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Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
dicknowak
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Date: February 15, 2014 11:53PM
It was not a fast food restaurant. It was a nice sitdown restaurant with cocktails in the 50's & 60's.
Richard Nowak
Richard Nowak
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: February 16, 2014 12:00AM
bob1060 Wrote:
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> NDW5332 Wrote:
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> -----
> > Please correct me if I'm remembering this
> wrong,
> > but I seem to remember Beyond the Reef on
> Columbus
> > Ave, just south of 79th. I was just a kid when
> my
> > parents brought me there for my grandparents
> > anniversary, but I clearly remember the tiki
> motif
> > and the pressed duck. We got the Chinese candy
> > with the edible rice paper with the check.
>
> Thank you!! I recalled this restaurant as well,
> but not the name! We used to go here for the
> "special occasion" dinner...it was a really neat
> place for a kid to go because it was so different.
> Wow...I was just talking to my GF about this
> place. I remember a local Chinee place just SW of
> the Columbus/Pulaski intersection that had a bit
> of a tiki vibe. Tasty tiki drinks, from what I
> can recall.
Did that resturant have small cabins on it's property near the street?
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> NDW5332 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Please correct me if I'm remembering this
> wrong,
> > but I seem to remember Beyond the Reef on
> Columbus
> > Ave, just south of 79th. I was just a kid when
> my
> > parents brought me there for my grandparents
> > anniversary, but I clearly remember the tiki
> motif
> > and the pressed duck. We got the Chinese candy
> > with the edible rice paper with the check.
>
> Thank you!! I recalled this restaurant as well,
> but not the name! We used to go here for the
> "special occasion" dinner...it was a really neat
> place for a kid to go because it was so different.
> Wow...I was just talking to my GF about this
> place. I remember a local Chinee place just SW of
> the Columbus/Pulaski intersection that had a bit
> of a tiki vibe. Tasty tiki drinks, from what I
> can recall.
Did that resturant have small cabins on it's property near the street?
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
dicknowak
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Date: February 16, 2014 12:42AM
I sort of remember the cabins being a little further west on Columbus. The resturant on the corner in the 50's & 60's severed American fare & was not Chinese. The one I am remembering sat right at the intersection & was set back a little bit by their parking lot.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
ambrosemario
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Date: February 16, 2014 10:36PM
How about Mr. Shrimp at 74th & Western? For my money they had the best deep fried shrimp on the Southside. We used to stop on our way to the Double drive-in. There was a second location at 63rd & Harlem. I assume it was the same ownership, but I never stopped there. Good stuff.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
b.a.hoarder
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Date: February 17, 2014 12:01AM
ambrosemario Wrote:
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> How about Mr. Shrimp at 74th & Western? For my
> money they had the best deep fried shrimp on the
> Southside. We used to stop on our way to the
> Double drive-in. There was a second location at
> 63rd & Harlem. I assume it was the same ownership,
> but I never stopped there. Good stuff.
True story. I do not know if the stores were connected, we always called the one on 63rd. near Harlem 586-9000, but maybe that was just the most prominent thing up on the sign. Before I was of driving age a pal used to get his dad's '64 Chevy Biscayne in the evening. Tom got a job delivering for 586-9000 and myself and maybe even a couple of other guys would ride along, good way to cruise and pass the night. We ventured into the back room one night and sitting on the floor with a pile of those jumbo shrimp right next to him was the guy that helped out on the deep friers. He de-veined the shrimp and threw them onto the pile on the floor. I guess the deep frier would kill off whatever was on the floor but that was the last time we ate from that store. Tom kept the job regardless, the tips used to be decent.
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> How about Mr. Shrimp at 74th & Western? For my
> money they had the best deep fried shrimp on the
> Southside. We used to stop on our way to the
> Double drive-in. There was a second location at
> 63rd & Harlem. I assume it was the same ownership,
> but I never stopped there. Good stuff.
True story. I do not know if the stores were connected, we always called the one on 63rd. near Harlem 586-9000, but maybe that was just the most prominent thing up on the sign. Before I was of driving age a pal used to get his dad's '64 Chevy Biscayne in the evening. Tom got a job delivering for 586-9000 and myself and maybe even a couple of other guys would ride along, good way to cruise and pass the night. We ventured into the back room one night and sitting on the floor with a pile of those jumbo shrimp right next to him was the guy that helped out on the deep friers. He de-veined the shrimp and threw them onto the pile on the floor. I guess the deep frier would kill off whatever was on the floor but that was the last time we ate from that store. Tom kept the job regardless, the tips used to be decent.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
carmech
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Date: February 20, 2014 01:19AM
Does anyone remember The Cameo Lounge on 59th and Western?
