Carls Corner

Anyone remember the original Carls Corner?
Two story with the truckstop and restaurant downstairs, swimming pol out the back door.
Strip club upstairs with a balcony overlooking the pool?
I only stopped their once before it burn't and I was on my bike, not in a truck, the wife didn't let me check out the upstairs portion. lol

 

The last I knew it was still there, but had been rebuilt after the fire, no more pool and strip joint, then run comepletely down. Willie nelson won it in a poker game, them remodeled it went green with it and gave part of it back to Carl, not sure the status of it now.

 

I only ever stopped there a couple of times in a truck, just wasn't in a handy place for my runs.
After willie remodeled it, it was pretty nice again, but I am not into him nor the whole green movement, so wasn't much interested in stopping there anyway.
The whole story of how he managed to aquire and build and rebuild (no insurance) after the fire is one good story. It shows what a persistent guy with ambition can do.

 

That is a shame, considering the history and how it came to be.

 

The only time I was there while it had the strip club, I stopped and fueled up my bike. My wife was with me and while we were in line at the counter, a dancer from upstairs was getting a pack of smokes for another gal. She told the cashier to give her a pack of benson and hedges for the girl and called her by name.

It just so happened that we had a real good friend by that name that we had lost touch several years before and it was easy to see, that she might just have gone the route of being an exotic dancer, and she smoked benson and hedges. This was also not a long distance from her old stomping grounds. Hmmm what a coincedence, I told my wife I would run up and see if it was her, yep that didn't go over, so up until last year I always wondered about that. We finally got back in touch, and I ask her, just a coincidence. lol