Brass Key in Alexandria and Tacoma in Dayton.

I disabled adobe flash player on bgp to stop getting pulled to the top.

 

Good advice. If I can figure out how to do that I certainly will. Thanks for the heads up. :thumb:

$20 a year will make that problem go away! :thumb:

 

I get that.

 

I also get that if you offer a non-premium membership, it should provide access to the site without constantly being returned to the same ad playing on a loop. The site is user driven (it wouldn't be here without the users). So to make it impossible for a user such as myself to be able to read through other posts in a thread that may interest me seems counter productive to the business model. Actually, it seems kind of amateurish.

 

I never had a problem with paying for the site, and still don't necessarily. But if you going to offer a basic membership, then the site should be something more than a frustrating continual trip back to a running commercial for those users.

Man that was hard, I kept getting kicked back to the commercials and had to rewrite parts of my response as a result.

 

Lots of good gets here on things that went away.

 

Personally my list would include but may not be limited to:

 

McAlpin's

Swallens

Zantigo's

Rax (Blueberry shakes)

Friendly's

Chi-Chi's

Media Play (I loved that place)

Circuit City

Mr. Gatti's

Basken-Robins (I'm sure they are still around but I don't know where)

Boston Market (none left in NKY)

Record Alley (I still love the few record and book stores left.)

 

On Zantigo's and Burger Queen, I see lots of love, but wonder where you were then. Both places seemed pretty empty about every time I ever went past the joints. Zantigo's could get a little busy at dinner, but the drive thru was always little to no wait. Burger Queen was awful, and awful empty nearly all the time.

 

I thought the VanLuenen's (sp) and All About Sports concept was really good, and spent some bucks in both places.

Marianne Theater- grew up a block away

Record Alley-Erlanger

Webber's and Technow Pharmacies in Bellevue- candy, wiffle, rubber balls, etc

Footlongs-Aka Bellevue Dairy Freeze

Ben Flora Summer Open Gyms run by Coach Mike Swauger in Bellevue

Von's Deli- penny candy and slushies

Louies BBQ-Newport

Ann-s ice balls- Newport

Home plate Card Shop-Newport (owned by Jonesy)

Wiedeman Bakery and Shulkers Pharmacy- Ft Thomas

Godfathers Pizza-Newport

Emerald Chili-Bellevue

The Mousetrap-Newport ; )

I grew up in CKY so here goes my list not mentioned:

 

Cliff Hagan's Ribeye

 

Briarpatch (Danville)

 

Mr. Wiggs (Lexington)

 

Burger Queen

 

Ollie's Trolly

 

Hopp's Drive In and Busters (Same people. One in Harrodsburg and one in Danville)

 

Kick-a-poo Joy Juice (Fruity Mountain Dew)

 

Tiger Red (Cream Soda)

 

Britts

I grew up in CKY so here goes my list not mentioned:

 

Cliff Hagan's Ribeye

 

Briarpatch (Danville)

 

Mr. Wiggs (Lexington)

 

Burger Queen

 

Ollie's Trolly

 

Hopp's Drive In and Busters (Same people. One in Harrodsburg and one in Danville)

 

Kick-a-poo Joy Juice (Fruity Mountain Dew)

 

Tiger Red (Cream Soda)

 

Britts

 

I really liked Hop's and the Briar Patch.

Several people have mentioned Roy Rogers. There's at least a few of them around. I've eaten at the one in Cumberland, MD lately. I think all of the remaining stores are located in Maryland.

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As I drove south on Mall Road yesterday, passing the Vitamin Shoppe, I recalled one of my favorites that was housed in that building: King Kwik. Also easily the most entertaining TV spots of the 70's.

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As I drove south on Mall Road yesterday, passing the Vitamin Shoppe, I recalled one of my favorites that was housed in that building: King Kwik. Also easily the most entertaining TV spots of the 70's.

 

Wonder what those twins are up to these days?

Good advice. If I can figure out how to do that I certainly will. Thanks for the heads up. :thumb:

 

Not sure what Browser you use but I'm using mozilla firefox.

Tony Roma's.... I could eat a ton of their Carolina honey St. Louis style ribs!

I miss Jello gelatin pops. Hated the pudding pops but I could finish a whole box of the jello pops while walking home from school.

 

I loved both, please bring these back.

Frank's Nursery and Crafts — hated getting dragged to that place by my mom when I was a kid. Nowadays I love places like that since I'm developing a bit of a green thumb.

 

Frank's always had a distinct smell.

With the upgrades to Mall road I always think about businesses of the past. So any ghosts on that road, Circuit City, Swallens, Steinbergs, Service Merchandise, Ground Round, Children's Palace to name a few.