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Posted by: Isabelbrown
« on: February 17, 2012, 05:26:22 AM »

I wasn't lucky enough to check out Kippy's, but I do keep in mind Jimandy's ... and Hamburger Cooking. For some purpose that string didn't seem to do as well as McDonald's or Wendy's, but to my teen-age taste, I believed their hamburgers viewed better than your.
Posted by: C Headley
« on: January 24, 2012, 10:30:00 AM »

Tuesday – 24 January 2012 – 1130:00 hrs CST

Thanks HBGF

It was the greatest root beer I have ever had and I am sure if Tom were still here, he would say the same.

During the summer of 2010, Riley (my Pooch) and I were in the Falls for an arborist-training course. One evening after class we met up with Doug, one of us Five, at B&K and stuffed ourselves with hot-dogs and root beer, just as we did in the 50s. The only thing that would have made the visit better is if all five six of us had been able to be there together.

Riley and I stopped at B&K a couple of times during our class lunch breaks. She enjoyed the dogs as well… albeit much smaller portions.

Riley and I are looking forward to visiting the Falls sometime late this spring or early summer… once the leaves are in full bloom. B&K will be on the list of places we visit… numerous times for sure.

If by chance those of you who stop by B&K for an occasional Hot-Dog and Root Beer are told, “we are out of Dogs,” you can assume we are in town.

Chet
Posted by: HighBridgeGlensFan
« on: January 19, 2012, 11:39:44 AM »

Hi Chet - Nice to see you back on the forum! Thanks for sharing a great story - and a good ending. I'll bet those root beers tasted great.
Posted by: C Headley
« on: January 15, 2012, 10:35:00 AM »

Sunday 15 January 2012 – 1135:00 hrs CST

Our First B & K Root Beer

I believe the B & K Root Beer stand on Munroe Falls Avenue was built and opened in 1953. One early summer day, my friend Tom and I decided to walk down the B&O tracks from the River Estates toward downtown, which was nothing unusual back in those days.  When we were a ways past Bailey Road, we decided to cut across the tracks and go up Russell, a short street that runs from the tracks to Munroe Falls Avenue. What to our surprise did we find sitting on the corner: A brand-new B & K Root Beer stand; the only thing separating us from our first B & K Root Beer and Hot-Dog… was MONEY. We were so broke we were in negative territory. At 13, we were not "zackley" high rollers… and that was back in the days of $0.05 (Where did the cent symbol go on today’s keyboards?) root beer.

It was not long after discovering that treasure, we happened upon another. On the opposite side of the B&O tracks from my house was a Pony League baseball field (long gone). We went there late one summer afternoon when there was no activity at the field. We wandered around for a while goofing off; just as we were getting ready to head home we found something someone had lost. It was a wallet… containing money! Oh boy, we were rich! If I remember correctly, it had about fifteen bucks in it. Seemed like a fortune to us young urchins, more than we had ever had all at once.

We slipped back across the tracks and went into my house. We checked the wallet and found a driver license. Looked up the name in the phone book and found a listing matching the last name and address on the license. Called the number and talked to the young man that had lost it. He was about 16 or 17 years old; when he stopped by to pick up his wallet he offered to take us to B & K for a root beer as a reward. We gladly accepted. He drove us to the new B & K in his cool black Ford hot rod and bought us our first B & K root beers.

We sure were glad we returned the money. The reward was better than the 15 bucks and we had clear consciences; sure made sleeping easier.

Dedicated to the memory of one of us five best friends: Thomas A. Miller Col USA, BS, MS, PhD. Gone too soon but not forgotten by those of us that remain.


Chet

Copyright © Chet Headley 2011. All rights reserved
Posted by: C Headley
« on: September 26, 2011, 10:00:00 PM »

Monday 26 September 2011 - 2400 hrs CST

Quote from: HighBridgeGlensFan on July 13, 2010, 04:48:55 AM
73 grad - Thanks for sharing your memories of Art's Place.

Although Dad was more a fan of the Bob's Big Boy at Front St. and Hudson Drive, and their all-you-can-eat Friday fish fry (and mini/tabletop juke boxes in each booth),

I believe the Big Boy was Manners' Big Boy.

