maxed out
83 posts
May 29, 2009
9:53 AM
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Stealing the title from TV's Guy, What eateries do you miss the most in the Dayton and surrounding area? I am in south Florida now so I don't get to sample the great foods.
My favorite pizza from my early days was Cassano's & Marions .
Xenia had a great restaurant near the Rinks store called "Double J".. That is where I first tried a taco.They were great.
Nick's in Xenia is still open. Great food there.
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Becky73
118 posts
May 29, 2009
9:15 PM
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I was fond of the Upper Krust which was a funny place on a corner of North Main street . It was yellow and black striped on the outside, looking a little like it belonged in a Dr. Suess book. They had overstuffed sandwichs and soups. It was the site of a disasterous first date once upon a time, but I still enjoyed the place. There was one in Cincinnati on Colerain too.
Of course, I adored Cassanos and Parkmoor.
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SeeDavid
242 posts
May 30, 2009
7:54 AM
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Golden Nugget Pancake House...there used to be two, one on Keowee and one in Kettering. The Greek family who owned it sold the one on Keowee to another Greek family, (different name)
The one in Ketty burned down and they re-built. When Charlie Gibson came to town, (and other notables) they asked where the best place to eat was, and they took all notables and Charlie (don't get mad at me), to the Golden Nugget....mmmmmm.
Christy's in Vandalia (by Fulmers across from the Airport.
Flying Pizza (went there to see 'em fly in high school downtown..still there).
Oh Max, I love it when you start a new thread, and a good one, too from the tv show. Missed ya, buddy!
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Keugene48
35 posts
Jun 01, 2009
10:09 AM
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This was not a diner or a drive-in, it might have qualified as a dive.... One of my favorite places was the Chinese place downtown, off of Ludlow street I think. You went downstairs into a really nice restaurant. I remember the dinner for two, one time my dad took me out to eat there before meeting my boyfriend at the train station. For one price you got dinner for two consisting of Won Ton soup, Egg Fu Young, an egg roll and rice and chicken and vegetables with peanuts; to finish a fortune cookie and of course tea. I don't remember how much it cost, probably less than two Big Mac meals today! I heard the place eventually got closed by the Health department, I don't know if that was true. I keep looking for Chinese food as good as I remember from that little place, haven't found it yet.
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tlturbo
108 posts
Jun 02, 2009
5:03 AM
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When I worked at E F McDonald (1968-71) we ate lunch a LOT at that Chinese restaurant. A friend still in Dayton and I were talking about it a few months ago and he told me its actual name but I forget. We just all called it the Ho Che Min Trail.
We were talking the other day about our rememberance of fast food places. I graduated from Beavercreek 65 and for the life of me, I can't remember where a single McDonalds was. I remember the Hasty Tasty's, Parkmoor's, Frisches, Country Kiitchen, Shoneys, Village Inn, Marions, Cassanos and the Frostop Rootbeer on Airway just W of Wright State Campus where I tasted my First TACO. WHERE were the McDonalds at??? Also, was that a Parkmoor at the far W edge of Xenia on 35 as you headed out of town?
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maxed out
84 posts
Jun 02, 2009
8:57 AM
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tlturbo...The first McDonalds I remember was the one across from Carroll High School. I think there was a Bargain Barn next to it, maybe. Living in Xenia, I remember when my dad would take us to that MacDonalds. That was quite an affair to pile me and my sister in the car to drive over there.
When I was in high school I loved the A&W Teen Burger. They sure don't taste like that now. That A&W was destroyed in the Xenia tornado. There were a few people killed there at that time.
Any of the chains that are still in business taste as good as they did back then. It is mass production now. Just last week I went to a Burger King and ordered a burger. What happened to the "Flame Broiled" The girl that was making my burger opened a tray that was stacked with about 50 cold patties. She popped it into the microwave to warm it. It tasted bad also. Never again. I remember when they had flames that came up and "Flamed broiled" my burger.
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JeffN
202 posts
Jun 03, 2009
9:39 AM
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maxedout ... that's the first McDonald's I can remember too. That was a hopping place back then with Bargain Barn and Cassano's right there. A barber shop too, I as I recall.
