As a senior citizen of 66 I really love this channel and it's wonderful to be able to circle back and be made aware of the beginnings of some of the iconic brands of my life. Whether it's a compilation or a whole video dedicated to a brand you do a wonderful job of summarizing and showing the essence of that business.
I worked in a Pronto Market in Culver City, CA in 1975. It was across the street from the MGM studios. The extras from the movie King Kong would come into the store in costume. Yes, we wore those Hawaiian shirts. Pronto continued for quite some time after the appearance of Trader Joes.
I was like 8 in 79, the last time the Pirates won the World Series. During the season, John Milner hit an iconic walk off Grand Slam vs the Phillies late in the season. My dad told me that Denny's invented the Grand Slam Breakfast because of this grand slam. I believed him. He was joking of course and had no idea I had fallen for his joke. I was about 25 when I found out he kanoodled me and when I told him he couldn't stop laughing for 3 days. He had no idea I went like 15 years thinking what he said was true.
Im confused, if you were "like" 8 in '79, what age were you? Like 14, like 6, like 22, like-like-like inability to construct a simple sentence, like what you have above? 🤣
@@fdfac You’re so worried about his use of the word “like” and his sentence construction, yet you can’t use an apostrophe in “I’m”? Unless he was born on January 1st, he was either 7 and then turned 8 or 8 and then turned 9 in 1979. Since the word like can be a synonym for approximate, I think he’s pretty well understood…plus, his story was actually relevant to the video and much more enjoyable than your attempt at a grammar lesson.
In the 1950s, I read a list of horses entered in races at an area track. I noted that some of them were listed as "scratched". I asked my Dad what that meant and he came up with some story about the horses scratching themselves and having to be taken out of the race. I think that I knew him well enough at the time to know that he was joking. As for baseball, my Dad was born in 1918 and the Boston Red Sox won the World Series that year, after he was born. He grew up in New England, and became a diehard fan of the Red Sox. It wasn't until 1946 that the Red Sox played again in the World Series, and not until 2004 that they won the World Series again. They won in 2018, a day or two before my Dad passed away. My brother-in-law told Dad that the Red Sox had won, and Dad seemed to understand, before leaving us for "The Great Fenway Park in the Sky".
The H&R Block at 1:34 was in Austin at Fourth and Congress, now a Jos. A. Bank store. In the background is the Crest Hotel, now The Line Hotel, and St. Edwards University can be seen in the distance. The Goodyear tire store was where the JW Marriott hotel stands today.
Those early Holiday Inns were amazing. As a child in the sixties we took some long, great vacations. My parents would always look in that Mobile Travel Guide for motels but often would just pull into a Holiday Inn if one showed up. Always well cared for, having a pool for we kids. I doubt Wilson would approve of today's version...
Yeah, Holiday Inns were pretty reliable for being clean and kept up, you really couldn't go wrong --- especially for a family. And if they had a pool, all the better. We didn't have a lot of money, so we slept 3 on 2 beds in a single room (4 kids, 2 parents) and we still thought we were living the high life.
@@getoffmydarnlawn The problem when I was a little kid in the sixties was that the chains weren't really well spread out until I hit high school in the late sixties. Do you remember as I do, when we'd go into a strange town and my parents would always ask to see the room before they registered? And yes, at times they chose not to say. As a guy who stayed in thousands of hotel and motel rooms over a career in business, it seems just like another world now--although more than once I got to a room after registering and rejecting it...
@@getoffmydarnlawn My father was a chem engineer and there were 2 kids but my parents were both Depression era kids and knew how to squeeze a Dollar. Didn't hesitate to take an ice chest with drinks in our huge Pontiacs, and often sandwiches for the first couple of days, too. . .
@@loveisall5520 My dad would ask to see the room if it wasn't a Holiday Inn, but if it was he never did, at least as I can remember. He really trusted their brand and I don't recall any negative experiences. But I do remember once him declining a room at what I think was a small (non-chain) motel. We didn't go in, just had his word on how bad it was.
@@loveisall5520 We would go to an amusement park then all trek out to the parking lot at lunchtime and have a picnic on the pulled down back door of the station wagon - and we weren't the only families doing this. No way were my parents gonna pay that much money for food when mom could make it cheaper and better and bring it in a cooler. And I have to say - that frugality they modeled for us has served me well all these years.
