Who Am I? Week #696

[kingchuck69]

Welcome to the 696th edition of Who Am I?, the weekly game where I dish out a daily clue to a subject and you have to guess who or what it is.

Every day, the clues get easier. The winner of this week's game gets a piece of my gratitude.

This week's subject is a THING.

CLUE #1: I opened for service in the 1970s.

 

[HecticArt]

Starbucks

 

[sadchild]

YOUR MOM!

 

[Listener]

Amtrak

 

[scotchandcigar]

Temple Beth Shalom.

But seriously, Jiffy Lube.

 

[semipenguin]

NASDAQ

 

[Channel98]

FedEx, founded in 1971 as Federal Express.

 

[kingchuck69]

CLUE #2: I changed my name a few times over my lifetime.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Meineke

 

[Listener]

Apple

 

[Channel98]

Well, blow me down! I think the answer is Popeyes, which began in 1972 as Chicken On The Run and later became Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and then Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits. But why don't they use the apostrophe?

 

[scotchandcigar]

But why don't they use the apostrophe?

They're saving it for improper use as plural indicator's.

 

[kingchuck69]

CLUE #1: A famous Motown group almost died on me.

 

[HecticArt]

The Francis Scott Key Bridge?

 

[scotchandcigar]

Amtrak

 

[MadisonRadio1]

The 747

 

[Listener]

Highway 78 in Athens, Georgia

 

[scotchandcigar]

The 747

I read about Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, but I couldn't come up with a guess to fit the category. Clever.

 

[Aaron]

I read about Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, but I couldn't come up with a guess to fit the category. Clever.

Same here

 

[Channel98]

The 747 entered service on January 22, 1970 – and the Four Tops were going to be on flight 103 but they never boarded the plane. Since they were not on the plane, I don't see how they "almost died."

The Four Tops nearly boarded Lockerbie plane, says Duke Fakir

The last surviving original member of The Four Tops reveals the Motown group almost boarded the plane that was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988.

www.bbc.com

I consulted Saint Wikipedia regarding Listener's guess and learned that the Four Tops were injured in a 1978 Trailways bus crash in Georgia. I don't know when that freeway opened but Trailways was founded in 1938. The bus crash and the 747 crash are both noted in this article:

8. Four Tops (Part One)

DISCOGRAPHY       SOURCES         PLAYLISTS We Ain’t Just Four People On a rainy Tuesday noontide in late April 1978, on a long curve of Highway 78 some fifteen miles east of Athens, Georgia,…

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