No kidding. The menu said, "a meal for 4 or a feast for 2!" I was crazy about
the pastrami and provolone. = a pause for remembrance =
I would cash my check on Friday and head over for lunch.
Do you know why it closed? Retirement? Certainly not for a lack of business. The
place was packed and sometimes with a line out of the door. Were there 8 tables?
Does anybody remember the Internet Cafe that used to be on Western back in the late 1990s? It was a coffee shop primarily but they also served basic pastries. They had several beige computers running Windows 98 with CRT monitors for Internet access (ISDN-speed) which was lightning fast for the day. As long as you bought coffee or a pastry you could freely use the computers. It was also one of the first places I ever heard of that had Wi-Fi, back before most people even had laptops.
Has anyone ate at the Boulevard Cafeteria lately? It's been a long time for me.
Any reports of it's cuisine would be appreciated.
That does it. I'm going to go ASAP.
The Boulevard Cafeteria
I remember they moved from Classen to the current location in the late 60's.
Fridays are mac and cheese day. Also fried chicken and chicken pot pie are among the entrees on Friday. Also, pie.
I have never experienced Boulevard and have considered it when passing that I should check it out some time.. I really need to do so.
I saw this in the Denver paper today, the founder of Casa Bonita, Taco Bueno and Crystal's passed away on Tuesday.
Denver Post - Casa Bonita founder Bill Waugh dies at the age of 79
I was never a casa bonita fan here in OKC. however the one in Denver while the food may have still been just average.. the spectacle that is the enviroment at that one is pretty amazing.
Does anyone remember these restaurants.
1. Shipman's Cafe
2. Garland's Smorgasbord?
Those are 2 restaurants I remember from the 60's.
PP,
Which Shipman's? Actually I grew up going to the one on Robinson near the viaduct and as a huge butter/margarine fan, I loved the tray of butter they placed at every table/booth. They opened another one on Reno (I think) not far East of Western. I was an adult then and it was a little nice dump than the dump on Robinson. Great rolls (they called them biscuits), lots of honey and as I said, butter. My favorite meal was a hot beef sandwich. Open faced with roast beef over bread, and lots of gravy. I vaguely remember Garland's, where was it located.
C. T.
Was Garlands the one with the (very cool) art deco spire like thing?
Too cool for school!
I remember Garland's having cottage cheese with pineapple. I'd eat $5 of that in
a sitting. I'm thinking the buffet was on a carousel that went into the kitchen so they
could refresh whatever was missing. I thought it was the greatest restaurant on Earth.
On Garlands, he seems to remember in that area where Browns is, but that was a few brain cells ago. They had a sword fish hanging on the wall and always had pineapple and cottage cheese.
He doesn't remember when Vern closed it.
BTW: used to eat at Shipman's on Central around 15th.
As I recall it, Andy Anderson moved Hardy's to that location after the original downtown location burned, but it didn't survive for very long. That would have been about 45 years ago, more or less... I remember the swordfish.
Andy, a bowling buddy and no relation to the hardware magnate of the same name, bought the rights to Hardy's at an auction and so far as I know it was his only venture into food service.
Stickman,
Ok, you got me, when was Shipman's ever on Central? I think (I hope, for my memory's sake) that you are confusing it with the one on Robinson. The one on Robinson was the original (I believe) and it wasn't till in the 60's that he opened a second one on Reno/Main (pretty sure it was Reno). I don't know of a third one. Maybe Jim remembers another Shipman's. As for Brown's, they were there in the 40's and are still there. Garlands certainly could have been in the general vicinity. And, amazing as it might seem, my (normally pretty good) memory may be failing me. I suppose Brown's could have moved a building or two to the East or West sometime in the past. But, I have been in Brown's recently (for old guys, recently can mean several years and that's what I mean this time) and it didn't look like a place that could have been a restaurant. It doesn't look big enough inside.
C. T.
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