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| Promotional postcard |
Remember the
Perkins Pancake House on North Ridge Road near Route 57?
Unless you lived in the Lorain/Elyria area back in the 1960s and 70s, you probably don't. But it was a popular restaurant that the Bradys patronized occasionally. It's a pleasant memory.
For a while, there was a promotional gimmick whereas kids ate there free on their birthday. The restaurant even sent you a postcard around your birthday as a reminder. So we took advantage of that a few times, usually on a Sunday. My favorite meal? Pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream. (I'm not sure I could handle that now.)
And it was back in April 1965 that the restaurant opened its doors. There was some publicity earlier in the year.
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| Jan. 18, 1965 |
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| Jan. 19, 1965 |
Then this article appeared in the
Journal about the opening on April 5, 1965.
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| April 3, 1965 |
It's nice to see the operators' names:
Ed Scalzitti and
Vince Ruma. About a month after the successful opening, this thank-you ad appeared.
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| May 11, 1965 |
The restaurant ran the odd ad in the
Journal for the next few years.
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| April 28, 1967 |
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| Dec. 2, 1967 |
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| Aug. 5, 1968 |
The restaurant was still open in Spring 1984, but closed later that year. For a little while, the 2170 North Ridge Road location became part of the small, local
J. T. Dawkins chain.
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| Dec. 14, 1984 |
Later, it became
Chris' & George' Restaurant.
Today, the building is still home to the popular
George's Family Restaurant. The building still looks somewhat like the rendering on the vintage promotional postcard.
3 comments:
My parents took me for my 10th birthday as I loved hotz cakes. Later during the Disco Era I worked there after bars closed and make a lot of money in tips, but my check was 14 dollars. lol Had to reconfigure my job life. I quit.
Perkins! There was one a dozen miles up the road from us in Pennsyltucky. It was a great place to take dates, especially farm girls who "liked breakfast for supper." Reasonable sit-down food at decent prices. The building stayed an eatery for decades after my Perkins but was torn down some years ago. The lot now holds an ALDI.
We went there a lot. I always got the silver dollar pancakes. I remember the moo-cow creamers, the shiny plastic placemats and especially the little jukeboxes at every table where you could play, I think, 4 songs for a quarter.
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