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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... 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. -- Email sent to is never read. 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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