Speaker 1: You're in Fredericksburg or around Fredericksburg? I am, yes.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with Gulricks I hope I'm saying it right?
Speaker 1: Yes, and in what way? I'm sorry one more time.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a downtown Staples.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course it is. Of course it is. And
Speaker 2: you're aware of the big grand reopening.
Speaker 3: I'm aware?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's on Friday. Well, I don't know why
Speaker 2: I'm talking to you like that. You already know?
Speaker 1: All right? Very good? Have you ever been there before?
Speaker 3: I've been there a couple of times. I did not
Speaker 3: grow up here, so I don't. I'm not that deep
Speaker 3: into the lore. But I went there maybe ten years
Speaker 3: ago for lunch, and they give you like a sandwich
Speaker 3: your grandma would make in a little bag of skaeir chips.
Speaker 2: Right. Where do you now? You said you're not from here?
Speaker 2: Where are you from?
Speaker 3: Originally from the West coast?
Speaker 1: Okay? Could you zero in a little more?
Speaker 3: Why it's a cryptic southern California?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Do you remember Pirate Radio? Do you remember Pirate Radio?
Speaker 3: I do? I was young, but yes, I do remember.
Speaker 3: It was the coolest it was.
Speaker 1: Do you remember it?
Speaker 2: Like Gnarley Charlie and Russell the Love Muscle and Brother
Speaker 2: Bill in the Big WATUSI.
Speaker 3: I feel like I need to say yes to you.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was Russell the Love Muscle.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting choice.
Speaker 1: Okay, ma'am, you know that's not my real memory. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm here. A child, all right, very good.
Speaker 3: I was literally a child.
Speaker 2: That's a me too, me too, all right, all right? No,
Speaker 2: that was Kathleen, baby Kathleen. Yeah, she was there, all right,
Speaker 2: very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 5: Does she know what's happening to Kevin D's right now?
Speaker 1: Oh God, damn it.
Speaker 2: Oh I should have told her with the problems in too,
Speaker 2: Luca Lake. Oh, call back, gul Ricks. This place sounds awesome,
Speaker 2: and I feel stupid for not knowing of it, But
Speaker 2: I like how she described it. It's a place where
Speaker 2: like your grandmother would make a little sandwich for you.
Speaker 2: Goulerix is set to reopen following a four year restoration
Speaker 2: four years wow.
Speaker 1: First opened in eighteen sixty nine.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Gulerix is preparing to welcome customers once again at its
Speaker 2: grand reopening on Friday, August seventh. Located on Caroline Street,
Speaker 2: Gulerix closed for four years.
Speaker 1: To undergo an intensive restoration.
Speaker 2: It'll hold a ribbon cutting at eleven o'clock on Friday
Speaker 2: to commemorate the grand reopening. First fifty guests and attendance
Speaker 2: will receive free Gulris merchandise. The building itself goes back
Speaker 2: to eighteen oh eight.
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask you how someplace survives being closed
Speaker 5: for four years? Yeah? Is it its legacy of being
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: Years America's longest running soda fountain?
Speaker 1: What really?
Speaker 2: America's longest running soda fountain reopens in Fredericksburg.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's pretty cool, superlative.
Speaker 2: The dining area has expanded for fifty includes counter high
Speaker 2: top seating in banquettes.
Speaker 1: It also includes a revitalized retail area. That's fine.
Speaker 6: Um.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's got like the look at the little
Speaker 2: soda fountain count counter.
Speaker 5: I see the picture. Very charming.
Speaker 1: Isn't that cool?
Speaker 5: Around for one hundred and fifty years away? For four
Speaker 5: you said it opens again Friday Friday? How packed? Is
Speaker 5: this gonna be? Probably insanity?
Speaker 1: I would think so.
Speaker 2: Chicken salad, egg salad, grilled cheese. The soda fountain will
Speaker 2: also serve hand mixed coke along with cherry vanilla, raspberry,
Speaker 2: orange and chocolate sodas, plus metal tin milkshakes and malts.
Speaker 5: You're missing one thing. Yeah, you're missing one thing that
Speaker 5: I feel like they have to have. Not yeah, even
Speaker 5: if it's not in the article.
Speaker 1: Egg creams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh they better have egg creams. But you
Speaker 2: don't know for sure it's not in the article. They
Speaker 2: better have egg creams. And I'll tell you what. Given
Speaker 2: my given a choice between a milkshake and a malt,
Speaker 2: a hundred times out of one hundred times, you go
Speaker 2: with malt. A good malt is better than a good milkshake,
Speaker 2: But a good milkshake is better than a half assed malt.
Speaker 5: This is why you're my surrogate father. My dad felt
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 1: I loved a malt.
