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In 1948, the story of Health Camp began, or rather, the story of a mobile canteen, when Jack Schaevitz and Lou Stein, brothers-in-law, moved from Ohio to Waco. Schaevitz built a mobile canteen with the objective to provide ice cream and burgers to military personnel at James Connally Air Force Base nearby. The canteen was so successful they decided to open a stationary restaurant...

"There was a 7:30 p.m. concert in College Station at the G. Rollie White Coliseum on the campus of Texas A&M University in Bryan, Texas...

Elvis and the boys were often good friends with one family in town and in Midland, it was the Holifield family Cecil Holifield remembers

On April 26, 1955, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black appeared at the auditorium. It was the second night of a 5-day tour.