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Show IDee Bmurger Clown Is Gome Too Ms By CLINT WARDLOW A symbol that has stood throuehoi the state of Utah for many years is soon to 2ar forever The famous symbol soon to be ,ed from the highways of Utah is none other th,,.. ne Dee Burger Clown. The clown is easily recognizable to almost every child and adult in Utah. LAST MONTH the Dees fast food chain sold their burger palaces to Hardee's an Eastern based food chain. Last week the famous Dee Burger Clown signs started coming down to be replaced by the less garish Hardee's signs. The transformation from Dees to Hardees is expected to be completed by early next year. 3 What does this mean to the average Utahn'' As a , Utahn born and raised many of my childhood hours were spent consuming cut-rate burgers in the shadow sha-dow of the famous clown. I can only wonder if other fellow Utahns feel the same empty spot when they realize that something that seemed so immortal dur ing our childhood will be gone forever. I thought that as long as there were cows there would always be a Dee Burger, but alas, I was wrong. .?2?N7H- uWn that Was 50 much a Part of my childhood will be consigned to the same advertising limbo inhabited by other once famous dignitane-such dignitane-such as the Man from Glad, Mrs. Olsen, and then? which once lived in our automobile gas tanks. The problem does not lie in the quality of theirk food, for what is a hamburger but the mashed pan a dead cow served on a sesame seed bun, but mo -the removal of something that we have become ft fortable with. THE DEE Burger Clown has stood over Ut monument to fast food for over 20 years, thii j will no longer be able to revel in his rotund n? ; colorful face and balloons that promised hot fries, shakes, and turnovers. This role isCn to the more recognizable and more pompous K McDonald. The spirit of the Dee Burger Clown will the Dee's Family Restaurant, but his rotuno -will be missing from the signs. CAN THE loss we feel from missing an old ever be replaced? Probably not, nut as long is a fast food connoisseur living in Uja h Burger Clown will live forever in the collet science of Utahns everywhere. |