My favorite burger joint growing up was Sandy's on Airway.
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tlturbo
110 posts
Jun 03, 2009
1:20 PM
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Jeff,
Do you remember the ice cream store in Page Manor? Also, up the hill (Airway) was a Cassano's, then on up a Frostop Rootbeer and across the street from that (that's now a dead end street into the back side of Home Depot but back then it was where New Germany Trebine Rd came out onto Airway) was a Putt Putt Golf place.
Where was Sandy's? I remember when Long John Silvers opened up at Airway center.
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Dan-O
25 posts
Jun 05, 2009
5:52 AM
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Mikey,
Actually, I think the Brown Derby was located a few doors down (south) towards Fountain Avenue from where the Upper Crust was. My parents used to take my younger brother and me to the Brown Derby on special occasions (birthdays, etc.). My brother loved lobster (my parents would always joke about how expensive it was to take him out to dinner), and the Brown Derby had a big lobster tank from which you could choose your own lobster for dinner.
You’re right about the odd confluence of Main Street and Santa Clara Avenue because Victor Avenue also came in near that intersection.
Dan-O
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Dan-O
26 posts
Jun 08, 2009
5:56 AM
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Marck,
I think you’re right about there being a fire in the Brown Derby sometime in the 70s. I don’t recall if it just did some damage or if the whole place burned down.
I also think you’re right about The Upper Krust being a clothing store before it was The Upper Krust. I wouldn’t have remembered the name, but Dunhill’s does ring a bell with me, and you could certainly be correct about that too.
Dan-O
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Andy
2 posts
Jun 08, 2009
8:16 AM
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Does anyone remember "Sano's Pizza" on N. Main? Is it still there? Thanks, Andy
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WALT2
8 posts
Jun 08, 2009
2:08 PM
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I HAVE A SONG REQUEST FORM FROM THE BROWN DERBY FROM 1953. IT HAS A PICTURE OF HOWARD MALCOLM WHO APPEARS TO BE 30-35, THE ADDRESS WAS 1911 N, MAIN ST.I ALSO HAVE A PICTURE TAKEN ON N MAIN ST IN FRONT OF THE BROWN DERBY DURING THE SNOW OF 1950 THAT SHUT THE CITY DOWN FOR ALMOST A WEEK.
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Mikey
19 posts
Jun 09, 2009
10:25 AM
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Dan-O , you are correct. I was in the process of editing that post when I realized that you had already posted the correct location (I deleted my post.) Somewhere in that same inter-connected building, there was a Western Auto store where I got my first bicycle.
Hey, that was a GREAT Chinese restaurant on the lower half basement at Second and Ludlow. I was born in 1942 and it was there from my first memory of the Rike's vicinity. Maybe it was Chung-Sun, Inc.??? It was really well done and very nicely decorated. As an adult, we took my mother there for Sunday eats and she poured mustard all over her egg-roll (she had no idea!) She ate it anyway!
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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Mikey
20 posts
Jun 09, 2009
10:36 AM
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Another blast from the past is Tuty's at Airway and National Rd. Is it still there? It was originally a dinky little A&W Root Beer stand with car hop service. That A&W is still somewhere deep down inside of Tuty's, because they built around it for some reason. Maybe to get around zoning.
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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Steve K
64 posts
Jun 09, 2009
10:54 AM
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That 1950 picture of the Brown Derby in the snow also shows the Western Auto store's sign quite clearly!
Tuty's is still there, but I think it burned down and they built a smaller one, so I don't think there's an A&W buried inside anymore.
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tlturbo
112 posts
Jun 09, 2009
11:52 AM
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YES YES - that was my area. See my post above.
