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On Jan 19, 6:08*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> "Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in messagenews:ukdfh7167peisaog94860rgl9oo177r00n@4ax .com...
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> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:59:00 -0500, "jmcquown" >
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> >>It's too bad Wayne and Michael (Dog3) aren't posting here anymore. *They'd
> >>recognize some of these old Memphis restaurants.

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> >>The Knickerbocker
> >>Anderton's
> >>Pete & Sams
> >>Buntyn's Cafe
> >>Pappy & Jimmy's
> >>Britlings Cafeteria

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> >>99th Bomb Group by the airport
> >>The Belmont Grill (made a really good Monte Cristo sandwich!)

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> > 99th Bomb Group, really??

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> Sorry! *91st Bomb Group. *Next to the airport. *Wonderful beer cheese soup.
> We'd sometimes make the drive there for lunch... extending the lunch hour by
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> > Another one for your list (IIR the name correctly) was Aga Khan
> > (Ghengis Khan?). I loved that place.

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> Hmmm, I don't remember that one. *I remember going to Picadilly's cafeteria
> in Germantown with co-workers. *I used to hate cafeterias; they reminded me
> too much of school.


Cafeterias seem to be enduringly popular in the south for some reason.
(Freestanding ones, not part of any institution.) Curious after seeing
an ad for Picadilly's on some nostalgia TV network, I found the
northernmost one was near St. Louis. (Odder still, all Picadilly's
outlets were in former slave states.) The one that sticks in my mind
is Luby's, because of the Texas massacre at one.