Highrise Tower Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Cool old restaurant advertisement I found this week. In the newspaper Southwestern Times dated March 29, 1951. Has anyone ever been here or know about the place? Quick fact: The same intersection once housed an airport. Almeda Road at Old Spanish Trail is a famous, historic, intersection! Have you tried . . . Our Pan Fried Chicken? Hickory-Broiled Steaks of Prime Western Beef Delicious Seafoods Barbecued Beef Barbecued Ham ½ Chicken Shoestring Potatoes Cream Gravy Hot Biscuits Honey All You Can Eat $1.25 Delicious Complete Lunch 75¢ Hammon Organ Music Nightly Serving from 11 A.M. To 12 P.M. Bring Her to The Terrace at The Crossroads – Almeda & O.S.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 I don't remember the restaurant at all but have a vague recollection of an airport. "At the Crossroads - Almeda & OST" - ☺️ The 50s, I think, is when Iowa (or Mid-Western) corn-fed beef started showing up in the markets. Guy's on OST might have been one of the earliest purveyors. I'm pretty sure that's where we got ours. Western Prime steaks (!) may mean grass fed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 I don't remember the restaurant either but I definitely remember the airport which was closed by the time I was old enough to remember it. This site reckons it was closed by 1950: Cunningham Airport / Erwin-Newman Airport 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) "Hammond Organ Music Nightly" would have been the clincher for me if I'd been looking for a place to eat back in the day. Plenty of other establishments where you could get steak or chicken, but how many of them offered the dulcet tones of a B-3 for your listening pleasure while dining? Edited August 21, 2023 by mkultra25 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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