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  • Post #121 - July 7th, 2008, 9:03 pm
    Post #121 - July 7th, 2008, 9:03 pm Post #121 - July 7th, 2008, 9:03 pm
    Isn't Three Brothers, the Serbian place in Milwaukee, in one?

    I was just talking about that place with somebody, can't remember who now...

    Why yes it is at that. (Scroll down.)
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  • Post #122 - July 9th, 2008, 12:38 pm
    Post #122 - July 9th, 2008, 12:38 pm Post #122 - July 9th, 2008, 12:38 pm
    Not my "favorite" sign by any stretch, but you just gotta wonder about the brain-power behind the wiseacre Scrabble-fiend who did this to a sign on Grand Cayman:

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    P.S. I didn't stay at the Sunshine Suites Resort; I was just walking by.
  • Post #123 - July 9th, 2008, 12:45 pm
    Post #123 - July 9th, 2008, 12:45 pm Post #123 - July 9th, 2008, 12:45 pm
    Alas, I didn't get a photo, but either wind or a similar minded prankster removed a single B from a Dairy Queen I saw in Texas, leaving this sign:

    ENJOY
    FROZEN
    LIZZARD
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  • Post #124 - July 9th, 2008, 1:05 pm
    Post #124 - July 9th, 2008, 1:05 pm Post #124 - July 9th, 2008, 1:05 pm
    Mike G wrote:Alas, I didn't get a photo, but either wind or a similar minded prankster removed a single B from a Dairy Queen I saw in Texas, leaving this sign:

    ENJOY
    FROZEN
    LIZZARD


    Without a picture, it doesn't really exist. :wink:
    Steve Z.

    “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Post #125 - July 9th, 2008, 1:34 pm
    Post #125 - July 9th, 2008, 1:34 pm Post #125 - July 9th, 2008, 1:34 pm
    Steve, Steve, now you're getting over into metaphysics. Are you licensed to DO that??

    Besides, there's always PhotoShop... :P

    Geo
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  • Post #126 - July 9th, 2008, 1:59 pm
    Post #126 - July 9th, 2008, 1:59 pm Post #126 - July 9th, 2008, 1:59 pm
    stevez wrote:
    Mike G wrote:Alas, I didn't get a photo, but either wind or a similar minded prankster removed a single B from a Dairy Queen I saw in Texas, leaving this sign:

    ENJOY
    FROZEN
    LIZZARD


    Without a picture, it doesn't really exist. :wink:


    I believe the phrase is: pics or it didn't happen. :P
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  • Post #127 - July 10th, 2008, 10:41 am
    Post #127 - July 10th, 2008, 10:41 am Post #127 - July 10th, 2008, 10:41 am
    Ramon wrote:Image

    What the hell is a "business mens lunch?"

    Bonus for Guess The Restaurant (too easy for that thread!).

    -ramon


    Mr. K's on Harlem!! What do I win?
    I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love

    There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach

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  • Post #128 - July 16th, 2008, 8:19 am
    Post #128 - July 16th, 2008, 8:19 am Post #128 - July 16th, 2008, 8:19 am
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    Closed since 1985 The New York Lounge magically reappears on Lincoln Av.
  • Post #129 - July 16th, 2008, 10:33 am
    Post #129 - July 16th, 2008, 10:33 am Post #129 - July 16th, 2008, 10:33 am
    There are Schlitz bas-relief signs along Damen at Grand and at Armitage.
    Leek

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  • Post #130 - July 31st, 2008, 9:11 am
    Post #130 - July 31st, 2008, 9:11 am Post #130 - July 31st, 2008, 9:11 am
    This post is about a sign that is no more, only to be replaced by a TOTALLY INFERIOR sign.

    Anybody remember the awesome sign at Stanley's Fruit Market, with ol' Stan riding a flying watermelon while smoking a pipe?
    http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/XELQz_b1 ... eilmVkYENQ

    GONE!

