By White Castle

White Castle’s 10,000 team members will soon be sporting a new uniform designed specifically to commemorate the fast-food hamburger chain’s 100th birthday this year.
Created by renowned and award-winning New York City fashion line TELFAR, the new uniform collection includes a T-shirt, polo shirt, apron, visor and durag, all in light blue, royal blue or black. Each piece features the brand name “White Castle” with references to the iconic chain celebrating 100 years “and counting.”
The durag was added to the uniform collection in response to many White Castle team members who requested it. It’s the first time White Castle has offered the hair accessory and might be the first time any restaurant has done so.

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Posted on April 16, 2021

By David Rutter

Mom and Dad were kids who survived the Great Depression and World War II, so by the time I came along, not much scared them.
But as spring 1954 arrived, they both were jittery and tense though never hysterical. They were not the hysterical sort. They were a “snap out of it” sort of people.
But they were deeply fearful for me and my younger brother.

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Posted on April 13, 2021

Another Beachwood Special Report

This started with a discussion of the physics of Fantasy Island. As many others have wondered, is Roarke a grifter, a deity, a techno-wizard? That led to this.
TIM: If the fantasies only lasted for the duration of the trip to the island, why didn’t Mr. Roarke make Tattoo taller? He never left the island, right?
STEVE: This is like, “When the Blues Brothers went to the diner to get that guy for the band, why didn’t they take Aretha instead?”
TIM: Yes! I can’t remember the comic who said: Remember that movie where Halle Berry was so poor that she had to become a prostitute? Why didn’t she just become a model?

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Posted on April 3, 2021