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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 12:57:35 GMT -6
I miss Woody's cheeseburgers.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 12:59:01 GMT -6
I miss Oogie's Bulldog Sandwich.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 13:00:29 GMT -6
I miss Murphy's french fries.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 13:02:33 GMT -6
I miss the candy aisle at Wayside Drugs.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 13:04:00 GMT -6
I miss Mitch and Elsie running the Dairy Queen.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 13:05:47 GMT -6
I miss the El Camino Restaurant.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 9, 2014 13:13:48 GMT -6
I miss the beer garden every summer at Bowlmor Lanes.
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Post by chevypower on Sept 9, 2014 21:53:41 GMT -6
I miss Captain Jacks chicken shack, very good chicken and the breast were huge.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Sept 10, 2014 6:49:06 GMT -6
I miss Savoia's taco pizza. That's the name I couldn't remember......... Not only do I miss their Pizzas, they had the BEST Spaghetti dinners...... Loved that place.
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Post by Blue Star on Sept 10, 2014 10:03:02 GMT -6
I miss Savoia's taco pizza. That's the name I couldn't remember......... Not only do I miss their Pizzas, they had the BEST Spaghetti dinners...... Loved that place. Isn't the same guy/owner of Marias now, in Westgate Plaza?
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Post by roman on Sept 10, 2014 10:32:26 GMT -6
House of Magic and Trapp's beef sandwiches. Outside of Chicago and Streator, I have never found a good beef sandwich.
The text below is from a book I wrote a number of years ago. The book was designed to give non-Chicago people enough trivia to one-up native Chicago people. Each chapter dealt with a different topic. The selection below, sans photos, deals with Italian beef.
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Today, you hear the following from your host: "You cannot get good Italian beef sandwiches outside of Chicago. They were invented here."
You cannot allow that to pass by without a brief quarrel so you say, " I agree that Chicago is the Italian beef capital, but you can get good Italian beef in Streator. In fact, the old Trapp’s Tavern served great Italian beef. I have never been able to figure out why Streator, with a relatively small Italian population, has always had good Italian beef."
"Anyway, let's not argue. I will take you to a really great place for Italian beef, Mr. Beef's."
"Oh, you mean that touristy place in River North?"
Where else would you suggest?"
"That’s easy: Al’s on Taylor Street. That place practically invented Italian beef. The clientèle is interesting. Laborers, lawyers, and business people, all hang out there."
"Is that in Little Italy?"
"Little Italy is a good name for Taylor Street. Before Circle Campus displaced tens of thousands of Italians, the Italian neighborhood was not so little. Until the land-grab by the University of Illinois, the area between Taylor and Grand was home to nearly a hundred thousand Italians. Most of them moved directly west to those nearwest suburbs with the word 'park' in them: Elwood Park, Stone Park, Schiller Park, Franklin Park, etc. Fortunately, Al's has survived in the old neighborhood."
"Al’s, I don’t think I have ever been there before."
"Well, we can fill in that gap in your culinary experiences today. You know the origin of Chicago-style Italian beef, of course?"
"Well, it has been around a long time . . . ."
"Any place in Chicago serving decent Italian beef buys their beef from Scala’s Packing Company, a now fabled purveyor of meat. Pasquale Scala, an Italian immigrant, started the business just after WW I. By immigrant, I mean someone who came through the legal process followed in those days: Ellis Island, et. al.
"According to Pat Scala, the current head of the company, Chicago-style Italian beef grew out of the Depression. Then, as now, Italians liked to serve roast beef at wedding receptions. For obvious reasons, it was difficult during the Depression for a family to be able to buy a large portion of beef. Scala’s creative solution was to slice the beef very thin and juice it up with Italian seasonings. The result was a ‘French Dip’ with attitude.
"After we wolf down our sandwiches, we can walk across the street to Mario’s for some Italian Ices."
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Post by dog on Sept 10, 2014 11:39:40 GMT -6
Maybe you should try to correct the underlying problem as to why it could not survive, the rough reputation that keeps many people and their money away from our downtown, the reputation that keeps getting substantiated and perpetuated each time their is another drunken street brawl here. Too bad our Mayor not only doesn't have a solution for the problem but doesn't want others to discuss solutions either. "Cleaning up Streator and its image should not be politicized", is what he says. Kyle, that may be a small part on why it closed. The Roxy would get many first run movies, the Majestic would get few. The Roxy offers what, 6 screens to view, the Majestic offers 2, so there are less choices.In general with the internet and home theaters, it is hard for ANY movie theater to compete. The first run deal is the biggest problem. People are impulsive, they want to see something as soon as it comes out. Look at the hype every time a new I Phone comes out. And lets face it, you are part of why the Majestic closed too. It was run a lot better when you were in control and with you taking over a theater only 20 miles away, people just chose to go there. You ran better promos at the Roxy or at least advertised them better than the Majestic did. Didnt you do many buy one get one free or something like that? Then on top of it, you kept highlighting the negatives in the area that kept people away, telling people that tourists were getting beat up. I give you credit, you did try to fix the problem, but then in the process you also created problems.
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Post by helencrump on Sept 10, 2014 13:05:54 GMT -6
Man, can you imagine the masses that would show up in streator for cruise night, the great fireworks, light up streator, engle lane season, relay for life, etc, if people weren't too afraid to come here? Oh wait. They do.
Guess they're only afraid to come to main st area, where the bars are. Oops, that's where cruise is.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 10, 2014 13:45:28 GMT -6
That's the name I couldn't remember......... Not only do I miss their Pizzas, they had the BEST Spaghetti dinners...... Loved that place. Isn't the same guy/owner of Marias now, in Westgate Plaza? No, I can't remember who the owner of Savoia's was. The owner of Anna Maria's in Westgate used to own Maria's Pizza that was on Main Street and next door to the west where The Fifty Yard Line is.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Sept 10, 2014 15:43:04 GMT -6
That's the name I couldn't remember......... Not only do I miss their Pizzas, they had the BEST Spaghetti dinners...... Loved that place. Isn't the same guy/owner of Marias now, in Westgate Plaza? Hmm, don't think so. I never met the owners, but after they closed here they opened somewhere else, I can't remember just where though, Peoria perhaps? Anyway, Anna's has been owned since I moved here by the same guy.....love that pizza as well ( explains a lot about how I look....... )
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