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Article: DENNIS MCCANN; Get going, as historic La Crosse is on the move
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2006
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La Crosse One night last weekend I found myself in need of
sustenance, so I called a favorite and familiar restaurant for a
reservation and at the appointed hour walked hungrily from my
downtown hotel to . . .
YIKES! Who moved Piggy's? For years it had been there on the
Mississippi riverfront, serving ribs to men in bibs. Every time I
went there it had been there, yet on the spot where I had envisioned
yet another Piggy's dinner there was an office building. But hadn't I
just talked to them? Didn't I have a reservation? How could I have a
reservation for a place that wasn't there?
I'm happy to report that with a little help from a passing
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