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Amsterdam House. |
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Located on north Central near Camelback. I still remember the old people in this place, all sitting along the wall staring at the people eating in the center. Closed. |
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Bob's Big Boy. |
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Bob's opened in 1954 and put a lot of other places out of business, Originally had car hops and huge strawberry pie. Closed. |
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Big Apple. |
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On east Van Buren. Used to have sawdust all over the floor and a radio station inside.Still open but not the same. |
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Valle Del Sol. |
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On McDowell near 16th Street. Mexican food in an Art Deco building. Closed |
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Newton's Prime Rib. |
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Van Buren and 9th St. I never ate there, not enough money. Closed |
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Knotty Pines. |
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Located on north 7th Ave. and Camelback. My dad used to take me there in the 40's. Closed. |
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Polar Bar, sent by Bob and Mary McFarlen. |
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North Central near Thomas. They had twin sisters working as car hops in the 50's. Who can forget the Zombie? One quart of ice cream, bananas, 5 kinds of fruit, nuts and anything else that's handy for $1 |
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Silver Spur. |
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North 7th St., later The Islands. Built by a guy named Garland who owned the Central Dryv-Inn on Central and Roosevelt. It didn't last long. |
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Village Drive In. |
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On Central and Thomas. Opened in the 40's, closed after a few years. |
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Woody's El Nido. |
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On McDowell near Central, closed. |
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Cathay Garden. |
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On Central south of McDowell, a 1940's restaurant that had the strangest front with big steps. Only lasted a few years. |
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Central Dryv Inn. |
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Central and Roosevelt. Owned by the Garland brothers. I would really like to have a photo, because I lived one block away. They were famous for their chili size and shoe string potatoes. |
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Dick's Drive Inn |
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15th St. and McDowell, the building is still there but in horrible condition. |
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The Flame on Adams St. |
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What a fancy place. They had flaming chicken right at your table. Also a singles bar after hours. The bar was like a jungle and they had a monkey for a while, until the monkey started doing embarrassing things. |
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Masque of the Yellow Moon |
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1950 program, just about every school in Phoenix was in this, some 1700 students each year. |
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Neptune's Table, 7th Ave. & Camelback |
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Newberry's in Phoenix 1938. Waffle and coffee 10 cents. |
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The Stockyards sat right in the middle of a real stockyard with thousands of cattle. Who could ever forget the smell before you went inside. |
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The Grubstake was located at 5521 N. 7th Ave. They had home made pies by Dorothy Joyce. The place was always very busy, then one day it simply closed. |
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Phoenix stores gift wrap stickers 1950 |
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