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The La Grange Park site is now a dry cleaner. The buildings had a red, white and blue motif. The slogan in the early 1970s was "Come On Down Where The Good Times Are! Yankee Doodle Dandy!" Their T.V. ads featured an attractive woman in a 1776 "Betsy Ross" style costume. The restaurant had a design and menu similar to Burger Chef and Burger King.
Kewpee's sold square hamburgers and thick malt shakes, much like the famous restaurant that Thomas eventually founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969. [2] [17] In January 2010, Kewpee was named to the National Restaurant News 50: All-American Icons list, [18] and the Lima City Council passed a resolution congratulating the company. [19]
Burger Baron – Canadian fast-food restaurant name; Burger Fuel – New Zealand burger restaurant; Burger King – Global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in Florida; Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois) – Independent restaurant; Burger King Israel – Fast food chain of Israel
The Red Barn restaurant was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1961 in Springfield, Ohio, by Don Six, Martin Levine, and Jim Kirst.In 1963, the small chain was purchased by Richard O. Kearns, operated as Red Barn System, with the offices moving briefly to Dayton, Ohio and in August 1964 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Sandy's was a chain of American fast-food restaurants begun in 1956 by four entrepreneurs from Kewanee, Illinois: Gus "Brick" Lundberg, Robert C. Wenger, Paul White and W. K. Davidson. Sandy's was the ancestor of the midwestern franchises of the Hardee's restaurant chain.
Classic Cinemas was founded in 1978 by Willis and Shirley Johnson, when after the previous operators of the Tivoli Theater, located in the Tivoli building owned by the Johnsons abandoned the theater, they decided to step in and run the theater themselves after they were unable to find another operator. [2]
La Grange is an unincorporated community in Brown County, Illinois, United States. La Grange is located on the west bank of the Illinois River, ...
As of 2020, La Grange has a total area of 2.52 square miles (6.53 km 2), all land. [10] Two major railroad tracks run through the village, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and the CSX/Indiana Harbor Belt lines. Some 14,000 years ago, the land under La Grange sat on the western shore of Lake Chicago, a predecessor to Lake Michigan. [11]