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RE: Who Is A Famous Person From Your Hometown❓
Interesting! Dave Thomas actually worked in a restaurant in Knoxville I worked at called Regas's a Greek family name when he was a boy.. He began working at age 12 and was fired over some dispute.. Eventually went to Fort Wayne Indiana which might be around the time his legacy got attached to your small town.
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Very interesting, it's a small world isn't it. I know lots of people from Knoxville, spent a little time there. My closest friends in the USA all live in the Ducktown/Turtletown and Johnson City area of Tennessee, Murphy in NC and Blue Ridge, GA. Also, funny you mentioned a Greek restaurant too, because he supposedly stole some ideas to make Wendy's from a Greek Candy & Burger Store in my hometown. Maybe Dave built his square burger empire on stolen Greek technology and know-how from various states. It's likely he didn't learn anything passing through Kentucky though.
Lol, small world indeed man! Yes what's Kentucky done? Haha
Awww Ducktown on the Ocoee I played many fun gigs at duffs tavern...
When were you in and around Knoxville?
I left in 2011 never to return, went to NorCal to do that hill life thing.. You remind me so much of my great friend kactus back in Knoxville.. What a long strange trip it's been.. Really inspired by your story and perseverance when down to 500 greenbacks, I know how that feels and it's not something most westerners are up for.. 🙏
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Probably from around 2008 I started spending alot of time that area, Ocoee too. I have some friends in a reggae band called the Natti Love Joys, and they live in Turtletown, but play all over that tri-state area. Funny enough too when Sreypov first had signs of immigration problems, I went to Southern Oregon and worked on the hill for 5 months to save up Suriname money. It was hell, we were surrounded by fires on one farm, and the whole Paradise thing happened not far from us. We were around Selma in Oregon. Small small world. Give thanks.
wow just got super small.. I know Yaddi n Chad n Robert and the cast of characters in the lovejoys very well!!
Give thanks indeed!! We might have been in the same space around 2008
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This is the last pic that I took in the USA before heading out to make a new life in Cambodia, in 2010 I believe. I used to always pick up Marla's sister Chris, when she would fly in from New York for Camp Reggae way back when. I've managed to meet up with them a handful of times since living abroad. We still stay in touch. Super small world.
Camp reggae brings back memories for sure...
Nucking Futs man! Not just a small world but how wild that Dave Thomas would be the stone to turn over to discover this chance commonality..
I've had some pretty out there synchronicity is everywhere moments but this one is ranking quite high due to utterly impossible to recreate intangibles.. Two atypical Americans set off for something out there and wind up having this conversation of converging paths on a quirky experimental blockchain social media thingy.. Too cool
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Give thanks to the square-burger gods I guess.