(rshsdepot) LaCrosse, WI

[I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com]

From today's LaCrosse Tribune
 
Bernie Wagenblast
 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
The Train Station BBQ to open in Amtrak depot

By: Steve Cahalan  
Lisa and Dan Thill plan to open The Train Station BBQ restaurant sometime in  
June, on the first floor of the Amtrak depot at 601 St. Andrew St.  
“It’s ‘down South’ barbecue with an ‘up North’ kick,” Lisa Thill said of 
the  restaurant’s focus. She will manage and work full time at the restaurant. 
Her  husband will continue to own and run Team Marine Service, a boat repair 
business  on Causeway Boulevard.  
Thill said The Train Station BBQ will use the secret recipes of a friend, Bob 
 Toussaint of Galesville, Wis., who has more than 30 years of barbecue  
experience. Toussaint will work there part time.  
The 2,700-square-foot space previously was occupied by a travel agency, said  
Thill, who added she and her husband have joined the National Barbecue  
Association.  
Toys N’ Tales toy store at 1501 Losey Blvd. S. in the Village Shopping Center 
 will close soon, probably on May 31, owner Cindy Sahlstrom said.  
The store opened more than 21 years ago and has always had the same name and  
location, said Sahlstrom, who bought the business more than six years ago.  
“I think the competition has just gotten harder and harder,” Sahlstrom said  
of closing the specialty toy store. Large stores such as Target are carrying  
more specialty toys than before, she said.  
The Maid-Rite restaurant at 1119 Caledonia St. has reopened a month after a  
fire there.  
The March 12 grease fire was in the restaurant’s exhaust system. Owner  
Richard Beilke reopened the restaurant April 12 after replacing the hood over  the 
grill and installing a new exhaust system and fire suppression system. He  
said the fire apparently began in an exhaust fan.  
The eatery was a restaurant even before it became a Maid-Rite in 1947, said  
Beilke, who bought it in 1989. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through 
 Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 
closed  Sunday.  
Tom and Amy Brieske of Onalaska, Wis., purchased the West Salem Pharmacy in  
West Salem, Wis., from Tom Pralle, who retired April 1. But Pralle 
occasionally  fills in as pharmacist, Tom Brieske said.  
Tom Brieske manages the store, and his wife is its pharmacist. She previously 
 was a pharmacist at Degen Berglund in Holmen, Wis., and before that at 
Wal-Mart  in Onalaska.  
Brieske said he and his wife have made a few changes, including wider aisles, 
 an optional service that adds flavorings to medicines and a service that 
allows  people to refill prescriptions by phone 24 hours a day or leave a voice 
message.  They can still talk to a live person when the pharmacy is open, he 
added. 

=================================
The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

------------------------------