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Harmans - One of the biggest and best known restaurants in the Valley during the 1950s. It was on Apache Blvd in Tempe, East of Rural, on the North side. I lived two blocks from there and I still feel still bad about the mountain lion in the cage out front. Believe it or not, little boys would throw rocks at the lion. That poor animal. Yet I have never seen a reference to the cougar and it doesn't show up in any of the pictures and postcards. 
A few old menus from Harmans. Later they were one of the first places in the Valley of the Sun to serve Kentucky Fried Chicken. 
Other Harmans... - I don't remember these but the Harman family had at least two other resturants in Phoenix, so it seems.I bought the two black and white pictures on Ebay. They are regular Kodak prints taken by a family on vacation. The animal cage is there, but I don't think it is a lion. Was there another animal there before the poor mountain lion?
Bayless - Not really a restaurant, but I am putting this historic landmark here anyway. Along with bashas, Bayless was a traditional Arizona grocery store with many stores all over the Valley of the Sun. This is the downtown Phoenix store on...
The Chophouse - The Leon R. Gass Chop House.
The Coffee Pot - at the Northeast corner of 7th Street and McDowell. This was about two blocks from where I first lived in Phoenix, on Mitchell street. My parents and uncles went there many times. 
Copperbelle - The old showboat-style CopperBelle on Camelback Road.
Cactus Tavern and Dance Hall in Paradise Valley, when there was nothing in Paradise Valley. 
Dicks Drive-in - On McDowell. 
Donofrios - On Central. One of the most famous and traditional places in Phoenix. 
Gene's Boiler Buffet - In Scottsdale.
Golden Drumstick - We used to go here many times. It was on South Central Avenue, if I remember correctly, which was a better neighborhood in the 1950s.
The Igloo - 7th Street and Polk. Where is the polar bear? This was next to a school and the kids used to kidnap the bear.
The Islands on 7th Street 
KoKo - 24th Street and Camelback
Lulubelle - On Scottsdale Road, in the "West's Most Western Town."
McDonalds - The first McDonalds in Phoenix, on Central Avenue. I had my first Big Mac here in the 1960s, for either 20 cents or a quarter. Been a long time.
Neptunes Table - 7th Street and Camelback.
Pullman restaurant - Another eatery that was on Camelback.
Saratoga Cafe and Buffet - At central and Washington, in the heart of Phoenix.
Sir Georges Buffet 
The Village Drive-In. This traditional restaurant was at 3000 North Central Avenue, where Park Central is now. 
Waterbags on cars. In the early 1950s it was very common for cars to carry a waterbar in front of the radiator.
Sparky now - at ASU