Love the look back in time that that stimulates our memories. There have been so many of our traditions that have come under ridicule and attack the past twenty years like Thanksgiving and even the fourth of July and love of flag and country. It is comforting to see stores and restaurants that we knew and Recollection Road tells us how they got started.
Williams Sonoma was a huge part of my learning how to cook (along with many other elements). I spent so much time in their SF Union Square location. So many of those tools I am still using almost thirty years later.
Trader Joe's has become a big thing in Northern California since the mid 90s and I couldn't be happier more of them are opened without oversaturation like some chains! There used to be only two of them in the area but neither were close to where I lived. Now I can go other places in the SF Bay Area and know I can get some quality foods! Another chain popular in California for many years was Lyon's Restaurants that started in 1952 as an offshoot coffee shop from their existing brand of custom syrups that can still be found today in some places! I worked for them about five years during college in the 80s!
The insanity in California is just unbelievable….how governments harm business and peoples quality of life is just appalling….and more so that the people vote for it….
The founder of Sonic originally bought a steakhouse with a small hotdog and root beer stand on the edge of the property by the roadside. After a year of running both he realized that the small stand was more profitable so he sold the steakhouse and built more stands, thus Sonic was born. Also, unlike other places the Sonic carhops in Oklahoma still have the option of wearing roller skates.
I can remember being a kid and watching through the window in the lobby of a Dunkin Donuts of the people in the back actually making the dough and cutting it, making and decorating the donuts. They haven't done that in a long time, and their quality has suffered. I won't eat them anymore.
Actually H&R block started out as a struggling bookkeeping firm...the change to taxes happened in '55 when (long story short) the IRS stopped helping people with their personal taxes and people went to Bloch's firm instead to have their taxes done.
Your first Dunkin Doughnuts pic, is of the one about two blocks from where I live in Schenectady NY. 😁👍 The big sign was torn down back in the late 70's and a few years ago they added a drive up window on the side next to the white house. Other than that it still looks the same. I remember as a kid watching them actually make the doughnuts there. Also, this store was the first one in the NY Capital District.
Pizza Hut, like 7-Eleven, contributed greatly to the scenery off of roads like Route 1 in Virginia. Their distinctive buildings rarely house those businesses anymore, but former Pizza Hut locations have been repurposed as Mexican restaurants and car dealerships, among other things, just as former 7-Elevens are now finding second (or third) lives as dry cleaners and you name it.
🛑🛑 My family has been watching the old movie Holiday Inn, every year before Christmas Eve, for the last 50 years. Watching the movie has been an every year tradition in our family. 👍🎄 The movie Holiday Inn is when Bing Crosby first performed White Christmas in a movie. 💯
Sonic has gone way down hill in the past 20 years. Good selections and quality have gone away. New management changes several decades ago created these changes. Duncan donuts as well now getting in frozen donuts to each location and defrosting them for customers.
The worst thing about sonic, in my area at least, is that you can only use the drive through. You can’t pull into the parking spots to order your food anymore. 😢
@@brandivermillion3453 Many Sonics' have stalls that the display doesn't work and you have to find a stall that actually works to order food. Some work but nobody ever gets to you to take the order. A once great chain ran in the ground by poor corporate leadership as is virtually all corporations through out US with no exceptions.
Obviously our host left the door for more lists of "Iconic brands launched in the '50s", but probably the largest of the bunch of the ones left must be BURGER KING, as they opened originally in 1953 in Jacksonville, FL as "Insta-Burger King" (McD's doesn't qualify for the list as they first opened in 1940, although the first "Golden Arches" logo was launched in 1953). Another one mentioned in the comments was WAFFLE HOUSE, opened in Avondale Estates, GA in 1955.
The gentleman who started Williams Sonoma tried to open a store in Sonoma a couple years back (the original had closed many years prior) and could not comply with all the myriad of regulations now required for Sonoma businesses…. 😂😂😂
Fun fact! Here are the words to the Mr. Softee jingle: The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream, You get from Mister Softee. For a refreshing delight supreme Look for Mister Softee!
I used to play live trivia and we had this final question: "Given the location and the year it first opened, name these five restaurant chains which are best-known for breakfast" Gallipolis, OH 1948 Lakewood, CA 1953 Avondale Estates, GA 1955 Cincinnati, OH 1957 Toluca Lake, CA 1958
@@MidKid61 - can mention 3/5: Denny's (Lakewood, CA-1953), Waffle House (Avondale Estates, GA - 1955) and IHOP (Toluca Lake, CA - 1958). The 2 from CA were mentioned in this video and the comment I'm replying answers the other. One I had to Google to find was Bob Evans (Gallipolis, OH - 1948). The other from Cincinnati, OH is the trickier one to find (and I suppose it's "not" A&W, as hot dogs and root beer, what they're famous for are NOT breakfast items)...
