On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

thunder wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

There is a handful of restaurants in the DC area that serve mammoth
portions of beef. I don't know how anyone can eat that much at a sitting.

In my cub reporter days at the KC Star, there were a number of competing
steakhouses that offered a full steak dinner for $2.50 or so. That
included salad, 10-12 ounce steak, baked potato(e) and a side veggie,
and a couple of rolls. Lucky thing, because I was making under $100 a
week in those mostly salad days.

There also was a diner-restaurant that served "steak and eggs" for under
a dollars. Nichols, I think it was called. Steak, eggs, homefries, toast
and coffee, under a buck.

We also used to hang out at a Mexican joint called Los Corrals, which I
believe is still open. The proprietors back then never paid attention to
"closing hours" as they pertained to booze. Good, cheap food.

Bryant's Barbecue is well-known, of course, but I don't know what
happened to the joint after Arthur Bryant died. Slabs of ribs served on
white bread (to absorb the grease). A short hop away from the old ball
park before it moved to suburbia.

Kansas City had a huge number of great restaurants back then, all out of
proportion to its size as a city.


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Kansas City had a huge number of great restaurants back then, all out of
proportion to its size as a city.


That reminds me.... On I-70, almost to K.C., (perhaps right in Bonner Springs,
KS), there was a beautiful restaurant that sat up on a hilltop, overlooking
I-70. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of it, but the food was
out of this world!!

Butch Ammon

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thunder wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

There is a handful of restaurants in the DC area that serve mammoth
portions of beef. I don't know how anyone can eat that much at a sitting.

In my cub reporter days at the KC Star, there were a number of competing
steakhouses that offered a full steak dinner for $2.50 or so. That
included salad, 10-12 ounce steak, baked potato(e) and a side veggie,
and a couple of rolls. Lucky thing, because I was making under $100 a
week in those mostly salad days.

There also was a diner-restaurant that served "steak and eggs" for under
a dollars. Nichols, I think it was called. Steak, eggs, homefries, toast
and coffee, under a buck.

We also used to hang out at a Mexican joint called Los Corrals, which I
believe is still open. The proprietors back then never paid attention to
"closing hours" as they pertained to booze. Good, cheap food.

Bryant's Barbecue is well-known, of course, but I don't know what
happened to the joint after Arthur Bryant died. Slabs of ribs served on
white bread (to absorb the grease). A short hop away from the old ball
park before it moved to suburbia.

Kansas City had a huge number of great restaurants back then, all out of
proportion to its size as a city.


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Was a lot cheaper, maybe not in relation to pay. I used to get a pork chop
dinner, soup, salad and jello dessert for $1.25 in San Francisco in the mid
1960's. Buddy's wife kept the menus from her highschool and college dates
and Fisherman's Wharf had Abalone dinner for $1.25-1.50 in about 1960.
Bill

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Was a lot cheaper, maybe not in relation to pay. I used to get a pork
chop
dinner, soup, salad and jello dessert for $1.25 in San Francisco in the
mid
1960's. Buddy's wife kept the menus from her highschool and college dates
and Fisherman's Wharf had Abalone dinner for $1.25-1.50 in about 1960.
Bill

Damn....no wonder you all bicker so much here. You're all ancient! :-)

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Was a lot cheaper, maybe not in relation to pay. I used to get a pork
chop
dinner, soup, salad and jello dessert for $1.25 in San Francisco in the
mid
1960's. Buddy's wife kept the menus from her highschool and college
dates
and Fisherman's Wharf had Abalone dinner for $1.25-1.50 in about 1960.
Bill

Damn....no wonder you all bicker so much here. You're all ancient! :-)


Don't know about ancient, but damn old. 20 years old, and my first new car
I bought in fall of '63, 1964 Chevy Impala SS 300 h.p. 4 speed. 142 MPH.
$3341 out the door. Tax, license, etc. Made $90 week. Payments $69 /
month. Assigned risk insurance $250 / year. (way too many tickets. Hopped
up 55 Chevy Convertible, hopped up 56 Ford Convertible). Hooped up was
different conotation then.
Bill