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Old 05-21-2008, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Jersey City.... some of the time, anyway.
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Was watching TV last night and they had a documentary on about Eddie Antar. Yep, they were profiing Crazy Eddie Antar. Remember his electronic stores and his radio/tv commercials?
I grew up on those ads.... I also recall that when Eddie Antar was on the run from several criminal indictments, cops were regularly tipped off to 'his' whereabouts, but arrived to find that it wasn't Eddie Antar but the Actor (forget his name) who was well known for those (then groundbreaking) TV ads.

--diogenesNY
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:29 PM
 
Location: The Communist State of NJ
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There is a beefsteak Charlies in Fairfiled oh wiat no thats charlie Browns sorry, carry on!
Is there a difference? I hate chain restaurants....nasty!
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:35 PM
 
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Yes there is a difference.......Beefsteak Charlies I think was t he one that you can throw peanuts or popcorn on the floor (one or the other) it was really kinda stupid. Charlie Browns is ok kinda like an applebees and others along that line
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:36 PM
 
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Yes there is a difference.......Beefsteak Charlies I think was t he one that you can throw peanuts or popcorn on the floor (one or the other) it was really kinda stupid. Charlie Browns is ok kinda like an applebees and others along that line
I don't remember throwing peanuts or pocorn on the floor at Beefsteak Charlies-that was Ground Round.


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Old 05-21-2008, 12:37 PM
 
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ahhhhhhhhhhh thats it I knew spmeone would figure it out then I was never at Beefsteak Charlies but I did hear of them. Ground Round sucked anyway. Thanks Nicole
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:38 PM
 
Location: The Communist State of NJ
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ahhhhhhhhhhh thats it I knew spmeone would figure it out then I was never at Beefsteak Charlies but I did hear of them. Ground Round sucked anyway. Thanks Nicole
I loved Ground Round when I was about 6, Grandma used to take me there .
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:40 PM
 
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I loved Ground Round when I was about 6, Grandma used to take me there .
I went once it was horrible. and it was really stupid throwing stuff on the floor how did the Board of Health let that get by??
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:40 PM
 
Location: The Communist State of NJ
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I went once it was horrible. and it was really stupid throwing stuff on the floor how did the Board of Health let that get by??
Paranoia wasn't as significant in the 1970's
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:45 PM
 
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ahhhhhhhhhhh thats it I knew spmeone would figure it out then I was never at Beefsteak Charlies but I did hear of them. Ground Round sucked anyway. Thanks Nicole
Don't you remember ther Beefsteak Charlie commercials? "Your gonna get spoiled at Beefsteak Charlie's tonight..."
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Old 05-21-2008, 12:46 PM
 
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Paranoia wasn't as significant in the 1970's
True- I used to eat at the Ground Round all the time as a kid in Toms River- think they had one of those pay by the pound gimmicks. Also they had ice cream sundaes in Yankee helmets.
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