I have been told by a resident in this area that it is probably safe during the day - night may be risky - and I understand if you take a picture from your car in the parking lot. The store probably changed since when Dan was there - it is now a Short Stop - Food Mart.
The events in the song generally describe what happened, but some of the details were changed, probably for a better story. They tried finding a bar but, being Christmas Eve, they couldn't find one, so they went to the liquor store to get a six-pack of beer. The story as told from a couple sources is that Dan had come back to his hometown for the holidays and was buying whipped cream for the Irish Coffees he was making at his parents' house, when he met an ex-girlfriend there. The emptiness But neither one knew how."ĭan Fogelberg grew up in this section of Peoria and graduated from Woodruff High School, located a couple blocks south of here. We drank a toast to now And tried to reach beyond ".We went to have ourselves a drink or two The lines that pertain to the Food Mart are as follows: It is a semi-autobiographical account of a meeting with an old girlfriend. The song mentioned is one of the most well-known songs that Dan Fogelberg has written and performed. In 1981 Dan got his top moment, when he released The Innocent Age, which featured some of his greatest hits: Same Old Lang Syne, Leader of the Band, Hard to Say and Run for the Roses. The street has an honorary name - Fogelberg Parkway. A source identified the location as 1302 East Frye Avenue, which is here. The store currently is both a convenient store and a 'packy' store. The building is on the west end of the block of stores. The Food Mart is on the southeast corner of the intersection, which has a traffic light, and a few blocks south of Glen Oaks Park. In Peoria, at the corner of Prospect Street and East Frye Ave, is a Food Mart in a strip mall, which was the location mentioned in Dan Fogelberg's song, "Auld Lang Syne."