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Post by richard on Dec 31, 2005 20:59:22 GMT -5
Another 1963 ad
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Post by Rod on Jan 1, 2006 19:40:37 GMT -5
I almost bet that if you lived in Columbus from 1968 on you would have ate at Ponderosa Steak House. I only have fond thoughts about that place and also the girls softball teams it sponsored
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2006 21:33:48 GMT -5
The Ponderosa Steak House was a great place to eat. We lived about 1/2 mile from it when it opened, you could get a steak, baked potato, salad and a big roll with real butter for a buck and a quarter, a great place. Now at the same location you get refried beans............uck !!!!!!.
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Post by richard on Jan 9, 2006 20:19:28 GMT -5
More ads from June 24, 1961
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Post by jimbo700 on Jan 10, 2006 1:52:31 GMT -5
The building at 2815 National Rd was originally built as a franchised Kentucky Fried Chicken carry-out in about 1964, and was one of the earlier KFC franchises. The Colonel had been selling his fried chicken recipe (and pressure cookers) to restaurants for years. After the KFC restaurant was built in Columbus, some of the KFC people broke-off from KFC and started a new chicken franchise called Famous Recipe. The KFC at 2815 National Rd became one of the first Famous Recipe restaurants in America (which began litigation between KFC and Famous Recipe that would continue for nearly 10 years. A short time later a new KFC was built on Washington Street between 10th and 11th. In addition, Max Lemley was selling Broasted Chicken from his Chicken & Beef Bufeteria on Washington St north of the fire station. KFC also opened up a new restaurant in the old Frisch's Big Boy (current home of National Car Sales) on 25th and Cherry, so there were at least 4 fried chicken carry-out restaurants in the late 60's in Columbus. Judging from the price of a bucket of chicken at KFC, I should say the era was 1968-1970. Today we have a single KFC on National Rd and a couple of combination KFC's along I-65 at SR46 and US31. The Famous Recipe chain peaked in the mid-late 70's after selling out to Shony's/Captain D's. As people became more health conscious in the 80's, Fried Chicken carry-out restaurants began their decline. Both Famous Recipe and KFC closed a good percentage of their restaurants, and Kentucky Fried Chicken re-positioned themselves as "KFC", dropping the "Fried Chicken" from their name, shortening to KCF only. Re: KFC advertisement... The building at 2815 National Rd was originally built as a franchised Kentucky Fried Chicken, and was one of the earlier franchises. The Colonel had been selling his fried chicken recipe and pressure cookers) to restaurants for years. After the KFC restaurant was built in Columbus, some of the KFC people broke-off from KFC and started a new chicken franchise called Famous Recipe. The KFC at 2815 National Rd was one of the first Famous Recipe restaurants. A short time later a new KFC was built on Washington Street between 10th and 11th. In addition, Max Lemley was selling Broasted Chicken from his Chicken & Beef Bufeteria on Washington St north of the fire station. KFC also opened a restaurant in the old Frisch's Big Boy (current home of National Car Sales) on 25th and Cherry, so there were at least 4 fried chicken carry-out restaurants in the late 60's in Columbus.. The closest Famous Recipe Fried Chicken restaurant still open is in Connersville, although several are still open in Ohio, called "Lee's Famous Recipe" these days. There is a still a Lee's Famous Recipe on I-64 between Santa Clause and Louisville, and they still have great chicken.2 Before the Famous Recipe restaurant at 2815 National Rd. closed in 1978 or 79, it was sold. Shortly after, the new owner allied himself with other disgruntled Famous Recipe franchisee's, and started yet another Fried Chicken chain, "Rice's Fancy Fried" (which had the best recipe of all fried chicken carry-out, in my ever-so-humble opinion). Rice's Fancy Fried lasted a couple of years as the days of masses flocking to Fried Chicken restaurants to mainline cholesterol were over. All of these restaurants that cooked their chicken, in shortening, on a gas stove under pressure using the Colonel's special Presto pressure cookers with the Omar relief valve (both KFC and