For
breakfast I decided to go to Mickie’s Dairy Bar. Mickie’s was opened in 1946 by Mickey Weidman,
and is located just across the street from Camp Randall Stadium. I heard there is quite a game day tradition
to eat here.
Their
menu is posted up on the wall and is quite intensive. I decided to go with the Scrambler because it
is the item that was talked about most in the articles I read.
It is
massive! Those are normal size pieces of
toast there to give you some perspective.
I couldn’t finish it. It was
three eggs scrambled into an overdone omelets type mess over a massive pile of
potatoes and gravy, either on or on the side.
This is then topped with a huge mass of Colby cheese. Then you add at least one other ingredient –
I went with the bacon, of course, and mushrooms. It was an experience and the place was really
hopping.
My next
stop is at the grave of Les Paul. Most
of us know him as the namesake of the famous rock guitar, but he was the
inventor of the solid body electric guitar, a world class guitarist, and
inventor of multi track recording. He
was born in Waukesha, WI and he is now buried in his home
town. He lived to be 94 years old.
There are
little signs in the cemetery guiding you to his grave. It is quite impressive and there is a homage
scribed in granite on either side of his huge tombstone.
To read
about his innovative genius reveals that music as we know it today would not
exist without him.
(To be continued...)
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