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A small cache located somewhere in Emporia, Kansas.
I SCREAM........YOU SCREAM........WE ALL SCREAM..........FOR ICE CREAM..................... !!!!!!!!
A little bit of some local history regarding this location...... In 1968, Bill Braum opened the first Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Store...but the Braum story actually begins long before that time, spanning three generations with over six decades of history behind it.
It began in the State of Kansas in 1933. Bill Braum was in grade school when he began his career by helping his father, Henry H. Braum, with the family business, a small butter and milk processing plant in Emporia, Kansas. Seven years later ice cream processing was added to the operation.
Bill Braum worked through high school with his father and after receiving a degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas in 1949, he came back to Emporia to take a more active role in the family business. Henry Braum sold the wholesale part of the business in1952 and began specializing in ice cream, developing a chain of retail ice cream stores in Kansas called "Peter Pan." In 1957 he purchased the company from his father. The company had approximately 61 retail stores, when, in 1967, a large wholesaler bought the "Peter Pan" chain of retail stores ( excluding the Braum dairy herd and processing plant ). As a condition of the sale, the Braum's would not be allowed to sell ice cream in the State of Kansas for ten years.
In 1968, Bill and his wife mary, started a new chain of retail stores in Oklahoma called BRAUM'S ICE CREAM AND DAIRY STORES. That first year, twenty-four stores were opened in Oklahoma. Because the Braum dairy herd and processing plant were still located in Emporia, Kansas, the ice cream had to be transported daily from Emporia, Kansas to Oklahoma. For three years, Braum's stores were serviced from the plant in Emporia until a new processing plant was built in Oklahoma City in 1971.
In 1975, the Braum dairy herd was moved from Emporia to its new home located in Tuttle, Oklahoma. Today, Braum's owns seven farms and ranches, totalling over 40,000 acres of some of the best farm and ranch land in America! Each plays its own unique role in the Braum operation from housing the Braum cows, to growing the alfalfa hay to feed the dairy herd.
As the company grew, the need for a bigger processing plant became evident. In 1987, Braum's construction crews built a 260,000 square foot, state of the art processing plant on the Braum's farm in Tuttle. Located only minutes from the milking operation, this plant enables Braum's to consistently control the freshness, purity, and quality of their products.
In 1933, Braum's construction crews built a new milking complex on the Tuttle farm. This complex consists of 17 freestall barns ( over 35 acres ) that house the milking herd and a milking parlor, which is the largest of its kind in the world!! Three times a day, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, Braum's is milking 10,000 cows! Today, Braum's is still the only major ice cream maker in the country that milks its own cows. The company remains family owned and operated.
Parking is everywhere, as are the muggles. But most of them seem to have their own agenda, and shouldn't pay any attention to you...no matter how odd your behaviour. You can probably drive right up to this sucker....if you have long arms, no need to exit your vehicle...!!!
Don't forget to bring your own writing utensil!
CONGRATS to Gumshoetully on the First To Find!!!!!
If you must look at the clue....it's a Paul Simon song........sing it with me...............
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Fyvc-fyvqvat njnl.............fyvc-fyvqvat njnl.........jura lbh trg arne gur pnpur...fyvc fyvqr vg njnl!!!!!!!!!!!