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RosBlues 2012
3 November 2012
Partycentrum De Kentering, Rosmalen (The Netherlands)
Featurig : John Primer, The Little Boogie Boy Blues Band, Sharrie Williams, The Wiseguys, The Teardrops, Robbert Fossen, Philippe Menard
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RosBlues 2012
3 November 2012
Partycentrum De Kentering, Rosmalen (The Netherlands)
Featurig : John Primer, The Little Boogie Boy Blues Band, Sharrie Williams, The Wiseguys, The Teardrops, Robbert Fossen, Philippe Menard
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Photography : Marco van Rooijen - Copyright, All Rights Reserved!
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I met Spencer when he was featuring up here in Seattle on Bumbershoot weekend. Super great guy. Also pictured: Marcus, runner-up on Last Comic Standing and resident Utahn. He did the "buffer" set the last 2 nights of the comp. Nice guy also.
Like so many others from Chicago, Wiseguys started out in a modest 1000 sq ft building that had seating for about twenty. It was mean and lean and most equipment we had wasn’t made for high volume. After all, we “hoped” our dream was going to work because we were in the business of selling northern food to southerners . Quite a gamble at any rate. Well watch what you wish for….
Nov 09, 2009-Killeen Daily Herald HARKER HEIGHTS – From the minute you walked into it’s flagship location in Harker Heights, Texas you will think you would have taken a step back in time to those fabulous roaring twenties of Chicago.
Two brothers-in-law have opened a Chicago-style eatery along Central Texas Expressway to bring a taste of Chicago to the Fort Hood area. Wise Guys has been open in the Shops of Modoc, 300 Central Texas Expressway, for about two weeks. Owners Jerry Dugger and Bill Nychay said they are shocked by the large number of customers. They realized there were no Chicago-style hot dog places in Central Texas. “I was born and raised in Chicago,” Nychay said. “I grew up on hot dogs from Portillos and Gene and Judes in Chicago. I also saw at an early age that these places were packed.” Nychay suggested opening a place in Harker Heights to Dugger, a longtime resident. Dugger said he agreed after tasting several items on the menus in Chicago restaurants. They then pulled their favorite items from the menus and started to set up shop in October, Dugger said. Their goal was to capture as much of a Chicago feel as possible, so they did all the work themselves. “We actually built and designed this place all by ourselves,” Dugger said. The decor includes pictures of Chicago mobsters from Prohibition on the walls. The work took them about six to eight weeks. When you come in here, you are going to see (Chicago), smell it, taste it and feel it,” Nychay said. Wise Guys is going out of its way to get the same ingredients as Chicago restaurants, Dugger said. “The food that you get here are the same that you can get on State Street in Chicago,” Dugger said. Nychay boasted about the restaurant’s pizza puffs and Italian beef sandwiches. No other eatery in the Killeen area has those on the menu, Nychay said.
Business was good………too good