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Would be a tragedy for you to use your imagination...picture Arnold's from Happy Days! Don't hurt yourself!!!!
Howabout White Castles, I´ve been to those plenty ?
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Did Mel´s Drive-In really exist ?

Even current pics of the remains wouldn´t hurt...like this site...
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You´d be surpirsed how Old School American some current ones are especially in Sweden for example.
So actually...who´s got the lack of imagination here... or something
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Does anyone remember the old Key Truck Stop just east of Houston on I-10? It has been closed and gone for years. It was a dump, but you could get tires fixed, truck and trailer worked on, and the food was pretty good.

The biggest thing it had going for it was it was the only game in town except for the 76 north of town on 45.

I had to drive all the way from Victoria to there one night to get a flat fixed. I had a full load of onions, and the tire was a bias ply, tube type. It was hot and smoking when I got there, but we scraped out the chewed up liner and tube, cut out some of the loose tire cords, put in a radial tube, and hit the road.

Things like that make you go out and buy valve stem clamps to keep the stem out of the tire. All you "old timers" know what I am talking about.
Yes I do now its a crappy fuel stop full of potholes now still have lot lizzards and five finger discounts.,Crome shop next door.
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- yep - I have a calender with a pic of it - somewhere in northern cali...
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Here's one "Red" Amick's in No. Indiana. Stopped there when my Scout troop was coming back from a 2 week canoe trip in Mn.
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Did Mel´s Drive-In really exist ?



- yep - I have a calender with a pic of it - somewhere in northern cali...

Actually there´s more than one of them up there...
the Calnder pic you have might as well be from Universal Studios theme park in Florida...
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I love old school truck stops I think the food is better in most of them
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true - I have a list of my favorite haunts for dinner/lunch - non of them are chains...

There are also a slew of good non truckstop food stops that have truck parking - diners in PA not included...
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Here's one "Red" Amick's in No. Indiana. Stopped there when my Scout troop was coming back from a 2 week canoe trip in Mn.
Were Amick's racing trophies on display when you stopped there? I dropped my trailer at Amick's and bobtailed to watch racing at Winchester.

George Amick was killed in 1959 at Daytona during a USAC champ car event. Amick was fastest at 176 mph. Jim Rathmann won the first 100-miler, but just as he came across the finish line there was a crash in turn two. Amick crashed end-over-end in the Bowes Seal Fast Special. Marshall Teague had a fatal crash while testing for this race.
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Does anyone remember the old Key Truck Stop just east of Houston on I-10? It has been closed and gone for years. It was a dump, but you could get tires fixed, truck and trailer worked on, and the food was pretty good.

The biggest thing it had going for it was it was the only game in town except for the 76 north of town on 45.

I had to drive all the way from Victoria to there one night to get a flat fixed. I had a full load of onions, and the tire was a bias ply, tube type. It was hot and smoking when I got there, but we scraped out the chewed up liner and tube, cut out some of the loose tire cords, put in a radial tube, and hit the road.

Things like that make you go out and buy valve stem clamps to keep the stem out of the tire. All you "old timers" know what I am talking about.
Spent a lot of time there and at the ##### tonk joint next door when I was leased to Getter. We had a 400 acre pipe yard just north of there.
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