TexasT's House - Part 2

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Marshmallow fluff have not had that stuff with Peanut butter in years kinda stick to your ribs stuff. lol
Yeah they make darn good beef sandwhiches here in Illinois is one knows where to go to get it as some places get the sytuff by bulk in tubs and warm it up - oh yuck

But you get one from a joint that trims ,cooks it and then slices it there self old style and its great.
Sausage here is plentiful and them hots dogs and maxwell street style polish sausage with grilled onions is well gut busting pleasure.
Pizza well personally we blow New York away with it thin and the thick crust is just fantastic.
The thin crust here is thin and crispy not at all like that stuff in NY that they fold in half like a taco !
The deep dish also a favorite of mine you eat with a fork and knife and just 10 minute drive from my house. Oh Yum !

Gyro's is but 10 minutes away as well at a little joint called Mickey's owned and operated by a greek family and you can get feta cheese on it and Baklava for dessert there. Yum !


KG - Western Electric tall steeple was located on corner of Cicero Ave and Cermak Rd.
Here in this picture bottom right side you look down the building structure you can see a break with grass across that street 1 of the parking lots and our house was 4th house off that corner i went streaking thru that lot several times as the factory let out back in the day. Thats Cicero Ave. The cross street by the steeple tower crossing is Cermak rd .
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Its all gone now and landscape is much different, the tower i think they left standing the last time i was in area many years ago.
As a young child i would scramble to get to the corner in summer to set up my lemonade stand. As a young teen i sold the scratch sheets in front of one of there entrance gates which they allowed back then.
To the left of that steeple that particular wall and directly across the street was were the beef joint was and i walked there to go to work .
The 2 flat we owned was built right after 1900 and i recall when installing a ceiling fan on the 2nd floor apartment for Dad there were gas pipes running through the ceiling that were capped used for lighting before our time .
The houses were still the same when i traveled through town back in the 90s .
They for some reason blocked off the turn from Cicero ave onto our old block and made the street a 1 way in the other direction which took me by surprise.

A trip down memory lane thats etched in my coconut forever.

Dies, we have parallels! As a kid in middle school and junior high, I'd peddle my bike like crazy after school from Maywood to Bellwood to sell newspapers at Jefferson Electric when the shift changed.
Later worked in a pizzeria in Oak Park. Thin crust pizza and meatball and sausage sandwiches, but no Italian Beef. Also Old Town West, where we did deep dish pizza, and Otto's in Forest Park.
Had a girlfriend named Phyllis. She lived in Berwyn about two blocks from Salerno's, still my favorite pizzeria although they've moved to Roosevelt road near Harlem.
 

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Well there not that much. and now they have a mini-provari. (takes an 18350 battery and is only 3 1/2" long) it with 2 batteries was only 180 bucks (or the cost is only about 3 cartons of analogs) but it will last for years and years. (unlike the analogs) Paying a little bit more for top quality has never been a bad thing.

Very true and if I did not have my Original Buzz's and my BPs I might consider it. They are workhorses and a better value IMHO :)

Good grief! I just caught the cost of 3 cartons of cigs. They are still $30 a carton in my area but I know that everything cost more in Florida.
Geez, if they went up to $60 per carton here, maybe my mom would give quitting another shot.
 
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That would work for the sausage sandwiches, but Italian Beef definitely does not travel well.

They have a fridge lol Have one sandwich for lunch and the other for dinner. I am not saying to hang on to them for any length of time. ;)

It would only have to travel from restaurant back to trailer.
 

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They have a fridge lol Have one sandwich for lunch and the other for dinner. I am not saying to hang on to them for any length of time. ;)

It would only have to travel from restaurant back to trailer.

LOL! If it's made right, it'll barely survive from the kitchen to the car before the bread disintegrates.
 

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Just got back a little bit ago and doing a run through to say..............

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TT, are you turning into a night owl? Seems like you check in later and later each night lol

Of course it is only 10PM your time. 11PM mine ;)

LOL, we just got back from the lake. Some of the kids are coming in for Mothers Day so we went out to eat hot dogs and help kids with their rods and reels for a while.

salem, I like your style of cooking!! Hot Italian sausage is great with just about anything. That Luke's sounds sooo good!! I can't wait to get there. My wife has an intense dislike for Italian sausage but we'll fix her up with the wet beef and then the second day we go back there we can have different things and on the third day .... you guys are right. I might just as well move back there. The thing is, you really don't know how much I'd like to move back there. But I guess I'm stuck in Yeast Texas where I can spend the rest of my life mowing.

We didn't get any rain today ... had a little last night though. So I was able to get a lot of little jobs out of the way today. In fact, I'm kind of impressed with me and how much I did. I'm going to have to quit working so hard or I'm going to ruin my reputation.

It was a nice day though and I hope all of you had a nice day too!!!

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Looks like you and I are both stuck, TT :( At least for awhile. I want to move back to the coast to be near my son and GS so bad that I can barely stand it. Our GS has been asking his dad for weeks now to come and see his Monna and his Poppa. We get to see him often now, but once he starts school that is going to change :(
 

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Looks like you and I are both stuck, TT :( At least for awhile. I want to move back to the coast to be near my son and GS so bad that I can barely stand it. Our GS has been asking his dad for weeks now to come and see his Monna and his Poppa. We get to see him often now, but once he starts school that is going to change :(

Oh well, I guess there are worse places than East Texas. LOL, one of my little grandson's (they call him AJ) just can't walk by me without stopping to give me a hug and to tell me he loves me. Never have seen a kid like him.

And I wanted to tell you, everyone was commenting on the smell of the Yellow Cake Batter that I was vaping. Even AJ!!

And you ought to see this little guy cast a worm with his fishing pole. This kid is amazing with a rod and reel!!

It sure is fun to be around them and that's how I know you are going to have a great time with your grandson salem.

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My GS is very sweet and lovable like that too. My son has been very nurturing with him. My son has to work so can't come for the week, but I guarantee you that he will be on the phone several times a day. That child is his whole world :)

Before GS could even speak, we met my son to pick up GS and bring him to our house. Well, DH was putting his carseat in my car so his dad held him while DH was doing that. GS pitched a bloody fit letting us know that he wanted in my car instead of going home with dad lol It broke my sons heart and I don't think he will ever forget that.
 

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Of course now that he talks, by the time we go to meet my son to take him home, he is so ready to see his dad that he can barely stand it. Last time, my son was running on his time which means late lol and GS kept looking out the window of the restaurant telling me, maybe he is not coming Monna.
My son was only about 10 minutes late but if you could have seen theose two hug when he got there you would have thought they had been apart for weeks lol
 
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