This one is from the archives. It's one of two video clips I recently came across from the early days of TMC, July of '03. This one is at the corner of 15th & Sage, in front of the RPI Student Union. I pitched and slung curry off a hotdog cart and a turkey fryer that first year. Each year TMC grew on that corner adding tents, tables, and turkey fryers. Eventually the hot dog cart came to an ignomous end when the business transformed into a street corner decked out self serve buffet under a 10x20 tent.
In the fall of '07, Jackie Baldwin the executive chef for Sodexo, the food service at RPI approached me and asked if TMC might like to move inside the Union. A space was open in the McNeil Room cafeteria. Negotiations began and Thunder Mountain Curry soon after became a subcontracted vendor of Sodexo Food Service.
We still have customers who remember those warm sunny days on the corner slinging curry. I'll never forget of course. There isn't a day I don't wistfully look back at the corner where it all began.
Back in the day! I only visited two or three times then, but that's only cause I didn't realize how often you were there.
ReplyDeleteOf course, we're all happier now that TMC is open all winter :)