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re: Restaurant history thread - 112 missed restaurants in the history of F-ville
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:30 pm to DaleDenton
Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:30 pm to DaleDenton
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Also reading that list I was kinda sad to not see AQ on it.
For real how do they stay open? I haven't ate there in like 10 years at least. I have gotten the lb of chicken strips lb of potato wedges when I was broke one day a few years ago at the drive through one whatever it's calledThis post was edited on 7/18/14 at 5:31 pm
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Posted on 7/18/14 at 5:38 pm to DaleDenton
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I never pass through Lowell
I used to work at Arvest HQ up there and so sadly I had to spend time in Lowell. I haven't been back since I quit working there
Posted on 7/18/14 at 6:34 pm to Hubbhogg
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I used to work at Arvest HQ up there and so sadly I had to spend time in Lowell. I haven't been back since I quit working there
Their HQ in there?
I guess that is why I mail the payment to Lowell every month for a loan I have with them.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:24 pm to DaleDenton
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43. Rally’s
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49. Luby’s
All thats missing is a Bonanza and a Western Sizzlin
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:28 pm to beebefootballfan
When and where did Fayetteville ever have a Luby's?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:33 pm to wmr
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When and where did Fayetteville ever have a Luby's?
It was in the mall where you walked in on the left side of men's Dillard's
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Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:50 pm to Hubbhogg
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Off that list I'd say Hoffbrau is the one place that should've never went out of business. Place used to be awesome.
I miss those 99 cent pints badly. We'd have "Monday Night Marathons". How it works is you walk in get a table, you scan the section you've been seated in, order drinks. Your goal is to outlast every table in your section, and then the next suckers that are seated at that table while maintaining the same rate of drinking.
Yes, you clear out a section, and then do it again. Only after the last table in your section to be cleared twice leaves is when you can stop drinking, or until the place closes down whichever happens first.
Monday Night Marathons at Hoffbrau followed by picking up sloots at OPO was a common occurrence and responsible for at least 2 of my drunk crashes.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 7:56 pm to beebefootballfan
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All thats missing is a Bonanza and a Western Sizzlin
Bonanza was where La Huerta is now. It was the after church spot for my family. I remember that being about the only place we ever got to eat out at while I was a young kid. Sundays after church, and the very very rare occasion that one of my friends had their b-day at McDonalds with the playhouse. Getting McDonald's was the rarest of treats. In my family a night to look forward to was Hamburger night on Saturday's and if timed right you could eat your cheeseburger while watching Hee-Haw.
God I wish I was bullshitting about all of that.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:06 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Western Sizzlin was on College in the area across the street from Hermans. We used to go eat there occasionally when I was a little kid.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 8:07 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Bonanza was where La Huerta is now. It was the after church spot for my family. I remember that being about the only place we ever got to eat out at while I was a young kid. Sundays after church, and the very very rare occasion that one of my friends had their b-day at McDonalds with the playhouse. Getting McDonald's was the rarest of treats. In my family a night to look forward to was Hamburger night on Saturday's and if timed right you could eat your cheeseburger while watching Hee-Haw.
God I wish I was bullshiteting about all of that.
Reading this reminds me of the scene from the movie Knocked Up when the club bouncer wouldn't let the women in - "You old as eff....for this club, you know, not like, for the Earth."
Posted on 7/18/14 at 9:09 pm to TheCheshireHog
I haven't read the article yet, but if Coy's Place isn't on there I'm going to flatten Dustin's tires on Monday.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 10:08 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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Bonanza was where La Huerta is now. It was the after church spot for my family. I remember that being about the only place we ever got to eat out at while I was a young kid. Sundays after church, and the very very rare occasion that one of my friends had their b-day at McDonalds with the playhouse. Getting McDonald's was the rarest of treats. In my family a night to look forward to was Hamburger night on Saturday's and if timed right you could eat your cheeseburger while watching Hee-Haw.
So... what number Duggar are you?
Posted on 7/18/14 at 10:13 pm to DaleDenton
Southern Baptist is almost as bad as Pentecostal.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 11:02 pm to TheCheshireHog
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Western Sizzlin
Sizzle me timbers.
Thinking about the buffet gives me a robust, meaningful chub.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 7:32 am to Litigator
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. In addition to the Fayetteville location there was one in Springdale for awhile. On the original N. Garland location across from Harp's there was a business split of sorts at one point and one version of it became Taco Casita and another was called something else in the same shopping center (Oak Plaza).
Two brothers started the business together and had several locations including one on College next to Pizza Hut cellar. When they split one brother opened the new one in Oak Plaza his wife kept Marlos and the other brother opened Taco Place on 6th with the exact same menu.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 8:21 am to Person of interest
Does anyone remember "The Last Great American Hotdog Stand" just off Dixon? Loved eating there back in the '70's.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 10:38 am to Person of interest
Yes, I'd forgotten about the one on College. Generally I only went to the location in Oak Plaza because it was so close to campus.
