Your shoes are too *** damn big young man

August 26, 2009

We drove with Ben out to Iowa because it was awful having him leave the city (cue Magnolia Electric). We wanted a few extra days with the guy so we went out there for a seriously memorable weekend. You don’t even care how much fun we had so I won’t bother you with the details, but this little place was a real treat three-quarters of the way from Chicago to Iowa City.

They call it Nopoulos because some Greeks went out to Iowa a couple hundred years ago to open up a soda fountain shop. Not surprisingly they did a real fine job and the place hasn’t closed since. This place is actually the oldest ice cream slash soda fountain shop in the whole of North America, no kidding.

The guy behind the counter made fun of my shoes and I still don’t get the joke.

Photo courtesy of Liz Hazle