posted 12-01-2005 10:10 PM         

Somewhere in this link it mentions Smacks. Did you order a Smacky Burger?
http://www.octanecreative.com/boomerbaby/food.html

posted 12-01-2005 10:30 PM         

our town was too small to get many new stores, we did have a Kresgees, the building is still there...Zayre was in Muncie....we used to do Christmas shopping for the kids there....I sold them(Zayre) fountain products in the eighties...

posted 12-01-2005 10:44 PM         

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Originally posted by Bob Miller:
I also forgot about Burger Chef...

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...Burger Chef opened in our town in the summer/fall of 1969, remember that day well.....I stopped for a burger, ate lunch with a buddy of mine, drove across the street and got arrested at gunpoint, and cuffed....before the day was over I had been arrested 2 more times.....not a good day...something about a stolen car that looked like my old 55(I had sold the 55 Chevy to my dad)...believe it or not, these cars were common as dirt in those days...

posted 12-01-2005 11:21 PM         

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Originally posted by Howard:
This was just emailed to me from the police department in New Castle Ind. This is a file picture of TUIB being arrested.

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Howard, actually, it is pretty close....except I was taken down at gunpoint....

posted 12-01-2005 11:54 PM         

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Originally posted by ed monahan:
Tangled, so your story is that you quit acting like that as a Teen?????????? I would love to hear those stories. Didn't the cops know you personally in a small town like that? Or was it the state cops?

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Ed...
...being a smaller town was part of the problem....they all knew me as the punk kid with the new GTO....I was followed and trailed EVERYWHERE I went, day and night and all with good reason I suppose....I had 23 traffic stops in the first 18 months I had my license, not counting the times they just plain couldn't catch me...I finally traded cars and they lost track of me for a while....it was all speed/racing related offenses...I was 18 years old before I figured out the accelerator had another position besides all the way to the floor

...my dad and I were both chased home one night about 2am....we were racing across town, him in my old 55 and me in a new black 69 Chevelle 396/375 conv....we split up and the cruiser followed me...my car was all black(for a purpose) and they chased me all the way to my neighborhood....I took a quick left and they missed the turn....by the time they came around the block I was out of the car and it was sitting by the curb....I couldn't get the back door unlocked to get in the house, so when I heard the cop car come around the 3rd corner, I jumped into the bushes beside the house....now my mom is at the door trying to see what is going on and I am waving to her to get back from the door.....the cops have my car surrounded, it is making popping sounds from the heat, and I am lying on the other side of the shrubs on my stomach hoping they didn't step into the yard....they were so close I could have reached out and touched their shoes.....finally, after searching under the car and inside it, their radio started making alot of noise and they hopped in the cruiser and sped away....2 nights later I got another ticket by the same 2 cops for loud exhaust(it was totally stock)....I was arrested and and drug off from a local drive-in rest while eating my fries....

...I was a slow learner I guess...

...one night my dad and I were riding home and we decided to fire his revolver a few times....seemed like fun to a 14 year old kid, I was shooting speed limit signs as we went down the street, we were followed and stopped by a rookie cop.....he recognized my dad and let us go, smiled and told us to "be careful, someone is firing a gun nearby"

lots of old stories and thoughts emerged the last week with my dads passing....we grew up kids together I guess....

and there are many other long boring stories, but I am tired of typing now....my fingers are sore

posted 12-02-2005 07:09 AM         

Remember many of those stores,,,,,the GEM was in Omaha, Lincoln had a ISS -International Super Store, Treasure City, O.P.Skaggs [my mom worked as a grocery checker for them], changed and expanded to Skagway Stores, which later became SKAGGS Drug >>>> later to OSCO Drug.

He had a Kresge store, W.T. Grants store and a Montogomery-Wards stores [both with wooden floors],,,Hested's 5 and dime, Arden's, Hinky-Dinky and Piggly-Wiggly grocery stores, and Burger Chef before the big hitters took control of the burger business.

Here is a restaurant chain that started in my hometown of Lincoln, NE in 1945 - mom and pop operation - still going strong 60 years later in several midwestern states.

http://www.runza.com/timeline.html

RunzaŽ has expanded to 63 locations in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa and South Dakota.

Very successful operation, but they chose to expand very slowly and are careful of who they sell their franchises to. Wish we had them in Arizona, but they aren't interested in leaving the middle America states

posted 12-02-2005 11:52 AM         

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Originally posted by Bob Miller:
I remember many of those stores, especially Katz, GEM and Sams. There was also a local hamburger chain called Smacks that McDonalds ran out of business.

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posted 12-02-2005 11:55 AM         

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Originally posted by Bob Miller:
I'm sure I did because at one time or another I ate everything on their menu! I also forgot about Burger Chef...

I guess you're originally from KC, right?

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posted 12-04-2005 11:02 AM         

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Originally posted by Bcoffman Gray Ghost:
Didn't KC have the original BIG BOYS restaurant? I think the new one tried to sue the one in KC of trademark infringement and the trial decided the one in KC was in business before the national chain ever got started.

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