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(Date Posted:02/27/2004 05:44:17)
I have been a Harington fan for since LUB. At the time I was living in NYC and dreaming about building something somewhere in a lost city... I found the book while looking through the basement at Coliseum Books, on Columbus Circle. I was just looking through pretty much everything they had butLet Us Build Us a Citycaught my attention because of the pictures. I did not really even plan to read it but I'm so glad I did... A new obsession was born!Years later, while going to a family reunion in Texas, I insisted on stopping at Ham's restaurant in Garland City. To entice my in-laws, with whom we were travelling, I had copied the pages in the book which spoke of the restaurant and mailed them to them. My mother-in-law was carrying them with her. When we went to the restaurant we spoke with Mrs. Ham who did not even know her establishment was mentioned in a book! My m-i-l gave her the copied pages and she proudly displayed them. Even more years later, my husband and I tried to go again on our way from Texas to Miami. It was out of the way but I wanted to see it again (even though by this time I was a vegetarian...) Somehow, I was able to remember how to get there excepttherewas no more! There was a building there but not the original one. The new restaurant looked like a hillbilly verison of TGIF's. We drove around and went to, appropiately, the post office, where the post mistress told us that the restaurant had caught on fire. Mrs. Ham did not have insurance so she could not rebuild. While she was saving money to do just that, her daughter ran away with her cook and they opened their own place in the old space... I always felt like this was so much like everything else in the book...Anyway, that's my piece of haringtoniana. Please, do share your storiesMal
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