IOWA CITY  — After closing George’s Buffet early Nov. 10, 1962, owner Edward Kriz, his wife and a bar tender walked to the Hamburg Inn No. 2 for coffee and a sandwich. It was a common routine for the 43-year-old Iowa City businessman and his wife. But this time was different. This time, their early-morning [...]

A guy walks into a bar and says, “Hey did you hear they’re going to build an industrial park by the interstate?” “Oh, yeah?” replies his buddy. “What kind of rides are they going to have?” My pal James Hettinger wrote the book on industrial parks. Well, maybe not the book, though some in the [...]