And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wow! Do I have fond memories flowing back. They were the real diners and they were memorable. WW-II Army vet 50's something, bald, fat, hairy short order cook with a smoking cigarette dangling from his lower lip behind the counter flippin' ham, eggs & home fires and drippin' the sweat from his forehead into the sizzling mix.
Retro nostalgia. The Loris Diner opened in in SF in 1993, this B&W photo was taken in 2019.
ReplyDeleteWow! Do I have fond memories flowing back. They were the real diners and they were memorable. WW-II Army vet 50's something, bald, fat, hairy short order cook with a smoking cigarette dangling from his lower lip behind the counter flippin' ham, eggs & home fires and drippin' the sweat from his forehead into the sizzling mix.
ReplyDeleteYUM! But only if there was a "Whites Only" sign out front.
DeleteX2 Bogside
ReplyDeletelunch counter memories
ReplyDeleteWoolworth's in Baltimore when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day when "patriotism" was not considered by the libtards as "Nazism."
ReplyDeleteTakes me back, I ate in places like that. The jukebox was 10 cents a song, 3 for a quarter.
ReplyDeleteMy kids loved going to the Coffee Corner in Montpelier, they never cared how long the line was, that was always part of the experience.
ReplyDeleteSpringfield, Illinois in the '50s - we had little drugstores with soda counters all over in a town of 175,000.
ReplyDeleteI was behind the counter makin sodas and floats when I was 15. At this age memories like Virtual Reality almost every night.