    It's now the most boring thing I've ever seen: It's white, and is says STANEY'S across the center. That's it. The top half of the letters is red, the bottom half blue, with a white streak going through, just like how it was at the top of the old sign, only bigger. Very pseudo-patriotic with no character whatsoever.

    Boo hiss, Stanley, I spit on your sign.
    I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love

    There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach

    I write stuff.
  • Post #131 - August 1st, 2008, 5:37 am
    Post #131 - August 1st, 2008, 5:37 am Post #131 - August 1st, 2008, 5:37 am
    Is this the end of the courtesy flush?

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    Steve Z.

    “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Post #132 - August 1st, 2008, 11:11 am
    Post #132 - August 1st, 2008, 11:11 am Post #132 - August 1st, 2008, 11:11 am
    They also have one for men:

    http://www.poopourri.net/royalflush/index.htm
    I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love

    There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach

    I write stuff.
  • Post #133 - August 3rd, 2008, 7:02 am
    Post #133 - August 3rd, 2008, 7:02 am Post #133 - August 3rd, 2008, 7:02 am
    Chinese restaurant uses online translator to get English equivalent of its name...
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  • Post #134 - August 5th, 2008, 11:15 am
    Post #134 - August 5th, 2008, 11:15 am Post #134 - August 5th, 2008, 11:15 am
    The Lake Michigan Circle Tour.

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  • Post #135 - August 5th, 2008, 11:30 am
    Post #135 - August 5th, 2008, 11:30 am Post #135 - August 5th, 2008, 11:30 am
    Pasties, cold beer, cheese and sausage. What else would a person want?? :lol:
    -Mary
  • Post #136 - August 5th, 2008, 1:49 pm
    Post #136 - August 5th, 2008, 1:49 pm Post #136 - August 5th, 2008, 1:49 pm
    Beer and pasties, I thought it was a strip club. :shock:
    Hold my beer . . .

    Low & Slow
  • Post #137 - August 7th, 2008, 5:24 pm
    Post #137 - August 7th, 2008, 5:24 pm Post #137 - August 7th, 2008, 5:24 pm
    Spotted at the Olympics

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    Steve Z.

    “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Post #138 - October 4th, 2008, 6:28 am
    Post #138 - October 4th, 2008, 6:28 am Post #138 - October 4th, 2008, 6:28 am
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    Steve Z.

    “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Post #139 - October 26th, 2008, 4:31 pm
    Post #139 - October 26th, 2008, 4:31 pm Post #139 - October 26th, 2008, 4:31 pm
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    Back in the day when most kids were being bribed with happy meals I was always paid off in fried shrimp from the long gone Joe's on the river. This was a really cool spot for a shrimp shack. Ive hoped for years it would turn into a dive bar or smoke shack.
  • Post #140 - January 2nd, 2009, 12:28 pm
    Post #140 - January 2nd, 2009, 12:28 pm Post #140 - January 2nd, 2009, 12:28 pm
    I have one that I unfortunately did not get a picture of before it was changed again (and the creator likely fired):
    THE BOSS TOLD ME TO CHANGE THE SIGN, SO I DID
    (Hooters on Higgins just east of Cumberland)

    And one I have a hard copy photo of so I don't know how to post it:
    CHECK MY NUTS
    (McDonalds on Harlem, just north of Lawrence)

    I'm not kidding.
    I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love

    There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach

    I write stuff.
  • Post #141 - January 3rd, 2009, 1:25 am
    Post #141 - January 3rd, 2009, 1:25 am Post #141 - January 3rd, 2009, 1:25 am
    Nothing to do with food, and I hope I'm not repeating something I mentioned before, but:

    On the way to the Santiago airport, there was a billboard for one of the Chilean airlines saying, "Cada día, mejoremos" -- "Every day, we're getting better."

