xoxoxoBruce Friday Jul 13 12:13 AMJuly 13th, 2018: Traveler
Up in Union, CT, there's a very unique restaurant.
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Back in 1970, a restaurant called ‘Traveler’ opened its doors, offering not only delicious meals but books that you can take home with you for free. Sounds unbelievable, right? Who on earth would give away stuff for free? Well, as it turns out, the creator of this lovely little restaurant was a huge book lover, and after his house got completely filled with books, he decided to give most of them to his restaurant’s customers.
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In 1993, the owners of the restaurant changed, but they continued this beautiful tradition and even made it bigger. “We give away 1 to 2 thousand books a week. We have expanded it to three books per person. The books come from many sources. Library book sales are our best but our customers are a very big contributing factor, not a single day goes by that someone doesn’t bring us books.
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We have given away approximately 2.5 million books since we have been here.” The owner told Bored Panda. Yes, you heard it right, over 2 million books, and they are not planning to stop! “We have a horse trailer that we pick up books with. Some weeks we can go to 4 different libraries to pick up books. There is about 9 thousand books on our shelves for them to choose from.”
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Griff Friday Jul 13 07:09 AMThis is pretty cool for a thread I thought would be about Robert E. Lee's horse.
Gravdigr Saturday Jul 14 05:32 PMOnly in The Cellar would I find someone else who knew that.
Griff Sunday Jul 15 01:20 PM
Happy Monkey Monday Jul 16 02:47 PMBut what was the name of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse?
A major award hangs in the balance!
Gravdigr Monday Jul 16 04:46 PMI didn't even know The Lone Ranger had siblngs.
Happy Monkey Monday Jul 16 04:58 PMThe horse is one of the great characters in American literature.
Gravdigr Monday Jul 16 05:08 PMMr. Ed?
Flicka?
Black Beauty?
Silver?
Trigger?
Seabiscuit?
Tarzan?
Buttermilk?
Gravdigr Monday Jul 16 05:09 PMSeattle Slew?
Tennessee Stud?
Gravdigr Monday Jul 16 05:10 PMI got close.
One generation off.
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