[Spridgets] Speedwell...

Gregory Groiss ggroiss at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 08:30:47 MST 2010


I miss hearing those stories. His son just isn't the same.

> Now you know the REST of the story.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Frank Clarici <spritenut at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 1:58 AM, Dean Hedin wrote:
>>
>> I just discovered that "Speedwell" originally refers to a type of flower.
>> These flowers are typically blue (Veronica species).
>>
>> I always thought it was a made up trade name.
>
> Dean, from Sprinzel himself, Speedwell is a blue flower, John's Father
> ran a printing shop and the phone number exchange was SP-eedwell -
> So when John took over the shop to run a performance shop, he kept the same
> phone number and named the shop around the phone exchange.
> Now you know the REST of the story.
> BTW, I do have a license plate frame with that phone number on it hanging
in
> the garage if anyone wants to make a call ;)
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
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