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John Galt return address

Posted by VetteGuy 1 month, 4 weeks ago to Humor
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I just got an ad for a mail order steak company, and thought it must be a joke of some sort. The address was John Galt Blvd, Omaha NE!

So I looked it up, and yep, Omaha does indeed have a John Galt Blvd. In the process, I found roads in several other places named for JG as well. Maybe there are more of "us" out there than I thought!


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  • Posted by GaryL 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    I also got that mailer from Omaha Steaks and put it in the circular file with the rest of the trash. My cousin used to send me gift boxes from them and the meat was garbage IMO.
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    • Posted by 1 month, 4 weeks ago
      Apparently so. I found this at douglascohistory.org

      "John Galt Boulevard was named in the early 1970s by Ron Abboud, a real estate
      developer who once owned land where the street connects 108th Street to Q Street. His
      favorite book was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. “Who is John Galt?” is the opening line
      and Galt is the hero in the Rand classic, which extols economic individualism and self-­‐
      interest, and foresees the decline of “men of the mind” and the end of civilization.
      (Thanks to Omaha World-­‐Herald staffer Bob Fishbach and his readers for the revision.)
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      • Posted by Steven-Wells 1 month, 3 weeks ago
        This is about a week behind, but I'm a Vette Guy, too, who does long road trips. Like to the end of Zzyzx Road. So using Google Maps, I postulated an interesting potential east to west road trip of Galt waypoints:
        John Galt Way, Florence, NJ / John Galt Way, Elkridge, MD / John Galt Way NW, Concord, NC / John Galt Way, Mt Pleasant, SC / John Galt Road, Beaufort, SC / John Galt Boulevard, Omaha, NE / John Galt Way, Arbuckle, CA
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        • Posted by 1 month, 2 weeks ago
          Looks like a good road trip to me!

          I had to look up Zzyzx Road. I may have to check it out - I'm doing the western half of Route 66 next year, so I won't be too far away.
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        • Posted by Dobrien 1 month, 4 weeks ago
          “ hard to see Omaha farmers and ranchers reading philosophy of any sort!!” to Quote you, it’s getting hard to not see you as pretentious. You cannot be a successful rancher and not understand A is A.
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            • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 3 weeks ago
              Well, I have a mountain practically in my front yard. I guess that makes me smarter than the average valley dweller? I think not.

              Honestly, what I have learned over the years is that I am perceived as MUCH more intelligent when I let other people decide how smart I am, instead of me telling them.
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              • Posted by AmericanWoman 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                Have the same its called "The Rockies" and not with a uniform : ))
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                • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                  We may be quite self-sufficient, but go around bragging all about how intellectual you are, and plenty of people, me included, will think otherwise. Specifically, one would think you might have a modicum of modesty...

                  Kind of like as long as I have my clothes on, I look marginally decent. The minute those come off, uh oh! My thought would be you would be better off to put those "clothes" back on.

                  But that's just dumb little me. Go on wif yo' bad self.
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                • Posted by $ gharkness 1 month, 3 weeks ago
                  Ok, first of all, you aren't apparently smart enough to know WHO you are responding to. I am NOT "D," but yet, your response comes in directly under MY comment. Smart, yeah, right. If you wanted to respond to "Dobrien," there's a "Reply" link directly under his comment. Pay attention, please.

                  Second, I actively have avoided over time, without realizing it, reading your posts and/or comments. This is the first one I've actually paid attention to. And now I know why. It's that I actively work hard to NOT respond to silliness.

                  Hence, I'm gone. Have the day you deserve.
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        • Posted by 1 month, 3 weeks ago
          Well, the guy who named it was a real estate developer, not a farmer or rancher. Seems like another real estate developer has been in the news lately, but the name escapes me ... ;-)
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