Nostalgia

Patricia's Mexican Restaurant recently closed its doors in Sedalia, we have seen our fair share of restaurants that have come and gone. Restaurants can hold sentimental values with us, it could be our first date, a gathering spot with friends and family, or just your favorite dish.

Look, people, we've gotta be honest about things. Sedalia isn't for everyone.

In case you're looking for something to do today in Sedalia, here's the Thursday lineup of events.

This July will mark 43 years since the 1974 Midwest Woodstock experience aka the Ozark Music Festival. What stories have you heard or can tell from first-hand experience?

With Alan Jackson coming to the 2017 Missouri State Fair this August, we had a post about Jackson and some remembered seeing him in the Bud tent. Who else do you remember playing in that venue in their early days?

Not too long ago, one of the oldest grocery stores in town shut down both locations. Now one building houses a new Woods Supermarket... while the other waits.

William Katt was 66 yesterday. You may have to Google his name to find out about the actor that starred in the TV series Greatest American Hero, but did you know he may have been the first Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie?

We've been hearing it everywhere...on the radio, the television, in the malls and at area shopping centers. It's intermingled into commercials. It's coming at us from 24 different directions. How much more can we handle? For some, it's the most wonderful time of the year for the holiday classics.

TV watchers, young and old, spent countless hours watching Vicki Lawrence in her 11 seasons on "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Mama's Family". Along with her acting she had a #1 hit  in 1972 with "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".

In the midst of negative news stories and after a terrible week for Dallas, and the nation, there is a nostalgic story that doesn't revolve around death and destruction. Here is that story: For 50 years, an unsolved mystery in St. Louis centered around who piloted the small plane that flew through the legs of the newly-completed Gateway Arch in 1966...