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sprinkleeninow

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12. Another: Howland's Dept. Store had a restaurant in their basement level.

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:26 PM

Jan 2019

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.

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Restaurants 50 years ago ( memory lane, anyone?) [View all] SoCalDem Jan 2019 OP

Old School New England bottomofthehill Jan 2019 #1

Stonehenge--Ridgefield, CT n/t sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #2

YES! elleng Jan 2019 #8

My step-dad treated us several times dining there. Mom and I felt like sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #14

I remember when major Dept. Stores had a huge restaurant inside of them Yavin4 Jan 2019 #3

Yep, Dayton's in Minneapolis had the Oak Grill. geardaddy Jan 2019 #6

When we kids were small Ohiogal Jan 2019 #4

I remember those days! geardaddy Jan 2019 #7

Those were the days. My small town had a Woolworth's Resturant. Fla Dem Jan 2019 #5

I washed dishes and bussed tables onethatcares Jan 2019 #9

In the late 60s SCantiGOP Jan 2019 #10

John A. Brown's had a big restaurant lillypaddle Jan 2019 #11

Another: Howland's Dept. Store had a restaurant in their basement level. sprinkleeninow Jan 2019 #12

Nine Knox Street in Boston. LAS14 Jan 2019 #13