Actually it wasn't on the corner of National, there was a gas station there and the rootbeer was next door to the right. A&W - OK - I thought it was Frostop - who cares. It had drive up and a big rootbeer mug on the roof. There was a gas station next to it and one across Col Glenn. THAT I remember well bcause I would get Sunoco 260 for about .45 a gal in the vette there. One was a Sunoco and one an Esso I think. Had my first TACO (what the heck is that?) at that A&W
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maxed out
85 posts
Jun 09, 2009
1:50 PM
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tlturbo.I don't remember A&W having tacos. I don't think the one in Xenia had them. Anyone remember the smorgisboards(sp) I remember the one in Xenia called Duffs. I think it was in Kennedy's Corner, maybe.My family would make a monthly trip down to Lebanon and eat at the "Golden Lamb". I thought I was a big-shot little guy being able to eat there.
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tlturbo
113 posts
Jun 10, 2009
5:27 AM
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Maxed - Now THAT is a name out of the past - Golden Lamb in Lebanon. I dated a girl from West Carrollton whose parents owned a weekend getaway cottage home along side a little river outside Lebanon. If you walked upstream about a 1/4 mile from the cottage, you were under that bridge that they said was highest in Ohio.
Hey Maxed - since we live about 5 miles apart, we all need to get together and do dinner - see if we can get along in person - Vicki is up for it. e-mail me
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SeeDavid
257 posts
Jun 10, 2009
10:53 PM
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Max, it was Duff's Smorgasboard, and they also had one in Miracle Lane if I am not mistaken (on Salem) or close to it.
Golden Lamb was the oldest Inn in Ohio until....
I don't know if or when it closed, I will have to check. Car boys- Parkmoor tomorrow, want some chicken? C
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Mikey
22 posts
Jun 11, 2009
7:28 AM
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Hey, all you people that need an oil change and a grease job, there is still a Duff's Smorgasboard in Pigeon Forge. Now, that's where the PROs go to eat!
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
Last Edited by on Jun 11, 2009 7:30 AM
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Becky73
126 posts
Jun 15, 2009
8:21 AM
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Golden Lamb is NOT closed - at least not permamently. It closed briefly for rehab after a fire, but that was a while ago. It is now open under new owners to the best of my knowledge. Great place. My brother in law and his wife stayed at the Inn for their honeymoon back in 1977. We have had many family dinners there over the years.
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granniemicki62
1 post
Jun 22, 2009
12:20 PM
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My mother worked at a restaurant (or diner) in Vandalia in 1953, near (maybe across from?) the place where they did trap shoot at that time, if different from today. My brother remembers only that they called it "Vi's". He does not know if that is the actual name of the restaurant, or if "Vi" was the owner, or manager of the restaurant. If anyone knows the name of the restaurant, or any information on it I would love to hear. I am actually looking for a picture of it. My mother and brother lived in a building behind the restaurant.
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maxed out
89 posts
Jul 06, 2009
1:39 PM
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I don't think that when I was a teenager I was really concerned about the health scores of local restaurants. I guess I believed ALL restaurants were clean and healthy. Not so today. It is amazing off the negative health inspections all around the USA. I may be a little out of line here, but I have eaten at 4 different establishments the Guy Fieri has done a show about. I won't mention a name of the restaurant, but the one I visited in Santa Fe actually scared me. This one is a real "DIVE".
I do remember seeing a few roaches and flies on food, and a few hairs, but I guess I was just to naive in my young Xenia days
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Sweetpea46
2 posts
Jul 12, 2009
12:57 PM
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Westward Ho was my favorite. My husband always stopped there if he was working in the area. Everything really tasted like homemade and it was very reasonable. Why did they leave???
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DanSchultz
6 posts
Jul 13, 2009
1:56 PM
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My family was addicted to the Parkmoor chicken. It was only 99 cents for 5 pcs when it first opened. When they went out of business, they sold their chicken recipe to a restaurant on wilmington pike. After they went out of business, it was lost forever, I guess
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Mike C
42 posts
Jul 14, 2009
7:26 PM
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DanSchultz, I remember the Parkmoor chicken jingle of " Chicken in a basket one buck" for their chicken. It was DELICIOUS. I miss that chicken.
also the Upper Crust was a great place to eat on Main Street. They also had one in Washington Square Shopping Center on 48 down by Dorthy Lane market. Both are closed now. They moved the one on Main Street to National Bank Plaza and renamed it ( because they didn't want to pay the franchise fee) " Pickles and Dill". That didn't last very long and their food wasn't the same.