Posted by: david otey
« on: September 26, 2011, 11:57:07 AM »

omg, i definitely remember marcel's restaurant. i was 1 year old when it opened and my mom was the first person marcel hired. she ran the restaurant for about 10 years or so. i used to love going in there with my mom when i was a kid before i was in school. my mom and dad would always have a christmas party at our home for all the waitresses every year. it was the best restaurant in all of the akron area. 
Posted by: HighBridgeGlensFan
« on: July 13, 2010, 04:48:55 AM »

73 grad - Thanks for sharing your memories of Art's Place.

As a kid it was always a treat getting to go out to eat with the family. Although Dad was more a fan of the Bob's Big Boy at Front St. and Hudson Drive, and their all-you-can-eat Friday fish fry (and mini/tabletop juke boxes in each booth), occasionally we went to one of the restaurants on State Road - Lujan's, Embers, Ladd's etc.  It was nothing fancy, but to us kids it was "good eats."
Posted by: 73grad
« on: July 06, 2010, 11:10:55 PM »

To stay on the original subject at hand, I dined at Arts Place many times and loved their bean soup and cornbread. I remember Marcels but never dined there.
Posted by: 73grad
« on: July 06, 2010, 11:06:04 PM »

Sorry for the late reply. B&K still has glass mugs. I always order a medium so maybe they only have the mugs in that size? And yes, the prices have risen considerably. In the 60's i use to go over and buy about 6 dogs for $1.50. Now they are $1.69 each for a hot dog and $1.99 for coneys and kraut dogs. I was just telling a friend the other day that I remember when Al owned it and a couple of times someone tried to take off with the mugs. Al use to come running out of there and chased them down Munroe Falls Avenue until he caught them. And they no longer have the Sweden Creme frozen custard.

I remember my first visit to Ladd's restaurant on State Rd when I was about 6 years old. The waitress came out and grabbed my cheek and pinched it and said "Oh what a cutie"..lol.

I remember going to Perkins Pancake house on State Rd the first time and asking my Dad why we were having ice cream with our pancakes. It wasn't ice cream. It was the bowl of real whipped butter on the table.

I also remember when Chicken Manor opened a restaurant on Graham Rd and 8th? st. We had been going to the Chicken Manor in Kent since 1963 so it was nice to have one in the Falls. I still go to the one in North Canton. We also frequented the Oakwood Drive_in on Oakwood owned by Mr. Bradford. With every bucket of chicken and fries you got a free dozen donuts. We ate a lot of chicken..lol.

Some others I ate at in the early 60's were the Hungry i, Kippys,Woolworths lunch counter, and Isaly's. And nothing tasted better than a bowling alley hamburger at Hale Lanes downtown. That place was hoppin' back in the 60's when my parents bowled there.

I sure do miss those days.
Posted by: LoonLady
« on: April 08, 2010, 11:33:19 PM »

It's a sure sign of spring when the "root beer stand" on Munroe Falls Avenue opens for the season!

I'm not sure when the Munroe Falls location opened, but I know that it had to be prior to 1961 (and your post corroborates that, 73grad).  I've been told the tale of going there as a toddler, dressed in my pajamas, to get a mini-root beer float--the mini mug and all, on a tray hooked over the driver's side window.

We still go past there quite frequently, but haven't stopped in yet this year.  The prices were kind of high, I thought, the last time hubby and I visited--there's no such thing as a 5-cent root beer anymore!  Correct me if I'm wrong, but they've done away with the glass mugs, too.  Sorry--root beer just tastes better in a glass mug instead of a waxed paper cup!
Posted by: 73grad
« on: March 22, 2010, 02:14:56 AM »

I was looking at the history of B&K Root Beer stands today. I grew up on Munroe Falls Avenue so I frequented that one at 737 Munroe Falls Ave. since about 1960. I still do as a matter of fact. Had my first kraut dog of 2010 the other day and a glass of root beer. It changed owners back in the early part of this decade but still maintains the same root beer and pretty much the same hot dogs. I supplied my stash of baseball cards from there also in the 60's. There is another B&K on State Rd. out past Go-Jo on the left side that has been there for years. I have a couple of questions: Does anyone know when the Munroe Falls Ave location opened? Was the B&K on State Rd a Dog and Suds before it was a B&K? Appreciate the feedback.
Posted by: HighBridgeGlensFan
« on: March 15, 2010, 08:33:27 PM »

AWW, Barry - Thanks for sharing some great gastronomic recollections of dining in the Falls.