20 iconic brands launched in the 1950s are 1. McDonald's ( 1953 ) 2. Insta Burger King ( 1953 ) 3. Burger King or BK ( 1954 ) 4. Datsun Motor USA ( 1958 ) 5. Honda Motor USA ( 1959 ) 6. Toyota Motor North America ( 1957 ) 7. NASA ( 1958 ) 8. Winnebago Industries ( 1958 ) 9. Thrifty Car Rental ( 1958 ) 10. Enterprise Rent A Car ( 1957 ) 11. Budget Rent a Car ( 1958 ) 12. Subaru ( 1953 ) 13. Church's Texas Chicken or Church's Chicken ( 1952 ) 14. Ore Ida ( 1952 ) 15. American Motors Corporation or AMC ( 1954 ) 16. Motown Records ( 1958 ) 17. Warner Records Inc. ( 1958 ) 18. Crest ( 1955 ) 19. Oral B ( 1950 ) 20. Newport ( 1957 ) 21. Kent ( 1952 ) 22. Winston ( 1954 )
Stopped at a local Dunkin Donuts a couple years ago after not going there for several years. Now I know why. Worst tasting donuts I ever ate (partially) in my life. Haven't been back and have no plans to ever go again.
I've never been certain if it was just urban locations by me, but you're right --- downhill. Where I grew up in the 70s they were a family restaurant, a little more than just a pizza joint. I miss the old Pizza Huts.
@I miss the 90s - it wasn't such a bad car (Ford had its' recalls back then just like today's ones for the Bronco and now the Maverick + Escape Hybrids), but was put on a TOO NARROW NICHE OF THE MARKET on THE WRONG FINANCIAL TIME (at the start of a recession). Also the "horseshoe" design up front didn't helped.
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I always enjoy these historical business videos only would love to see sugar free world real foods pure maple syrup no white bread lazy volks who donot want to park their automobiles to go inside to get their food orders we donot need volks idling their cars making ai polution worse some things we do are nice but not always in the best ways I have said m past growing up was so mucho nicer with things done nice that are no more or are mucho less places to do them ic cream luncheonettes soda shops jones beach lawn guy land or it is lawng eyeland New York State fashions clothes were well some were very nice plain simple design not ugly styles half naked dressed v neck hate them short skits off shoulders seen on this I pad was what some Volkswagen automobiles did not have no abs air bags electronic fuel injection bake assist power brakes or steering air conditioners power windows central locking stop start stabilizer bars stereo gps mapsmucho less headaches problems best on vw beettles we’re semaphore turn signals no headrests on seat backs atlas map books were the best high powered any way no matter how made the biggest problem is he senor senorita senora drunk drugged operating he vehicle also no seat belts rear window defroster simple is the best in our lives it is basically simple why then do mucho volks complicate thngs besides this dating is not mucho often simple anymore always well alcohol drugs dining while wine ing I miss an old fashion style saloon bar banjo sing along have senora now back when if my lif was depended n it no way wold I get a date there no whee to go there used to be mucho real enjoyable things to do these daze well less of it you had automobiles simplier to work on now it takes geniuses computer machines to rn on cars overpowered costly tools expensives o more open or motor hoods how to get your fingers in the motor areas around them to do work on them I only say what is heard I see on vws bugs type ones complaints on the heat awful mucho time should be used on this not wasting timenot seeing it what should be done well is good nice tho I doubt it is to get done ever problems mucho are what we donot do we have plenty wrong we’ll not propely done or are not correcting things doing more nicer all talk and no action doing things does not make sense TVs Ralph kramdens big mouth things come go for nicer or worse yes I’d go back somewhat if possible or forward depends but I love the simpl life with senora dating my health suffers somewhat also legal problems please mucho of these videos love them
No shame, I love Sbarro --- their slices and their Stromboli. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing for me, it was a huge deal when they opened up in the mall we frequented in my childhood. I'll leave it to others to debate the quality, I just know it tastes good as an occasional treat when I'm downtown by one of the few remaining locations in my area. I guess I'm just not a food snob. I like my home made pies on my stone and other local places, but Sbarro is good fast food pizza in my little ole opinion.
