Muscatine

Yeah, I was gonna marry one of the daughters. Any one. For some reason, they wouldn't return my calls.

I liked the old ball park at the end of Onieda Street. It had the wooden fence around it and the covered wooden stands. When I was a wee snot, someone took me to a rodeo there and I had an old photo of a midget auto race held there.

When I was a bit older, I would hang out behind the outfield fence in hopes of getting any ball that made it over the fence.

Once, after I got a car, I was driving past the ball park while a game was in progress. A foul ball cleared the fence, hit my cars rear window sill and bounced inside. Lucky the window was down.

I remember the Golden Spike. I was in a travelling country western band by the name of George Guinn and the General Store Band. We were from Oklahoma and the Golden Spike was our first gig outside the state. I remember staying in an old hotel that was under renovation at the time. It was just across the street from the railroad tracks and the Mississippi River and within walking distance of the Golden Spike. Does anyone remember the name of that place?? It was a big hotel with a bar on the right as you walked in the front door. Very nice architecture with very period equipment (claw-footed tubs, etc.). 

Also, I dated a girl there by the name of Marsha Brand. Does anyone know her or what became of her?

Hotel Muscatine. It has been totally remodeled into office suites and luxury condos. The owner and his wife live in their suite, which is the entire top floor. The bar is still downstairs, but to the left if you come in the door on the RR tracks side. It is a martini bar now. Their is also a Thai restaurant where the other ones have been.

The Spike folded or changed owners as the owner was trying to run a second bar in Iowa City too. He passed away at his own hands a couple years later.

Never heard the girl's name who you dated though.