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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Aug 26, 2007 14:16:59 GMT -5
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Post by Tim Ault on Sept 2, 2008 0:35:35 GMT -5
It was stated in the general message about resteraunts that burger chef and the colonel were the only national restaurants wwe had. Well Red Barn had locations all over the country as well as the Big Boy chain. The local big boy may have had a diff first name but the building always was the same look with the drive in car hop aspect. Frisch's is and or was in Ohio and Kentucky as well. Dog N Suds also is listed as national chain in web sites.
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Post by ppennington on Sept 13, 2009 20:02:34 GMT -5
Wow the Red Barn, I remember the barn shaped box that the food came in, with the doors that would open !
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Post by melking on Sept 14, 2009 13:39:39 GMT -5
I worked at the red barn during my junior and senior year at CHS. The owner/manager was a man named Bill (Barnes) I think. I remember himas being a nice guy with a load of patience.
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Post by David Sechrest on Sept 15, 2009 0:07:46 GMT -5
Nice to see you posting ppenington! It's so strange in a way to think that, in the 1960's, places like the Red Barn were the beginnings of fast food in Columbus. In that list, you could probably throw in places like the A&W, Dog N' Suds, and other places that dotted Columbus back then. Sometime tells me that Burger Chef may have been the first fast food chain to come to town sometime in the 1960's(?) If I remember, there's at least one Burger King ad in one of my yearbooks (1968-70). Wasn't it on National Road and east of Steak & Shake? The Red Barn did a GOOD lunch business from us high school kids. Their Big Barney was kind of like today's Big Mac, only better. If you haven't checked out the picture of the Red Barn on the Historic Columbus Indiana website, follow this link: www.historiccolumbusindiana.org/pics/pics.htm
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Post by David Sechrest on Sept 15, 2009 0:16:24 GMT -5
melking said: I worked at the red barn during my junior and senior year at CHS. The owner/manager was a man named Bill (Barnes) I think. I remember himas being a nice guy with a load of patience.
mel, do you mind sharing what year was that? Does anyone remember what year the Red Barn opened for business?
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Sept 15, 2009 6:28:49 GMT -5
Red Barn was a very popular chain of restaurants and much remembered. Here is a wonderful tribute site: www.barnbuster.net/I worked at the red barn during my junior and senior year at CHS. The owner/manager was a man named Bill (Barnes) I think. I remember himas being a nice guy with a load of patience.
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Post by melking on Jan 27, 2010 15:42:40 GMT -5
melking said: I worked at the red barn during my junior and senior year at CHS. The owner/manager was a man named Bill (Barnes) I think. I remember himas being a nice guy with a load of patience.
mel, do you mind sharing what year was that? Does anyone remember what year the Red Barn opened for business? I worked there when I was 15 and 16 so that would have been 1967 and 68. I clearly remember the Barn opening when we still lived out on Hartsville pike. We moved into town in 1964 so soome time before that.
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Post by richard on Mar 28, 2013 8:02:11 GMT -5
The following information is from 1963, and is from the Looking Back feature in today’s edition of The Republic.
W. A. Sebastian, Columbus Building Inspector reported that a building permit had been granted for a Red Barn Restaurant at Twenty-Fifth and Union Streets.
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Post by alan gommel on May 8, 2013 17:25:21 GMT -5
I worked at the Barn in 71 and 72, hated Friday and Saturday night standing behind the grill looking out the front and watching the cruising at Beckers. Also the owner was Bill Griffiths, a really nice guy to work for.
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