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Bill Bailey's Dream Retirement Plan |
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Regular listeners of Bill
Baileys show on WAKY will remember him talking about the
business he wanted to open upon retirement. Well -- it never
actually happened -- but we've got the tools to make the
Duke's dream come true (sort of). The son of former WAKY GM
George Francis, Jr., George III, provided the
images and former WAKY PD Bob Moody gives us the
background.
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"Bill Bailey had been talking about his
lifetime goal of owning a
Stuckey's
somewhere off I-64 before I worked with him. It was sort of
his retirement plan. At some point he came up with the idea
that it would be at the Waddy-Peytona exit. When I began doing
the Hiney Wine
commercials (syndicated by Terry Dorsey from Dallas), I
decided to locate the winery in Waddy. The combination of
those two fantasies resulted in a lot of jokes about that
exit, which were not entirely appreciated by the local
residents.
"Bailey also had a plan
for WAKY Airlines, which would be based at a landing strip he
planned to build next to the Stuckey's. This was probably
related to the fact that Reed Yadon and Woody Styles
were both pilots."
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