High Wire Distilling put 570 bottles of Jimmy Red bourbon on sale in Charleston on December 2, 2016. They were gone within an hour. That corn had nearly died out with the last bootlegger growing it, and it isn’t the only South Carolina ingredient that took that route. These are the humble South Carolina ingredients…
York Steak House opened its first cafeteria-style counter in a Columbus shopping center in 1966 and grew to nearly 200 restaurants in 27 states by 1982. One is left. It’s in Columbus. These are the restaurant chains Ohio used to take for granted that are vanishing. 1. Ponderosa Steakhouse Ponderosa Steakhouse turned Dayton into a…
Hartsfield-Jackson moved 106.3 million passengers in 2025, more than any other airport on the planet, according to Airports Council International. More than 2,200 flights leave there on an average day. A flight attendant working that rush has seen every version of a passenger, and the signs start early. These are the passenger behaviors Georgia flight…
A resold table at Funke in Beverly Hills once listed for $125 on a site built for flipping restaurant reservations. Funke never saw a dollar of it. California’s Assembly and Senate passed a bill banning the practice by unanimous vote in late August, which tells you how tired everyone is of it. These are the…
Kansas still had roughly 48 drugstore soda fountains pouring in the early 2000s, according to the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s count. By 2012, there were 39. Today, there are 21. That curve runs through almost every business a Kansas main street used to take for granted. These are the everyday businesses that once existed in nearly…
Leaving Louisiana means getting used to a new address, a new routine, and, often, some disappointments. The hardest parts to replace aren’t always the ones anyone thought to appreciate while they were close to home. These are the things Louisianans miss most after they move away. 1. Boudin From a Gas Station Thousands of Louisianans…
More than 152,000 people moved into Massachusetts from other states in a single year, per Boston.com’s read of Census data. Nobody hands any of them a manual. They sign a lease, register a car, and come to realize things work differently than the state they’re from. These are the things that confuse everyone who moves…
The FDA logged more than 130 reports of lost smell, some of it permanent, after people used one nasal cold product. It sent the maker a warning letter in June 2009. Selling the product in the first place didn’t require the agency’s approval, because a supplement never gets reviewed for safety or effectiveness before it…
Utahns can move through a farmers market without asking a single question. First-time visitors tend to leave with several, especially after watching shoppers follow rules that don’t seem to exist anywhere else. These are the things Utah locals do at a farmers market that confuse first-time visitors. 1. Handing Over Wooden Tokens Locals who shop…
Maine bans hauling a lobster trap from a half hour after sunset until 4 a.m. through September and October. The rule holds no matter how the day’s fishing went. So every boat in the harbor comes in on the same clock, and what happens on the wharf in that window is worth standing still for….