Speaker 5: He loved a malt.
Speaker 2: Malt are great, Malt are a home run, But more
Speaker 2: milk powder?
Speaker 5: Is that all it is?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Say again is a power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that voice is better when it comes from Diane. O,
Speaker 2: malt are good.
Speaker 1: No, and it's a stupid name. It's a stupid name. Malt.
Speaker 4: No, I like that?
Speaker 2: Oh, no, like milkshake. You know what you're getting malts dumb?
Speaker 2: But it is again. Good malt is a thousand times
Speaker 2: better than good milkshake, but a bad malt?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 5: Egg cream is on the menu?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and by the.
Speaker 5: Way, taking egg cream and a malt absolutely.
Speaker 1: Doctoring? Feeling a little flemmy? Oh god, you know what?
Speaker 1: You won't jog home after that? Where am I going?
Speaker 1: Line one?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: Elliot at the morning?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 7: Why can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I got you?
Speaker 1: Who's this?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 7: My name is Chelsea and I'm from Fredericksburg.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm great?
Speaker 3: How are y'all this morning?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: Did you move to Fredericksburg from Los Angeles like the
Speaker 2: last lady?
Speaker 7: No, sir, I've been here since today.
Speaker 4: I was born.
Speaker 2: Fredericksburg is the Los Angeles of the uh of the area. Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with with gol Rix? I?
Speaker 4: Sure, I am? Is it?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is it as awesome as I want to believe it is?
Speaker 7: It's probably even more awesome than you want to believe.
Speaker 7: It's a lovely place in town, and we are so
Speaker 7: excited that it's going to reopen.
Speaker 2: I can't believe they've been closed for four years. I
Speaker 2: say that like I knew, but that's a lot that No, no,
Speaker 2: but think about it, that's a long time to be gone.
Speaker 1: And back up four years.
Speaker 2: They had just started coming out of COVID and then
Speaker 2: shut down for four years.
Speaker 7: I think the whole town kind of knew that, like
Speaker 7: it was closed, but it was never gone, like the
Speaker 7: windows were covered with paper, but it was never a
Speaker 7: doubt that it would come back to town. It's such
Speaker 7: a staple, it's been there forever. It feels like the
Speaker 7: kind of place.
Speaker 3: You could imagine your grandparents going.
Speaker 7: God, everybody says that like it's yeah, it's it's very old,
Speaker 7: but feels like you're just popped back in time there.
Speaker 7: It's awesome, is it?
Speaker 2: And I love I love like that dumb like I'm listen,
Speaker 2: I'm only looking at pictures, but I love like that
Speaker 2: soda fountain counter, Like.
Speaker 1: That looks awesome. That looks cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's really where you order. You really stand
Speaker 7: right up there.
Speaker 1: Hey, I ask you this, have you ever had have
Speaker 1: you ever had? Are there malts good?
Speaker 7: Yes, malts are good. I cannot attest to an egg cream.
Speaker 3: I have not had one.
Speaker 7: But if you're going you have to get a cherry coke.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, cherry coke.
Speaker 1: No, you go egg cream over cherry coke.
Speaker 5: You could probably do a third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just.
Speaker 7: Have to have all three drinks because you cannot go
Speaker 7: into gule Ricks and not get something from that soda fountain.
Speaker 2: When you say you've never had an egg cream, you
Speaker 2: mean at gule Ris, but you've had an egg cream before.
Speaker 7: No, I'm embarrassed to tell you I've never had one before.
Speaker 1: You should be embarrassed.
Speaker 3: You should be embarrassed you, I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like saying like, oh, I've never had bacon,
Speaker 2: Like that's crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Wow, all right.
Speaker 2: I'd like you to get in there and get an
Speaker 2: egg cream. I bet it's a good one too. As
Speaker 2: a matter of I can tell you a thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1: I can tell you the last place we had egg creams.
Speaker 1: We together. We were together when I know I had one.
Speaker 5: You have one in Vegas?
Speaker 1: You haven't had some bagel Mania. That's the last one
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 5: I had one in New York over the.
Speaker 1: Fourth Did you really? Good?
Speaker 6: For you?
Speaker 1: Great Glenn's.
Speaker 5: If you look on Yelp, there's a fourteen year old
Speaker 5: that gave it two stars at Glenn's dinete. Yeah it
Speaker 5: was delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God, egg creams are so good. Now can I
Speaker 1: ask this?
Speaker 5: Are you walking with your own egg cream drink carrier?
Speaker 1: Oh like the seven to eleven thing? Or you went like,
Speaker 1: have three beverages? I have three beverages.
