Restaurants 50 years ago ( memory lane, anyone?)

I miss the Red Coach Grill

(At least we passed by it, traveling from summer camp and to aunt and uncle's house in New Milford. Thanks for the memory!)

we were "puttin' on the ritz". 😄 Hi-falutin'. 😆

'I' [the mischievous one] signed the guest register as having our actual residency and then one out of state at a fashionable ski resort town. Where we vacationed. 😱 🤣

Woodies in DC had one.

Red leather chairs and wood paneling.

When Marshall Field's, and then Macy's took over, they kept it going. Now Macy's closed the store.

They served warm popovers to everyone as a starter. They were delicious!

My dad would order us each a Shirley Temple while he had his Manhattan.

All of us kids got Shirley Temples and my parents got whatever booze they were drinking.

I wasn't very big, mostly just counter service. Similar to this:


The big restaurant was the Hazelwood Cottage Restaurant, right in the downtown on Main Street. Gone for many years. Then there was the Red Coach Grill out on Rt 1 and in later years the Hilltop Steak house.

at the Whitners in Reading PA. a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg time ago

my wife waited counter at Woolworths, Anchorage AK, she waited tables at Robinsons in St Petersburg FL and then went on to clerical work.

My tipping habits are really good, but they can be really bad if the server has an attitude.

I would stop at a Drug Store counter on the way home from Jr High and get their special - a small hamburger (kind of like Krystal sells now) and small Coke for 24 cents - priced that way so the 1 cent sales tax would make the cost an even quarter.

in Penn Square, Okla. City, and a beauty salon!

It was not a really brightly lighted atmosphere and I called it Fernando's Hideaway. 😆

They had exquisite hot fudge sundaes. Always got one after shopping. A Friendly's ice cream parlor came close way later. What up with commercial hot fudge after that. Blah.

We had one memorable meal there in the mid sixties. It was a fixed menu, with two seatings in an old Boston residence. We had filet mignon, zucchini, and riced potatoes. Melon, flown in from Spain for dessert. How could such simple food be memorable? It was! Everything was explosively tasty. The meal was served on a colonial era set of pewter plates.

It changed hands and the next time we went we were served paella and tramisu.... Sigh.... It remained a bell weather for us. Really good restaurants were compared against "Nine Knox Street." Only a handful over the years have measured up. And now, with the trend to noise and no table cloths, etc., we may never find another one. Were very sad when Les Sablons in Cambridge closed after little more than a year.