Cory has garnered quite a few hits and gotten quite a bit of mileage out of his "20 reasons you know you grew up in Waco in the 80s and 90s" posts and deservedly so. I too enjoyed the walk down memory lane like many of you.
The past is more romantic than the present.
Back in November, I wrote a post with 20 reasons you know you grew up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. Thank you to everyone who commented and shared their own stories and memories from growing up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. We had so much fun and got so much great feedback with that post, that we thought we would add 20 more reasons to the list.
Before I jump into the list, I want to point out that the accompanying picture in this post is of the slide at Lion's Park in its current state. I mentioned in the last post that someone should start a "Save the Lion's Park Slide" foundation. Maybe this picture will help get that going.
Without further adieu, here are 20 more reasons you know you grew up in Waco in the 80's and 90's.
A couple of years ago, I decided Friday should be Fried-day and I set about writing about our town's best fried food on Friday's.
It was a flawed plan because it's difficult to dine out as much as I do in writing this blog and stay relatively healthy and then throw a weekly meal of decadent fried food on top of it. Still, there's room for a fried-day every now and then.
Happy 2014, WacoFork friends.
It's the first Monday of the new year, which for me means the first WacoFork workday of the new year. For the record, my alter-ego sportswriter persona worked on Jan. 1 and 3, which prevented me from hitting the ground running last week. But even if Mr. Hyde hadn't taken over, there's a chance I would have viewed last Thursday through Sunday as holiday continuation. Kind of like when an NBA player gets fouled while crossing mid-court but somehow the layup still counts.
There's no argument: Waco became a better place to live in 2013.
The lifestyle factor improved as new restaurants opened and others announced plans to come to town. And did you notice we're building a stadium? So here's our list of the top 13 developments in town during 2013:
With all due respect to Mama's home cooking, the best dinner you're likely to have this Christmas might just be the Cafe Homestead Christmas Dinner, which will be served in two seatings on the evening of December 21.
The dinner will feature beef tenderloin with sides like pastry-wrapped asparagus and potatoes au gratin and, oh dang, eggnog cheesecake.
With Waco Wonderland and Christmas on 5th behind us, you're probably wondering where to go to get your Clark Griswold Christmas spirit fix. I drove around Waco with my wife and kids yesterday evening to scope out some of the best light displays in town, and thanks to the help of WacoFork reader Ryan McGrath, we found some really great ones. Here is my list of our 7 favorite light displays in or near Waco with links to their locations on Google Maps. (Photos were taken at night on an iPhone, so they aren't the best quality. All the more reason to get out and go see these places yourself!)
I love Austin, Texas. I was born there, and I lived there for 6 years – 4 years as a student at UT and 2 years after that. If I were to ever move my family out of Waco, I would probably want to move to Austin. But I don't want to move out of Waco because Waco is home, and it has been for most of my life. So, it is with much love for the great city of Austin that I share 10 reasons why I think Waco is better than Austin.
Chad and I have been friends since we were preschoolers in the early 80's, and we both grew up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. That's one of the reasons we started WacoFork, because we wanted to help promote all the cool things that have been happening and continue to happen in and around Waco, especially in the restaurant scene.
In that spirit, I wanted to take a look back at what it was like growing up in Waco in the 80's and 90's. Be sure and add your memories of “old Waco” in the comments below.
Our friends at Cafe Homestead play a role in one of Central Texas' unique Thanksgiving traditions at the Homestead Fair.
The Homestead Heritage farm offers classes year around, teaching kitchen and agriculture skills as well as woodworking and other traditional crafts. On Thanksgiving weekend, specifically from Friday through Sunday this week, Homestead Heritage rolls out those activities and a bunch more.
