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Somehow they hit upon the idea of theming the town around “Camelot”. Soon shops shaped like little castles started popping up - first the King’s Keg Package Liquor, then the Ye Old Double Dip and Dunk It bought into the plan. However, Homer had been thinking about the crown jewel - an amazing place that would be called The International Palace of Sports. Conceived as the ultimate tourist trap, it was a museum that paid tribute to the “Kings and Queens of Sport” - with Homer’s bank attached to the side. He managed to convince the 7,000 members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters to vote each year on a “King of Sports”, who would then be honored with a parade and the unveiling of a wax sculpture inside their own “kingdom” or alcove in the palace. At its zenith in 1973, 50,000 people crammed into North Webster to see O. J. Simpson - that year’s king. We’re also working on stories about:
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Back in 1967, banker J. Homer
Shoop was chatting with some of his fellow townspeople from North Webster about ways to increase tourism traffic. Indiana 13 runs right through town, and each weekend families rushing to their lake cottages around Lake
Wawasee would buzz right through. Wouldn’t it be great if they could get them to stop for just a little while?