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Love this channel! Brings back so many memories of my youth! Thank you!
As a senior citizen of 66 I really love this channel and it's wonderful to be able to circle back and be made aware of the beginnings of some of the iconic brands of my life. Whether it's a compilation or a whole video dedicated to a brand you do a wonderful job of summarizing and showing the essence of that business.
i’m English and find these Americana videos very interesting and relaxing. calm and fun and like easy-listening, but video 😆
Live and learn! I didn't know that some of these were as old as or older than I am! Thanks!
Mister Softie, remember those blue and white Ford trucks coming around the neighborhood back in the 60’s. Great memories.
I can still hear the song.
Highest point in human civilization,great video!
I worked in a Pronto Market in Culver City, CA in 1975. It was across the street from the MGM studios. The extras from the movie King Kong would come into the store in costume.
Yes, we wore those Hawaiian shirts. Pronto continued for quite some time after the appearance of Trader Joes.
I was like 8 in 79, the last time the Pirates won the World Series. During the season, John Milner hit an iconic walk off Grand Slam vs the Phillies late in the season. My dad told me that Denny's invented the Grand Slam Breakfast because of this grand slam. I believed him. He was joking of course and had no idea I had fallen for his joke. I was about 25 when I found out he kanoodled me and when I told him he couldn't stop laughing for 3 days. He had no idea I went like 15 years thinking what he said was true.
Im confused, if you were "like" 8 in '79, what age were you? Like 14, like 6, like 22, like-like-like inability to construct a simple sentence, like what you have above? 🤣
@@fdfac come on man. Didn't your father teach you that it isn't nice to pick on retarded people? Lol
@@fdfac You’re so worried about his use of the word “like” and his sentence construction, yet you can’t use an apostrophe in “I’m”? Unless he was born on January 1st, he was either 7 and then turned 8 or 8 and then turned 9 in 1979. Since the word like can be a synonym for approximate, I think he’s pretty well understood…plus, his story was actually relevant to the video and much more enjoyable than your attempt at a grammar lesson.
I hate to be the one but you do know Santa the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy aren’t real. Right?
In the 1950s, I read a list of horses entered in races at an area track. I noted that some of them were listed as "scratched". I asked my Dad what that meant and he came up with some story about the horses scratching themselves and having to be taken out of the race. I think that I knew him well enough at the time to know that he was joking.
As for baseball, my Dad was born in 1918 and the Boston Red Sox won the World Series that year, after he was born. He grew up in New England, and became a diehard fan of the Red Sox. It wasn't until 1946 that the Red Sox played again in the World Series, and not until 2004 that they won the World Series again. They won in 2018, a day or two before my Dad passed away. My brother-in-law told Dad that the Red Sox had won, and Dad seemed to understand, before leaving us for "The Great Fenway Park in the Sky".
As always a good video. Love the info on different establishments. Thanks!
I’ve enjoyed most of those brands over the years. Good memories.
I will love to see more retail chain videos 📲👍
The H&R Block at 1:34 was in Austin at Fourth and Congress, now a Jos. A. Bank store. In the background is the Crest Hotel, now The Line Hotel, and St. Edwards University can be seen in the distance. The Goodyear tire store was where the JW Marriott hotel stands today.
Did H&R Bolck and Edward D Jones have any connection?
Those early Holiday Inns were amazing. As a child in the sixties we took some long, great vacations. My parents would always look in that Mobile Travel Guide for motels but often would just pull into a Holiday Inn if one showed up. Always well cared for, having a pool for we kids. I doubt Wilson would approve of today's version...
Yeah, Holiday Inns were pretty reliable for being clean and kept up, you really couldn't go wrong --- especially for a family. And if they had a pool, all the better. We didn't have a lot of money, so we slept 3 on 2 beds in a single room (4 kids, 2 parents) and we still thought we were living the high life.
@@getoffmydarnlawn The problem when I was a little kid in the sixties was that the chains weren't really well spread out until I hit high school in the late sixties. Do you remember as I do, when we'd go into a strange town and my parents would always ask to see the room before they registered? And yes, at times they chose not to say. As a guy who stayed in thousands of hotel and motel rooms over a career in business, it seems just like another world now--although more than once I got to a room after registering and rejecting it...
