Tag Archives: SPRINGFIELD

Red Barn Family Restaurant

The Red Barn restaurant was a fast-food restaurant chain that was founded in 1961 in [...]

WHEN THE B-52’S BROUGHT THEIR MESS AROUND TO GUIDING LIGHT IN 1982

Guiding Light holds the record for the longest run of any soap opera. It debuted [...]

The Last Great American Freedom Machine

There is the mystique of freedom, from the flintlocks that fired the shot heard round [...]

Myron Fohr Says Blatz is Milwaukee’s Finest Beer

And he’s from Milwaukee, so he ought to know! Best on dirt tracks, Myron Fohr [...]

Homer goes to College

Nap time at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is interrupted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, [...]

Whatever Happened to Red Barn Restaurants?

When America was fast becoming a fast-food nation in the 1960s, the Red Barn Restaurant [...]

Red’s Giant Hamburg

Sheldon “Red” Chaney opened a small hamburger diner soon after World War II. He couldn’t [...]