{"id":597106,"date":"2026-04-11T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:39:11","slug":"the-missing-calgary-public-library-branch-in-crescent-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597106\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing Calgary Public Library branch in Crescent Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puckett\u2019s Dine &amp; Dance was the ninth location of White Spot, a Calgary hamburger chain started by George and Jerry Puckett in 1929. This was a separate operation from the White Spot chain that Nat Bailey started in B.C. in 1928 (which, until recent years, had a couple locations in Calgary).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the restaurants of Nat Bailey\u2014who, in the 1950s, bought the Vancouver Mounties Triple-A baseball team\u2014Calgary\u2019s White Spot restaurants had no nautical-themed Pirate Paks to speak of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puckett\u2019s Dine &amp; Dance was the ninth location of White Spot, a Calgary hamburger chain started by George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-597106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}