![]() ![]() ![]() It was labeled “home court” for the Long Beach Wilson High School teens as the school is just around the corner. On the next big block South, the famous Hody’s Drive-In Restaurant was a hang out for a lot of teenagers. It was shot from the Circle Drive-In corner. Starting around :58, the view is facing South towards Seal Beach and the coastline. The famous Traffic Circle was around the next block, the Circle Drive-In Theater across the street and the Clock Hamburger place on the odd corner. The Long Beach, California location was well known and popular. It made commercial sense to have a Beany’s Drive-In Restaurant. Add in another form of puppet, Howdy Doody and those were the top two hits for the viewing TV public. Although they were puppets, those were the hit TV shows of the early days of TV. at the Carson Street restaurant.Nice old film digitized… As we old folks remember Beany and Cecil TV show as primitive as it was, the tie-in was a great business sense. Plus, free ice cream cones will be served between 11 a.m. During those dates, customers can enjoy Apffels Famous Gourmet Coffee for 55 cents and a special $6.55 deal on a hamburger, fries and drink. 26-28 at the Carson Street location, which is open 6 a.m. 19-21 at the PCH location, which is open 24 hours, and Oct. There will be special 55th Anniversary Celebrations Oct. One server has worked there since the mid-1980s and knows everyone’s “usual” order. ![]() One cook has been in the kitchen for more than four decades, and two others who started as dishwashers have stayed for more than three decades. “This is genuinely a family business, not only in name but in practice – a labor of love and honor to continue,” they said.Īlso like family are the many longtime employees at Golden Star, which employs more than 35 people between the two locations. The matriarch is still hard at work in the kitchen most days, cooking up homemade family specialties for breakfast, lunch and dinner.įamily members said the restaurants feel like home, and the founder’s seven grandchildren are all regulars at “Pappou Mimi’s” (Grandpa Jimmy’s, in Greek), where their favorite thing on the menu is the cheeseburger. Today, his wife, Angela – who he married in 1970 – maintains the family business in much the same way, working alongside the couple’s children Aristi, Vasilis and Sotiria. ![]()
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