Vintage shots from days gone by!

These restaurant posts are making me hungry! I think I gained a couple of pounds just looking at them!

 

Remember when we used to say "eating dinner tonight at Ho Jo's" and everybody knew what that meant?

 

It's now a Hooters.

 

get your chick...s

on route 66

(and they're still there and still g-o-o-o-o-o-od!!! 80 years now!!)

 

better cleaned up shot......

 

another old mattore fam fave........still there I think....

 

nothing like a beef from port's!!!

 

opened in 1948.....still there, looks the same......good stuff!!!!

 

NOW..........I'm hungry!!!!

ciao!!(or chow??)

 

god bless norm.....our godfather!!!!

 

Olio - you're on a roll today, man!

 

I'll buy the station wagon if you throw in the girls.

 

My first "The One" - her Mom lived in Flint, and I only met her once. She waittressed at a nice dinner joint Called Walli's.

At one time, they had four locations in the greater Flint area.

The "Rotosphere" on the one location could be seen from miles away on the Interstate.

 

1961 Buick Special outside the Longway Planetarium in Flint

 

Another great Eatery in Flint Was Bill Knapps. There was one on Miller Rd, off I-75, and it was the first restaurant I remember even seeing the inside of. It was for my birthday, my rich Aunt took us all, and we had the best chocolate cake and ice-cream in the whole world.

When I started getting successful with my building business, I would make it a point to go to a Bill Knapps at least once a month with the then current wife.

She never saw the attraction. She also had never been dirt poor.

 

Got a current picture with as much the same angle as possible? They are always fun to look at.

 

Is it me, or is this car cross-eyed?

 

Yeah, we'er expert car repair, what can I help you with?

 

OK, maybe she is a little cross-eyed, but still and all, got straight teeth, an even smile, good legs and a wild exhaust.

I'd let her come home with me!

 

They should be about seventy by now. Sorry to burst your bubble.