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To: Jean S

Piggly Wiggly? Lol, is there really a place with such a name?


32 posted on 06/13/2012 11:58:39 AM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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To: MNDude
Piggly Wiggly? Lol, is there really a place with such a name?

Piggly Wiggly was the first self-serve grocery store, founded in Memphis, TN, in 1916.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly


37 posted on 06/13/2012 12:04:51 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (Where the woodbine twineth... || FUBO! OMG! ABO!)
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To: MNDude
Piggly Wiggly? Lol, is there really a place with such a name?

I never realized it either, until the movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

39 posted on 06/13/2012 12:14:47 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: MNDude

Affectionately known as the “Wobbly Sow” around here.


42 posted on 06/13/2012 1:33:41 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: MNDude
Didn't you ever see Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

One of the Trucks the Government Agencies used to move equipment to the Devils Tower Base was from Piggly Wiggly.

53 posted on 06/13/2012 10:02:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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