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As Told By C.S. Beaty

My name is Chris Beaty and I like to tell stories. Some of my stories are funny. Some of them are dumb But if I do it right, they"re all entertaining. This is stuff that happened to me, I think you might like it. www.chrisbeaty.com

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8:10

As Told By Uncle Bob: Scoot Over, Here Comes Bobby!

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2025/03/25

By Bob CopperstoneHaving caught the bi-wheeled fever from Dad’s hill-climber Harley adventures, and as I stumbled into puberty, I chafed to dip my toe into solo motorized cycling.I got my chance when word got around in Wahoo that Lee Houfek was selling his Cushman scooter. I wanted it very badly. To my surprise, Dad bought it for me. I was only 13.I’m sure he had a tough time winning Mom over to the scooter idea. But after all, he understood a young boy’s craving for motorized propulsion.And he,

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9:37

As Told By Uncle Bob: My World on Two Wheels

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2025/03/18

By Bob CopperstoneSome of my fondest Wahoo childhood recollections are cemented into my memory by three motorized two-wheeled vehicles.Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe to read the first chapter of the book Chris is writing about being a loser in high school. They include a racing motorcycle, a docile motor scooter and, later in my adult life, a highway-hogging 750-cc Japanese cruiser.Like probably every boy in the world who ever pushed a toy truck around the sand pile, I almost painfully

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10:34

As Told By Uncle Bob: Bank Clock's Time Is Up

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2025/03/04

You Can’t Bank On a TreeIn July of 2019 people at the Wahoo State Bank, next door to the Wigwam, planted a tree out front. The city ordered it removed, sparking a minor squabble amongst Wahoovians. I put in my two cents:* * *July 13, 2019A tree grows in Wahoo.Or does it?A newly planted young sapling juts out bravely from its nursery spot in the “bump-out” curb in front of the sleek new Wahoo State Bank building.It is straining to put down roots, as all the while certain people aren’t sure the baby

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9:42

As Told By Uncle Bob: Downtown Vs. Highway

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2025/02/11

By Bob CopperstoneAs a 10-year-old in 1948, I watched as the downtown Wigwam Café, run by my parents, Hank and Irma Copperstone waged an energetic but fripendly rivalry with the Fairview and Day & Nite cafés on the highway.The Wigwam’s competition was north of downtown along the combined U.S. Highways 77 and 30-Alternate route that cut through Wahoo, and included the Whirla-Whip and Dairy Queen ice cream shops, among others.It was a vigorous but subdued rivalry. Lillie Gibson, who owned the Fairview

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7:55

As Told By Uncle Bob: Visit Beautiful Downtown Wahoo,...

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2025/02/04

By Bob CopperstoneSince I was a kid playing on its rooftops 70-some years ago, Wahoo’s downtown skyline profile hasn’t changed all that much.The buildings, with a few exceptions, remain standing stoutly in place much as I remember them. But there are lots of changes to the contents of the (mostly) brick structures.The gradual transformation over fairly recent years may have escaped the notice of longtime residents, but their eclectic diversions have made Wahoo a more interesting place to visit, shop

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4:16

As Told By C.S. Beaty: The Chair Test

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2025/01/28

An episode of the animated version of the Garfield comic strip features the obese, anthropomorphic feline explaining his worldview in regards to nutrition and culinary criticism.The cartoon cat employs what he tags as "The Chair Test." His explanation is simple: You place a sample of the food in question on the seat of a chair and then ask someone to sit on it.Garfield hypothesizes that a food’s value can be ascertained by this simple procedure. No reaction from the test subject? The food isn’t

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8:56

As Told By Uncle Bob: Yelling at the Library

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2025/01/21

By Bob Copperstone The Wahoo Public Library in 1949 is an intimidating place, housed in an upper floor of the grim, 1891-vintage City Hall.I’m Bobby, a skinny 10-year-old town kid standing in front of the building just as the sun is going down. It is a gloomy and cold early-winter evening. Spooky shadows are beginning to fall, made even more ghostly by the low-wattage streetlights which were beginning to switch on, offering only a sickly illumination.Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe for

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8:16

As Told By Uncle Bob: No Rush For Gold

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2025/01/14

By Bob CopperstoneMy connections with dentists in Wahoo as a young boy had always been fraught by distrust on my part.I hated dental appointments, and a dentist was anything but happy to see me come trembling in with a well-founded fear of seemingly inevitable pain.There were three dentists practicing in downtown Wahoo in the 1950s – Drs. R.E. Sklenar, William L. Kling and William Houfek.Dr. Kling often drew the short straw as my dentist. Bad news for both of us, I guess. His office was right across

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5:08

As Told By Uncle Bob: A Lesson in Christmas Sharing

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2024/12/24

By Bob CopperstoneI suppose most every family creates its own routine of visits to relatives on holidays.Christmas Eve visitors at our house visitors usually were Mom’s brother and sister-in-law and their son and two daughters. Gary, the son, was one of my best friends while we were growing up.His family had always had a rather rough time of it, I remember.His dad was a rarely successful door-to-door salesman and was almost always on the road. Gary’s mother waited tables at the Wigwam Café and