Speaker 5: I don't really know the backstory, but someone wrote that
Speaker 5: the town panicked when they saw their their sign on
Speaker 5: the corner come down four years ago. I don't know
Speaker 5: if it was then or more recently. It does say
Speaker 5: on their Facebook page that it just needed a little love.
Speaker 5: It's back, brighter than ever and ready to welcome Fredericksburg
Speaker 5: once again.
Speaker 1: Hi Elliott in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's that?
Speaker 4: Hey Elliott? This is Al from up in Spotsvania.
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 4: Al good sir? You were asking about Gulrich's. My stepson
Speaker 4: is actually one of the new chefs that's going to
Speaker 4: be working there. I might be able to answer some
Speaker 4: of your questions.
Speaker 1: The Uh, well, yeah, don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, what was it, Tyler,
Speaker 2: What was the thing with the with the sign that
Speaker 2: the sign came down or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was right after COVID when they shut down
Speaker 4: the sign came down and everybody was having a fit
Speaker 4: because they thought it was going to be gone forever, right,
Speaker 4: so did people? Yeah, it's been around for as long
Speaker 4: as I can remember. I'm I'm well, we won't say
Speaker 4: how old I am, sir.
Speaker 2: It's been around since eighteen sixty nine. I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think you were around back then.
Speaker 4: That's amazing then, but my grandparents were. And I remember
Speaker 4: going in there in the seventies as a child, and
Speaker 4: it actually started out as a pharmacy with a soda fountain.
Speaker 1: Can I can I ask a question?
Speaker 2: I don't know why, I why I think I know this,
Speaker 2: But wasn't that the case with a lot of soda fountains?
Speaker 2: Like it's it's a weird thing to say because nobody
Speaker 2: uses that term anymore.
Speaker 1: But wasn't that like back in the day.
Speaker 2: What weren't they in like like we're in like pharmacies
Speaker 2: or like like little like if it wasn't a pharmacy,
Speaker 2: it'd be like a general store that also had a
Speaker 2: soda fountain?
Speaker 1: Is that the history of.
Speaker 5: Them prescribing you a little dose?
Speaker 1: Isn't that part of it that I don't know?
Speaker 5: Wasn't carbonated water special and and used it medicinal way.
Speaker 2: Oh, like drink a flat soda when you're sick. That's
Speaker 2: a very Jewish mother.
Speaker 1: Thing, the flat ginger ell. Yeah, when you were a little.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how they started out, is it was a
Speaker 4: pharmacy and then they added the soda fountain. I don't
Speaker 4: know if it was because of the carbade of water
Speaker 4: or whatever, but yeah, and that's how it started out.
Speaker 4: And I'm not an egg salad person, but they say
Speaker 4: they have the best egg salad sandwich in the area.
Speaker 2: Well, I am an egg salad person, and I would
Speaker 2: like to take that test. I got three beverages to wash.
Speaker 1: It down with.
Speaker 5: Spot get the bag right in there.
Speaker 1: Hey, what is the what is it?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 2: You said, like your grandparents took you there, Like that's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's been around since eighteen sixty nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember well before the days of Walmart stuff,
Speaker 4: we had Woolworth and my grandmother worked there and that
Speaker 4: was directly across the street from Gulrys. And my mother
Speaker 4: and I was when I was a child, would go
Speaker 4: visit her and we'd go over there and have a
Speaker 4: soda or something for lunch, and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Hey, do you do you like their egg creams.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big egg cream person, but it was
Speaker 4: very good. Now they did have used to have the
Speaker 4: best root beer float you could ever taste.
Speaker 2: Oh, man, you have no I would what I would
Speaker 2: do for a root beer float right now.
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you the last time I had
Speaker 1: a root beer float.
Speaker 2: I also, I also I like a root beer float
Speaker 2: with either vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. Hey, how are the malts?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: I haven't been there. I moved away in the nineties
Speaker 4: and then come back and mid two thousand, so I
Speaker 4: really didn't have it been there as an adult. But
Speaker 4: what I can remember as a child, everything that I
Speaker 4: ever had there was good.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if I find out your step
Speaker 2: son isn't making good malts, I'm gonna rip him an ass.
Speaker 4: He's a chef, Well, he's gonna be in the He's
Speaker 4: gonna be in the back doing the sandwiches, the ham salad,
Speaker 4: the chicken salad, the egg salad. He's going to be
Speaker 4: the one preparing all the salads for the sandwiches.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's also been a long month of
Speaker 2: Sunday since I've had a ham salad.
Speaker 1: But that's good, That is good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, dude, Yeah, they're gonna have it all
Speaker 4: their menu. Their menu is actually online already, is it?
