Most of us were born from the 1950s on (and yes before and after that .
So, I thought, let’s walk into our memories backwards. Please feel free to add your favourite eateries that you attended, enjoyed or disliked. Which ones have gone out of our lives forever, leaving behind strange and unique memories .
Food that disappeared in updated/defunct Chain store:
Frosty Malted Milk Shakes (store known as Hudson’s Bay)
Are we talking about cafe’s and rocker/mod times or even before that. In Sutton Surrey the road opposite the train station there used to be a cafe called “The bamboo Hut”. Not only a cafe but a lot of guys who went there were keen chess players. I had some great tournaments in there. This was at the start of the mod era but this was a rockers cafe mainly. also a meeting place before going to the cinema. then it was Tolworth ten pin bowling alley, had or may still have 32 lanes on one floor. I played in a league there and was also a member so had access to the members only bar. good old times. Funely enough I had to go back there many years later as a BT engineer adding an extn phone Jean Furgeson I already knew who was the manageress was surprised to see me back to do the work. Wow still remember her name after all this time,we were only just good friends nothing more.
Fairly recently we had a rather nice restaurant. The food was excellent. We often visited it once or twice a week. It was just about half a mile from our house. Then Covid struck. I haven’t there since nor have any others.
BHS was one we whiled away the time waiting for a bus .you needed a code to use their toilets .
Then more recently once a Month I would meet up with a cousin and go to Debenhams restaurant then that closed down , and Covid arrived. And I no longer go to resturant.
Woolworths had the best roast beef sandwiches.
A local drive-in had the best comfort food.
Shakey’s had the best pizza. There are still some around but it’s not the same.
Most of the restaurants I miss are still there. I just don’t live close enough to eat at them.
LD
the group (and pals I knocked around with) I was a part time roadie for them and played at the 2I s once, and as always a story to go with it. At the time I had a 2 door For Anglia 100e model. To get all the gear in I removed the passanger seat and transported the gear to that cafe. It had a tiny stage in what was the basement and when full people sat on the steep stairs down to it.
The manager/owners? female companion/ lover/wife or what ever needed a lift to somewhere or other, can’t remember where exactly. She got in my car and exclaimed “Its the first time I have been in a car with only 3 seats”.
Apparently we have a Wimpy restaurant opening up in Lowestoft town centre. I look forward to eating in there, seeing as the two McDonalds are a car ride away.
Some years ago whenever I went to London for the day, I would have a meal in a fabulous back street cafe/restaurant which did reasonably priced home cooked style meals. Even a colleague at the time mentioned he went there. I expect it has long since been pulled down. Can’t even remember its name.
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