Lake Wobegon - Businesses, Organizations and Landmarks

Businesses, Organizations and Landmarks

• Jack's Auto Repair, including Jack's School of Thought (correspondence), Warm Car Service, Dry Goods Emporium, Jack's Fountain Lounge, and Jack's Home, "a rest spa for people of all ages"
• Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery; "If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get along (pretty good) without it."
• Bertha's Kitty Boutique ("for persons who care about cats")
• The Sidetrack Tap, run by Wally and Evelyn; "The dim little place in the dark where the pinball machine never tilts, the clock is a half-hour slow, and where love never dies."
• The Chatterbox Café, "The place to go that's just like home."
• Café Boeuf, "Where the elite meet to greet and eat," with maitre d' Maurice.
• Art's Baits & Night o' Rest Motel (Art got sick of people being around, so you can't rent rooms there these days.)
• Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Catholic Church; Father Emil (retired), Father Wilmer (current)
• Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church; Pastor Ingqvist (transferred), Pastor Barbara Ham (Interim Pastor), Pastor Liz (current)
• Bunsen Motors (Ford dealer), run by Clint and Clarence Bunsen, local Lutherans
• Moonlight Bay Supper Club
• Buck's Rent-a-Tux
• Krebsbach Chevrolet, run by Florian Krebsbach, local Catholic, and his son Carl.
• The Herald Star, town newspaper run by Harold Star
• Skoeglin's 5 and Dime
• LuAnne Magendanz's Bon Marché Beauty Parlor and Salon
• Co-op Hardware (formerly Bigger Hammer Hardware, from the joke: "If at first you don't succeed, try using a bigger hammer.")
• Clifford's (also known as "The Mercantile," which many residents still call it)
• The Sons of Knute Temple, Norwegian fraternal organization
• The Whippets, town baseball team
• The Herdsmen, champion church ushering team
• The Curl Up and Dye, another local salon
• Tentative Point
• Sons of Pitches, a mens chorus made up of the Original Main Street's finest in the Home of Sinclair Lewis
• Lake Wobegon Piles ("twin 18-foot-high islands in the center of Lake Wobegon" created in 1956)
• Mist County Historical Society Museum
• Wally "Old Hard Hands" Bunsen Memorial Field
• Lake Wobegon Leeches (baseball)
• Lake Wobegon Loons (five-man football)
• Powdermilk Biscuit Plant (on the road to Worthington)
• Lake Wobegon High School
• Municipal Sanitary Landfill
• Statue of the Unknown Norwegian
• Farmer's Union Grain Elevator
• Bob's Bank, in the green mobile home
• World's Largest Pile of Burlap Bags (created by Earl Dickmeyer to fund his and his wife's move to Fort Myers, Florida, and the centerpiece for a mysterious cure to ailments, such as kidney stones)