said he really wanted to buy one. Was that you?

Rich
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Na - wasn't me. I'm just outside Little Rock on a grass strip (1AR9). But there are several local airports that seem to have a lot of activity. This weekend I was at Searcy for the first time and about go run over by a twin, a rag wing, and a R22 - busy little airport!

By the way, Walnut Ridge can get pretty busy - just south of Pochahontas. Also has a restaurant on field - the restaurant is in the fuselage of an old 737...

But yea, the bible beaters have kept booze out of most of Arkansas until this past election. Now we join the rest of the US by finally repealing prohibition. (As if it stopped anyone anyway...)
 
brian];1735697 said:
But yea, the bible beaters have kept booze out of most of Arkansas until this past election. Now we join the rest of the US by finally repealing prohibition. (As if it stopped anyone anyway...)
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It was 21.27 miles from my house to the "Rapid Robert's" convenience store @ the Missouri state line when I lived in Harrison. Not that I ever made that trip, mind you.

Rob Wilson, the owner of the "Rapid Robert's" convenience store chain, is a friend of mine and he always claimed that his store at the state line made him more money than his next three best stores combined. So much that he built a new store on the line in about 2001...right next to his old one...and kept them both open!

I haven't seen Rob in a few years since I moved away from that area, I'll be he's crying the blues that the state went wet. I know that he'd funnel a lot of money to the local Baptist church leaders every time Boone County had "going wet" on the ballot so they could fight it. That's a fine example of the old adage "any enemy of my enemy is my friend."
 
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