Something old -Something new

As I wind up my last day of locum at Purdue, there is more reminiscing to do. During this week, I found my way through the newer portions of the Purdue University Veterinary School to the original anatomy lab where we spent hours pouring over formaldehyde impregnated corpses to learn all of the little parts of the wonderful mammalian body. I also found the lecture room that we called "sleepy hollow" and the theatre style ground floor classroom where we listened to the instructor read "Guyton" to us and we struggled with classification of all of the known medications of the time. My first week here as I asked students assigned to imaging where they were from, I found that one of them had worked for 2 of my classmates who practice in the Indy area. He had told her that the only drug we had at that time was penicillin. Maybe close compared with today, but not quite true. As an aside at this point, there was a group of veterinary technician students assigned to imaging and I found that one of them grew up in my home town of Silver Lake. Back to the track. In my last post, I mentioned the different route I had to take. I modified it a few times and ended with a pretty nice entrance and exit from the vet school to the country. This route took me past a place called the "Frozen Custard Igloo". It seemed familiar to me, so the next evening I stopped and looked at the menu. Among many tempting treats, I found Pineapple Sherbet. That struck another memory, so I bought it. Bam! So to speak. I was back to somewhere between 1963 and 1968. To tie this together, I have to take you back to our trip to Gas City via Lafayette. As you may remember, we took 26 out of Lafayette. That took us past Home Hospital, the birthplace of our first-born. Here is a pic of him and his grandpa Kneller at Purdue "married student housing". For an update, go to Briarcliff Connection and sort through the pics on the "what's a pickup truck" post looking for the "I'm Local" T-shirt. As we passed the hospital, Georgia said, "there is that park we used to go to and we went to that great ice cream place." (Pointing across the street from the hospital.) The park was (and is) called Columbian Park and includes a zoo. http://www.lafayette.in.gov/zoo/ Adjacent to the park was the original Frozen Custard where we used to get those great treats (and I got their pineapple sherbet). Talk about a flavor re-awakening. Wow. (Since then, I stopped by each evening for a pineapple sherbet cone that lasted me almost to Frankfort. Here is a post describing the original Frozen Custard that we used to frequent. http://www.originalfrozencustard.com/ Lots of history here. Now there are several Igloo Frozen Custards and Snowbear Frozen Custard in Lafayette/West Lafayette. That was the something old. Now for the something new.

One of the Purdue radiologists took a couple of us to lunch last week to a place that was unfamiliar to me. Another Irish pub similar to Claddagh where we ate in Michigan. This one, however is not a chain. It is a family run business called "Nine Irish Brothers". http://www.nineirishbrothers.com/ Fantastic. If you are ever down by the levee that separates West Lafayette from Lafayette near the lunch hour, be sure to stop in. I can attest that the Guinness Stew and the Fish and Chips are really great. If you want something with a little more spunk, you can go a couple of blocks south to a nest of restaurants at the base of the relatively new State Street Towers and venture into the Bombay Indian Restaurant. That's tasty too! So that's the something new!