I still see Marlo there from time to time whenever I pass through and stop to get something to eat. She used to cut my hair in school and had a salon in a shopping center on Business 71, not far from the Country Club and Drake Field. If I remember correctly it was about in the same spot as St. Michael's Disco Alley which was a popular club back in the day. LINK
I still see Marlo there from time to time whenever I pass through and stop to get something to eat. She used to cut my hair in school and had a salon in a shopping center on Business 71, not far from the Country Club and Drake Field. If I remember correctly it was about in the same spot as St. Michael's Disco Alley which was a popular club back in the day. LINK
Posted on 7/19/14 at 1:40 pm to Litigator
I remember most of those in that list. I've only ever known the one Marlo's Taco Shack but its been going for ages.
The ones I miss are:
Cafe Santa Fe on Center, not for the food, but for the drunken hell raising that happened there. People dancing on tables, karaoke, falling down those damned steep stairs to the upper portion. 3 buck mason jars of Long Islands, just begging to kill somebody. Such fun.
Casa Taco, it was probably just total garbage, but my go to was dipping a cheeseburger in their queso when really really drunk (which now that I remember seens like 5 out of 7 day a week in college). Also had the experience of ordering delivery at 3 am and passing out and not going to the door. I bet a lot of those "free cheese dips" were leftovers from other deliveries where that exact thing happened.
I ate at Boardwalk Cafe, and the only reason I really miss it is that its one of those places that I remember before Dickson got completely gentrified and rents went through the roof. Just a burger joint in a shady spot. We need more of that in this town and fewer chains. On the flipside, we used to be just a quaint little college town without much else going on. Dickson is stronger now than its probably ever been, and all signs point to more growth, more art, more bars, and more restaurants. I forget how much a part the square played in nightlife back then. I guess its strong now, too. Back then though, Center St held its own. Its a mystery to me why only the south side of that street seems to hold restaurants while the north side continues to languish some.
The ones I miss are:
Cafe Santa Fe on Center, not for the food, but for the drunken hell raising that happened there. People dancing on tables, karaoke, falling down those damned steep stairs to the upper portion. 3 buck mason jars of Long Islands, just begging to kill somebody. Such fun.
Casa Taco, it was probably just total garbage, but my go to was dipping a cheeseburger in their queso when really really drunk (which now that I remember seens like 5 out of 7 day a week in college). Also had the experience of ordering delivery at 3 am and passing out and not going to the door. I bet a lot of those "free cheese dips" were leftovers from other deliveries where that exact thing happened.
I ate at Boardwalk Cafe, and the only reason I really miss it is that its one of those places that I remember before Dickson got completely gentrified and rents went through the roof. Just a burger joint in a shady spot. We need more of that in this town and fewer chains. On the flipside, we used to be just a quaint little college town without much else going on. Dickson is stronger now than its probably ever been, and all signs point to more growth, more art, more bars, and more restaurants. I forget how much a part the square played in nightlife back then. I guess its strong now, too. Back then though, Center St held its own. Its a mystery to me why only the south side of that street seems to hold restaurants while the north side continues to languish some.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 1:53 pm to wmr
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Cafe Santa Fe on Center, not for the food, but for the drunken hell raising that happened there. People dancing on tables, karaoke, falling down those damned steep stairs to the upper portion. 3 buck mason jars of Long Islands, just begging to kill somebody. Such fun.
Casa Taco, it was probably just total garbage, but my go to was dipping a cheeseburger in their queso when really really drunk (which now that I remember seens like 5 out of 7 day a week in college). Also had the experience of ordering delivery at 3 am and passing out and not going to the door. I bet a lot of those "free cheese dips" were leftovers from other deliveries where that exact thing happened.
It sounds like we were in college at the exact same time and went the same places.
The mason jars at Cafe Santa Fe were definitely legit. Were you there by chance the night of the big brawl that rolled out in to the street?
Posted on 7/19/14 at 2:29 pm to wmr
The Old Post Office really revived the square when it became a club/restaurant and was a hangout there for awhile. I remember Cafe Santa Fe as it opened in 1982 which was when I graduated college and started law school thereafter. I went there some.
I rarely went to Dickson except just passing through and I thought of it back then as seedy--it was so much different then than now. Someone got killed at or in front of the Swingin' Door and that's about the time Fayetteville's first curfew got implemented.
I ate on campus most of the time anyway.
Edit--CasaTaco/Marlo's Taco Shack is one of all time favorites anywhere and one of the cheapest places you'll find. The cheese dip, hot sauce, taco burgers and meat and cheese nachos were my favorites.
I rarely went to Dickson except just passing through and I thought of it back then as seedy--it was so much different then than now. Someone got killed at or in front of the Swingin' Door and that's about the time Fayetteville's first curfew got implemented.
I ate on campus most of the time anyway.
Edit--CasaTaco/Marlo's Taco Shack is one of all time favorites anywhere and one of the cheapest places you'll find. The cheese dip, hot sauce, taco burgers and meat and cheese nachos were my favorites.
This post was edited on 7/19/14 at 2:50 pm
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