Rocky Roccoco's. I loved that place and I'm really not sure why. Probably the bad as cuban pimp looking guy that it was named after. I enjoyed my last pizza and mug of root beer there in high school at the Spring Hill mall.

Fuck shoneys. There is one down the street from me. You couldn't pay me to go in that place.

I remember hitting up Marie Calander's and Bakers Square back in the day though they may still exist....at least 1 does in the freezer of the grocery store.

Connies Pizza was aight.

These are all basically places I remember going to at Fox Valley so while they are no longer there they might still exist elsewhere.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

There are still Bakers Squares everywhere and Connies is still around too.

Rocky's are everywhere up here also.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I don't know what the fuck that bread/tomato product is that Rocky Rococo traffics in, but it's sure as shit not pizza, I'll tell you that much right now. The basic concept of making a pizza stops at Antioch. Lake Geneva is populated by Chicago transplants, serving Chicago tourists, and yet no one there could make a fucking pizza.

Rocky Roccoco's. I loved that place and I'm really not sure why. Probably the bad as cuban pimp looking guy that it was named after. I enjoyed my last pizza and mug of root beer there in high school at the Spring Hill mall.

Fuck shoneys. There is one down the street from me. You couldn't pay me to go in that place.

I remember hitting up Marie Calander's and Bakers Square back in the day though they may still exist....at least 1 does in the freezer of the grocery store.

Connies Pizza was aight.

These are all basically places I remember going to at Fox Valley so while they are no longer there they might still exist elsewhere.

They should reopen Shakey's as a Neil Young concept restaurant, like Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. I'll have the out of the blue and into the blackened chicken.

My dad used to get tacos from a place called Naugle's, which, upon research, seems to have been a mostly west coast chain. Long trip for fast food.

No idea what a Wag's is.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Wags was a chain of average american fare...think Applebees but with more plain type food...stuff you find in a Perkins or on the Denny's dinner menu.

There used to be one at Town & Country mall...became a Shoneys, then a Boston Market...now I think it's a Verizon store...I haven't gone that way to visit my Grandma since I moved up North.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Honestly, as far as chain restaurants go, I'm really having a hard time of thinking of any that are gone that I actually miss. John's Garage maybe...Hooters, especially when stuck with BWW, makes me sad that the closest one to me is in the Mecca.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

Lucky's Diner?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987 ... ion-burger

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Oh, brother. Using the Walgreen's script is a branding disaster.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

Bob Evans is in with Ponderosa, still kind of around....but not really.

Bob Evans is also down the road from me. You couldn't pay me to go there either. I don't do 75 year old waitresses that smell like a chimney that was just hosed down with swamp water.

As I have said before. If you are in Ohio you go to fucking tim horton's. You go every day.

Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips

The Hardee's thread brings back memories of some of the chains that are either gone or have left the Chicagoland area.

Two of my favorites are Rax Roast Beef (great salad bar and menu in general) and Stuckeys (awesome breakfast buffet).

Another is The Lure Hamburgers (most recently in Portage, IN) which used to be decent to good but slipped badly the last time I was there a couple years ago and is now gone.

What are some other blasts from the past good or bad??

Edit: Substitute Shoney's for Stuckey's. Great breakfasty buffet for sure. Damn my memory sucks...

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

I miss Wag's a lot.

I miss Ponderosa's. I know they aren't fully gone...but all the locations I knew of are.