I was perusing the different ideas for the new museum. I’m disappointed that there’s nothing about Peoria’s distilleries. We need to embrace our city’s past. Peoria was pretty well known for all the alcohol it produced. Any one else agree with me?
Search
Archived Posts
Categories
- Uncategorized (528)
Blogroll
- Bill’s Content aka Bill’s Drama
- Central Illinois Gourmand
- Chef Kevin’s Culinary Rants & Raves
- Common Sense Peoria
- Eyebrows McGee
- Give Me a Bouncy “C”
- Good Year for the Outlaw
- It Just Slays Me
- Journal of a Starving Artist-Britt
- keep passing the open windows
- Krisser Pisser
- Lollygaggin
- Market 117/116
- Merle Widmer’s Peoria Watch
- Midwest Confidential aka mapgirl
- Morton Malaise
- Music Together Peoria
- Name This Peoria Landmark
- Notes From the Trailerhood
- O’Briens Briar Patch
- Peoria Jaycees
- Peoria Life
- Peoria Pundit
- Peoria Rocks
- Peoria.com
- PeoriaIllinoisan
- RLO
- Scott Janz
- Support Your Local Central IL Businesses
- The Peoria Chronicle
- Tim’s Blog-Random Events, Places, and Notes
- Tucker’s Blog
- Waiter’s Rant
- Where in the World is Marcia
- Willie York
- Willy Nilly
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
I say cheers to that proposal.
Cities most embrace their historic heritage.
Heck, we are so proud of the distilleries than even today, we drink and toast and party. A museum should display something about that bond between the city’s past and its modern day inhabitants.
Not to mention there’s no mention of the Shelton Brothers, the gangsters who competed with Al Capone for control of Peoria’s underworld. Bernie Shelton was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Parkway Tavern. The small brick building still stands across the street from Hunt’s restaurant on Farmington Road.