Shasta? You guys are killing me! LOL!
Yeah I remember the Hojos,but they weren't the only ones. If you travel South, there were "Stuckeys". They had the big yellow billboards.
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Hardee's also wrapped their burgers in foil. The all time worst burgers in my opinion were Roy Rogers up and down the New York State Thru-way and along the Penn Turnpike.....yuk!
The best "have it your way" hamburgers were "Harveys" in Canada.
Did anyone have[toddlehouse]hamburger joints in your town? Twenty five cents and good too.
No we didn't have Toddlehouse hamburgers. We did have Kewpee's [[with the big baby in nothing but a diaper LOL!), Super King [[aka Uncle Sam's. They made the special Super King burger that was the size of a large pizza and could serve 5 people!). Also the neighborhood favorite called "Li'l Hut" on Detroit Ave.
Remember the[deluxe playmobile]?
No, but I remember when Big Wheels first came out. I never understood the appeal, so I never asked for one. One of the best Christmas present I remember was an air hockey table that my brother and I received one year. You rarely see air hockey anywhere but game arcades these days.
http://originalbigwheel.us/images/SuperBW_500.jpg
Back to burgers. I remember a Gino's in either Jersey City or Bayonne NJ and I thought the burgers were pretty good.
Wendy's was founded in my hometown and they were delicious when they first came out. We used to have Burger Boy here with carhops. Those were good as well. They were big, too. I was too young to eat one by myself.
Remember this one?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3GUlmIFzE
Remember how K-Tel have these package albums of a bunch of popular singles in the 70s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7jQ3Rnv3o
Don't forget Mister Microphone...
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Yes. They were pretty good. They started in Toronto in 1959, and went national across Canada in 1963. That's when we got our first one in Winnipeg.
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Didn't they have one in Windsor?
If I were anywhere near Toronto. I'd always eat in an "ethnic" restaurant, [[Indian, Jamaican, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Lebanese, etc.). They have a lot of great ones there. Speaking of "ethnic", -take a look at The Four Tops' "Sexy Ways" thread again. I put up another funny story.
Hey, you remember...
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Harvey Houses were on The Toll Roads even in the 1950s [[Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Pennysylvania that I can remember, and, possibly Nebraska)! They usually had a Standard Station with them [[Standard of Indiana, or Sohio). Maybe they had Sinclair stations with them in the great plains and Mountain States?
Of course, Harvey Houses were general family eating restaurants [[glorified coffee shops with expanded menus-rather than "hamburger fast-food joints). I guess they must have been similar to Howard Johnson's. I don't think we ever stopped at a Howard Johnson's. Most often, we stopped at "Ma and Pa greasy spoons", - and had mostly good luck doing so. We did a LOT of car driven trips across USA and Canada for not having a "Caravan" [[live-in trailer or RV).
We traveled across Canada1 [[Trans Canada Highway), US Route 66, US Lincoln Highway, US I 90-94, US 60, US I 70, and US I 40. Before most of those Interstates were completed, and while they were still, for the most part, old 2 to 4 lane highways, rather than limited access expressways, tollways and freeways.
Where were you living in the 1970s?
Gosh, I loved Howard Johnson's. Famous French chef Jacques Pepin worked there when he moved to America and became the research director for their food lines and menus.
And this Judy Garland movie is about the waitresses at Harvey House.
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But that film is about the very start of Harvey House in the 1880s.
Well, that's true, Robb. But those Harvey House restaurants were steeped in tradition. Part of what made them so popular. I loved going there--always felt like a wonderful step back in time. [[With fresh food, of course!)
Were you a "swinger" back in the day? We had one of these! And I use to sing along with the commercial..."Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!"
http://i.nextmedia.com.au/News/polar...retro-chic.jpg
I liked these:
http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-...in/6/85188.jpg
Geno's was started by geno marchetti who played for the baltimore colts.
Geno's was started by Geno Marchetti who played for the Baltimore Colts.
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The football player's name was spelled G-I-N-O. So, why was the restaurant G-E-N-O's?
Ummm..gino's!!!
http://usasoda.com/images/bireleys59db6oz.JPGMy fave orange soda now only available in Japan. It was made with something called oranges.
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I remember Birekey's. It was national, just like Nehi and Canada Dry. Like Nehi and the others, they also had a large variety of soft drink flavours.
This is my school lunch box from 1969:
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Marv,you must have alot of stuff in your attic,hehehehe!!!