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- Mass × Acceleration
- Ralphie's Old Man
- Difficult Cases
- Sure is pretty
- Where’s Lucy and Desi?
- High class clean sweep
- Ranch!
- Obvious comment
- The combiner ...
- SAME NOW
- Trailer park
- Cold by any other name
- Forecast - hot and dry
- "Ranch" ??
- Still the same.
- Possibly current U.S. 87
- Caught
- Montana
- 1940 Ford
- Deprived for sure
- Highway 2?
- Miles and Miles
- What's the beef?
- Somebody didn't get enough sleep last night
- Carolina Blue
- 1928 Ford Phaeton
- +111
- +111
- +115
- +113
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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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