Buffett’s Candies: Citizen Cane

Before the days of iPads and in-car DVD players, kids riding in the back seat of the family car had to entertain themselves by looking out the window. Riding around Albuquerque in my parents’ 1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass, my imagination sometimes ran wild. One day I spied a huge candy cane, 15 or 20 feet high, leaning against a building. I imagined that some Brobdingnagian toddler had been gleefully tromping down Lomas Boulevard, crushing Cadillacs and Karmann Ghias underfoot, but had […]

The Many Faces of Blake’s Lotaburger

When I was a kid, it was just “Lotaburger,” no “Blake’s”. It was one of our neighborhood hangouts, across from the high school. There was no indoor dining area. You either sat in your car, on your car, or on the massive concrete tables in the shade under the metal canopy while you waited for your number to be called. “Number 52. 52, please!” Cracking the Code We were lucky. My best friend’s mom worked a split shift at our […]