Speaker 2: Is it like like I get like there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of sandwiches and stuff for they Are there any entrees?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Not as of now. I don't know if they're going
Speaker 4: to be adding because they do have some plans to
Speaker 4: expand into some things that they haven't announced yet.
Speaker 2: I got youa yeah, zip it, zip it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, very good, very good, Thank you, sir. Hey,
Speaker 1: just kind of curiosity. When you moved away in the nineties,
Speaker 1: did you move to Los Angeles?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Actually I went to Charlotte o Calin.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, very good, Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Speaker 5: If I admit to something, will you promise not to
Speaker 5: strike me?
Speaker 1: Let me sit on my hands.
Speaker 2: Wait are you gonna go like if you're gonna tell
Speaker 2: me it's milkshake over malt like you can have your
Speaker 2: own opinion?
Speaker 5: No, I love them all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walter, great, Walter great.
Speaker 5: Oh I've never had ham salad?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 1: How have you never had ham salad?
Speaker 5: And just to be sure, I looked at a photo
Speaker 5: of it I have definitely never had that before.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a cat that's vomited? Very similar?
Speaker 1: It ain't the most appetizing looking thing. I've had ham
Speaker 1: on salad, but I have never had ham salad. Kristin, Oh,
Speaker 1: yes she has. Absolutely, You're right.
Speaker 5: It does not look appetizing.
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: No. Honestly, if you didn't know better, you would think
Speaker 2: you heard Diane's cat behind the restaurant going.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: But like then the guy would walk it out and go, hey,
Speaker 2: I heard you talk to my stepdad.
Speaker 5: You can say the same thing about tuna salad and
Speaker 5: chicken salad salad.
Speaker 1: The salad looks great, but this salad looks great, so pink.
Speaker 2: Nobody has ever nobody's ever picked up the eggs salad
Speaker 2: and been like, oh, did Diane's cat throw up? But
Speaker 2: if I bring you a ham salad sandwich, you're like, ooh,
Speaker 2: I'm eating.
Speaker 5: Puke like it's Diane's cat on medicine. It is so good.
Speaker 2: Though, ham salad is good, I can't believe you've never
Speaker 2: had it.
Speaker 5: I'm willing to try it, and if it upsets my tummy,
Speaker 5: carbonated water.
Speaker 1: Where am I going? Line two?
Speaker 3: Hi, Elliott, the morning, Hey Elliott, who are you?
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6: I have been going to Goldbrick since I.
Speaker 3: Was h h how so?
Speaker 2: But now you were your parents before that? Were your
Speaker 2: parents going when they were children?
Speaker 6: Yes, so we've all been from Fredericksburg and they've been going.
Speaker 6: They have the best root beer and the floats and
Speaker 6: they have the best egg salad sandwiches that you can imagine.
Speaker 1: Hey have you you've had ham salad? Right?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: I make it all the time every holiday.
Speaker 1: Oh you make ham salad.
Speaker 6: I make cam salad.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, someone went to culinary school.
Speaker 6: Right, it's easy to make. But it's very good as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no it is. I love it. The well, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: So you must be stoked that they're coming back on Friday.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, we are actually going to go over there
Speaker 6: and be at the grand opening.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, get there early. Wait, hold on one second.
Speaker 2: The first fifty guests in attendance get a free gul
Speaker 2: Rix merchant, some free Gris gul Ricks merchandise.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's what the plan is. I'll send Diane
Speaker 6: some pictures.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, please do, please do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'd love it. It's a beautiful place.
Speaker 3: If you guys can.
Speaker 6: Ever get down to Fredericksburg, I suggest going and swinging in.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 5: He can.
Speaker 2: I ask you this as somebody like you said, who
Speaker 2: like grew up and spent your whole life in Fredericksburg.
Speaker 2: Are you tired of these goddamn Californians moving in.
Speaker 6: The hurry?
Speaker 3: We don't. Yeah, the furries are a little rougher.
Speaker 2: Ut All right, very good, very good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, ma'am, thank you. Well now, I oh, you
Speaker 2: know what we didn't do. We didn't get that guy's
Speaker 2: son's name or a step son.
Speaker 1: The chef.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's okay. It still seems like it's worth a trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In so many of the comments, I'm gonna sit right
Speaker 5: there and crush a molt. And the lead up to
Speaker 5: this three opening, a lot of people said before I
Speaker 5: guess they've published this menu right, that they had to
Speaker 5: bring back the ham salad.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be very honest.
Speaker 2: If it's if it's egg salad, ham salad, chicken, the salad,
Speaker 2: chicken salad, like, if if it's all those, I'm not
Speaker 2: going ham sand first.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that egg salad I would go egg or tuna.
Speaker 5: Well, then you should react to these Facebook messages.