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- I laughed
- Old Greyhound Bus Terminal
- Smoking!
- Powder monkey
- Lousy
- Warning Labels
- Something askew
- Long term move
- I'm pretty sure
- 1940 letters
- Postcards from the edge
- Entrepreneurs at the start
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Another Victim of Fire
- Jerusalem
- Unchanged
- Ashes by Now
- Stunningly beautiful
- Mr. Rothstein's auto
- All in the training
- I wonder
- Much is still the same
- The Original Poet
- Dan the poet?
- In the lower left corner.
- Humph!
- Not Very Friendly, Dan
- Not brick
- Big changes coming
- No trespassing in this john!
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White Tower: 1941
October 1941. "White Tower hamburger stand, the popular place in Amsterdam, New York." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier.
Johnny Rockets
Looks like a spitting image of the retro chain Johnny Rockets, except they're getting a bit more than 5 cents for a burger these days.
Kellogg's Pep!
I like that the bowl stands ready to serve the Kellogg's cereal, behind the waitress's head. That's… charming.
Bait and Switch
The exterior sign lures you with 5 cent hamburgers, but once inside you learn they are actually 9 cents. Still want to buy a bagful?
[Look again. The sign inside says Hamburgers 5¢. - Dave]
Tidy whitey, almost
Wow, at first glance, impeccable, clean and gleam until one notices the floor, but I'll still have a piece of pie for ten cents.
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