Fark linked up this nifty trip down gastric memory lane, also known as "what was your favorite now-extinct restaraunt chain?" The ones they mention that I remember were:

• Burger Chef. Loved those kid meals, drove my parents bananas over them. Sitting in the back of my dad's VW bug trying to talk my brother out of the chocolate cookie he got in his meal while ABBA played on the 8-track is one of my earlier memories. We had copies of their Star Wars posters on our walls for ten years or more.
• Shakey's. There was, as I recall, a Shakey's in or around Merrit Island Florida. They had a player piano, which was possibly the coolest thing I had ever seen. Badgering my parents to let me run up and see it again is probably one of my earliest memories.
• Arthur Treacher's. Never ate there, but I thought the commercials were memorable and goofy. Someone ran one less than a mile from our old Apartment, on Duke street as I recall. It finally closed down about three or four years ago.
• Godfather's pizza. A college staple. The radio commercials were excellent too.
• Taco Tico. Just a name to me, but I do remember seeing it on dozens of signs.

Of course, some of these chains are still around, just much changed or much smaller, but they're not around here or anywhere else I have frequented over the years. Be sure to give the thread a look and see if you spot any of your own "old friends".

Dang. Now I'm hungry!