Once we had arrived in the Lake of the Ozarks area and gotten a room at the Shawnee Bluff Motel (after we had stopped at a nearby bar to make sure they could get the Blackhawks Stanley Cup game since we weren't in the Chicago area), we went looking for the two new NTN sites (actually the only two) in the area.
CHICAGO BROTHERS-- OSAGE BEACH, MISSOURI
Liz had miscalculated the distance to the first one, Chicago Brothers, and what we thought was four miles ended up over nine. Once there, we recognized it as a former Risky's which used to be a chain of pizza places in the area that all had NTN.
Big surprise, we were the only ones playing. Wednesdays they have 35 cent wings and $5 Coors Light pitchers. Mondays they have a trivia contest with prizes. There are nearby motels within walking distance. With a name like Chicago Brothers, they had several folks in the place with Blackhawk jerseys. Not many players with 8,099 as top score in Countdown for month. Not a good sign.
JJ TWIGGS-- LAKE OZARK, MISSOURI
Drove the nine miles back to the motel, then another two to the second place, JJ Twiggs. This is a special place to us as Twiggs got its start near us in the villages of Wauconda and Lake Zurich. As a matter of fact, it also used to be a Risky's and we had played NTN there several years back. We went in and were surprised to see the peanut buckets had JJ Twiggs Wauconda, Illinois, on one side.
They were originally in the bar across from our motel now called Road Boaters but had moved closer to the Bagnall Dam and built a Northwoods-style Lodge that is very popular with locals and tourists.
They have two bars with NTN at the larger one, AND, THEY ACTUALLY HAD PLAYERS!!! They have just gotten NTN in (at one time their place in Wauconda also had the game). Buckets of peanuts were sitting out on the bar and tables.
We stopped playing when they wouldn't turn the sound up on the Blackhawks game at the big bar and we moved to the small one where it was on all TVs and with sound and some fans cheering, always more fun. Watched the first two periods.
More details on our Blackhawks efforts in my Down Da Road Blog http://downdaroadigo.blogspot.com under the 7 entries "Not Jumping on the Bandwagon, But..."
Cruisin' and Playin' NTN
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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