AR Place names, was: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)

[Frank Emerson]

I apologize for straying off topic, but if you don't have the bandwidth for a little levity, you know where the delete-key is.  I don't know about Frog Lick, Succotach, Tree Stump, or Armadillo Flats, but for any who are interested there really is a Toad Suck, AR.  You know, just down the road from Possum Grape. 

Legend has it that there was a tavern on the banks of the river.  They catered to dry and thirsty travelers, in their covered-wagons, waiting on the banks of the river for the fairy to return and transport them across the river.  One particularly thirsty travel killed a beer so fast that the bartender responded with, "You sucked that down like a toad," hence the name, Toad Suck.

Another legend has it that an American veteran, trying to find his old Army buddy, sent a letter addressed to his friend in Hot Dog, AR.  He wasn't quite sure of the town's name, but he thought it was Hot Dog, no street address, no zip code.  The US postal service actually delivered the letter to his buddy, in Wiener, AR.  I suppose their search was narrowed by the fact that there was no Frankfurter, AR. 


Frank Emerson


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alan Barnard 
To: pianoguru at earthlink.net;pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 10/13/2007 5:51:53 PM 
Subject: RE: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)


You're kidding! I though I was being silly with North Frog Lick ..... but Toad Suck???

But really, isn't North Frog Lick just a few miles west of South Succotash and a little east of Tree Stump? I think it's actually near the border and, technically, a suburb of Armadillo Flats, Texas.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "Frank Emerson" 
To: "pianotuner at embarqmail.com, "Pianotech List" 
Received: 10/13/2007 4:11:07 PM
Subject: RE: Better yet! (was Duluth tool Bag)


>*These pallets are full-size industrial (40 x 48 x 5 inches), and are hand-crafted from the finest crudely-cut Ozark mountain oak > logs available (at any given moment) by Henry "Bat Face" Boggins, Rte 5, Box 31, North Frog Lick, Arkansas, USA. Henry >learned his craft making Baldwin soundboards in their glory days (June 3 and 8, 1972)

I'm afraid there is no such place as North Frog Lick, Arkansas; however, there is a Toad Suck, Arkansas, just west of the old Baldwin plant in Conway, AR.  Perhaps this is where you meant?
Frank Emerson,
former Baldwin employee, but just a little later than the stated "glory days."
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