Heh, Heh...
Back in the '70's when I was 17, I got a personal invitation
in the mail to a time share scheme in Ocean Shores, WA. My
friend and I drove down there from Seattle, enjoyed the free
breakfast and bussed tour. When the salesman sat down to
talk to us, I calmly explained I was only 17, and didn't
have any money. *Boy* was he mad
JR


Gotcha beat....

1981. New York City. 45th and Broadway. Payday weekend off duty from the
U.S. Coast Guard on Governors Island. I waltzed into Beefsteak Charlie's
restaurant and sat down and wanted to have a nice dinner. I ordered a small
house salad, the shrimp buffett, and a nice thick New York style steak. While
I was up at the shrimp buffett, the waiter brought a whole pitcher of Sangria
for me. One thing led to another and I drank the whole pitcher. They brought
another one along with my steak. So, I sat there eating the steak, getting
blitzed on Sangria, and kept on going. They brought a THIRD pitcher of
Sangria! By that time, I had no idea who I was, where I was, what I was
doing... To this day: I have no idea of the rest of the details. I have no
idea if I even paid for my dinner. I just remember getting up and leaving the
restaurant!! I remember walking down to Time's Square to catch the #1 train
down to Battery Park. Along the sidewalk, I overheard a couple of "the
brothers" razzing me because "some dumb-a$$, whitebread, honkey, mo-fo, was on
some good sh**!!!" That's the last I can really remember. Somehow I found the
#1 train, somehow I made it back to Battery Park and the Governors Island ferry
terminal. I think one of the fellow "Coasties" knew me, saw my condition, and
helped get me back safe and sound. Thank God!!!! I wonder how much my bill
was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

Butch Ammon

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

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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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
...
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
hlink.net...

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