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Breakfast was a cookie and coffee. By the time I approached Lafayette,
Indiana, I was ready for something more. The GPS turned up a brew pub
that I thought might work for lunch. It turns out the
Lafayette
Brewing Company is the oldest brew pub and second oldest micro brewery
in Indiana and they serve good food (like the Flat
Bastard) in addition to good beer. I've photographed this station
before but it is only a couple of blocks from the brewery so I did it then,
as I worked my way back to US-52, I stumbled upon a frozen custard stand
that's been waiting for me since 1932. As a not-even-thinking-about-recovering
addict, I naturally stopped. Good stuff.
Original Frozen Custard is right across the street
from Loeb Stadium (home of the Colt League Baseball World Series) and its
parking lot undoubtedly looks inviting. Rather than the standard
"violators towed at owners expense" approach, Original Frozen
Custard has found a way to handle it that is not only friendlier but
eliminates the middleman, too. A twenty-one year old micro brewery and an
eighty-two year old custard stand? Lafayette, we need to spend more time
together.
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This place was named Alexander's Sit-N-Bull and fairly busy when I first
saw it in 2005. The
sign now reads Flo's Roadside Diner and the old Mountain View is closed
and empty.
I was getting into familiar territory and there was little to tug at the camera as I continued on US-52 to just beyond Indianapolis. When a detour sign pointed north, I headed south and climbed onto I-74 to begin the all expressway finale. |
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