[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 10676-10677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         SALUTE TO LOIS BODOKY

 Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I salute a longtime Vermont 
businesswoman, and a fixture on Burlington's Church Street Marketplace, 
Mrs. Lois Bodoky.
  Lois is affectionately known in Burlington as the ``Hot Dog Lady'', 
for she recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of her business 
running a hot dog cart in downtown Burlington.
  Lois went into the hot dog business not long after her hair salon was 
lost in a fire, and at the same time I was running my first campaign 
for U.S. Senator. Back then, Church Street was a typical Vermont 
downtown, and Lois operated her cart on the sidewalk as

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cars and buses passed on the street. Now, her cart is in a prime spot 
on Church Street Marketplace, which became a pedestrian mall in the 
early 1980's, and is one of Vermont's prime shopping areas.
  Since Lois went into business, downtown Burlington has seen many 
changes, but the ``Hot Dog Lady's'' cart has remained a fixture, even 
in some of Vermont's coldest months. She is truly a Burlington 
institution and is most reliable to members of the downtown crowd who 
cannot let a lunch hour pass without a lunch from Lois.

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