Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Someone shook the Tree! Pass on the burritos - not my favorite food. But then, I eat food out of a small can, so what do I know!

Tree, how will you leaf if you don't drink at least one cup of coffee. (be sure you put.........cream in it!)

As one goes through life, there are those foods you never want to try (but eventually do and find out the aren't so bad), and those foods you try and vow never to touch again. for me that's olives, cooked spinach, beets, and coffee.

On the other hand, despite my English forebears, I prefer sugar in my tea...

[cherokee woman]

Oh oh: someone left the juke box on, playing "Locomotion" all night? Good tune.

Now, coffee is on, bacon, sausage are frying, eggs ready to fix according to order.
Cantaloupe and watermelon are cubed, ready and waiting to be eaten. Since I'm
fixing breakfast, Ed, will you clean up?

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

I'm not really a fan of burritos,but I'll have an order of enchiladas,one cheese and one beef,please![dinner]!

How about both? CW did a good job on making the beef burritos enchilada style:
not quite like Tumbleweed's, but very passable. But the burritos come with
cheese anyway, along with the beef. Or you can get them with beans, no meat.
Don't care for those. But you better pass out the gas masks with the bean
burritos. [:D]

[espeefoamer]

I'm not really a fan of burritos,but I'll have an order of enchiladas,one cheese and one beef,please![dinner]!

[Mookie]

Someone shook the Tree! Pass on the burritos - not my favorite food. But then, I eat food out of a small can, so what do I know!

Tree, how will you leaf if you don't drink at least one cup of coffee. (be sure you put.........cream in it!)

[tree68]

Put me down for two.... (and some Pepto on the side...)

Didn't even get a chance for a coffee break this morning. Sheesh! Never mind that I don't drink coffee. Still want the break!

[cherokee woman]

No, Mookie; I'm here getting ready to make the beef burritos! Still waiting for a total
number of who all wants some burritos. [angel]

[Mookie]

Hello....helllo....hello....

Wow! There is an echo in here! Everyone sleep in?

[Mookie]

Need to make quiche again for lunch - that is soooo good. Ham and cheese, bacon and cheese, even spinach and onion for our veggie friends!

Mook

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Lights on - no one here but me....Jukebox still playing, quietly. Fixed it with hits from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Think I will just sit here and wait for the crowd. Just me and Johnny Mathis....

Mookie

Chances are? What are the chances for some eggs and hash browns?[8D]
stay safe
Joe

Twelfth of Never!!!!![:X]

[Anonymous]

I'm having a PULLMAN breakfast this morning. The ham and eggs combination platter. Horseshoe cut of grilled ham, 2 eggs over easy, and hashbrowned potatoes. And it's being served on PULLMAN china.
Mitch

[cherokee woman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Lights on - no one here but me....Jukebox still playing, quietly. Fixed it with hits from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Think I will just sit here and wait for the crowd. Just me and Johnny Mathis....

Mookie

Okay Mookie, ya GOTTA SHARE Johnny Mathis!! Don't keep him all to yourself[:p][8D]
[angel]

[cherokee woman]

Coming right up Joe. How do you want your eggs? Hash browns sound good with
some sausage and biscuits.

Going to the grocery in a little bit and get the fixings for beef burritos enchilada style!!

How many people do I need to fix for? [angel]

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Lights on - no one here but me....Jukebox still playing, quietly. Fixed it with hits from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Think I will just sit here and wait for the crowd. Just me and Johnny Mathis....

Mookie

Chances are? What are the chances for some eggs and hash browns?[8D]
stay safe
Joe

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Hey anyone!! Refresh my memory: who did the song "Turn Turn Turn, there is a
season, turn, turn, turn. " Both locomutt and I love that song. (And I do know the
biblical reference.) [angel]

I believe Pete Seeger wrote the song. The version most people are familiar with was done by the Byrds. I have a Seeger album with that song on it. Based on the Bible's Book of Ecclesiastes, it was also recorded by Judy Collins in the early 60's. The folk and rock renditions are quite different.

[Mookie]

Lights on - no one here but me....Jukebox still playing, quietly. Fixed it with hits from the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Think I will just sit here and wait for the crowd. Just me and Johnny Mathis....

Mookie

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

.....L M....I too was at Ft. Knox.....Attended the Armored School on Wheel and Track Vehicle maintenance.....ate the best donuts ever at break time in the morning while going to school there....Had some previous tech school right before that at Camp Breckinridge, Ky...Didn't like that place. From the Armored School and then a short leave home and then it was off to help with the Korean War.....16 1/2 months later back across the Pacific and Camp Drake for a few hours and onto a train to travel all the way across the country to Ft. Meade, Md. for release from the service....Yippey....And that's when Bill Haley and the rest came to my ears....!

