This time, I’ll be entirely predictable. I’ll admit that if given the choice, my ride to this Pizza Hut in North Carolina would be done in the 914. However, I won’t blame any of you if you pick any of the other vehicles in these images.
Martin’s Talk Of The Town, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Underwood’s Bar-B-Q, Odessa, Texas.
Candyland, Mc Donough, Georgia.
Allison’s Steak House, Gila Bend, Arizona.
Rich,
Thank you for all your work lately!
If that Pizza Hut is in Raleigh, that could have been my family there most Friday evenings in the early 1970s. Except we had a Chrysler and not a Dodge wagon.
Great pics! Do you have a source? I’d love to actually figure out if that’s the same Pizza Hut we went to when I was about 12. 🙂
Nope, sorry to say, but the Flickr page says the Pizza Hut of this post was in Fayetteville. However, there was another Raleigh image there. There is a nice Cadillac and a Beetle on this one.
Aside from the first photo, not a foreign car in sight. I know very little about vintage motorcycles, but the two bikes at Pizza Hut look like they might be Japanese.
If the 914 is a 1.7 liter, I’ll just as soon take the brown (bronze?) VW Fastback at the left of the Pizza Hut photo. I think it has the same engine as the Porsche, and it’s lots more practical, and I’m the practical sort.
The 914′, 1.7 had the Type four engine (1.7, 1.8, 2.0) also used in the 411/412 and later buses. The Fastback has the older “pancake” Type 3 1600 engine, basically the same as the Type 1 engine with a different fan and duct work.
Ah, oops. I think I’ll still take the Fastback, though 🙂
I’m hoping, it was a 914-6 swapped with the 4-banger’s steel wheels, to fool pundits for winning stoplight dragraces as a sleeper. Oh, well
The one more visible resembles a Honda CB 450?
The most obvious motorcycle is the Honda 350 twin in the front and quite possibly another behind.
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Looks like the Martin’s Talk of the Town building in Lancaster is still standing – now as a retail store – though the large barn-looking structure behind it is gone. And there’s an appropriately vintage 1970s-era Camaro parked outside in the Google StreetView image.
StreetView here:
https://goo.gl/maps/4TwpVX7tUjA9E4xJA
The halcyon days of fast food marketing. Love the creative branding behind these famous names. Back then, many well-known American fast food chains, had not entered the Canadian market en masse. So, visiting places like Howard Johnson’s as a kid, was a fun experience. When visiting the US.
Ontario government promotes their ONroute service centres, on major freeways in the province, with multiple eateries at each location. I like their layout, convenience, and architecture. But, it isn’t the same.
https://www.onroute.ca/
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I remember what a big deal Pizza Hut was in the early 70s. It was THE place to go for several years.
I love the Mopar wagons that feature prominently in 3 out of the 5 shots – Ford wagons far outsold them, but the Ford owners must have been the families where mom cooked and everyone stayed home.
Underwood’s BBQ – the “Forward Look” 59 Mopar looked positively old fashioned next to everything else in that lot that was in far greater demand.
For me, before McDonald’s, Burger King and St-Hubert was the place to go, it was Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC (Poulet Frit Kentucky aka PFK). Here a French tv ad aired in 1979 in Quebec before Colonel Sanders’ death.
Eighty-nine cents Canadian would pay for as many fries as can get counted on one hand or foot, these days
Yeah, those were the days and this jingle seems to have a long run in Canada in the 1970s.
The ’59 Chrysler isn’t all that much older than the 1962 Pontiac or the Corvair – but what a difference a few years makes in terms of auto design
I’m still amazed how quickly automotive fashion changed back then.
“1961” was a big , “out with the 50’s look” year for a lot a car makers.”Rambler” was an exception.
Underwood’s Barbecue. There is still one left in Brownwood, TX.
https://underwoodsbbq.com/our-history/
It’s been awhile for me (probably going on 20 years) but I think I’ve eaten at the Underwood’s in Brownwood more than once when going through. I live in Austin and probably like a lot of folks here headed up toward Lubbock pass through Brownwood going up 183, but it’s more than a 2 hour drive so at least for me not a casual distance to go. I’m sure it was good (otherwise doubt I would have stopped in more than once) but don’t recall anything more than having stopped there.
BBQ, Mexican and Chinese restaurants are about the only independent ones left here; lots of places are national chains, that’s changed significantly in the 40 years I’ve lived here. Restaurants are a lot of work…one of my Dad’s friends opened one up after retiring (from an unrelated line of work) and ended up putting more hours in at work after retiring than he did before he retired. Maybe that’s part of the reason you see fewer independent places…once the owners retire, their offspring often want no part of running the restaurant, after all, they’ve seen how hard it was on their parents. My Dad’s friend sold off his restaurant (actually more than one) now he’s 30 years beyond his original retirement, guess he wants to retire for good and not be involved in the restaurant business any longer.
I don’t remember Pizza Hut. Grew up in Chicago, only blocks from still-famous regional pizzarias. We worked at Sanfrantello’s, bought the Sunday Chicago Trib and picked up an Arrenello’s every Saturday night, celebrated birthdays at Arrelio’s, and had dates at Vito & Nick’s. Tavern pizzas are now the rage, and I never knew there were other kinds until I was looking at a Domino’s greasy triangles of sadness – but that’s me.
We had that Dodge wagon, but it was light yellow. Started rusting three years after purchase, but hung in there until 1983 when it became a Dodge Royal Monaco with Swiss cheese fenders. I remember driving it and noticing something following me like a stalker, from a distance, which turned out to be the back window. It was ridiculously wide and large, got 10 miles per gallon, and had the quality of a 1970’s-era Chrysler product. Sad.
Love the photos!
We still have an original red roof Pizza Hut, basically unchanged since it was built in the 70s. They never went to any of the new logos. It may be the only place left here in the end. KFC, Taco Bell, Burger King, Little Caesers…. all came and went. McDonald’s and Subway came later and are still here.
I’m a bicentennial baby so these cars are well before my time. I couldn’t name any of them. However in the Texaco Candy Land photo, the greenish goldfish car near the right with the 3 taillights per side, I find interesting. The taillights remind me of some of the GM pickups I’ve seen with the Corvette rear bumper kit.
The “greenish goldfish car” with the tri-taliights is likely a 1968 Chevrolet Impala or Caprice 2-door hardtop – the swoopy roofline gives that away.
Other clues that the photo is 1968 or later are the Buick Electra and the Pontiac Catalina – their side marker lights are clearly visible near the rear bumper.
The ’66 (’65?) Dodge Monaco wagon at Candy Land gets my attention first, since my family had a ’66 Polara wagon when we were growing up (my dad said he didn’t get the Monaco because he didn’t like the fake wood paneling – I learned years later that Di-Noc woodgrain had largely disappeared for several years in the early ’60s and Dodge revived its popularity). Wow is that one loaded up though – what is all that stuff?
And the car just to right of the Monaco wagon is a ’67 Chevy Bel Air. Yes, that year Bel Air had triple tailights just like the Impala, except there was no chrome trim on the trunk lid just above the lights. The color appears to be Tahoe Turquoise, which would match the color of my mother’s ’67 Bel Air.
I remember a science teachers “67 Belair , 2 dr sdn”. It had the back lights like the “Biscayne”.
Was burgundy, still in good shape about “1973ish”.