Dave Cathey, the Food Dude for The Oklahoman, has a really good article and video about Rock Cafe owner Dawn Welch and the reopening of her historic Route 66 restaurant in Stroud, Okla., after a devastating fire.
A choice excerpt:
On opening day, the restaurant didn’t have nachos because the cheese warmer wasn’t ready. It only had tea and water because the soda guy had yet to show.
Walls once adorned with notes, pictures and records related to celebrities sometimes among the clientele await new memories.
One wall is claimed by pictures from the fire, the hard hats of the men who fought it and a broom worn to its threads.
One wall down, three to go.
“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”