Did my first summer camp at Ft.Meade. Got to love the old? military saying,"hurry up and wait" I actually was in the W.Va.nat guard that first year,and John Denver's "Take me home country roads" was the favorite on the "juke box" we darn near wore it out during those two weeks![:)]

[Modelcar]

.....L M....I too was at Ft. Knox.....Attended the Armored School on Wheel and Track Vehicle maintenance.....ate the best donuts ever at break time in the morning while going to school there....Had some previous tech school right before that at Camp Breckinridge, Ky...Didn't like that place. From the Armored School and then a short leave home and then it was off to help with the Korean War.....16 1/2 months later back across the Pacific and to Ft. Lewis, Wa. for a few hours and onto a train to travel all the way across the country to Ft. Meade, Md. for release from the service....Yippey....And that's when Bill Haley and the rest came to my ears....!

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

...Locomutt: Served with Uncle Sam's army in the Korean War.....And yes I'm referring to Bill Haley and the Comets...!! Rock around the clock....He really did bang out the high energy and good music....early and mid 50's....

Only reason I asked,was when I served in National Guard from 1972-1990. (23 1/2 years total)
first 18 1/2were spent active,last few were spent in the inactive reserves.
Basic at Ft Jackson,S.C. A.I.T. at Ft Rucker,Additional verious schools at Ft Knox,Ft Eustis.I've actually been to Germany for a summer camp. Rode the "Strausbaumm" several times.Very enjoyable.[:)]

[Anonymous]

Turn Turn Turn by the Byrds around the spring of '66. Makes me think of Chicago Union Station. Available on the web. Do a Google and you can download it.
Mitch

[Modelcar]

...Locomutt: Served with Uncle Sam's army in the Korean War.....And yes I'm referring to Bill Haley and the Comets...!! Rock around the clock....He really did bang out the high energy and good music....early and mid 50's....

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan

I had an interesting dream last night. I was watching trains at junction and it was a triple track UP line, triple track CSX line and a quadruple track BNSF/CN line intersectiing each other. I saw 120 trains in 9 hours!

Now that's an interesting dream.[:)]

[locomutt]

Modelcar............I am guessing that you mean "Bill Haley & the Comets"?
Great group and music.
And refferencing your last post,which branch of the service did you come from?

[Modelcar]

...Can't answer CW...but haven't noted anyone mentioning the great Bill Haley gang yet....Wow, just got out of the service and he was popular....I think really great...made great music.

[cherokee woman]

Hey anyone!! Refresh my memory: who did the song "Turn Turn Turn, there is a
season, turn, turn, turn. " Both locomutt and I love that song. (And I do know the
biblical reference.) [angel]

[Anonymous]

Old rock music triggers train thoughts. Music and Railroads I like.
Del Shannon=Late '50's on the North Shore Line
Early Beatles=End of North Shore Line during salvage operations.
Early Beach Boys, Dixie Cups,Neil Sadaka=Camping in the Dunes, listening to the South Shore at night.
Anything '65=Denver Zephyr
The Byrds=Burlington Steam trips 4960
Simon & Garfunkel=GTW Steam Trips to South Bend
Spanky and Our Gang=Trips on the Rock Island
The Temptations=When I hired out on the CNW
5th Dimension=hen I went into passenger service on the CNW
Carley Simon=When I quit the CNW
More to follow if ya like.
Mitch

[Modelcar]

....Yes, rock and roll of 50's...Great...! Good stuff. My era. And of course Del Shannon, can hear it playing in my mind now....Also great...! Just a few years later attended a live show at the [then] International Hotel in Vegas to a live Elvis concert and dinner....Still have the record and jacket material that was handed out with the dinner....What a show..2 hrs. practically non stop....He was the greatest in the 50's rock and roll....and the orchestra behind him was superb.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

Dull day here, too...just started pouring. I've got a bad case of the blahs, and the diner is definitely the wrong place for me to be when that happens!

I'm listening to classical music now (that's not depressing). But while we're talking about music history here, does anyone remember Del Shannon (late 1950s, early 1960s; big hits included Runaway, Hats Off to Larry, and Little Town Flirt)? He was my second cousin, once removed (he and my dad had great-grandparents in common; his paternal grandfather and my dad's maternal grandmother were siblings).

Man,cheer up. Just because you can't ride bike to work.

Don't know what classical music you are listing to,and it's not the same thing,but one of my favorites is Mason Williams; Classical Gas.[:)]

And BTW,the music you listed is "music"not like the screams we hear today[:)]
I would have said "cat screams"but I was afraid I would upset Mookie.[:D][}:)]

[cherokee woman]

Carl, I remember Del Shannon!! His hits you list are my favorite Del Shannon
songs!! [angel]

[CShaveRR]

Dull day here, too...just started pouring. I've got a bad case of the blahs, and the diner is definitely the wrong place for me to be when that happens!

I'm listening to classical music now (that's not depressing). But while we're talking about music history here, does anyone remember Del Shannon (late 1950s, early 1960s; big hits included Runaway, Hats Off to Larry, and Little Town Flirt)? He was my second cousin, once removed (he and my dad had great-grandparents in common; his paternal grandfather and my dad's maternal grandmother were siblings).