They still carry their burgers frozen at the store and they still make me sick
Think I dropped a link in my first post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvel_(franchise)
Yankees don't know their burgers.I haven't had a burger someone else cooked in perhaps 12 years or a deliery pizza I make my own sometimes I make dough,sometimes on French Bread and in a pinch English muffins

We used to have a few Daly Burgers around here. It was like a 1950's drive in place. Great burgers and ice cream. Their 50/50 milk shakes were awesome. Only two Dairy Queens left. Only one A&W's.

I'm amazed that there is still an Arby's in my area. That place is almost always empty when I drive past it. I guess consumers aren't as big into roast beef like they used to.

I'm not sure that's real roast beef in those Arby's sandwiches.

I agree with that L4 and thair bread sucks.Ate half of one once

Lots of DQs in my area. Many more than here are A&Ws.

The original DQ is still operating. Must be at least 60 years ago.

Did you mean the original DQ in your area or for the entire company? I just got this from the DQ Wiki page:

"The first DQ restaurant was in Joliet, Illinois. It was operated by Sherb Noble and opened on June 22, 1940"

I liked Arby's French Dips and the potato cakes, but they dropped the potato cakes so I haven't been back. There are only two in all of San Diego right now. No DQs near me, so I never go there, even though there are a few in the city.

Here's a blast from the past: Swensen's. There was one in Anchorage where I grew up and it closed, then there was one just down the street from my place when I moved to San Diego, but it closed down a few years after I got here. I love their phosphate drink. Their ice cream was good too, of course, but the phosphate was unique.

Guess where one of the very last Swensen's restaurants was located? In Miami right across US1 from my alma mater, University of Miami.


From Wiki,

"USA stores continued to close until only three were left, of which one is the original San Francisco ice cream parlor and one is the main restaurant in Miami."

The Miami Swensen's closed just last year in 2021. It seems the COVID pandemic was the final straw.

My area.

I don't think we had a Swenson's around here. We still have some great local stuff that's been around forever like Stroh's Ice Cream Parlor and Calder's Dairy. We have a few Cold Stone Creamery's around, but I never cared for those. Too rich, or something.

Season 2 drop last night.

This episode

https://play.history.com/shows/the-toys-that-built-america/season-2/episode-1

is about Bernie Loomis who left Mattel to go to Kenner. He pursued the Star Wars toys licensing when Kenner wasn't interested because they were already busy producing toys for

Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.


NO ONE including George Lucas at the time expected Star Wars to be the box office phenomenon that it turned out to be. In fact, Lucas has said in interviews that he was pretty sure the movie was going to flop and he was resigned to that.

This is also why 20th Century Fox was fine with Lucas having 100% of the royalties from toy sales because Fox assumed it would actually end up being a money loser for him.

Yet "A New Hope" was practically the greatest sci-fi masterpiece ever produced for the silver screen, ever, upon its release. I say practically because, well, the film still had to contend with "2001" and "Forbidden Planet." On par, for sure.

LOL. As I read your initial statement when I got to "greatest sci-fi masterpiece ever..." I was thinking "Forbidden Planet!!!"

Watching last Sunday episode Video Games.

https://play.history.com/shows/the-toys-that-built-america/season-2/episode-2

World first video game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

which gave this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell

The inspiration to take Spacewar! and make it into the first coin arcade video game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Space

and it lead him to create this company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc.

Inventor of the home video game machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Baer

His first video game machine https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Ralph_H._Baer_-_%22Brown_Box%22_prototype.png

Which was the basis for the first video game machine sold to customers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

First video game machine that ran on a microprocessor and you could play more than one game on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

1 year before Atari home game console

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

Episode 4. Lego and Erector sets. https://play.history.com/shows/the-toys-that-built-america/season-2/episode-4

LEGO is not a US invention so I don't understand why they included it in the show?

I watched 14 minutes and no Lego yet.