The most profoundly nostalgic lunch I ever had.

[Horace]

Looks like a good place. What did you order? Was it good?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in The most profoundly nostalgic lunch I ever had.:

Looks like a good place. What did you order? Was it good?

Chicken sandwich, fries, medium vanilla cone, washed down with a diet coke.

I know I like the place and all, but the food was actually excellent for what it was, too. Same type of fare as McDonald's, but more "real" or far less crappy. (I did ask where they get it from; that's why I know most of it came from the grocery store.)

[Horace]

Was the help mostly middle aged women, except for the Mexican cook?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in The most profoundly nostalgic lunch I ever had.:

Was the help mostly middle aged women, except for the Mexican cook?

Different kind of stereotype: high school kids.

Who listened to the freaking radio, because the place wasn't set up to handle Spotify.

[Mik]

The best place for ribs in Cincinnati was the Barn and Rib Pit in an alley downtown. They closed maybe 20 years ago. This place was great. All the waitresses were middle aged with beehives and waitress dresses and called you honey. The seats were all red pleather. The walls were adorned with 40's and 50's starlet promo shots and aa few autographed pics from various celebrities. It was as vintage as vintage gets and totally authentic. Nothing was a put on or for PR. They just were what they were and could not have been anything else.

The owner was about 120. Every time you came in you were surprised that he was still with us. All the MLB baseball players went there after games.

It was great. I miss it more than any other restaurant that is gone now except maybe the Maisonette.

[Jolly]

Kid you not, there's a little drive-in about twenty miles from here that serves pronto pups, just like they have since the fifties.

Still drop by every now and then, just to get a pronto pup and a frosted coke.

[89th]

The first and last photos you took are frame-worthy. Love the lighting and composition of where it draws your eye. Can you DM me with where this is? It somewhat reminds me of Jess' Hotdogs when we were in college (and also where my dad went 30 years prior).

[George K]

@89th said in The most profoundly nostalgic lunch I ever had.:

The first and last photos you took are frame-worthy.

Indeed. That guy has an eye, doesn't he?

[89th]

@George-K Rumor has it he even has two!

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in The most profoundly nostalgic lunch I ever had.:

The first and last photos you took are frame-worthy. Love the lighting and composition of where it draws your eye.

Well, Arnaud Montagard I'm not, but it helps when the building cooperates.