Anybody remember these restaurants? (Cincinnati, Hamilton: 2009, to buy, organic)

[blockhead]

Skeletons! What Skeletons? I NEVER skipped school or Drank 3.2 when I should have been in German class. Good thing I didn't know why the KY restaurants were so popular

[MiddleCincinnati]

Originally Posted by jlawrence01

The Lookout House was very similar to the Beverly Hills Supper Club - and suffered a similar (albeit less tragic) fate. It burned to the ground on the early 70s.

The restaurant was a white tablecloth place where people would be dressed in suiy and tie. It had an upscale menu and was really very formal.

I think maybe we ate there once - around 1970. Whatever
the place was, looking north across the river you had a very
good view of Sayler Park. Does that sound right?

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by blockhead

Here is one I can't remember: The Look Out House

I recently received an old photograph of my family, taken in the mid 1950's. ON the back it says it was taken at the Look Out House. The walls appear to have quilted material, and hilarious cut glass wall sconces.

Anyone remember this place...Does it still exist?

Spent many college fraternity formals at the Lookout House. Burned down years ago, some feel it had a little help in getting fire started.

There was also another Northern Ky restaurant (besides Lookout House and Beverly Hills) that used to have formals and banquets that also burned down.

Obviously, Beverly Hills was the worst. We were supposed to be there that night and I didn't like the headliner, John Davidson, so we went somewhere else. Our parents were frantic.

(As an aside, we were there the week before and saw (I think) David Brenner. Anyone who ever ate at Beverly Hills and watched a show has to remember that you were shoulder to shoulder with the next table. our friend that was with us was a fireman, said that if there ever was a fire, lots of people will die.....That was 1 week before the tragic night)

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by jlawrence01

The Lookout House was very similar to the Beverly Hills Supper Club - and suffered a similar (albeit less tragic) fate. It burned to the ground on the early 70s.

The restaurant was a white tablecloth place where people would be dressed in suiy and tie. It had an upscale menu and was really very formal.

I must disclose that the last time I ate there was at age six or so in 1965.

The reason these Kentucky restaurants were so popular was that you could buy a drink on a Sunday.

At my mother's funeral in 1995, her friends were telling me about drive in bars in Kentucky where you could buy a mixed drink and have it brought to your car. (Obviously, those were different times.)

And for you folks out there, don't give your children ready access to your high school friends if you don't want them to find out about the skeletens in your closet.

My parents used to tell us about drinks being served in tea cups on Sundays and many of the high end eateries in KY. Ah, the good old days of the Blue Laws.

[blockhead]

I saw Jimmy Durante and Alan King at the Beverly Hills. I remember him singing Inkadinkadoo!!

[mimis5]

Does anyone remember a small possibly italian restaurant on montgomery rd near silverton? I ate there in the 70's and cannot remember the name! It's driving us crazy.

[wilson1010]

Yea, I remember that place. It was on the north side of Montgomery Road just east of the railroad tracks. I have a terrible time with names, but it will come to me and I'll post up again.

[awelliott]

The Green Derby in Newport has closed after 62 years, due to money/management problems. Their last day was June 28. I ate there many times as I grew up only a couple of blocks away....

[wilson1010]

Originally Posted by mimis5

Does anyone remember a small possibly italian restaurant on montgomery rd near silverton? I ate there in the 70's and cannot remember the name! It's driving us crazy.

That restaurant was Greek I think and they had a bar. It will come to me.

[wilson1010]

Originally Posted by mimis5

Does anyone remember a small possibly italian restaurant on montgomery rd near silverton? I ate there in the 70's and cannot remember the name! It's driving us crazy.

Originally Posted by wilson1010

That restaurant was Greek I think and they had a bar. It will come to me.

Marathon!

Wilson 1, pre-senile dementia 0