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The Outrigger Restaurant was a tiki themed bar and eatery established by actress Frances Langford and her husband Ralph Evinrude. It was located near Port St. Lucie in Jensen Beach, Florida. It opened in 1961 and closed in the late 1980s.

A downtown favorite, Fat Frank's, located in the U.S. Steel Building, served a big wiener on a nice bun. They served up their last dog in 2003.

Johnny Bench's Home Plate Restaurant opened in the mid '70s at the corner of Colerain and Springdale Avenues near Northgate Mall. In 1977, Johnny Bench's Homestretch opened in Florence. Homestretch closed late in 1978, and Home Plate shut down a few months later when??Frisch's...

The Hula Hut was a tiki bar in San Diego located in the old Gates Hotel. It opened in 1946 and closed in 1965. Frequented by military personal and aircraft workers from nearby factories, the club was raided for illegal gambling in 1947. Today...

Somethings never change.

Robert and?? Peggy Judge opened Judges', Beyond the Reef in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1964. The couple added an A-frame entrance to the original log cabin building and some full-sized plastic palm trees out front that could handle a midwestern winter and thus created a...

Mick's was a local restaurant chain that had locations in Kennesaw, Buckhead, Decatur, and downtown Atlanta. The latter was its last remaining location, closing at the end of 2020.

It was the spot where anything goes. Mako's was a bar and restaurant located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta and was known for its wild party atmosphere. It also had a location in downtown Orlando.

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...

Dutch Pantry was a restaurant chain founded in Selinsgrove, PA in 1945. It eventually grew to over 50 locations in 12 states but by the early 1980s the chain was in decline. Most were closed by the end of that decade.

Thomas Kelley and Jack Bouck, combined the first syllables of their last names to establish Kelbo???s, a small chain of Hawaiian barbecues. The chain had five locations across the L.A. Basin

Kenny King's was a sit-down, fast-casual family restaurant chain that operated in Northeast Ohio from the 1950s until the mid 1990s. It was best known as a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken as well as for offering its own Big King steakburger.

Tom & Chee is crafty.

Tom & Chee is not your mama's grilled cheese.

Four Winds Restaurant was an eatery located in the main terminal building of the Kansas City Municipal Airport (now the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport) in the 1950s.

After 10 years of serving Dayton patrons with bar food at Talegators Pub & Grill, the sports bar's location at 6270 Far Hills Ave., closed in 2013.

The idea of creating healthier fast food goes all the back to the '70s and D'Lites of America. Based in suburban Atlanta, this chain offered a menu of reduced-calorie dishes, including hamburgers made with lean beef, high-fiber buns, and reduced-calorie cheese. It closed in...

The Hawaiian was a tiki bar and restaurant in Salt Lake City.

The Islands was a Polynesian bar and restaurant in Phoenix that operated from 1958 through the '70s.??