@@getoffmydarnlawn My father was a chem engineer and there were 2 kids but my parents were both Depression era kids and knew how to squeeze a Dollar. Didn't hesitate to take an ice chest with drinks in our huge Pontiacs, and often sandwiches for the first couple of days, too. . .
@@loveisall5520 My dad would ask to see the room if it wasn't a Holiday Inn, but if it was he never did, at least as I can remember. He really trusted their brand and I don't recall any negative experiences. But I do remember once him declining a room at what I think was a small (non-chain) motel. We didn't go in, just had his word on how bad it was.
@@loveisall5520 We would go to an amusement park then all trek out to the parking lot at lunchtime and have a picnic on the pulled down back door of the station wagon - and we weren't the only families doing this. No way were my parents gonna pay that much money for food when mom could make it cheaper and better and bring it in a cooler. And I have to say - that frugality they modeled for us has served me well all these years.
Have known (and tasted) 'em all. Thanks for posting!
I really enjoy this channel…fuels my nostalgia.
I has no idea that my favorite drive-in - Sonic- has been around for so many years! I love this place!!!!!
Just good memories 😉❤️
Love the look back in time that that stimulates our memories. There have been so many of our traditions that have come under ridicule and attack the past twenty years like Thanksgiving and even the fourth of July and love of flag and country. It is comforting to see stores and restaurants that we knew and Recollection Road tells us how they got started.
don't let it get you down, the great majority of people in the US are real Americans, and we wont put up with much more of this
Williams Sonoma was a huge part of my learning how to cook (along with many other elements). I spent so much time in their SF Union Square location. So many of those tools I am still using almost thirty years later.
That's the only one I didn't recognize.. I grew up in metro NYC, is maybe that's why.
Dunkin' Donuts, Little Caesars Pizza, Pizza Hut, Sonic & even Sbarro.
And to think I ate their fare throughout the years. 😋
Thanks RR😊
Trader Joe's has become a big thing in Northern California since the mid 90s and I couldn't be happier more of them are opened without oversaturation like some chains! There used to be only two of them in the area but neither were close to where I lived. Now I can go other places in the SF Bay Area and know I can get some quality foods! Another chain popular in California for many years was Lyon's Restaurants that started in 1952 as an offshoot coffee shop from their existing brand of custom syrups that can still be found today in some places! I worked for them about five years during college in the 80s!
Overpriced crap for suckers.
@@joewasrippedoff8152 That would be Whole Foods.
IHOP should go back to the vintage look. Great architecture. Inviting. Homey. Comforting.
It’s crazy to see all these businesses founded in California. Today it’s nearly impossible to start a business there
Whenever something becomes famous and overly popular, it gets targeted amd poisoned. It makes me sad.
Who would want to start a business in California?
California is different in the 50s than the current time now, California is liberal.
Someone that lives California.
The insanity in California is just unbelievable….how governments harm business and peoples quality of life is just appalling….and more so that the people vote for it….
The founder of Sonic originally bought a steakhouse with a small hotdog and root beer stand on the edge of the property by the roadside. After a year of running both he realized that the small stand was more profitable so he sold the steakhouse and built more stands, thus Sonic was born. Also, unlike other places the Sonic carhops in Oklahoma still have the option of wearing roller skates.
I work just a couple of blocks over from the, H&R Block HQ in downtown KCMO.
Thank you
Wow! Sonic has a location in Uptown Chicago where I went in 2014. The old school diner type place.
I can't decide if I enjoy the video or the comment section more ❤️
Thanks!
I can remember being a kid and watching through the window in the lobby of a Dunkin Donuts of the people in the back actually making the dough and cutting it, making and decorating the donuts. They haven't done that in a long time, and their quality has suffered. I won't eat them anymore.
i was founded in November, 1954. I do not own any professional sports teams but I am still run by the same person.
Actually H&R block started out as a struggling bookkeeping firm...the change to taxes happened in '55 when (long story short) the IRS stopped helping people with their personal taxes and people went to Bloch's firm instead to have their taxes done.
Your first Dunkin Doughnuts pic, is of the one about two blocks from where I live in Schenectady NY. 😁👍
The big sign was torn down back in the late 70's and a few years ago they added a drive up window on the side next to the white house.
Other than that it still looks the same.
I remember as a kid watching them actually make the doughnuts there.
Also, this store was the first one in the NY Capital District.
Red Wings 🏒 and Tigers ⚾ Owner, Mike Ilitch, passed in 2017. RIP Mike 🙏🏼
Interesting to see the old Pizza Hut photos, especially since the company is really struggling, now.
