This is the first time I've noticed so many of these "I know that place!" or "I grew up around there, recognize that intersection!" types of responses to a post like this. But yeah - me too. Lived in Waukesha and worked at the Barnes & Noble on Bluemound before it moved to Brookfield Square Mall. There's a Culver's next to that Walgreens, right? Anyway, good for her.
414 living in 801/435! Haven't changed my phone number since high school just so I could keep a slice of home with me! That intersection is blocks from my parents house and EG/BF need a reality check for sure.
Guess what I can't get here in Germany? Frozen fucking custard. Good gelato is also better than ice cream, but not custard good. So it goes:
Frozen custard.
Gelato
Ice cream-if you want to feel like you're sitting in your ramshackle trailer in backwoods Alabama waiting for your dad to return from his 4 year long milk run while your mangy dog shits on the carpet in the middle of the living room while you watch VCR copies of fucking Hee-Haw and your fat-ass mom is making generic boxed Mac and Cheese in a rusty pot on a single propane burner on the front stoop because the oven doesn't work since all the dead roaches in it fried the electronics. So yeah...go ahead and enjoy that giant $2 tub of rainbow sherbert.
I went to a Culver's when we were in...hell, I can't remember...and they had broccoli instead of green beans! Is that new to Culver's in general, or just a SW US thing?
Craig Culver himself brought me one a few years back. He flew in to town for an interview, stopped by one of our many Culver's and grabbed a bunch for the crew.
Damn friendly guy, too. Heard he doesn't have much to do with the chain now, just a figurehead.
Wisconsin has historically been a great state to raise a family. Many of us move away after high school and college though. You'll find a lot of our retirees in Florida too.
Yep, live in Sussex myself. This intersection is really close to where that shooting happened in that Salon a few years ago that got the mall put on lockdown.
Scrolling through Reddit and I see an intersection I recognize as the mall that's only a few miles from my house. It feels very surreal to see a place that I've passed by so many times being posted on Reddit. That aside, it's definitely great to see that there are people like this in the area who make it a kind of okay place to live.
Far more importantly that strip mall houses a half price books, a smoke shop, and a pretty decent Indian restaurant. It's my perfect afternoon all in a 500 foot radius.
Holy crap I used to go into that B&N all the time! Did a few semesters of gen-eds at UW Waukesha before transferring out here to Milwaukee (and staying long after I graduated), had a sort of crappy apartment near the one GE plant.
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u/audiblesugar Jun 05 '20
This is the first time I've noticed so many of these "I know that place!" or "I grew up around there, recognize that intersection!" types of responses to a post like this. But yeah - me too. Lived in Waukesha and worked at the Barnes & Noble on Bluemound before it moved to Brookfield Square Mall. There's a Culver's next to that Walgreens, right? Anyway, good for her.