Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Chicagoland / Food Chain / Music / Food & Drink RIP: Dannie Flesher, Donald Goerke
Posted by Whet Moser on 01.13.10 at 05:13 PM
The tragically early death of Jay Reatard is big news in the social media, but here are two more obits that shouldn't go unnoticed: Dannie Flesher, co-founder of Wax Trax Records (via @triblive); and Wisconsin native Donald Goerke, creator of my favorite childhood food, SpaghettiOs (and Chunky Soup). "The" creator is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, however - the late researchers Ralph Miller (a chemist) and Kurt Eberling (a chef) developed the foodstuff itself.
(Yes, that last link does go to High Times, not coincidentally.)
And of course Cecil Adams has more on the history of Campbell's and Franco-American: "in later years Franco-American introduced the unforgettable SpaghettiOs, which did for the eating experience what Grant did for Vicksburg."
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To most of the world Wax Trax was a record label, but anyone who lived in Chicago during the 80s and 90s know it as one the city's great record shops. I can't even begin to recount how many great things I was able to find there over the years. While punk/new wave was its focus, they had ridiculously deep country, rockabilly, and roots stuff. Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher set a real standard for a niche record shop.
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The standard set by Nash and Flesher doesn't exactly live on at Wax Trax's Denver relative...