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
Vznojohana
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Date: April 22, 2014 05:42PM
Ambrosemario, I'm wondering if you remember Angela or Angie who worked at the Beverly House around that time?
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: April 22, 2014 11:44PM
[b]I remember Cameolounge resturant. Al Micheals played the organ at the lounge . He let me sit in for him a few times I saw Al at a thrift store a month or so ago. I forgot the name of the lounge. Cameo was the resterant but the lounge had another name. I all burned down.[/b]OH ya it was the Oxford House.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2014 11:47PM by Richard Stachowski.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2014 11:47PM by Richard Stachowski.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
ldkleidon
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Date: April 29, 2014 01:38AM
I remember the blonde Cameo building but not much about the restaurant or lounge as I was a bit young at the time.
I lived at 58th & Campbell from '53 till '66. I remember the coffee shop & news stand.
I lived at 58th & Campbell from '53 till '66. I remember the coffee shop & news stand.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: May 09, 2014 06:01PM
I remember going to something called Kings Castle once when I was a kid, can't remember where it was, probably close to Cicero Avenue.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Tropical Hut or Morton's (started in Hyde Park).
Surprised nobody has mentioned Tropical Hut or Morton's (started in Hyde Park).
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
ambrosemario
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Date: May 13, 2014 03:21PM
King Castle was a knock-off of White Castle - little square hamburgers and all. I recall a couple locations in the 60's and early 70's, but none before or since. There was one located on Van Buren behind the Chicago Board of Trade. I cannot recall if it was on the SW corner of VB & LaSalle in the old Rock Island Station or on the SW corner of VB & Clark. Another was located in south suburban Dolton on Indiana Avenue. In high school I worked out that way for a landscaper and he would take us there for lunch. I was not a big fan.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: May 13, 2014 08:01PM
[b]Prince Castle on sw suburbs.[/b]
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
ambrosemario
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Date: May 13, 2014 09:34PM
Prince Castle - home of the squared iced cream scoop. They had their own version of the rainbow cone and it was served in stacked cubes. There were a couple of locations on south Western. One was just outside the Evergreen Plaza at about 97th, and another at 127th & Western in Blue Island. The latter location is now the home of Beggar’s Pizza (or thereabouts), itself a long time Southside institution.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: May 14, 2014 12:00AM
[bThere was also a Prince Castle on the S>E> corner of 95th & 54th ave in OakLawn. Also one on the west side of Harlem about 56th st near the Candle light theater.][/b]
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
charles
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Date: May 25, 2014 07:16AM
That was called Jack Diamonds!
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
charles
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Date: May 25, 2014 07:18AM
The place with the spider web sign on 79th and Western? was called______?
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
charles
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Date: May 25, 2014 07:19AM
Glavor's Grill on 79th and Lawndale.
Field's Restaurant on 104th and Western ( I bussed tables there).
Sun Sai Gai on 79th by Bogan- owned by the Chin family.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2014 07:21AM by charles.
Field's Restaurant on 104th and Western ( I bussed tables there).
Sun Sai Gai on 79th by Bogan- owned by the Chin family.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2014 07:21AM by charles.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
ambrosemario
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Date: May 26, 2014 03:07PM
In answer to the spider web question, that restaurant would be Miss Muffet's, a 24-hour Greek diner located on the NE corner of 79th & Western. Back in the 70's this was THE place to cap off a night of partying. He served a huge breakfast and the place would be packed from late evening well into the A.M. I had way too many omelets there. It remained open until 10/15 years ago when it was torn down for a chain restaurant whose name escapes me.
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
chipandkathy
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Date: May 28, 2014 09:09PM
How about Poor Richard's? Or is that too far south? I remember that being special as a kid, they had a lobster tank in the front and some outdoor gardens we could wander in while we were waiting?
Re: Now for some remembrances of Southside Restaurants
Posted by:
RON K.
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Date: May 31, 2014 11:29PM
WOW the Driftwood.went out with Lynn. the owners daughter. had some good times at that place. they also owned the Red Barrel. and the Capricorn farther south.I hear later they opened a place on Western ave. hey you have to give me credit its been fifty years. good times RON K.
