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  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47242

    Ever remember something nobody in the entire WORLD remembers ?

    Grew up in a relatively small town --- very Mayberry-ish

    We had a diner everybody called "a greasy spoon"

    Later in the 80's it became a custom furniture wood shop.

    Today it's a car repair garage.

    Now, I can't find one person in this world that remembers it being a diner including people that should remember it that grew up back in the day with me.

    Sometimes I think i'm cracking up (to the modern generation - cracking up means going crazy)
  • ToyTalk
    Career Member
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 574

    #2
    You can't make it to the age you must be without already being a big crazy. There was an old fashioned shake shop in the town I grew up in. Like your diner, I'm the only one that remembers it being there.
    Looking for FTC figures from 5-10 years ago

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    • ODBJBG
      Permanent Member
      • May 15, 2009
      • 3143

      #3
      Maybe you slipped through an alternate parallel dimension. Happens to me all the time.

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      • drquest
        ~~/\~~\o/~~/\~~Shark!
        • Apr 17, 2012
        • 3741

        #4
        Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.
        Danny(Drquest)
        Captain Action HQ
        Retro shirts and stuff
        More retro shirts
        Stuff For Sale

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        • Klosterheim
          Persistent Member
          • Mar 23, 2013
          • 1121

          #5
          That's something.

          Have you experienced a moment in Time, when all diners had stuffed pasta shells on their menu?

          I don't know if anyone remember the store Gee Bee's, but one became a Giant Eagle grocery store.

          It was either Gee Bee's or Zayre that had a really cool green tank toy,
          that also opened up as a carry case for three-and-three-quarter-inch action figures.

          There are probably a few things that disappeared over the decades.
          ---------
          Happy New Year!

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          • MRP
            Persistent Member
            • Jul 19, 2016
            • 2035

            #6
            Hmm, a Mandela effect in action perhaps?

            -M
            "Opinion is the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding." -Plato

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            • Wee67
              Museum Correspondent
              • Apr 2, 2002
              • 10586

              #7
              Originally posted by ODBJBG
              Maybe you slipped through an alternate parallel dimension. Happens to me all the time.


              I've lost track of a department store!

              I lived for a year in Morrisville, PA in an apartment complex called Penn Park. Across the street was a Clover department store. Clover was the cheaper sister store of Philly' Strawbridge & Clothier dept store chain. I distinctly remember the store because I was busted by the store detective for stealing micronauts around '78 (police were not involved, but one ****ed off scary mom was).

              A few years back I went back to the scene of the crime, or what I thought was the scene. There was the apartment complex, now called the Commons at Fallsington and apparently no longer section 8 housing. Across the street, there was a large, flat rectangular one story commercial building but it was now a storage facility. It also didn't mirror the orientation I remembered OR have what used to be a supermarket next to it, as I remember Clover having. A police car pulled up to my car, suspiciously loitering in the parking lot to see what I was doing. He was older and said he'd been a cop for 30 years and had no memory of this being a Clover. (Strawbridge's and Clover both went out of business in the 2000's)
              WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.

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              • GlobalObserver
                Persistent Member
                • Aug 12, 2004
                • 2220

                #8
                When I was six years old, I was kidnapped by a bigfoot and held for ransom. For 16 days, that smelly apeman kept me held up in a cave until my dad finally arrived with the ransom demand, a half gallon of Neapolitan ice cream, a transistor radio with extra batteries, and a 12-month subscription to Penthouse magazine.

                Nobody in my family remembers this unsettling even but me.

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                • Mikey
                  Verbose Member
                  • Aug 9, 2001
                  • 47242

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Wee67


                  …………….. Across the street was a Clover department store. Clover was the cheaper sister store of Philly' Strawbridge & Clothier...……… )
                  One thing I always loved about Clover was (yes their normal prices were high) but when they did a clearance they almost gave everything away.

                  My local Clover in Easton PA sold marked down boxed with book Trek Picard 12" Playmates figures for $9.99 apiece

                  Unfortunately that was $9.98 more than their actual toy-market collector's wanted value

                  I am suck a sucker

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                  • ODBJBG
                    Permanent Member
                    • May 15, 2009
                    • 3143

                    #10
                    Originally posted by GlobalObserver
                    When I was six years old, I was kidnapped by a bigfoot and held for ransom. For 16 days, that smelly apeman kept me held up in a cave until my dad finally arrived with the ransom demand, a half gallon of Neapolitan ice cream, a transistor radio with extra batteries, and a 12-month subscription to Penthouse magazine.

                    Nobody in my family remembers this unsettling even but me.
                    That happened to you TOO?! I wonder if it was the same bigfoot or if this is just something they like to do.

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                    • Klosterheim
                      Persistent Member
                      • Mar 23, 2013
                      • 1121

                      #11
                      Ha!, ha!
                      ---------
                      This thread also reminded me of something else.

                      Woolsworth at the mall had a mini-diner in their department store.

                      It seemed normal at the time for them to serve hot food, but now it seems strange.

                      They were not a stand alone restaurant and they were not a fast food restaurant that belonged in the food court, how could it exist?

                      Maybe I watched Mallrats too much.

                      It was anything goes in the past, there weren't so many labels and categories.

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                      • zeedox
                        Career Member
                        • Aug 10, 2007
                        • 695

                        #12
                        Last year...

                        Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher's daughter, had top screen credit for Rise of Skywalker on the Kiosk at Cinemark...

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                        • Mikey
                          Verbose Member
                          • Aug 9, 2001
                          • 47242

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Klosterheim
                          Ha!, ha!
                          ---------
                          This thread also reminded me of something else.

                          Woolsworth at the mall had a mini-diner in their department store.
                          .
                          YES !!!

                          They all had them open glass Orange Drink machines recirculating over and over and made every kid crazy-thirsty

                          Closest thing you can get to them now is Tang

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                          • apes3978
                            Permanent Member
                            • Nov 19, 2005
                            • 4901

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Klosterheim
                            Ha!, ha!
                            ---------
                            This thread also reminded me of something else.

                            Woolsworth at the mall had a mini-diner in their department store.

                            It seemed normal at the time for them to serve hot food, but now it seems strange.

                            They were not a stand alone restaurant and they were not a fast food restaurant that belonged in the food court, how could it exist?

                            Maybe I watched Mallrats too much.

                            It was anything goes in the past, there weren't so many labels and categories.

                            K-Marts around here at least used to have dine in cafes/restaurants, but as I recall, you used to be able to get the food to go too. We had their broasted chicken a few times... And by their Icee machine, they used to have an open air fridge where they would sell ham sandwiches-They'd sell them in a long tubular bag, four sandwiches per bag IIRC.

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                            • Mikey
                              Verbose Member
                              • Aug 9, 2001
                              • 47242

                              #15
                              ^--- My local K-mart's diner was loaded with "little old ladies"

                              Even as a cocky 18 year old I would always leave a nice tip for them
                              Food was always great and service was nice --- with a smile

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