No More Circle Js

[NoLuck]

Why would the grandfather clause disolve if the usage is the same? In my experince with them they only become extinct if you remodel.

If I remember right, anytime a new business license is applied for it all starts over. Maybe Laclede county is different.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Obviously things evolve, but there wasn't a county business license in the 80's. The guy who just lost it didn't have to change anything and he isn't the original owner.

[NoLuck]

Kinda makes me wonder if the bis lic changed when the last change of ownership took place then.

[oneshot]

Ok my wife is going by what other Camp Ground Owners are telling her. She says DNR has been trying to get them to upgrade for years, that they will no longer recognize the Lagoon. She is saying even with the Lagoon it is not big enough.

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[Wayne SW/MO]

It still comes down to the bottom line ($). That land sets in a grea place for a campground and at one time it was full of permenent campers. It could be again with the right money.

Rogers bought the area where the old Ranch House and the trailers behind it were and up graded it. He has made millions off the park and I doubt he's through. I beleive ha also owns the big motel across from Ft Bennett, or so it's said.

[oneshot]

Be better off to buy Vogels if it is still for sale.

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[oneshot]

I just hope Wild Oaks continues to do as good as they have. I really like them.

oneshot

[Wayne SW/MO]

I didn't know Vogels was for sale? I can't remember the daughters name, but do they still own it? That was a modulaer setup and it's about 30 years old, don't know how it's held up.

At ay rate it's hard to compare I think because there is alot more commercial possibilties in Circle J now, or at least it appears to be.

I don't know the people at Wild Oaks, they're after my time in the area. In fact, to my knowledge there is no one left except Larry's, NRO, Maggard's and Charley's that comes to mind.

[oneshot]

Did you forget about Linda at Adventures LOL

Vogels might have sold I was trying to get $$ to buy it a year ago.

oneshot

[Wayne SW/MO]

Did you forget about Linda at Adventures LOL

oneshot

I don't remember her, was she in business in the early 80's? I knew most of the business owners at that time, but I'm sure there might have been a few I didn't.

As far as I know the motel was built to give the daughter an income. Virginia died of cancer shortly after they gave up possesion of the resort on the river and it was about that time that they built the motel. Virginia's daughter, can't think of her name, and her husband ran it and lived in the place below it. I did electrical work for them from time to time, but all I knew about most of it came via the rumor mill.