Famous Recipe used this method, the only difference was a slight cooking time alterations and enough of a change in the spices to prevent more litigation, otherwise KFC and Famous Recipe were identical. By the mid 70s', frying chicken over an open flame in a 6 quart pressure cooker (it cooked 3 whole chicken in 9 minutes) was giving was to technology. Even before Famous Recipe sold out to Rice's, Dan Davidson (the current owner) has fallen out of favor with the home office of Famous Recipe by installing Electric Henny-Penny pressure cookers (quick-recovery electric cookers). The guys at the Famous Recipe office in Lima Ohio were livid. Henny Penny machines were nothing more than converted French-fryers and when you dropped the chicken into the cooking oil, the temperature of the oil dropped rapidly and couldn't quite recover to make it crispy, yet moist and juicy the way it was cooked on open flames in pressure cookers. The Famous Recipe people were threatening to yank Dan Davidson's franchise for the new electric frying machines and few other minor deviations in the contractual obligations. Dan retaliated by selling his store to Bob Rice and moving to Melbourne Florida to open a new Famous Recipe (this one by-the-book). It was Rice along with others who developed "Rice's Fancy Fried" I would love to get a bucket of Rice's Fancy Fried chicken today. It was truly the best and crispiest, the most moist inside, and packed with 14 herbs and spices sealed in the pressure cookers making it the only * * * * * * (Five-Star fried chicken left in America) If any of you know where any remaining Rice's Fancy Fried Chicken stores service, please let me know. The store on National Rd (which holds a place in the early history of 3 different fast food stores... KFC, Famous Recipe and Rice's Fancy Fried) has long-sense been closed and today houses an insurance company (I believe). Only the KFC chain is still successful, staying successful by adapting their menu to changing time.
Since this is already a long post: Nice to hear from Jarrod Eliot, son of Rod Eliot, owner of Ponderosa for many many years... And Rod was a great contributor to softball at the county stadium next to the fair grounds at Garden City. I once bumped into him in Tucson Arizona at a Ponderosa Steak House... I walked in to buy dinner and had no idea Rod was the owner/manager. Rod was a great operator of the Ponderosa, enjoying many years of success. He has repeated that success in Arizona, where he was forced to relocate due to season allergies. Jarrod... Tell you dad we appreciate everything he did for Park & Rec Softball and especially for County league Softball. The diamonds at the ball park in Garden City are a tribute to Rod's generosity and time. Thanks for the memories... -Jim Burgan-
PS: Employed by Famous Recipe from 1968-1971 (nearly all of the way through High School), then worked for Famous Recipe in Melbourne Florida (Dan Davidson sold his restaurant in Columbus and headed for a milder climate and I tagged along (loving every minute of it). I worked for him at his restaurant on Nasa Blvd in Melbourne Florida for a couple of years, taking some classes at Florida Institute of Technology and eventually getting my first time job on the air at WKKO Radio in Cocoa Florida (which was all I ever wanted to do in life). This was in Sept. 1974 and 31 years later I'm doing all I ever wanted to do, "{spin the hits on the radio"!! Cheers! -Jim Burgan-
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Post by Jarrod Eliot on Jan 10, 2006 17:26:20 GMT -5
Jim Burgan.....Thanks for the nice things you said about Ponderosa and myself. I am the same person. Jarrod or Rod. The tax people know me as Jarrod haha. If you get a chance contact me at jarrodeliot711@comcast.net.
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Post by richard on Jan 11, 2006 17:49:41 GMT -5
More Ads from June of 1961
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 8:46:40 GMT -5
From the Op-Ed page, The Evening Republican, September 28, 1964:
It has been suggested that merchants in downtown Columbus should not look upon the Fall Jubilee, a community project, as a money-making event for the local stores. Yet, the stores cannot be expected to accept the Jubilee as a "big" money-loser, else it might be just as well to hold the Jubilee, or festival, at an off-Washington Street location and let merchants "donate" to community projects what they otherwise would have lost.