I wasn't fortunate enough to visit Kippy's, but I do remember Jimandy's ... and Burger Chef. For some reason that chain didn't seem to do as well as McDonald's or Wendy's, but to my teen-age palate, I thought their burgers tasted better than anyone's.

Like AWW, I enjoyed dining at Lujan's after the obligatory school clothes shopping at Wards and Penneys in State Road ... Never tried the strawberry pie, but I loved their spaghetti.

Speaking of spaghetti, having lived near Chestnut Boulevard, I also dined occasionally at Laconi's on Falls Avenue. The original restaurant closed at one point, but in recent years, the place has reopened as Laconi's II.

My dad was a big fan of Glen's Tavern on Front Street - especially their liver and onions dinner. Us kids could never understand the allure of going out to eat and then ordering liver. 

On Friday's, we ate at  the Manners Big Boy on Hudson Drive. On Friday, they had all you can eat Fish dinners, and Dad thought that was a thrifty way to feed a family. Unfortunately, for him (and me), I hated fish. Dad worked for a guy at Goodyear who had the distinction of being the only person to be banned from the Manners all you can eat specials. This guy was extremely tall ... and was apparently a bottomless pit   ... either that or he had a tapeworm. Regardlesss, he could eat the fish special for hours and still not make a dent in his appetite.

Thanks for the memories ... and bon appetit.
Posted by: AllenW
« on: March 14, 2010, 09:58:45 PM »

HBGF, you've had me going for a while thinking back on all the old restaurant favorites of ours.  My parents used to really like Marcel's for a dress-up place to go to back in the 50s, and they took us kids there often.  Later, when we grew up, I remember taking Dad there after it became Art's Place.  He still liked it after more than 40 years. 
My folks also took us to Dilullos farther north on State Road (I understand they are reopening it).  When we were very young in the 50s, my parents liked to go to the Chesterfield Inn on State Road with their friends, which was farther south from Marcel's.  The men always wore suits and ties, and the ladies wore suits and their best accessories.  Later, the Chesterfield was sold to Gus Girves and it became one of the Brown Derby chain of restaurants around the area.  The Brown Derby was a handy place for us high schoolers to take our dates for special occasions, like Prom and so on.  There was also a place way up on State Road near Northhampton called the Roundhouse, also good for dates  The main room in the place was literally a circular shape, and the roof was domed.  Other places that were popular with my family in the 50s and 60s were The Smorgasboard in Stow, the Reserve Inn in Hudson, and Leon's on Brittain Rd at East Tallmadge Rd (I had to have help from my sister to remember the name of this one).  My parents favorite place of all was the Diamond Grill on Market in Akron, and they only took us kids there a couple of rare times since they specialized in steaks, not the spaghetti and hot dogs that we kids liked.  I remember my mom and Aunt would take my sister and me for car rides just to get out of the house in the summer, and we'd go down to North Canton and stop at a Big Boy and get great burgers with magic toppings.  Of course, we've already discussed in another thread Lujan's at Talmadge Circle which had the best strawberry pie in the country.
Posted by: Barry Scholles
« on: March 08, 2010, 02:01:15 AM »

Hello-

Favorite restaurants?

Yes....Jimandy's on State Road was one. Our Aunt Katherine and Uncle Paul took us there as kids. I remember it being a fairly tiny place inside.

Everyone's favorite.....Kippy's downtown. Ah the beautious Mary Westenbarger! The food and coffee was pretty good too.

Woolworth's also had a long row of stools and short order food service. This was the alternate "coffee gopher" restaurant.

Burger Chef was also an occasional destination.

 


Barry S.


Posted by: HighBridgeGlensFan
« on: March 07, 2010, 08:36:35 PM »

Barry - Thank you so much for checking. I met the daughter of the former owners of Marcel's at the Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society museum, where she was researching the various businesses that operated at that site. I don't remember Marcel's very well, but I do remember going to Art's Place, which was a favorite of my folks.

Anyone else out there have a classic Cuyahoga Falls restaurant that they remember fondly?

Have a great week - HBGF