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Portrait of the author as a young man, about to throw a guitar through a target at that yearвЂ™s Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest, from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette.

Wherever you are today, owners of Mister Music, please know that a Minutemen album I found in your cheap bin changed my life. But itвЂ™s the best a geek like me could do.

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If you donвЂ™t think it sounds вЂњcoolвЂќ to hang out at a record store with your buddies on a Friday night, a piping-hot driverвЂ™s license fresh in your wallet, youвЂ™d be right. I wasnвЂ™t buying records at that age, but I would eventually, and thatвЂ™s where it all went down. Pictured, from the July 16, 1987, Journal Gazette, this ad for Mister Music, formerly located in the Cross County Mall. IвЂ™m seriously considering asking my money guy if I could afford to reopen this place. At last report, they still had Tab in the Pepsi-branded cooler in the back. I had long since moved away from Cooks Mills by the time this Showcase item about AdamвЂ™s Groceries ran in the June 13, 1998, Journal Gazette, but there was a time when I very well could have been one of those kids in that photo for if it was summer, and you had a bike, and you lived in Cooks Mills, thatвЂ™s where you ended up. Being from Cooks Mills, we didnвЂ™t often shop at IcenogleвЂ™sвЂ¦but when we did, even as a kid, I knew it was the way a grocery store is supposed to be in a perfect world, and thatвЂ™s not just because they had wood floors, comic books on the magazine rack, or plenty, and I mean plenty, of trading cards in wax packs. 28, 1988, Journal Gazette, IcenogleвЂ™s grocery store. I was more of an вЂњOcean PacificвЂќ kind of kid. I spent just about every Saturday at that arcade, perhaps with that exact same haircut. Pictured, ShelbyvilleвЂ™s Bob Murray from the June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette, displaying his dominance over the TRON arcade game at the вЂњCarousel TimeвЂќ arcade at the Cross County Mall, later to be the AladdinвЂ™s Castle, soon thereafter to be not a thing anymore. Sadly, this location is now just a вЂњgreenspaceвЂќ. I still own my bagged copy of вЂњTales of the BeanworldвЂќ issue No. That small back room you see just off to the right of the Coca-Cola sign was where they kept the many, and I mean many, long-boxes of back issues. 22, 1992, Journal Gazette, this photo of Cosmic Blue Comics in Mattoon where I spent virtually every Saturday afternoon for about two years. My Town: Clint WalkerвЂ™s memories of Coles County as pulled from the archives Cosmic Blue ComicsДЇrom the Nov. вЂњI donвЂ™t know of very many roofing companies that would do what they did.вЂќ

вЂњThey got it done in one day, they treated us very well and they did a good job,вЂќ Craw said.

He said New Life just had to use the insurance money to purchase the materials. Sigel mother, daughter partner on food, coffee trucksДЄfter the estimator talked with his employer, Craw said I-57 decided to replace the whole roof and to donate the labor. вЂњI told (the I-57 estimator) who we were and what we do and I understood that there was enough money for just the one side and that I would have to find a way to get the other side later,вЂќ Craw said. He said a fall wind storm then damaged one side of the roof, and the insurance company only paid for that half. New Life Director Dan Craw said this nonprofit organization had needed a new roof for some time for its office, 2709 Commercial Ave. of Arthur donated labor to put a new roof on the office of New Life Car Care, which provides automotive services for people in financial need.

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