on Christmas Eve the 'Christmas Angel' mysteriously removed the white sheets and revealed a beautifully decorated tree with brightly colored packages under its branches.
#Wally world store windows
Some of Wally's favorite memories, related in his autobiography Sharing JOY 365, include memories of his family's parlor doors and windows being obscured with white sheets so Santa Claus could do his decorating in strict privacy.
Because of his family's German ancestry, he enjoyed customs that were old world in nature. All of it would have been perfectly at home in an upscale restaurant.The CHRISTmas season was always memorable for Wally, even from his earliest years. On your way to check out, you’ll go right past displays of about a thousand delicacies: coleslaw, potato salad, and salad, along with what was described simply as a couscous salad but which was a happily constructed mélange of fresh spinach, grill-scorched corn, black beans, and red peppers, along with couscous balls in a light, vinegary dressing. Elmer and Cletis pumped gas and changed spark plugs from service stations roughly the dimensions of today’s SUVs.Īll of this is just a lead-up though, to the barbecue carving station. Brisket slices fall before the knife of a carver and are loaded onto buns and swaddled in paper. Pulled pork, chopped brisket, turkey, even a hot-doggish link of pastrami are hot and ready, though you may have to wait for the freshly fried chips, which come out still warm. The brisket is tender, moist, cut a little thicker than you might like but by far the best brisket you’ve had in a place that also sells wiper fluid. The sauce is more sweet than smoky-Wally did his homework and apparently discovered the local affection for sugary sauce. In the '30s, when what was then the legendary Route 66 threaded through Fenton and across the Meramec, it was a big deal when the basically dirt road finally got an asphalt topping and travelers could cut back on the number of spare inner tubes they’d been forced to pack to fix continual flats that deflated on the rocky path. The new Fenton store along I-44 is what might happen if a sporting goods and outdoor store invited the world’s largest food court mall over and told them to bring a liquor mega-mart with them. Then a convenience store soda fountain came along, after growing way too big for its natural habitat, and a boutique joined the party.Īnd we haven’t even mentioned the jerky emporium.
#Wally world store full
what? gas plantation? city-size truck stop? monument to road-trip consumerism? Wally’s seems to be all of that and more-a lot more. As you wander around, you quickly think, “Well, yes, what roadside gas joint doesn’t have a full selection of Bundt pans for sale?” Wally’s ( 950 Assembly Parkway), the just-opened. Have you ever been to the Museo del Prado in Madrid? With it being one of the world’s most magnificent collections of art, you quickly become overwhelmed. It’s not just an embarrassment of riches-it’s a tsunami of saturation for them. You find yourself strolling past a Rembrandt and barely giving it a glance since, after all, you’ve already seen half a dozen.
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