Pizza Hut, like 7-Eleven, contributed greatly to the scenery off of roads like Route 1 in Virginia. Their distinctive buildings rarely house those businesses anymore, but former Pizza Hut locations have been repurposed as Mexican restaurants and car dealerships, among other things, just as former 7-Elevens are now finding second (or third) lives as dry cleaners and you name it.
You knew that it was summer when Mr. Softee came through your neighborhood.
🛑🛑 My family has been watching the old movie Holiday Inn, every year before Christmas Eve, for the last 50 years.
Watching the movie has been an every year tradition in our family. 👍🎄
The movie Holiday Inn is when Bing Crosby first performed White Christmas in a movie. 💯
There's a Sonic down the street from me, one of three in my city of 33K. Fifty cent corn dog day (two a year) is second only to Christmas.
Oh how I miss the Mr softy trucks and ice cream.
Not sure I'd name any product "Mr. Softy". 😂😂
Ya you're right my mind wasn't there. 😂
@@kayleigh354, Mr. Softee was a part of my childhood. They still drive down my street occasionally now.
Thankfully they are still around 🤗
The very 1st K mart ever started in Garden city Mich. It's sad that it's gone now.
nice man!!1
Nice histories.
You ever do a city? Like San Francisco restaurants. Whether local or a chain?
It's Quin-ZEE!
IHOP Holiday Inn and Dunkin Donuts are great, The rest, espeically Denny's could close tomorrow and it wouldn't bother me.
i wish we had a Dennys a sonic in Pennsylvania among Others
Love mr softee
Pronto was in Downey, That's Meralta Square on Downey blvd
When I clicked on this video I was eating Little C's pepperoni lol I love their pizza
Sonic has gone way down hill in the past 20 years. Good selections and quality have gone away. New management changes several decades ago created these changes.
Duncan donuts as well now getting in frozen donuts to each location and defrosting them for customers.
The worst thing about sonic, in my area at least, is that you can only use the drive through. You can’t pull into the parking spots to order your food anymore. 😢
@@brandivermillion3453 Many Sonics' have stalls that the display doesn't work and you have to find a stall that actually works to order food. Some work but nobody ever gets to you to take the order. A once great chain ran in the ground by poor corporate leadership as is virtually all corporations through out US with no exceptions.
The food shown in tv ads for Sonic and IHOP looks really unappetizing.
Can you tell me what the video editing program is that you use. Thank you. I'm loving your videos.
How about doing history of A W Rootbeer
Did you know that Little Ceasar's signed up to be the NFL's official pizza this year? LGRWS!
Obviously our host left the door for more lists of "Iconic brands launched in the '50s", but probably the largest of the bunch of the ones left must be BURGER KING, as they opened originally in 1953 in Jacksonville, FL as "Insta-Burger King" (McD's doesn't qualify for the list as they first opened in 1940, although the first "Golden Arches" logo was launched in 1953).
Another one mentioned in the comments was WAFFLE HOUSE, opened in Avondale Estates, GA in 1955.
Also Perkins Pancake House opened in Cincinnati in 1957.
I find it funny that the illitch family purchased the detroit tigers from tom monaghan, founder of little caesars pizza competitor, dominoes
yum
I may not be recalling this accurately but wasn’t Dave Madden of Partridge Family fame the voice of Denny’s commercials for a time?
The gentleman who started Williams Sonoma tried to open a store in Sonoma a couple years back (the original had closed many years prior) and could not comply with all the myriad of regulations now required for Sonoma businesses…. 😂😂😂
Whenever there was a name change or they grew larger...that means they agreed to join the 'club'
Fun fact! Here are the words to the Mr. Softee jingle:
The creamiest, dreamiest soft ice cream,
You get from Mister Softee.
For a refreshing delight supreme
Look for Mister Softee!
Waffle House was started in Avondale estates Georgia on September 5th 1955
I used to play live trivia and we had this final question:
"Given the location and the year it first opened, name these five restaurant chains which are best-known for breakfast"
Gallipolis, OH 1948
Lakewood, CA 1953
Avondale Estates, GA 1955
Cincinnati, OH 1957
Toluca Lake, CA 1958
@@MidKid61 - can mention 3/5: Denny's (Lakewood, CA-1953), Waffle House (Avondale Estates, GA - 1955) and IHOP (Toluca Lake, CA - 1958). The 2 from CA were mentioned in this video and the comment I'm replying answers the other.
