I needed a cup of coffee or a nap in this particular Thursday afternoon, when I found the sign "Diner." Herbie K's Diner in Cocoa Beach, Florida, to be exact. But dinner is dinner, right? Dinner and coffee should do the right thing to make me a jerk and I nap time.
E 'was clear on a few steps from my car to the front door from the Herbie K that Herbie is not interested in dinner, as another owner. He wanted to own a piece ofHistory. And, although it was more than happy to tell me to stop for a cup of coffee, was in the malt shop memories. I went to the stream by the end of 1990 stressed in the mid-1950s, only by opening a door and walk.
This is a black and white checkerboard tile floor and lots of chrome waiting to greet you. If your favorite and the kids have brought, there are many elements to the left.
I went to a bar stool upholstered redmounted on one of the bases of chromium, which allow you to spin and spin out. The perfect mood music blaring from a jukebox in the back. "Yakety Yak, not to mention it again ..."
There was a time when music was part of the menu. It 's still at Herbie K' s. Connected to the back of the bar was an old friend, a monument to the chromium-teens Rock and Roll. Each of our years and is known under the front of this room to get a helmet with a spirit of great music and flipthrough the music menu or behind the glass. I fumbled in the fourth with my smile growing, but someone beat me. There is only one drum opening Sun Wipe Out button S5. The buttons are directly under the glass cover and a link to the great jukebox in the back. This was the first remote America. Shame it does not retain the idea of two options for a quarter.
"You need a menu?" he asked as he stopped with me across the counter. E 'wasdressed in white, long hair was aa piece of red chiffon with a white hat had a waitress pinned to the top of the hair tied back. He announced that the badge "Bettybop" had emerged from the fifties to take my order. In ein oder zwei Sekunden war sie wieder mit einem Pott Kaffee und einem weißen Tax. "Cream?"
Hamilton Beach machines owned back counter. Two machines were at least three malts each. A friendly note on the back bench is finished, painted "Free java for police officers in uniform." This isprobably illegal today, is not it?
In one corner there was a car with a glass full of small stuffed animals and a furry mechanical crane hanging trophies. Young people can still demonstrate their skills and their love for fifty cents. Behind me was very familiar with two tons of Polaroid with the door curtain. My father never understood why anyone would pay for all these grotesque little image strip, fall in the external slot after meeting some friends andperfect fit.
I should be on the road, but Herbie was his concept. Herbie K had my attention. It 'been fun to sit, watch, listen and browse the music selection in quavers monument in front of me. I started digging for that quarter. Darn. Beat again. Wait Sloopy. K2 button. I liked it a lot because it reminds me of Pat Powers in the barn and the house of fraternity party. Thirty years in a lightning flash.
Some credit counterpushing the blue plate special. Yes, they had meatloaf. I wondered what they had. Bettybop was writing his relief order which has passed through the acceleration.
"I could have a menu?"
"Sure Hon."
He handed me a four-page menu of finger grease covered or protected ketsup compliments of a protective layer of clear vinyl covers sewn in a black plastic border. I'm glad I did not order French fries. Six baskets Murphy. Order a "Murphy Basket" and you get the plain French fries."E 'Jack' and the cheese fries are. "Make It Whistle" and you get fries with chili. Ask for a "Crying Murphy Basket" and you will get a half order of French fries and a half order of onion rings. Not french fries? try to "Jacked Up elbows in the lane." Macaroni and cheese, of course.
If you're in something healthy and light, trying to drag you through the farm. "This is a beautiful large garden salad with plenty of sliced turkey, ham, boiled eggs, cold meats to your salad garden." In the Garden cluck "change blackened chicken on top.
The menu is adorned with a line drawing of old favorites. James Dean. Marilyn. Elvis. Herbie is the history of the headlines. He had a dinner in the north and went fishing on a cold day in February. The only thing I was caught a cold. He loves to fish so he moved to Florida and opened Herbie K 's. Now begins the "catch of the day, instead of a cold. Snowbird is good.
Yes, they have burgers to go along with Simon and GarfunkelCecilia. Push M8. Just ask "A blow," "A blown Jack It" to get a cheese burger, "A blow with Jack Benny," you get a bacon cheese burger, and if you change something with this as Chili, you guessed it, "make a tube."
"Burn A Pup" is a hot dog. "E 'Sour" is a hot dog smothered in grass. You can also choose from a variety of other popular sandwich combinations. "Jack Benny with a cheese sandwich Dame 'with tomato." Bossy on a raft "is aSteak sandwich. "Butter, liver and tongue, you guessed it, a BLT.
For those with bigger appetites, try to throw a bone ", the pork chop dinner or" Endless Italian ", if you are a lover of spaghetti and meatballs. promises "Whiskers" is the catfish dinner, the menu is a delight.
I saw the dessert menu and treated as "fish eggs", tapioca pudding and fruit with a lid, the cake and a song jumped right out of the portable jukebox was received.We used high-tech machines from reel to reel tape, this song at any speed we wanted because we, for the dirty words we knew that it was imagined to be able to record. I finally found a quarter in my pocket and put a fist in the car and Q7, Louie, Louie. Nothing happened.
"I'm sorry, hon," he said when they arrived Bettybop my station with the pot. "It does not work."
Damn. A failure of high technology with Herbie was only when my mind ready to settle down for the day. I do not havethe courage to ask if all those memories were just props.
"Coffee?" He asked.
"No, thanks. I have to go to a store man," I said and I paid the check and went to the door. I turned and asked a question before leaving in the past and opened the back door, in the future under pressure.
"There is a place that sells music of the fifties here?"