I miss that place. One time I saw Dan Saleamua (sp?) and another CP with his daughter. :drool:

Tiny's BBQ, Seafood, Bar, Shooting Range, and Casino?

In Springfield? If it was a casino, I don't remember that. Or the shooting range.

Yeah - they had a tatoo parlor too.

Would they give you a free meal if you had their logo tattooed on your arm? That seems like a win-win for everybody.

There were two Tiny's in Springfield, maybe three, at one time. I only remember them being a bbq and Seafood buffet. Of course, I was about 12 at the time.

the lobster bisque was worth it!

Do you really have to ask if there was a casino in Springfield?

There is still a Tiny's in Marshfield...right off the exit.

Taco Via- The one at 95th and Antioch, OP

Arthur Trachers- also near 95th and antioch, OP.

Fish and chips ruled!, I don't have any Long John Silvers around me anymore.

My favorite...how could I forget....was Joe's Barn in Stillwell. :drool:

No. But I was young at the time, so I was thinking maybe I just didn't notice.

Hmmm...

My brother lives in Marshfield, and my birthday's coming up.

:hmmm:

when I grew up in Massachusetts, Papa Murphy's Pizza, and local seafood restaurants that I can't remember the names of. When we moved to Kansas it was mostly Taco Tico, McDonalds and Wendy's. Granted we hardly ever ate out, maybe once every few months.

The name of the Sea food restaurants....their name wasn't Legal Sea Foods by chance was it?

Those are still around, not exactly yesteryear ( although I haven't read this thread). I grew up with those up there.

its a dump.

Texas Tom's- Who could forget those tacky looking neon signs.

Mrs. Winners Chicken- On 87th street in Overland Park near where the library was built. Once when I was like 10 I wrote that the cashiers were real stinky on the customer comment card. A Mcdonalds was put in years later.

Don Chilitos on Johnson Drive- Parents took me there to eat for years. Used to order the Dons plate.

Showbiz Pizza on Bannister road- My second grade little league team had an after game party there. I wasn't told until I was 19 that the bear on stage playing in a band was actually a robot and not the same as the one that brought out the cake and helped sing happy birthday.

Pizza Queen - 95th and Antioch. We begged the owner to stay in business!

King's Food Host - On State Line for Sunday Fried Chicken.

A couple more since this thread made me a little nostalgic for my KC upbringing. Meyerhoffs in Westport. A restaurant called Po Folks somewhere in Overland Park.

Sub and Stuff

Grandys

Po Folks has to be the worst restaurant concept ever created. "Hey, are you poor? Can you not afford to buy food that's not spoiled? Then come on in! Have we got a taste treat for you!"

My parents used to like them, and I refused to go. I'd stay at home and eat overcode bologna.

ROFL Yeah I know I used to hate it when I got dragged to that place when I was a kid. I would be psyched because we were going out to eat and then get real pissed off when I found out I'd be eating at that shithole.

My grandma used to manage a Peter Pan. I believe she was the first "woman" manager at that time but that was late 60's early 70's.

I have one of the malt machines from her store. It was all I asked for when she died

Poor Po' Folks. The one on Bannister went great guns for the longest, because it was good food for a good value. MoF, for at least the first year, they were one of the few restuarants those days with a sizable contingent of patrons waiting in the foyer. They had folding chairs lined up 5 wide and 4 deep.

In retrspect, when it started out, I'd put it doing southern/soul food as not as good as Lamberts, but way better than Cracker Barrel.

But like everything else, portions got smaller, quality waned, prices rose.

Things fall apart, I guess.

EDIT: They live after all. http://www.pofolks.com/

Actually, the concept behind Po' Folks was more, Bill Anderson musing "Hee Haw is a decent show, if only they took out the music and replaced it with more corny jokes. I should turn that into a dining experience."

That's why I remember hating that place so much. We'd wait what seemed like forever to be seated only to be served that awful food.

Are there any more Jack in the Box's in KC? When I was a little kid, I used to go to that one in Raytown on 63rd St(it's an Applebees now). I still have some Jack in the Box mason jars that they gave out back in 76.

I don't think so. There was one at 95th and Mission Rd. a long time ago, but it turned into a Burger King... I think. Less Jack in the Box = Less E-coli.

Do you dislike the entire ouevre, or just Po's in particular?

We've always been a Southern-fried Soul Food kind of family. So we were holding out hope to the bitter end. Though eventually even my Mom admitted it had gone to crap.

Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips!

I also enjoyed a great little Italian Place out at Ward Parkway called Rich and Marty's.

Nope,it's long gone but my Aunt has their beefburger recipe

I grew up in Raytown during the '60's so I remember....

Smak's, King's(you ordered over the phone in your booth...pretty cool) & of course Funhouse Pizza.

Hey, was this all you can eat mexican served cafeteria style? This may be the place I was thinking of...

DT

Before it was A & W it was a Maid-Rite Hamburger spot.....

Also....Rays was the only place to go after a Baseball Game at Siloam Field. In fact..most of the time we just left the cars parked at the ball park and walked up.

