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It had a creamery, a general store, a bunch of other businesses and even an auto garage. So how, in all my travels across and around the great state of South Dakota did I miss Alsen?

Medary was one of the first three settlements in South Dakota.

Catalogs from Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, and Spiegel used to bring the world to even the smallest of Midwest towns.

Christmas 1996 Meant 'Tickle Me Elmo'!

T.G. Sheppard had an amazing eight consecutive Number One hits between 1974 and 1986.

Whatever happened to S & H Green Stamps?

Juice New ton scored 16 Country Top 40 hits in the 1980's, including four Number One's.

Mickey Gilley was one great piano pounding Country Music Star! So whatever happened to the great Mickey Gilley?

Every town had one. Every single town. OK, I may be overstating that just a wee little bit. Every town didn't have one. But to a ten-year-old kid, it sure seemed like it. A Red Owl grocery store. Now, in the interest of honesty, this was more than a few years (decades) back, before the advent of the 'Super Store' or the 'Super Center' or the 'Big Box Store' or whatever they're called now... Read M

Barbara Mandrell is one of Country Music's most legendary artists.