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Omaha Diner at World Cafe Live

Courtesy of World Cafe Live | Posted on January 29, 2014

Where

World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-222-1400

When

Thu, March 13, 2014
8:30 pm

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About

OMAHA DINER
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
World Cafe Live Philadelphia - Upstairs
$17 - $20

Sitting in a diner in Omaha, Nebraska in 1954, Todd Storz noticed that a teen-age waitress selected the same song on the jukebox over and over. At that moment, Top 40 radio was born, joining the TV dinner, the Reuben sandwich, the bobby pin, the ski lift, and (some claim) fuzzy dice on the list of famous and infamous inventions from the city that sits atop the Strategic Air Command.

Now comes the latest invention, OMAHA DINER - four storied musicians attempting to re-define a format that forever perverted the way we experience music. You may love Top 40 (doubtful), you may hate it (probable), you may not care about it at all (liar), but you cannot escape it....

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