{"id":2088,"date":"2012-09-02T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:36:19","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-253-roach-days-revisited-parties-penguin-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/09\/02\/my-musical-evolution-part-253-roach-days-revisited-parties-penguin-point\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 253 Roach Days Revisited Parties & Penguin Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Penguin<\/a>The Roach Motel<\/em> was three houses away from Penguin Point. I must have eaten there every day for at least a year. Big Wally, Fries and Root Beer $3.15. That was the big box of fries mind you.\u00a0 There were a couple of hot girls that worked there as well. You know a girl is hot when she can make that brown and orange polyester Penguin Point uniform look good.<\/p>\n

Our parties were getting bigger and people started to park in the Penguin Point parking lot. Penguin Point wasn’t too happy about that and were having cars towed.<\/p>\n

Aric and I approached the manager who in the movie version would have been played by Don Knotts.\u00a0 We liked Penguin Point and we didn’t like our guests’ cars getting towed away so we needed to figure something out. Penguin Point wasn’t doing a lot of business and that big lot was empty most of the time anyway. We had another party coming up and we worked out a deal where our party guests could use the lot on the condition that they had to go into Penguin Point and buy something.\u00a0 <\/em>We told the girls that we invited about that and we even put it in our newsletter. We had a newsletter calledThe Roach File.I should have gone into marketing.<\/p>\n

The day after the party, we went to Penguin Point for lunch and to see how things went. They had a record day and the manager was very excited about us having another party.\u00a0 We always gave them advanced notice so they could staff appropriately and the manager would give us stacks of coupons to hand out. I firmly believed that Aric and I carried that store duringThe Roach Years.A few months after we moved, that location closed. Too sad really. I’d like a Big Wally and a root beer.<\/p>\n

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ABC – When Smoky Sings<\/em>
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