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The Black Cat Bar, also known as the Black Cat Cafe, was a popular counter-culture hangout in the 1950s and early 1960s in San Francisco. It first opened in 1903, closing in 1921. It re-opened in 1933 and operated until 1963.

The Crane Steak House was located on Powell street in San Francisco and was part of the Crane Hotel.

Parkmoor was a beloved restaurant chain that operated in the Midwest starting in the 1960s. Famous for its Dixie fried chicken, folks still talk about their food to this day,

Royal Castle Hamburgers??was founded in 1938 by William Singer in Miami. The chain grew to over 175 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan.??

Royal Castle Hamburgers??was founded in 1938 by William Singer in Miami. The chain grew to over 175 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan.??

The Makai Room was part of a bowling alley in Mar Vista, California. It opened in 1961. Today, the bowling alley lives on under a different name, with the last tiki-inspired touches having been removed in the late 1970s.

Billed as "delightfully different," the Zombie Hut opened in Sacramento in 1945. Though it changed hands a few times, it remained open until 1990. The restaurant's former location is now the site of a strip mall.

Sam's Sea Food and Hawaiian Village opened on the??Pacific Coast Highway in the Sunset Beach area of Los Angeles in 1923. It was started as a bait and tackle shop in nearby Seal Beach, it morphed into a tiki bar and moved up the...

The Hawaiian Cottage was a popular tiki bar and restaurant located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It opened in 1938 and welcomed visitors from all over the Northeast until a fire destroyed the building in 1978.

Hippo Hamburgers opened in 1950 at the corner of Van Ness and Pacific and served a variety of gourmet hamburgers before gourmet hamburgers were a thing. Their vast collection included, the French Connection, the Stroganoff, the Welsh, the Ole, and the Nude Burger. The...

Duffy's Shamrock Bar was opened in the 1950s at 1645 Tremont Place and was a Denver institution into the 21st century. It later moved a block over to 1635 Court Place. Denver weekly paper Westword??wrote in 2002 that Duffy's felt "like an East Coast...

The Red and Black Cafe??was a radical safer space??cafe??and worker-managed collective??in Portland from 2000 to 2015. It served an all-vegan??menu and hosted community-based events.

Beef Corral was a chain of fast food restaurants founded by former Cleveland Browns players and brothers Ed and Dick Modzelewski in the late 1960s. It grew to over a dozen locations in Northeast Ohio in the '70s but went out of business in...

Dive was a nautically themed restaurant owned by film director??director Steven??Spielberg. It opened in 1994 in the Marketplace food court of the Century City shopping complex. A second location opened a year later in Las Vegas at Fashion Show Mall on The Strip. The...

The Tiny Hut tiki bar was a restaurant located in Walnut Hills, California. It was in operation in the 1940s and 1950s.

Threadgill's opened in Austin in 1933 as a gas station and beer bar by Kenneth Threadgill. A live music space was added in the 1970s. A South Austin location was added in 1996. Both closed in 2020.

Baker Boy Donuts was presumably a bakery that operated in the St. Mathews area of Louisville in the 1950s. However, no record exists of such a business. A theory holds that a soda shop that served donuts once stood on the site. In any...

Sivils Drive-In opened in Houston in 1938. After an article in?????Life?????magazine, a Dallas location was opened in 1940. A Birmingham location was later added to the chain.

"All roads lead to the Dog House," the slogan went for Bob Murray's Dog House Restaurant. Located at the corner of 7th and Bell, it opened in the 1930s. It served its last meal in 1994.

Opened in 1947, Biffs were a chain small coffee shops located next to gas stations mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but with several locations in Los Angeles. They closed up shop for good in 1996.

Neptune Fish Grotto opened in 1936 on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.

Vintage matchbook pizza mascot tee.

Camp Washington??Chili is world famous and has been featured on The Travel Channel's Man v. Food Nation, CBS News, HGTV, and more. Founded in 1940 by Steve Andon and Fred Zannbus, it truly is an area favorite.

You'll never get lost when you follow this map to delicious Camp Washington Chili!

Camp Washington Chili??has been serving up chili to Cincinnati natives 24 hours a day, 6 days a week for over 75 years!

Known for the Tee Pee that sat a top its buildings, this restaurant was an Indianapolis institution for nearly 50 years. All 3 locations of the Tee Pee restaurant closed in 1978.

Druther's Restaurant was a fast food chain in Louisville that began as Burger Queen??in 1963, with its roots going back to 1956 in Winter Haven, FL. The name change came in 1981 to better reflect the restaurant's offerings which came to include chicken and...

Sandy's was a hamburger chain founded in Peoria, Illinois in 1956 by four businessmen who originally planned to open a McDonald's franchise. After a disagreement with McDonald's head Ray Kroc, the four men struck out on their own, naming their burger joint Sandy's. The...

Established in the 1950's, Tic Tock eventually had four locations in the San Francisco area.

In 1946, at an industry convention in California, Cincinnati restaurant owner Dave Frisch met Bob Wian who introduced him to a double-decker hamburger called the ???????????????????????????Big Boy.???????????????????????? Dave secured permission to adopt the concept but personalized the Big Boy by dressing it with a...