The Flickr Vintagerestaurants Image Generatr

Vintage image of Junior’s Restaurant located at the corner of Dekalb Avenue and the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Still in business today and famous for their cheesecake. Sign for the former Dime Savings Bank can be seen in the upper right corner. This found photograph is from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

Vintage image of the famous Toffenetti Restaurant at Broadway and West 43rd Street in New York City’s Times Square. This was 1000 seat establishment and was open 24 hours a day. It closed in 1968 when the Toffenetti owners sold the building and the new owner’s leased it to Nathan’s Famous. This found photograph is from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

Vintage image of the entrance sign to Vince’s Spaghetti Restaurant in Ontario California. Looks like a couple and their pet are sitting under the sign digesting their meal. Established in 1945 and is considered to be the Godfather of Spaghetti of Southern California. This found photograph is from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

Vintage image of the annual dinner of the Law Department Investigators of utility provider Consolidated Edison at Cavanagh’s Restaurant in New York City. As they say, “You Can’t Con Edison”. Nice hats, fellas! This found photograph is from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

Vintage image of a long-gone Howard Johnson’s Restaurant on New Jersey’s Atlantic City Boardwalk. Judging from the empty boardwalk, and the way the gentlemen is dressed, I would venture to say that this is the off-season. This found photograph comes from the private collection of an unknown and/or unknowing art collector. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!

North Kansas City Missouri

"There's no buffet like Gold's Buffet"

This scan is from my father's collection of thousands of Kodachrome slides which he shot between the early 1950s and 2008.

I was hanging out in a friend's front yard and the darkening clouds and occasional flashes of lightning caught my eye. Out came the Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 to catch the scene... and here it is almost 50 years later.

I've placed a few Flickr notes on the photo.
Taken near the intersection of Seabreeze and Merwin Avenues.

Here's how the place appears today. Once you get into Google Earth, move the image to the left and you'll see the blue and green condos where the field above used to be.
www.google.com/maps/@41.2212971,-73.0055763,3a,75y,134.3h...

Although a REALLY heavy car, it was powered by a straight six engine. The 1953 models were the last to use 6 volt electrical systems, as GM switched over to 12 volts the following year. This car had Turbo Hydromatic, the first generation of General Motors automatic transmissions.

Thought you might enjoy this period piece from the 1950s...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVcBNSjURs

Some cool 1980s American and Japanese cars parked while their owners munch on tacos and drink tequila.

The Long Island Sound beaches are directly behind those houses on the left, so there's always a nice salty breeze.

Not too shabby for a 110 film camera on a rainy day. Kodak provided a number of quality features on the higher-end models like my pocket 40, the 50 and 60 model as well. These cameras were fully capable of shooting vastly more than just blurry family snapshots.

That's the late, great Sloppy Joe's restaurant in the distance behind the parked truck where Merwin and Seabreeze Avenues merge into Edgefield Avenue. Way before it became a Mexican place called "Sloppy Jose's" and years later "Oscar's", that white building housed Sloppy Joe's for decades. It was already there when this neighborhood was a beach resort for people taking the trolley from New Haven and Bridgeport to spend a day or two at the beach in the early 1900s.

I don't know if the restaurant still exists, but its address was 666 5th Avenue, thus "The Top Of The Six's".

Finally got that time machine working correctly! More vintage New York COLOR photos to come from my adventures into the past.

Another view of Conte's and the immediate neighborhood. Over time, it evolved into a kind of no-man's land of abandonment. The Bridgeport Harbor Power Generating Station adds to the overall ambiance of this corner in Bridgeport.

Something most people don't know is that a popular radio station (WEBE-108) has its broadcasting antennae array on the very top of the red and white smokestack. Between the high elevation and its 50,000 watts of power, WEBE-108's signal covers an enormously large area of Connecticut, Long Island, New York and parts of New Jersey.

Another hot and humid summer day from teen years captured on a 126 film Verichrome Pan film negative. It would be so awesome to go back for just a day or two, much as Emily Webb does near the end of the wonderful Thornton Wilder play "Our Town".

Over the past couple of weeks, I've uploaded two photos of how this once busy beach side restaurant looked in 1979 as a shuttered, abandoned ruin. Above shows Tobak's in its heyday 50 years earlier, when people took the trolley or drove local roads to spend a summer day at the beach in Milford.

I would love to find a higher-definition image of Tobak's, but for now this post card image will have to do.