Anybody remember these restaurants? (Cincinnati, Springfield: high school, live in, floor)

[TonyaAnn]

I can remember just craving that stuff! Thanks for the update, whenever I get over to the West Side..........I've got to drop in!

Originally Posted by The Don

The Grand China is indeed still in business on Glenway Ave. -- just finished eating there tonight.

Anyone remember the restaurant on top of the highrise apartment building on Matson Place? Was it the Queen's Tower or something like that? Had a great view of downtown!

[Jim Burke]

Originally Posted by franke01

I remembered that the name of the place next to Chili Town across from Shillito's was Temple's Delicatessan.

As a child I remember my grandmother taking me in Temple's for lunch quite often. I remember that on the left as you entered was the checkout counter and you could but kosher corned beef by the pound. The owner (maybe?) sat there and the beef was on the counter under hot lamps. My mom worked across the street in Shillito's and I remember that they had a candy shop and the candy was made on site. This was in the early sixties. There was a bakery on Race St. on the opposite side of the street from Shillito's as you went toward Newberry's 10 cent store. I also remember a Kroger's being there (it had two floors) in the mid to late sixties. The fellow who sold newspapers in front of Shillito's was named Morris and papers were 7 cents. Anyone who remembers any of this please respond. I live in Knoxville, Tennessee now,but remember those days with great affection. Jim

[Jim Burke]

Originally Posted by Mikey1003

Before the tornado and the move, MacIntoshes had the best Sloppy Joe sandwiches. We went there all the time.

The bigger restaurant, across the street and after the storm, was very good..in business 15-20 years as Steak and Kettle

I lived in Reading from the mid-sixties until the early seventies but can't place Macintosh's? I remember the Wishing Well Restaurant on the corner of Reading Rd. and Galbraith Rd. and the Rocket dry cleaners on the opposite corner. Where was Macintosh's? Thanks, Jim

[Jim Burke]

Originally Posted by Exrvi

There also used to be a Prime and Wine in Kenwood, right near the mall. I htink it burned down.

Anyone remember MacIntoshes on Galbraith? My wife and I had dinner there the night we bought our house in Cincy (1986).

Jeff

I grew up in Reading in the mid-sixties but can't place Macintoshes. I now live in Louisville, Tennessee. What area in Cincy did you live in? Jim

[Hartwell Girl]

I have seen tons of Posts on here about McIntoshes...I would love to know where it was...I am in Hartwell and LOVE reading these old threads..

ANY Hartwell folks out there or used to live here or ALumni...we are looking for old Hartwell pics for a calendar...contact me if you have anything.

[MiddleCincinnati]

Originally Posted by Hartwell Girl

I have seen tons of Posts on here about McIntoshes...I would love to know where it was...I am in Hartwell and LOVE reading these old threads..

It looks like a few of these threads are starting to overlap.

MacIntosh's was on Galbraith, originally on the south side, about one
hundred yards east of where the Lewis Animal Hospital still stands. That
store opened ca. 1961. Following its destruction from the tornado of
August, 1969, the store was relocated across the street and renamed
to MacIntosh's Steak and Kettle. That site was on the north side of
Galbraith, maybe fifty yards east of the entrance ramp to northbound
I-75.

[blockhead]

I remember when the tornado went up Galbraith in the late 1960s. there was a huge advertising sign next to MacIntosh's that was bent 180 degrees so that the top touched the ground. I was at the Wishing Well restaurant at the time the tornado hit...Scary. Anyone else have memories of this tornado?

[Mikey1003]

Originally Posted by Jim Burke

As a child I remember my grandmother taking me in Temple's for lunch quite often. I remember that on the left as you entered was the checkout counter and you could but kosher corned beef by the pound. The owner (maybe?) sat there and the beef was on the counter under hot lamps. My mom worked across the street in Shillito's and I remember that they had a candy shop and the candy was made on site. This was in the early sixties. There was a bakery on Race St. on the opposite side of the street from Shillito's as you went toward Newberry's 10 cent store. I also remember a Kroger's being there (it had two floors) in the mid to late sixties. The fellow who sold newspapers in front of Shillito's was named Morris and papers were 7 cents. Anyone who remembers any of this please respond. I live in Knoxville, Tennessee now,but remember those days with great affection. Jim

I remember that Litwin (Boris?) was next (or near) the Temple deli.

The checkout counter on the left....are you confusing The Temple Deli with Izzy's? Izzy would sit at his counter and yell at everyone. He would fight with his sister-in-law and son and yell at help "to take the sandwich to the customer, it won't walk there"

Izzy's was totally egalitarian. As you came in, you filled what ever table had room. You could sit with anyone. Once, my wife was seated with two older men speaking, what she thought was Russian. That night on the news, we saw that she had dined with Mstislav Rostropovich, the master cellist!

One day, a bunch of fraternity brothers went there and gorged ourselves on pickles and sour kraut. Izzy came over and personally brought us our sandwiches. He said the sandwiches were free today, but we paid a fortune for the kraut and pickles!!

Izzy manned the counter in a wheel chair even after his legs were amputated.

Izzy never had a menu and check. You ordered and then told him what you ate when you got to his counter. Then he would charge you. The problem was that he would charge everyone something different for the same meals.

Pretty girls were charged less than businessmen. Students usually charged less. One day, I made the mistake of holding a 20.00 bill. He saw it and charged me a dollar more than my friend for exactly the same thing.

Izzy's potato latkes were the best I ever had. And, when Izzy was alive, his corned beef was wonderful.

[Mikey1003]

Originally Posted by blockhead

I remember when the tornado went up Galbraith in the late 1960s. there was a huge advertising sign next to MacIntosh's that was bent 180 degrees so that the top touched the ground. I was at the Wishing Well restaurant at the time the tornado hit...Scary. Anyone else have memories of this tornado?

I remember the tornado, but nothing specific other than standing in the parking lot of Revco at Seymour and Reading while watching it moving behind us. Pretty dumb of us just standing there

They did erect twisted girders at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds. The girders were twisted during the tornado and became a statue at the fairgrounds.

[franke01]

Originally Posted by Jim Burke

As a child I remember my grandmother taking me in Temple's for lunch quite often. I remember that on the left as you entered was the checkout counter and you could but kosher corned beef by the pound. The owner (maybe?) sat there and the beef was on the counter under hot lamps. My mom worked across the street in Shillito's and I remember that they had a candy shop and the candy was made on site. This was in the early sixties. There was a bakery on Race St. on the opposite side of the street from Shillito's as you went toward Newberry's 10 cent store. I also remember a Kroger's being there (it had two floors) in the mid to late sixties. The fellow who sold newspapers in front of Shillito's was named Morris and papers were 7 cents. Anyone who remembers any of this please respond. I live in Knoxville, Tennessee now,but remember those days with great affection. Jim

I think you're right about Temple's. I recall sitting at the counter and it was on the left with the register near the door. Chili Town was a couple of doors down in the 70's. There was also a gift shop (Willis?) on the Southeast corner of 7th and Race.