    Every time I saw it on the way to the airport, I thought, call me when you think you've really got it down.
    "Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
  • Post #142 - January 3rd, 2009, 10:09 pm
    Post #142 - January 3rd, 2009, 10:09 pm Post #142 - January 3rd, 2009, 10:09 pm
    Just a quickie on the Bong sign. My dad and my uncle Bob both knew Dick Bong. Bob was a long-time city councilman in Superior, and one of his major goals in life was to get the Interstate bridge between Superior and Duluth named after Bong. He finally succeeded. Just south of Superior there's a memorial with a beautifully displayed P-38J Lightning--Bong's mount--right in the middle of the road. Very cool, as cool in fact as the B-25 Mitchell bomber hovering over the entrance to MKE.


    yeah. cool.

    but not even half as cool as the guy on in my dorm who somehow managed to steal that sign, bring it back to champaign, and hang it on the wall next to the pink floyd poster and tie-dye sheet. man, did we get some laffs from that!


    oh, and those chinese menu translations are hilarious. i have this one bookmarked from years ago and i die laughing every time i read it. apologies if this is a re-post--i may have found it here in the first place.

    funniest menu ever
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  • Post #143 - January 4th, 2009, 1:09 am
    Post #143 - January 4th, 2009, 1:09 am Post #143 - January 4th, 2009, 1:09 am
    I'm going to have to scan this one at a later date, but I have a photograph from my first trip to Spain of a cafe menu in Santillana del Mar. My favorite menu items:

    - Peppery peppers
    - Clams in a seamanlike sauce

    The former was pimientos padrones, the latter, almejas a la marinera.
  • Post #144 - January 4th, 2009, 11:47 am
    Post #144 - January 4th, 2009, 11:47 am Post #144 - January 4th, 2009, 11:47 am
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    I'll say to you all the same thing I say every time I drive past this place:

    "I wonder what the uniforms there are like."

    Thong Auto Service & body
    4416 - 4420 N. Kedzie Ave.
    (between Montrose & Wilson)
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  • Post #145 - February 10th, 2009, 8:28 pm
    Post #145 - February 10th, 2009, 8:28 pm Post #145 - February 10th, 2009, 8:28 pm
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    An old Route 66 staple

    anyone visit this place when they rode it as a kid? I have a sick obsession with Route 66 and its food history.
  • Post #146 - February 10th, 2009, 10:58 pm
    Post #146 - February 10th, 2009, 10:58 pm Post #146 - February 10th, 2009, 10:58 pm
    Da Beef,

    I have been there several times.

    Maybe 15 years ago, I went for several years on the Illinois Route 66 caravan through the Route 66 monuments and relics. The Pig Hip was a regular stop on these. I went back a few times by myself when either driving to the State Fair or beyond.

    Unfortunately I don't have a clear recollection of the food. It was an experience more than a very memorable sandwich to me.

    Regards,
    Cathy2

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  • Post #147 - February 17th, 2009, 5:55 pm
    Post #147 - February 17th, 2009, 5:55 pm Post #147 - February 17th, 2009, 5:55 pm
    A little bit of heaven on the Delmarva Peninsula in Metompkin, VA. Folks drive from miles around for their fried soft-shell crab sandwiches. Insanely great fish, shrimp, hush puppies and crab cakes, too. As you can see, the signs in front of their shanty are as handcrafted as their food:
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  • Post #148 - March 4th, 2009, 3:14 pm
    Post #148 - March 4th, 2009, 3:14 pm Post #148 - March 4th, 2009, 3:14 pm
    I was browsing through some old photos and I stumbled across one of my favorites. From Paris - where many of my favorite things reside...

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    Did you know there is an LTHforum Flickr group? I just found it...
  • Post #149 - April 20th, 2009, 2:59 pm
    Post #149 - April 20th, 2009, 2:59 pm Post #149 - April 20th, 2009, 2:59 pm
    Spotted in Amsterdam, Red Light District:

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    Photo by Highlander, KCRag Forum
  • Post #150 - May 23rd, 2009, 8:51 pm
    Post #150 - May 23rd, 2009, 8:51 pm Post #150 - May 23rd, 2009, 8:51 pm
    Somewhere on Halsted, in Lakeview:
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    I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love

    There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach

    I write stuff.

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