I think that building was originally a Ken's Pizza back in the 70's before they move it to the corner of Admiral and Harvard and made it a Mazzio's. Looking forward to trying Family Diner.

If this is the place that I think it is, we went ONE time and sat in the "non-smoking" section, seperated from the SMOKING section by an open weave lattice panel. Someone smoking 3 feet from you, seperated by essentially NOTHING...It was our only try at eating there...too smoky for me.

I'm so old that some of the places that I ate at, you had to bring your own game, then they would prepare it for you....Not Really...

But, some absolutely wonderful restaurants have disappeared over the years...Bishop in Downtown, lost in the early urban renewal of the early 1960's...The food and service was excellent. Hotel Will Rogers in Claremore, changed into Senior Housing 15 or 20 years ago...The Hotel had a Buffet on Sundays, everything was excellent, and all you could eat...I was a growing teen then, so I could eat alot. One time I actually ached as I walked back to the car. Pennington's Drive In for fried shrimp and Blackbottom pie...Boot's on Sheridan for a great Hamburger and fries, and to be seen by everyone cruising through. Hanks, further out on Sheridan, when Hank was cooking still...the best Burger anywhere...sadly with Hank gone, it is still a very good burger, but not a great one...The most fun place was Borden's Cafeteria upstairs at Sheridan Village...you drove your car up the ramp and parked up stairs...it was the first cafeteria that I ever ate at...Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips at 11th and Memorial...authentic English type, with malt vinegar...White River Fish Market, when all of the old chrome dinettes were new...my Mom would stop and buy fries and fried shrimp by the pounds, in brown grocery bags...and race home while it was still warm, and the grease hadn't saturated the brown paper...this was pre-Microwave (yes there was such a time) when you had to re-heat in the oven if the food got cold. Shadow Mountain Inn on the hill at 61st and Sheridan where you took your highschool date to impress them...and then went a couple of blocks east on 61st to a large lot on the North side of the street, where we watched the submarine races from...About my Junior year of highschool, someone ruined it all by building a house on that lot. Broasted Chicken at the old Municipal Airport on North Sheridan...long before the current terminal...Chick-fil-a is a lot like I remember theirs being...and you got honey with it.

But the BEST that is now a QT...11th and Yale, "The Golden Drumstick" (later to be the Middle Path, or Middle Earth, or something like that, health food restaurant), where you got to eat free on your birthday, and if you cleaned your plate, you got to go to the wishing well and get your prize...

What about the Dixie Burger at Shaw's? The best burgers in the world!! I sure miss those.

The Country Fare Restaurant on Peoria was a great place. Food was served "family style" in bowls at your table. Wonderful corn chowder and the chess pie was heavenly.

Shotgun Sam's Pizza...was it as good as we remember???

Back in the 70's, I had a lot of great fish and chips lunches at an Arthur Treacher's in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb. None of today's fast food franchises have a fried fish offering like Arthur's. Ironically, they've survived, Arthur's did not.