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re: What does your SEC school own? (Sonics and Waffle Houses maybe)
Posted on 4/16/25 at 6:34 pm to morriscat2
Posted on 4/16/25 at 6:34 pm to morriscat2
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Vandy owns a lot more than a gas station and Wendy’s.
I was limiting it local use like the two in the pic. Dores have a pretty sweet portfolio but owning an actual gas station and fast food place is more funny and interesting.
Like if UK owned the Sonic near Virginia Avenue or Bama owned that gas station on the way to campus from Birmingham.
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Posted on 4/16/25 at 6:48 pm to Cheese Grits
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What does your SEC school own?
Rent in Bama fan's heads.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:22 pm to Wishbone85
Fun fact Jim Varney aka Ernest did commercials for Braums back in the 80s.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 8:19 pm to Cheese Grits
Minute Man RIP
Many fast food ideas came from Minute Man. They had the big mac before the big macs.
Many fast food ideas came from Minute Man. They had the big mac before the big macs.
This post was edited on 4/16/25 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 4/16/25 at 10:33 pm to dchog
Jim Varney was from Lexington. Talented but only got noticed when he played Ernest & Vern ads. Went to Lafayette High School. My sister was in a play with him in a local children’s theatre production. He played Ebeneezer Scrooge.
This post was edited on 4/16/25 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 4/16/25 at 10:38 pm to Cheese Grits
UK owns a lot of land. Farms like Pin Oak, Spindletop, Maine Chance, Carnahan House and Robinson Forest. Plus a golf course and Shady Lane Woods in Lexington.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 4:57 am to Cheese Grits
Cheese what does Swanee own?
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:54 am to dchog
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Fun fact Jim Varney aka Ernest did commercials for Braums back in the 80s
I read a local article on Varney once that his Earnest character had gotten an advertising gig with Purity Milk.. which is a dairy in Tennessee that sells milk in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.
Apparently, the people in the dairy industry got wind of this and started using Varney to pitch their dairies. Braum's being one of those.
Before long Earnest was literally everywhere... pitching everything under the sun... but certainly in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas ... we remember him mostly for Braum's.
This post was edited on 4/17/25 at 8:56 am
Posted on 4/17/25 at 6:17 am to Gunga Din
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I read a local article on Varney once that his Earnest character had gotten an advertising gig with Purity Milk.. which is a dairy in Tennessee that sells milk in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.
Apparently, the people in the dairy industry got wind of this and started using Varney to pitch their dairies. Braum's being one of those.
Before long Earnest was literlly everywhere... pitching everything under the sun... but certainly in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas ... we remember him mostly for Braum's.
That's a good story. My Grandfather was CEO of a dairy in East Texas. Mr Braum was just getting started and was friends with my Grandfather. He asked my Grandfather to come up and take a look at his new operation and he did. When my he got home my Grandmother asked him how it went and my Grandfather told her this guy is trying to sell ice cream by the scoop he's never going to make it!
Posted on 4/17/25 at 6:28 am to RD Dawg
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If any school has a claim to Coke it would be Emory. Probably responsible for bout half of their $11 billion endowment.
UT Chattanooga has a pretty big claim too. Chattanooga in general.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 9:00 am to Wishbone85
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That's a good story. My Grandfather was CEO of a dairy in East Texas. Mr Braum was just getting started and was friends with my Grandfather. He asked my Grandfather to come up and take a look at his new operation and he did. When my he got home my Grandmother asked him how it went and my Grandfather told her this guy is trying to sell ice cream by the scoop he's never going to make it!
To add to your story...
Braum's had a small chain of "scoop" ice cream stores in Kansas where they had their original dairy (Emporia). They were called "Peter Pan" ice cream stores.
When they sold "Peter Pan" they had to sign a non compete clause for 10 years in Kansas. So they moved to Oklahoma and used the money to do the same concept here. After about ten years they moved the dairy to Oklahoma from Emporia...
Worked out pretty well for them. And these days there are Braum's in Kansas... but no "Peter Pans" anymore.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 9:28 am to Lynxrufus2012
Yes I believe they were in the Ernest movies as well.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 9:34 am to SasquatchDawg
quote:Sadly, he did ...
I suppose Charles Whitman did sort of change the world from there...
Charles Whitman is the reason local Law Enforcement have SWAT teams.
Service revolvers were totally ineffective and police officers went home to get their deer rifles to help keep him pinned down.
Plate glass windows transitioned to safety glass.
The Batman World Premier in Austin was overshadowed by the Texas Tower shooting 2 days later.
Glastron Boats, "The largest manufacturer of pleasure boats in the world," made the Bat Boat, and only asked that the World Premier be in Austin.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:05 pm to Lynxrufus2012
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Went to Lafayette High School. My sister
Humblebrag of your sisters academic and creative status!
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:09 pm to Summer of Jimbo
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Cheese what does Swanee own?
School is so small they probably own all of it!
The nearest Piggy Wiggly is the next town over so not like you have lots of retail. At least pre covid it was all about house parties. Possibly the highest per capita boozers in the former and current SEC but I am trying to think if I ever went to a bar there.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:12 pm to Prof
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If any school has a claim to Coke it would be Emory.
Not sure but the largest holder of Coke was the bank in Atlanta, always made their bank look strong even if they had problem loans. I think that changed after the 2008 meltdown and they had to merge with the old Sun bank in Florida (forgot who they were pre merger) but that is where Georgia Trust name came from.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:16 pm to Cheese Grits
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Not sure but the largest holder of Coke was the bank in Atlanta, always made their bank look strong even if they had problem loans. I think that changed after the 2008 meltdown and they had to merge with the old Sun bank in Florida (forgot who they were pre merger) but that is where Georgia Trust name came from.
The largest holders of Coca Cola are the largest holders in every single major corporation in this country. And… I mean every single major company in this country.
Black Rock, Vanguard, & State Street.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:28 pm to SasquatchDawg
Trivia fact, the movie "The Deadly Tower" starring a young Kurt Russell as Charles Whitman was filmed using the Louisiana state capital building in Baton Rouge.
As you can imagine, UTx was a little sensitive.
As you can imagine, UTx was a little sensitive.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:28 pm to Tammany Tom
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Black Rock, Vanguard, & State Street.
Maybe now, but back then they did not. 2008 changed the face of corporate Merica.
Posted on 4/17/25 at 5:43 pm to Victor R Franko
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Trivia fact, the movie "The Deadly Tower" starring a young Kurt Russell as Charles Whitman was filmed using the Louisiana state capital building in Baton Rouge.
As you can imagine, UTx was a little sensitive.
There was a guy named Robert Heard who was a writer in Texas... He wrote a book once called "Texas-Oklahoma: When Football Becomes War"...
Now it should have been called "Why Texas is great and Oklahoma is horrible. And Oklahoma only wins because they cheat.". But I digress.
But anyway, he held a booksigning in OKC that I went to (circa 1979)...
We teased each other as OU and Texas people do. When he signed the book I told him that as much as I wanted to despise him... that I couldn't because of what he did that day at the tower during that shooting..
(He had gone into the line of fire several times and got people to safety).
He said that "there were lots of people who did like he did that day"... But he appreciated that a "young fellow" from Oklahoma was sensitive to what happened at the tower as it was "Austin's saddest day"
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