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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:22:21 AM | "There was a diner on Rosemead Blvd., in San Gabriel, CA. that was called the Copper Penny
That name sounds familiar but I was never in that area I don't think. Were there more than one of them?"
^^^^No, I think it was a Mom 'n Pop establishment. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:24:40 AM | "There was a diner on Rosemead Blvd., in San Gabriel, CA. that was called the Copper Penny
That name sounds familiar but I was never in that area I don't think. Were there more than one of them?"
^^^^No, I think it was a Mom 'n Pop establishment.
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My dad remembers it too. We must've eaten there or passed by it some time. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:30:14 AM | googled "copper penny"
might be a POF road trip? .....maybe for the younger fish.....
http://www.newcopperpenny.com/home.html
there's also one in Canada:
http://thecopperpenny.ca/
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:35:43 AM | ...so while we're on closed restaurants....Anyone remember Sambo's?
And, although the last time I checked the one in Westwood was still open, many locations of Hamburger Hamlet have closed. And, at the Westwood location, I noticed that they took the #6 off the menue. ....that was the best guac-burger on this planet! | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:36:49 AM | Oh no, the Copper Penny we're writing about isn't a club.
Sambos, I remember them. Weren't they closed because their character was considered a racist image? | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:38:17 AM | Ooh! Ooh!
The #15 Muenster Cheese mushroom burger at South Pasadena Hamburger Hamlet is (was?) the best! ...Had to have grilled onions and the shoestring fries!
Yummy!
Now I am hungry... | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 11:39:54 AM | | Oh, you might be able to say that. It seemed to work until a certain point when all of a sudden it became obvious. What people might be oblivious too until eyes open is amazing! | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 1:21:33 PM | | ....and when was the last time anyone had a Zoo or a Trough at Farrell's? Now that was fun times with ice cream! | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 1:24:56 PM | 04....
We had a whole thing going on another thread about Farrell's!
Fun Times!
<---*now hungry for ice cream  | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 1:29:10 PM | A couple of Asian massage parlors went out of business earlier this year. Best rub-down in town. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 1:59:33 PM |
SoCal was (native that I am) very different then. Today I laugh when I pass Cook's Corner on a Saturday or Sunday morning, ......unless you were there, you wouldn't understand what it was nor could probably see the humor in what it has become.
Not being a California native, all I know of Cook's Corner is as a bike hangout. But they serve good burgers.
Frasier the lion died and so went Lion Country Safari.
They had a Lion Country Safari out here? I remember the one in New Jersey, and an ostrich that took a particular interest in my sammich.
I also miss our state being called "Cal" and not "Cali". Somehow the added "i" just takes all of it's flavor out of it and makes it more like a product by Mattel, in my opinion.
Or K-tel, as the case may be.
boy, did I just age myself or what???
Like a fine wine. 
It was the first movie I can remember watching...
I went as a chubby little Princess Leia for Halloween that year!
Thus, my love for the movies was born.
I'd seen other great movies before that, but Star Wars clinched my love of movies also. I was a 10-year-old kid - how could it not? And I saw it at the Plainview drive-in, which no longer exists.
All my furniture comes from stores that are no longer open - Breuner's, Levitz.
Horizon Furniture on Pico just closed its doors after 80 some-odd years of family-run business. An L.A. institution.
Sambos, I remember them. Weren't they closed because their character was considered a racist image?
That's what I heard.
A couple of Asian massage parlors went out of business earlier this year. Best rub-down in town.
"Went out of business," or "were closed down?"  | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 2:13:42 PM |
<---*now hungry for ice cream
They're not closed, but I grew on Carvel ice cream on the east coast. I was overjoyed when they started opening stores out here, and now there's one around the corner from me. Same with Nathan's. No one else makes french fries like they do!
Also still in business but not on the west coast are Drake's snack cakes. They're the best. If you're a peanut butter and chocolate fan, Funny Bones are the most incredible snack cakes in the history of the world.
Whenever you're in Chicago, it is absolutely required to have stuffed pizza at Bacino's. God, do I miss that... | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 3:41:51 PM | upping the years just a tad, I loved how there were head shops EVERYWHERE. there was always a black-light room full of trippy posters, a counter display full of awesome and creative paraphernalia (dong-shaped pipes, hookahs, everything imaginable), extra-wide patterned rolling papers, joint rollers, clothes, sandals, candles galore, incense and cool burners........you name it, you found it.
NOT that I ever knew what all these things were used for, mind you.....really. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2008 3:51:04 PM |
upping the years just a tad, I loved how there were head shops EVERYWHERE. there was always a black-light room full of trippy posters, a counter display full of awesome and creative paraphernalia (dong-shaped pipes, hookahs, everything imaginable), extra-wide patterned rolling papers, joint rollers, clothes, sandals, candles galore, incense and cool burners........you name it, you found it.
NOT that I ever knew what all these things were used for, mind you.....really.
Oh the memories keep wafting in. I love it! | |
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