Anyone remember the movie theater in the Washington Square Shopping Center? What was it called?
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newsnot
7 posts
Jul 15, 2009
8:17 AM
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hi,
does anyone remember mr. jim's steakhouse on south dixie? they had the best steaks for a reasonable price. the guy was the manager at tad's steakhouse in cincinnati then started his own chain of restaurants.
lost track of the restaurants.
jack
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newsnot
8 posts
Jul 15, 2009
8:20 AM
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hey what happened to chicken louies on north main? this was my favorite chicken. better than parkmoor.
jack
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DanSchultz
9 posts
Jul 15, 2009
9:47 AM
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I believe there was a smorgasbord on Wilmington Av near Dorothy Lane. It sat back a little off the road on the west side of the street. Only cost $1 in the early days. No wonder I picked up such bad eating habits. I also loved H. Salt Fish and chips on Woodman drive across from Maxoms
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Dan-O
31 posts
Jul 16, 2009
4:37 AM
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DanSchultz,
I believe that the name of that smorgasbord was the Tem-T (or Tem-Tee) Inn. As seniors at Chaminade High School in 1969-70, we used to drive out there for lunch and stuff our faces. You're right, it was pretty inexpensive, and, as I recall, the food was pretty good.
Last Edited by on Jul 16, 2009 7:42 AM
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harleygnuya
1 post
Aug 01, 2009
10:05 AM
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That may be the place I remember from when I was a senior at Meadowdale HS in 1969. In those days, you had to eat lunch in the school cafeteria. That is, until the last week of your senior year, when they turned us loose for lunch.
Well, one of the kids knew about this all you could eat for a dollar place way across town, so we went there on Monday for lunch. On Tuesday, the word had spread and a bunch of us went. You know high school kids - bottomless pits for stomachs. Well, when we went back there on Wed., they had put up a sign limiting us to 3 helpings of meat!
Those were fun days. Thanks for the memories.
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RIVERDALE RAT
7 posts
Aug 23, 2009
12:42 AM
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anybody remember a little pizza joint on Wayne ave called Tiny Tims ? it was near Xenia ave. they used to have the best steak hoagies in the world.
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rfk61
4 posts
Sep 01, 2009
3:52 PM
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Favorite pizza was Cassanos at Dorothy Ln. and County Line rd. I remember how it was slid into a paper sleeve and the paper would stick to the top of the pizza, but it didn't matter...it was de-lish! We went to Burger Chef on Dorothy Ln. alot and I think it was called Country Kitchen next to Shoppers Fair. Can't forget Hasty Tasty on Linden..they had the best Hot Shots. We went to Smorgasbords alot, there was one in Kettering off Dorothy Ln. but I can't remember the name...not Duffs, but it was in the 70s if anyone can remember.
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Dan-O
37 posts
Sep 02, 2009
5:55 AM
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rfk61,
Re the smorgasbord you refer to, check out my post to DanSchultz above.
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pie8me
23 posts
Sep 02, 2009
8:32 AM
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That Chinese restaurant that keeps being mentioned, the one at Second and Ludlow down in the basement. I wonder, is it the one that was run by the parents of Ming Tsi? Ming does a cooking show on PBS, "Cooking with Ming". He lived in Dyaton for a number of years and his parents operated a Chinese place somewhere downtown.
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rfk61
21 posts
Sep 02, 2009
9:53 AM
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Dan-O---I talked to my mom today and she said she thinks the name of the Smorgasbord was Sweden Haus, then changed to Stacy's. Ring a bell anyone?
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Dan-O
38 posts
Sep 03, 2009
5:58 AM
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rfk61,
I know that the smorgasbord we went to was called the Tem-Tee Inn, but there may have been another one in that area, although the names Sweden Haus and Stacy's don't ring a bell with me. But then again, the old memory isn't what it used to be.