One I had to Google to find was Bob Evans (Gallipolis, OH - 1948). The other from Cincinnati, OH is the trickier one to find (and I suppose it's "not" A&W, as hot dogs and root beer, what they're famous for are NOT breakfast items)...
@@syxepop The one from Cincinnati, OH was Perkins.
@@MidKid61 - I wouldn't recognized it as it probably was the most regional of the 5 chains.
GRACIAS!!! 😊😊😊
scattered, covered and smothered forever!!!
Are you going to do a Flashback 2000?
20 iconic brands launched in the 1950s are
1. McDonald's ( 1953 )
2. Insta Burger King ( 1953 )
3. Burger King or BK ( 1954 )
4. Datsun Motor USA ( 1958 )
5. Honda Motor USA ( 1959 )
6. Toyota Motor North America ( 1957 )
7. NASA ( 1958 )
8. Winnebago Industries ( 1958 )
9. Thrifty Car Rental ( 1958 )
10. Enterprise Rent A Car ( 1957 )
11. Budget Rent a Car ( 1958 )
12. Subaru ( 1953 )
13. Church's Texas Chicken or Church's Chicken ( 1952 )
14. Ore Ida ( 1952 )
15. American Motors Corporation or AMC ( 1954 )
16. Motown Records ( 1958 )
17. Warner Records Inc. ( 1958 )
18. Crest ( 1955 )
19. Oral B ( 1950 )
20. Newport ( 1957 )
21. Kent ( 1952 )
22. Winston ( 1954 )
Too bad the food isn't as good as it was in the 50s. I won't eat at ANY of these eateries anymore.
Mr softie is the best soft serve bar none
Stopped at a local Dunkin Donuts a couple years ago after not going there for several years. Now I know why. Worst tasting donuts I ever ate (partially) in my life. Haven't been back and have no plans to ever go again.
Sbarro is still one of my fav national pizzas!
Pizza Hut went downhill fast for me anyway.
I've never been certain if it was just urban locations by me, but you're right --- downhill. Where I grew up in the 70s they were a family restaurant, a little more than just a pizza joint. I miss the old Pizza Huts.
@I miss the 90s _You're_ not "your".
And another iconic brand launched in 1957 was the Edsel! 🎉 🎉 Umm, wait a minute.... 😐
Icon for the WRONG reasons...
@I miss the 90s - it wasn't such a bad car (Ford had its' recalls back then just like today's ones for the Bronco and now the Maverick + Escape Hybrids), but was put on a TOO NARROW NICHE OF THE MARKET on THE WRONG FINANCIAL TIME (at the start of a recession).
Also the "horseshoe" design up front didn't helped.
@@syxepop I couldn't say if it was good or not, as I was born about 5 months before Mustang was launched, and Edsels just didn't sell.
I think I remember a Happy Days episode where Mr. Cunningham bought an Edsel and he was really proud of it, but nobody else was really impressed.
@@getoffmydarnlawn I need to look that up.
What about A&W Root Beer?
Face it. Pizza is so popular, anyone can be successful if they open a pizza joint.
Playboy - another iconic brand unveiled in the 1950s.
Mr. Softy no more! 😁
Helped generations teenage boys and single men get though lonely nights !
Mr. softee and Mr. tastee from pete and pete look awfully similar !!
Shows how uninformed I am: I thought Trader Joes started in the 90's.
it's pronounced Kwinzee, not Quincy
Wasn't Denny's at one time called Sambo's? Not politically correct.
Different chain.
Yes in NorthKC Mo..there was Denneys and little way down the road was Sambos ...Dennys is still there...Sambos closed end of the 70s I believe...
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Dude, save that for some other forum please
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No shame, I love Sbarro --- their slices and their Stromboli. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing for me, it was a huge deal when they opened up in the mall we frequented in my childhood. I'll leave it to others to debate the quality, I just know it tastes good as an occasional treat when I'm downtown by one of the few remaining locations in my area. I guess I'm just not a food snob. I like my home made pies on my stone and other local places, but Sbarro is good fast food pizza in my little ole opinion.
I was a Sbarro's kid too.
I love Sbarro's, too. Guess I'm not gourmet enough...
Didn't they use to be in the mall food court?? Remember malls? LoL
@@HELENGodLoves Yes, especially in the 80s. Poor malls, a dying breed.