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restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: crowamonghens ()
Date: February 02, 2012 10:49PM

in the early 70's my ma worked at the holiday inn on LSD and often she would take me around that area for whatever. i swear i remember seeing a restaurant around there where the entrance was a giant fish's head, and you would walk thru the giant gaping fishmouth to get in. anyone recall this place, or the name?? please tell me it wasn't a dream.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: Chris ()
Date: February 03, 2012 10:25AM

Sounds like your mom wasn't the only one on LSD



crowamonghens Wrote:
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> in the early 70's my ma worked at the holiday inn
> on LSD and often she would take me around that
> area for whatever. i swear i remember seeing a
> restaurant around there where the entrance was a
> giant fish's head, and you would walk thru the
> giant gaping fishmouth to get in. anyone recall
> this place, or the name?? please tell me it wasn't
> a dream.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2012 10:30AM by Chris.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: HOLTANEK ()
Date: February 03, 2012 11:54AM

hey-oh!!!

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: crowamonghens ()
Date: February 04, 2012 01:35AM

i know, right?

now come on guys.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: Chris ()
Date: February 04, 2012 02:57PM

Sorry but you set yourself up with that post. I showed this to a coworker, who laughed his ass off, and he recalls a similar restuaraunt but west of LSD.



crowamonghens Wrote:
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> i know, right?
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> now come on guys.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: crowamonghens ()
Date: February 05, 2012 04:52AM

well, see, having being born here and living here all my life, i can hear the term "LSD" without thinking "hurr hurr, drugs".

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: Mornac ()
Date: February 05, 2012 01:46PM

Years ago I drove with some friends up to Milwaukee to see a Sox game at County Stadium. We (characteristicly) got into to some sort of trouble after the game and Milwaukee’s finest took us to the station where we were told to empty our pockets upon arrival. A cop picked up a piece of paper that one guy had among his pocket junk. It had some driving directions on it. The first item on the top:

“Take LSD to Hollywood”

He was taken into another room for further interrogation.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: Washtnawjoe ()
Date: February 05, 2012 03:42PM

I'm pretty sure the restaurant you're referring to was called the Coho Inn located in the Holiday Inn, you entered through a large fish mouth. This was in the mid 70's but I can't find a picture of it anywhere on the web.

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Re: restuarant on LSD, fish head entrance
Posted by: crowamonghens ()
Date: February 05, 2012 04:23PM

THANK YOU.

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