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Doug68
50 posts
Dec 14, 2009
6:55 AM
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Someone mentioned a diner in Vandalia (1950's) near the trapshooting grounds [in front of the airport on National Road]. I remember one near there in the mid to late 1950's called THE ROCKET. No one else seems to remember this and sometimes I wonder if it is a figmnent of my imagination.
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samstone
57 posts
Dec 14, 2009
8:33 AM
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Doug68,
Not your imagination. I washed dishes there for a few months, in the mid 60's, while in High School. It was owned then by the Ditmers.
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maxed out
125 posts
Dec 14, 2009
11:26 AM
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Remember the Ponderosa Steak House. Xenia had one. There was always a long line waiting to get in. Get the tray and silverware, pick up the salad, pick up the texas toast, pickup the potato, by that time the steak was done. I did really like the steak, but they all had the same taste. I think it was meat tenderizer. All for $5.00
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Curt Dalton
245 posts
Dec 14, 2009
12:20 PM
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As of a couple of months ago there was still a Ponderosa on Airway Road. Smells the same and tastes the same as it did 30 years ago when I went to my first one. Only now they have a food bar as well. There was a steak place (I think) that had a mascot of a cow with flies flying around it and a mean potato bar. Maybe Jed's? Why is it that the steaks all taste the same - except for Old Hickory, of course.
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Curt Dalton
246 posts
Dec 14, 2009
12:29 PM
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The best places to eat (back when):
Wendy's - when it was so juicy that you'd bite into it and the juice would run down your chin AND they'd take the hamburger that hadn't sold the day before and mix it in the chili so it was THICK with meat. Not so anymore...
Friendly's Restaurant - the American burger - see juicy comments above... No so anymore...
Westward Ho on North Dixie had a lot of good food for a good price - now gone...
As is the Carillon Cafeteria on Patterson Blvd. I think you had to be over the age of 60 to get in LOL - just like the cafeteria at the Salem Mall (which I can't remember the name of) or the MCL Cefeteria on Far Hills - which is STILL OPEN!
You can see why I had to wear the HUSKY pants when I was a kid...
Last Edited by on Dec 14, 2009 2:31 PM
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maxed out
126 posts
Dec 14, 2009
12:56 PM
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Curt...Dave Thomas would roll over in his grave if he saw what Wendy's is now.
If I want a great steak now without paying $50, I grill it myself. Curt, I don't know why the name "JEDS" stirred my memory, but it did.
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JeffN
278 posts
Dec 14, 2009
3:48 PM
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Wasn't Jed's some sort of Rib place back in the 70s and 80s?
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Keugene48
81 posts
Dec 15, 2009
10:11 AM
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Jed's was steakhouse type of restaurant. I think there were several, one was in the Salem Mall area I believe. My sister in law was an asistant manager of one somewhere in that area for a time.
I remember PoFolks restaurant too, sort of like Cracker Barrel is today.
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maxed out
127 posts
Dec 15, 2009
10:18 AM
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I always like Po Folks. Great fried chicken and whole catfish. They served your drink in a Mason jar.
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mem
52 posts
Dec 15, 2009
11:56 AM
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The Candlelight was always a great place for broasted chicken for many years. Later it became Zek's Restaurant, then a mexician place and now it's a Milano's. Just across North Dixie from Hoagies.
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driver62
278 posts
Dec 16, 2009
6:39 AM
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I think it was called Jed's Steak and Ribs.
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LINDA09
13 posts
Dec 16, 2009
6:50 AM
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MEM....I think i posted this comment earlier,but on Sat nites when my dad got off work at Delco Moraine, we would go to the Candlelight for broasted chicken. I was just a young (14 or so )teenager but I felt very grown-up sitting in a nightclub at 12 midnight eating broasted chicken with my dad and stepmom !! Whenever I drive on Dixie I look to see if I remember where the building was at....thank you,,now I know where to look !
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Steve K
159 posts
Dec 16, 2009
7:59 AM
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I seem to recall hearing that Jed's flew the ribs in from Australia. Food at Jed's was always good, never understood why they folded. They also had some of the cutest waitresses in town . I think you can still get a steak at the Pine Club for under $50, as long as you don't get anything from the bar.
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