The effect on business from closing of downtown Washington Street and loss of parking spaces was still being determined today, but there were several merchants who said that they believed the Jubilee has good, long-range effects, helping promote all of Columbus as a trading center, shopping centers as well as downtown. This idea has been suggested in the past, but the publicity and advertising effect on persons residing at distant points is almost an impossible thing to measure.
The Junior Chamber Of Commerce, sponsoring the Jubilee, praised the cooperation of the merchants in making the 1964 event possible, and, in turn, the Jaycees accepted a number of suggestions offered by the merchants. Now the Jaycees will be getting together to discuss good and bad features of this year's events and what could be done in the future to improve the Jubilee.
The Jaycees will then meet with merchant representatives of the Central Business association and discuss next year. From these discussions, a number of improvements possibly will come.
Several changes have been suggested, including the possibility of shortening the event by one day and another suggestion that more floats might be added to the annual parade by having various groups sponsor one float each year. Under the group float plan, civil clubs throughout the county could have a joint float and each year a different club would be in charge of preparing the float. The same plan could be used for industries, sororities, rural organizations, associations, and others, all using teh same central theme.
We hope that the Jubilee can be repeated next year, bigger and better. As as a final note, a word of appreciation should go to the Junior Chamber Of Commerce, to the merchants, and to all others who helped and cooperated in present the Fall Jubilee, 1964.
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 8:51:19 GMT -5
I don't know when the "Fall Jubilee" was done away with.
For some reason, I don't remember it being held during my high school years (1968-1970), but that's not saying it wasn't.
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 9:17:48 GMT -5
To keep up with Richard's theme of posting local ads from days gone by, here are a few you might enjoy: From The Evening Republican, September 28, 1964
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 13:38:16 GMT -5
Another ad, from The Evening Republican, Monday, September 28, 1964
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 13:47:37 GMT -5
And yet, another ad from The Republic, Thursday, June 22, 1972
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 13:51:57 GMT -5
From the same edition of The Republic
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 14:24:03 GMT -5
Ad from The Evening Republican, Monday, September 28, 1964
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Post by David Sechrest on Jan 12, 2006 14:29:59 GMT -5
The following jobs appeared in the want ad section of that same 1964 paper
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Post by richard on Jan 20, 2006 9:21:41 GMT -5
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Post by Larry Hawk on Jan 20, 2006 23:41:15 GMT -5
I just had a breaded tenderloin at the Columbus Bar over the holidays a couple of weeks ago. It was the tastiest one I can ever remember having. This must be an Indiana pork specialty sandwich because I have never seen them sold anywhere else. My wife and I use to stop by a little restaurant/bar on old 31 north of Edinburgh about 15 years ago before we moved to Southern California. Those were bigger and hanging outside the bun. Speaking about Edinburgh, on our Christmas visit to Indiana, we stopped by the antique warehouse and had a great time just looking around. If you know me-please send me an e-mail msg. Larry Hawk CHS class of '58. mrhawkhome@cs.com
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Post by nancs on Jan 21, 2006 10:43:22 GMT -5
Oh, Larry, this former Columbus person, transplanted over 50 years ago to So. Cal., surely knows how one longs for a tenderloin sandwich. And somewhere on these boards, have stated this on more that one occasion!!!! ;D Along with my feeble attempts to duplicate same with CA tenderloins, can come close, but not quite. Nanc
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Post by richard on Jan 25, 2006 18:49:24 GMT -5
More Ads from June of 1961
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Post by nancs on Jan 25, 2006 20:20:41 GMT -5
Great ads, Richard. Thanks for sharing. Think the old English lettering in the J. W. O'Bryan ad, was pretty much what was on their imprinted boxes. Nanc
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