10 Restaruants & Retailers We Miss

[charminglane]

Rue, I also attended Highland Oaks for a bit. I see from your profile that you are younger than me, however we probably know some of the same people or teachers.
I own a vintage home in Monrovia now, up the street from the Aztec Hotel.
Back to the thread~~~
Hinshaw's Dept. Store has been gone for many years.

 

[Brad Bowers]

When I was a kid it was always a treat to visit Casey Jones' Junction, a restaurant (I think they had several) in Wichita, KS whenever we'd go back east to visit family. Railroad-themed, of course, but the best part was the lunch counter, where a Lionel train would run from the kitchen and stop in front of your seat with your plate of food. To a train-crazy kid, that was the coolest place to eat.


Brad

 

[rue]

Rue, I also attended Highland Oaks for a bit. I see from your profile that you are younger than me, however we probably know some of the same people or teachers.
I own a vintage home in Monrovia now, up the street from the Aztec Hotel.
Back to the thread~~~
Hinshaw's Dept. Store has been gone for many years.

You did?! Do you remember Mrs. McMullen? She was my favorite teacher. Did you go to Foothill's J.H? Or Arcadia High? I only went there for a year and then we moved. I remember the Aztec too. Oh and Hinshaw's was where we shopped for clothes every school year. I was sad to hear it was gone.

 

[rue]

When I was a kid it was always a treat to visit Casey Jones' Junction, a restaurant (I think they had several) in Wichita, KS whenever we'd go back east to visit family. Railroad-themed, of course, but the best part was the lunch counter, where a Lionel train would run from the kitchen and stop in front of your seat with your plate of food. To a train-crazy kid, that was the coolest place to eat.


Brad

That sounds wonderful!

 

[charminglane]

I left Foothill's after a few months and went to Gooden School in Sierra Madre. Then I went to Alverno. (Catholic, girls)
My brothers both went to Foothills and Arcadia High.
Not much has changed here. 85 degrees today.

 

[rue]

I left Foothill's after a few months and went to Gooden School in Sierra Madre. Then I went to Alverno. (Catholic, girls)
My brothers both went to Foothills and Arcadia High.
Not much has changed here. 85 degrees today.

85? yuck. I hated that growing up, which is why I'm living here now

I lived in the Oaks on Hacienda. I love Sierra Madre. I miss Howies. I hear it's still there though.

 

[charminglane]

Taylor's Meats is still in Howies. There are only fruits and veggies for sale, too. The regular old market closed a few years ago, as well as Roesses Market on Lima.

 

[John in Covina]

The "Dime Store." How many of you had a dime store in the town where you grew up? More than any particular large retailer, I miss the local dime store.

It was referred to as the "Five & Dime" when I was a kid. Also I recall really old stores and supermarkets having wood floors with the slats about 2 inches wide so when you walked with the cart the wheels made a rump-rump noise as they crossed the slats of wood.

I do miss Auto-mats like Horn & Hardart in NYC.

 

[scottyrocks]

I remember the 'original' FAO Schwartz in NYC. That was the place to go before the advent of huge toy stores such as Toys R Us.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

We had a five and dime in downtown Columbus when I was a kid. We also owned a pharmacy that had an old soda fountain/lunch counter with a big Coca-Cola mirror behind the counter, which I would guess dated to the 1920's or so, same age as the fountain. It was very cool.

We have a lunch counter at the pharmacy yet in Portage, mostly kids go there. I wish the Walgreens here in town had one.

 

[St.Ignatz]

It was referred to as the "Five & Dime" when I was a kid. Also I recall really old stores and supermarkets having wood floors with the slats about2 inches wide so when you walked with the cart the wheels made a rump-rump noise as they crossed the slats of wood.

I do miss Auto-mats like Horn & Hardart in NYC.

The stained glass of the original H&H in down town Philadelphia is still intact. Little regional bits lost with the internet and mega radio conglomerates homogenization of America. Around here it was always "the five and ten".
Tom D.

