Free 72 oz. Steak proclaims billboards for hundreds of miles on every road leading to Amarillo, Texas. The Big Texan is an old style tourist trap-a place with a gimmick and a ton of odds and ends for sale. In addition to a large dinning room reminiscence of Gunsmoke’s Long Branch, there is a pretty …
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James Coney Island
I like hotdog places. They all have that kind of carnival feel to them. Bright colors and outgoing people working beind the counter. And then they sell hotdogs, so what’s not to like? The James Coney Island is a Houston hotdog place that started doing business 1923. For some reason a couple of Greeks opened …
Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma
Pops reminds me of the gas station from the first Toy Story. A kind of futurist place with tall white gas pumps and a very high slanted roof. Of course, the most distinctive feature of Pops is the giant Coke bottle sculpture out front, which is lite with bright colors at night. Pops is on …