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6:11

As Told By Uncle Bob: Gift Giving

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2024/12/17

By Bob CopperstoneThe Power of Positive SantasWhile I lived in California some decades ago, I fell into a Christmas groove of donating to a police fund that delivered new toys to kids from needy families in Los Angeles County.The Arcadia Police Department would ask the donors to help distribute the presents. I would love to have seen the happy kiddies receive my gifts.During this one particular Christmas, though, I was working the editorial night shift at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and couldn’t

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3:32

As Told By Uncle Bob: Letter from Santa

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2024/12/10

By Bob Copperstone It's rather a well-grounded Christmas custom in our family here in Nebraska to use the "Secret Santa" method of gift-giving.It is a holiday lifesaver for this old bachelor.Every word, paragraph, text and original theme in the letter comes out of my tiny little brain. People have asked if they could copy the letter, and I am happy to oblige.I toyed with copyrighting it, but to what end? Lots of bother as well as a little bit selfish, I think. If I receive a chuckle or two, I'm

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8:06

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Ep. 6: Love...

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2024/12/03

By Bob CopperstoneBefore my parents, Hank and Irma, acquired the Wigwam Café in 1949, Hank worked in heavy equipment construction for the county and the Meese Construction Co. in Wahoo (“I’m a cat-skinner by trade,” he would proudly say, referring to Caterpillar bulldozers).Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Irma was a much sought-after cook (including at the Wigwam, of course).Dad’s work often took him all over the state for weeks at a

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10:00

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Ep. 5:...

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2024/11/19

By Bob CopperstoneI was 9 years old in 1948 when my parents, Hank and Irma Copperstone, took half-ownership of the Wigwam Café in downtown Wahoo with Clare (Muzzy) and Dorothy (Dodo) Miller.I spent a great deal of the remainder of my childhood exploring the restaurant’s main floor and basement.Believe me; I missed neither nook nor cranny of that fascinating building.The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a secret international social and charitable fraternity, owned the building and occupied the

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9:42

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Ep. 4:...

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2024/11/12

By Bob CopperstoneLucille’s Gift Shop’s Comic Book TreasureFor years, Lucille’s Gift Shop, originally on the corner west of the Wigwam Café in the LaGrand Hotel building, was a thriving business in downtown Wahoo.I confess it now: I had a real crush on Lucille Herrick. I loved that woman dearly.I couldn’t help it. I was only 8 years old, and she let me read her store’s comic books. For free! What’s not to love about that?Lucille was like a second mother to me. I’d seek her out and hold up an owwie

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8:25

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Ep.3: Indian...

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2024/11/05

By Bob CopperstoneShabbily Dressed for TravelSo after school lets out, I go first to the Wigwam. I see my dad, Hank, at the sandwich board or fountain, or cash register, or working the room as host, greeting customers. “How’s your dinner?” or “Where’re you folks from?” he asks the tourists, always with a pleasant, infectious smile.Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.U.S. Highways 30-A Alternate and U.S. 77 through the city are heavily

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4:40

As Told By Uncle Bob: A Gravesite to Die For

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2024/10/29

By Bob CopperstoneA Wahoo City Council public hearing, which partly discussed confiscated graveside flowers at Sunrise Cemetery, packed the meeting on Tuesday.At the time, I was unaware that many, if not most, of the protesters were there because they were furious that correctly-placed flowers and other displays had been swept up and destroyed in a mass cleanup designed to head-start a new set of regulations.I asked to speak at the hearing because I believe a firmer administration, with a fair and

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9:23

As Told By C.S. Beaty: Do You Smell That?

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2024/10/22

As a young college student no longer under the constant care of my parents, I reveled in my ability to do the things I wanted. Bedtimes, diets and study habits were all up to my discretion- the only limits being the lack of steady income.I’ve always loved travel, and no longer needing my parents’ say-so, my spirit of adventure came alive when my buddy, Josh, invited me to watch NHL hockey games around the country.Our wanderlust didn’t match our travel budget. We became experts at public

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10:42

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Episode 2

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2024/10/15

By Bob CopperstoneFor many people in Wahoo and surrounding Saunders County in the mid-20th century, the Wigwam Café was a powerful, green-themed touchstone.Today, I happily draw on those fond memories.Along with the Fairview and the Day & Nite cafes on the highway north of downtown, the Wigwam Café was a community gathering place with nickel fountain Cokes, dime double-dip ice cream cones, 25-cent malts, 20-cent hamburgers, 15-cent french fries, 90-cent full dinners, and 50-cent Blue Plate

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11:43

As Told By Uncle Bob: Growing Up Wigwam, Episode 1

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2024/10/09

By Bob CopperstoneToday is any school day afternoon in the 1940s. I’m a pupil at West Ward Elementary School in Wahoo.Mr. Meduna, the janitor, rings the final “school’s out – go home” bell. (A t my age, anyone to whom I stand belt-high must never be called by their first names; that would be rude. His first name was Lloyd).An explosion of kids, finally freed from disciplined movement and mandatory soft voices, erupt shouting and screaming out of the heavy wooden double front doors to head for

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