 

[rue]

Taylor's Meats is still in Howies. There are only fruits and veggies for sale, too. The regular old market closed a few years ago, as well as Roesses Market on Lima.

How depressing

 

[TJC]

I was in a Burger Chef in Cincinnati in the spring of '69. A tornado hit and knocked a billboard down on my '67 Camaro, but at least I was safe inside the building. Burger Chef and Jeff were my best friends that day. LOL

In a Burger Chef near Houston in 1969 I personally ate 9 of their 19 cent burgers. I also had a milk shake to go with them. I forced my buddies to pay.

 

[gpsoldhat]

Shakeys pizza parlor. Pizza, fried chicken and mojo potatoes. There was one in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the 60s and 70s. Las time I ever at at one was in 1994 in Abu Dabi, united Arab Emirates. Good food

 

[Widebrim]

Shakeys pizza parlor. Pizza, fried chicken and mojo potatoes. There was one in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the 60s and 70s. Las time I ever at at one was in 1994 in Abu Dabi, united Arab Emirates. Good food

There are still plenty of them in the Los Angeles area (I'm looking at a Shakey's coupon right now as I type). The pizza is still pretty good, but there are no more straw-hatted servers, or a player piano pounding in the background. Shakey's used to be one of the many "fast food" restaurants were high school and college students would work at during the summer; not so much anymore...

 

[Widebrim]

I just found out that Little Joes in LA is gone and it was demolished :cry: I used to eat there with my parents at least once a month as a kid. You can read about it here: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/oct/08/local/me-30374

Little Joe's Italian Restaurant wasn't demolished, nor did it become a Pizza Hut. The building is still there (I see it almost weekly), as well as the sign. Ridiculous how the city let such a landmark fade away.

(And I didn't know that you were from the San Gabriel Valley, rue. I used to hang around there quite a bit; grew up in Glendale, though.)

 

[gpsoldhat]

There are still plenty of them in the Los Angeles area (I'm looking at a Shakey's coupon right now as I type). The pizza is still pretty good, but there are no more straw-hatted servers, or a player piano pounding in the background. Shakey's used to be one of the many "fast food" restaurants were high school and college students would work at during the summer; not so much anymore...

Shame I'm in Missouri.

 

[Widebrim]

You are correct. I worked at Rite Aid in IT at that time and was part of the acquisition of Thrifty and Payless into Rite Aid. I left RA in 1999 when they started to have financial issues, and have not looked back!

At least the ice cream is still sold under the Thrifty name. I think it's $1.19 a scoop now; was 5 cents when I was a lad.

 

[Widebrim]

Federated Department Stores. I used love going to "Fed-Co" as a kid in Pasadena to order Orange Bang drinks and go shopping.

Pizza Petes pizza chain. Home of the old famous 'Pizza Square' slices. Used to be the best neighborhood pizza.

Bob's Big Boy. The classic American burger. Affordable an delicious back in the day.

old school Hollywood movie theatres that had style. The only old, classic theatre still existing IMO is the Vista theatre in Silver Lake/Los Feliz.

Yeah, Fed-Co was a trip. About the last time I went there, I bought a bottle of Skrip ink for about 69 cents, when they were selling elsewhere for about 2 bucks. The original Pizza Pete's was in Glendale (I think owned by the De Santis family of Silver Lake). A slice of cheese pizza for 25 cents...I was looking for a Bob's in Glendale today; no longer there. My sister worked for the original Bob's over on Colorado in the '60s. Yes, the Vista still has style, but I think that the Egyptian and Grauman's Chinese still do, too...

 

[MariantheLibrarian]

I know they're out there (somewhere), but it feels like I haven't seen a Stuckey's in a dog's age. We used to plan our summer trips to Grandma's so we'd only stop at Stuckey's. Mother needed her pecan logs to get through those visits, I think.