Something you might not know, Ray used to cook hamburgers for the whole football team on Fridays before the game. A couple of times after we beat Marshall or Liberty he would bring down hamburgers for the whole team on Monday after practice.

Sam Sandy's was pretty good too....he hired most of the Cheerleaders to be the Car Hops.

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I grew up in NC, so my favorites were... PD. Quix, Bojangles and Shoney's. :drool:

What about Holly Farms, Matt's, and Chic-Fil-A?

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Anyone in KC remember a place that was on the hill overlooking the bottoms area called Baby Doe's? It was supposedly a restaurant that was once a working mine (that was the story they told you even though it wasn't true).

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A&W was the first one to come to mind when I saw the thread. They had the bext french fries on earth. There are still some around Montana and Wyoming, but the food has gone down hill.

Never heard of those...

Chick Fil A saturate Atlanta pretty good Chicken Sandwich.

Holly Farms was NC's version of Kentucky Fried Chicken....

Matt's was the precursor of Bojangles....

Chic-Fil-A is still around....but mostly in the SE.

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They actually have a Chic-Fil-A on the campus here in Columbia...but nowhere else in town.

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The founder of Chic-fil-a Truett Cathy lives about 5 miles from me... the crazy old guy about burnt himself up last summer burning brush on his farm.

Chic-fil-a is a class organization from the top down. Hands down the best managed restaurant chain in the country.

DT

There is still and stand-alone A&W in Booneville, on the Business 70 loop. That was a big treat for us when we were kids to go there for a frosty mug.

DT

Chic-Fil-A's are big down here in Texas. They do seem a little classier than the average fast food chain. Pretty neat that they close all their stores on Sundays.

Perhaps this has been covered, but what was the taco place on the top (third) level of Metcalf South, SW corner?

WOW, that just dredged up memories that I thought were gone forever!!!!!






Metcalf South was my back yard. I grew up on W 98th St...

101st and Metcalf for me. We probably stomped the same turf.

I just remember a restaurant in Tipton, MO that was on the corner & was brick...I remember were eating there one time when Walkin' Joe Teasdale came in & was eating at the same time we were.....

Can't remember the name though.

I think that was a Taco Via as well. There was one on 75th & Metcalf and the one there, IIRC.

I was through Rolla about two years ago & went to Johnny's....still the best place to eat in Rolla.:clap:

Yep, that's it! Taco Via. I can see the sign/logo now.

Down a level I worked at Topsy's Top Dog for a short while... :)

My sister-in-law used to be a waitress there in the 60's while she was in high school at Raytown HS.

Another one I just remembered....after our prom we went to V's off Blue Ridge...is it still there?????

King's was the name...loved that place when I was a kid because my parents would let me "phone" in the order.

Heh. I worked for a day at the Orange Julius on the lower level, across from the fountain.

Walking distance from the house as a kid was,

(Original) In a Tub (Corner of Cherry and N Oak)
Griff’s (Cherry St)
Pizza Hut (Cherry St)

A little drive north

Hays Burgers (Vivion)
The Forum (I think that’s the right name at the Antioch Shopping Ctr)

Riverside

Dog N Suds (take your own gallon jug in a get root beer)

North Town

Black’s Sweet Shop (one of my uncles ran that, got free shakes as a kid)

Downtown

Town N Country (Broadway)

As you can tell from this list I was taken to only the finest establishments in town.

my sister worked at Hobby Haven, THAT ROCKED!!!

I think there is still a Griff's in Sedalia...

Yep, and I think they had to close it because the structure was unstable (or the ground it was built on was anyway). There's one in Dallas and it also is on the side of a bluff. i ate there a couple of years ago when there on business.

It was called Baby Does Matchless Mine.

I thought I remembered a Kings in Raytown. The Cheese Frenchee rocked!

Used to be this place in Howard Ks. called Fred's.."ole Freddie" sat there behind the counter and cooked your burger and fries fresh..standing room only,with 2 booths..used to trade him home-grown for burgers......

Great place in Springfield MO was Red's out west of town on the mother road. Had one of the first drive up window's in the country.

Made his own soda, a Red's burger and home made root beer was a killer meal.

Yes, over 30 years. My memory of this place would be about 1968. It was near a grocery called Milgrims......are those still there?

Anyway, I confirmed with my mom that Paul Bunyan's was the name and there was indeed a Paul Bunyan statue involved.

You're thinking of Happy Chef.

Shakees Pizza and also BIG BOY with the two-story talking statue. That was the coolest-I love that place.

Grandees was pretty good too.

Always wondered what happened to it... we went to the one at Bannister Mall a lot when I was a kid and Bannister Mall was cool.

I worked at the Stephenson's north of the river in high school, just before it closed... we always went to the one in Jane, MO when on vacation down that way, too.

Yep still on 40, their frozen stuff at the store is pretty good.

Good lord, that brings back memories!!! I used to love their long wooden benches and as a kid, we used to watch the guys throwing the dough in the air while making pizzas. I remember the lighted display of the smiling fat dude in the red/white bib holding up a plate of pizza. Oh man, Shakee's!!! I thinking I'm crying now....