Ginos, South Broad Street, Franklin Park, 1971
South Broad Street between Liberty Street and Dayton Street.
This was Ginos for most of my Burg day. Then it became Roy
Rogers, and now its gone and there is an Auto Parts place
there now. Gino Giants and Sirloiners were good fast food
and this was a place I might go especially in my Junior
Four days long ago. I found this picture on a Facebook
Group called Ginos and yes this is the Ginos on South
Broad Street in Trenton according to the pictures title:)
5 comments:
Mack, check out those prices for the burgers, fries and drinks, we can use those now. There use to be a place on Princeton Ave. heading to Lawrencevill Road, right in front of the Lawrence Bowling alley when I was going to Notre Dame, it was called Pix, they had burgers for .25 cents, fries were a dime and drinks 20 cents.
I lived on Pix burgers while I attended Rider College back in the 60s. When we wanted to live high, we went to Paul Gessmeyer's Ranch House drive-in. It cost more but was better quality. Nearby, there was also a Stewart's Root Beer place on the Brunswick Pike.
Later came McD's, BK and Gino's. I think Gino's had a decent sirloin burger back in the day.
Mecca for every kid back then would have been Pix across from Penn Fruit and as you said on the point by the Lawrence Lanes, or the Steer Inn on Nottingham. McDonalds came a few years later and then Gino Marchetti and I think the logo had him in a Giants uniform. Pix was something like 5 burgers for a $1.
Yeah, when milk shakes had milk and not some modified sea weed binder. I remember when they made McDonalds take the word milk off the board because the new product just didn't have any milk in it.
Oh! I guess it was in the late 50's and early 60's.
Do any of you remember when they used to leave the keys in the cars in the Broad Street lots?
My aunt would give us half dollar to get rid of us on Saturday evening and we would head for the Broad Street McDonald's.
On the way, we would stop at McCafferty Ford and start a used car up to get the heater going. It was cold, cold, cold and McD's didn't have any place to eat. We made sure not to make a mess and would listen to WABC or "The Geator" while we feasted on those carb loaded (yeah I was a tubby teen), goodies.
I guess no one stole cars back then because many cars had keys in them. In the lot by the power lines on Broad (ice cream night), I started a 55 Chevy with stick and it didn't have brakes. Cause' I didn't know how to drive much less stick, we had to push it back to used car lot when it bolted out onto and blocked Broad Street. No brakes at all, guess the master was shot?
I remember Pix very well. Preceded McDonald's. Quick and cheap meal while attending TSC.
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