#InTheHeartLand #FortWayneIndiana
Let me tell you a story about growing up in #Indiana - #TwoAmericanKids /\
Ok. Trust me it is diffucult
Age 15 #HighSchool I was creating social media sites #BBS Systems #SocialMedia #SocialMediaOpera
219 Area code dial up #TheFortress #TheFortressBBS Telephone code 219
https://bbslist.textfiles.com/219/oldschool.html I was reading #NeilPostman in year 1985
I #Worked #Job my way up from #FortWayneIndiana to The richest #MicrosoftCoFounder #PaulAllen #JodyAllen NFL Footvall #NBA #Baskeball #TeamOwner year 1997 #NFL #Football
I grew up in #FortWayne #FortWayneIndiana
and I did indeed purchase this Canadian Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNdJyr4kqpA
"The Great White North is a Canadian comedy album by the fictional television characters Bob and Doug McKenzie (portrayed by actors Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), released in 1981 by Anthem Records "
" rose to the #1 position the following week where it remained until 23 January 1982."
I was born in year 1969, this was highly influential to me in 1981 1982.
I was a #Geek #Nerd in #FortWayneIndiana
Now I was good looking. Fit, not fat, beautiful blond hair and blue eyes. But I had all the nerd unpopularity in the 1970's and 1980's before it became cool to be into books and computers (in farmland Indiana). Only way I wasn't beaten-up daily was I took my school class to #Pepsi soda plant tours where my dad was #Manager
My dad had worked previously as an employee of #Pepsi in #NewYork - he then went to work for #RCCola in #Georgia in the late 1960's when I was born. Then in 1970's when #RKO #FWakeRKO purchased the #FortWayneIndiana plants - he was recruited to #manager of the canning in Fort Wayne.
https://www.21alivenews.com/2023/06/15/family-legacy-history-fort-wayne-pepsi-bottlers-plant/
Decades of sweet carbonation, pumped into glass bottles, all written on the walls of the Fort Wayne Pepsi bottlers plant. For more than 125 years, the Scheele family built their legacy inside an old building on Harrison Street.
Stephen Gutknecht
James Powell