Posted August 3, 200717 yr from july -- a lunch pitstop at ohio's best classic diner & one of america's too. :clap: *** man there's nothing better than a kewpee hamburger and a chocolate malt :wink: ***
August 3, 200717 yr Yum. I just had Kewpee last weekend, but now I'm craving it again. Thanks a lot, mrnyc!
August 3, 200717 yr I don't know, maybe its just me... but the lack of either a diaper or anatomically correct body parts kinda creeps me out. Hamburgers look good, though.
August 3, 200717 yr oh but you guys are fine with that freckle-faced ginger kid and her ripoff dog food burgers and chemical frostys?
August 3, 200717 yr Hamburg Pickle On Top! Makes your Heart Go Flippity Flop! In more ways than one! :lol:
August 3, 200717 yr maybe in your BG thread, we'll get a double heart attack with a picture from the Corner Grille.......
August 3, 200717 yr Kewpee's rocks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 3, 200717 yr I don't know, maybe its just me... but the lack of either a diaper or anatomically correct body parts kinda creeps me out. Hamburgers look good, though. I with you on that one...creepy. I had never heard of it, but we randomly stopped there about two years ago and the three of us that went still talk about how unnerving the naked dolls everywhere were. I was reassured by the hamburger wrapper that indicated it was "clean" though. Good frosty though!
August 7, 200717 yr The baby on the burger wrapper looks like he is being crucified. Now that is creepy!
August 8, 200717 yr someone told me they sold the original kewpee outside above the front of the diner and the new one is a replacement. i wonder how it could be replaced tho? anyone know about that? i do seem to recall it being missing on my last visit a few years ago. Hamburg Pickle On Top! Makes your Heart Go Flippity Flop! In more ways than one! :lol: it's cute right? but yeah you cant eat too many you gotta watch your ticker there. heh. also look carefully -- the important quote on the wrapper is "we serve all the folks." it's extremely meaningful that they say that so prominantly in a place like lima, which has a relatively large african-american population. think about what that meant back in the days especially. perhaps that says something about lima in general? i dk, but i'd like to think so. regardless, yet another reason to love the place.
August 9, 200717 yr ^ mrnyc, I think the doll was removed for awhile to be refurbished, not replaced....but i could be mistaken. Also, an interesting fact is they used to use a car turntable before they enlarged their parking lot. Instead of backing out of the lot, a car would pull onto the turntable after which it could be manually turned around, since there wasn't enough room for the cars to make the sharp turn. You can still see the outline of the turntable in the parking lot. Founded in 1923, there were more than 200 Kewpee restaurants before WWII. Each location was run independently and often had different menus. The shortage of ground beef during the war drove many locations out of business. And an attempt to collect royalties/franchise fees for the name bought by a Toledo man led to further closures and changes to Kewpee locations that remained. Today there are only 6 remaining locations--3 in Lima, 1 in Racine, WI, and 2 in Lansing, MI. The downtown Lima Kewpee location in opened in 1928, is the only remaining example of the "original" Kewpee building architecture. The Kewpie doll was popular in America in the early 1900's. They were based on stories and illustration that Rose O'Neill created for Ladies' Home Journal. It was really basically an early form of a comic strip and then became popular as a doll. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, the time capsule contained a Kewpie doll. Also, Anne Frank wrote in her diary about getting a Kewpie doll. So it I guess it was quite popular when Kewpee Hamburgers was founded in 1923 and throughout the restaurants' heyday and has remained its namesake and mascot. I've always loved the contrast in size between the tiny Kewpee building in downtown Lima and the Thomas Savings Building/City Loan & Savings Building next door.
August 9, 200717 yr somewhat same category, reminds me of the IHOP in Ballston (arlington, va) http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qgd77w8k6s5f&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=2984208&encType=1 (little blue roof)
August 9, 200717 yr ^ wow thats a funny sight. i wonder if that guy in cleveland is still buying and restoring old diners? i hope so. btw the only freestanding diner in manhattan, the moondance diner in soho, is being moved way out west any day now: http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=72446&search_result=1&stid=8
August 10, 200717 yr somewhat same category, reminds me of the IHOP in Ballston (arlington, va) http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qgd77w8k6s5f&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=2984208&encType=1 (little blue roof) Looks like that was an area that was bland suburbia until development sprang up around the Metro station.
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