Another day in Williams, Arizona and another day of snow flurries. Memorial Day weekend and we're looking at snow! What's wrong with this picture?
Today was a maintenance day for us. After some cleaning in the rig I set out to do the weekly laundry. The campground laundry isn't up and running as yet,,, whatever that means, so I had to go into town to get this chore out of the way. The laundry bags were much heavier this week due to them being filled with jeans and sweatshirts, oh please bring back the days of shorts and T's.
I found the laundromat easily enough as downtown Williams is just a stones throw from the campground. I quickly filled the four machines and went next door to Rod's Steak House to check out the menu as we have plans to go out to dinner with the McMullen's while we're here. I can tell you we will NOT be dining in this restaurant!
Reading the menu I was just blown away when I read that if you want a baked potato with your steak, which were on the pricey side to begin with, that we would be charged $4.50! $4.50 for a baked potato???? Seems to me you can buy a 10 pound bag of potatoes for less than that! Want a salad? Add $8.00! Nope, not eating here!
I met a couple from southern California while waiting for the washers to finish their job. They and eighteen other couples are all into vintage cars. In their case, a Model T, fully restored and roadworthy. They told me that they and the others shipped their cars to Baltimore, Maryland and then they all flew there. On May 1st they started the trek across country on Routes 40 and 66 arriving in Williams today. During our conversation it came out that the Model T's top speed is 35 miles per hour so they had plenty of time smell the roses along the way. We do get to meet the most interesting people while living our dream.
While the clothes were drying Bonnie called to see if we wanted to go out to dinner tonight. My first question was where? She said she and John had heard good things about Doc Holiday's. Whew... So we agreed to meet at 6:30 so we could make the prime rib special cutoff time. Baked potato included!
We met up with John and Bonnie and had a delicious prime rib dinner. As stated above, baked potato, a huge tossed salad and veggie were included with the prime rib all for $13.95. The dinner was very good but the company was fantastic!
After dinner, stuffed as we were, we headed to Twisters, a 50's era soda fountain shop for desert.
Bob and John found a booth for us while Bonnie and I headed to the gift shop section. Here's Bonnie checking out poodle skirts.
How many of you remember these kid's peddle cars?
On display was this old gasoline pump. Take note of the price of gas. Twenty cents a gallon and six cents for taxes! TWENTY SIX CENTS A GALLON! Oh those were the days! Not that I remember gas that low in price. Oh alright, I can, but I wasn't driving. I can remember the gas wars of those days though I wasn't much more than a toddler. Well, may a little bit more than a toddler but I was young!
Do you think Coca Cola had anything to do with the decorating of this place?
Now I'm not old enough (Honest!) to remember these soda shops like this where the teens would gather after school or on Friday and Saturday nights to listen to the likes of Elvis and those of that era but I sat there and imagined what it must have been like. Girls in their poodle skirts,bobby socks and black & white saddle shoes, guys in their white T-shirts with the pack of Lucky Strikes rolled in their sleeve, sporting that DA haircut. Oh those must have been the days! The days when doors were rarely locked, keys to the car were left in the ignition, drive by shootings were unheard of and you were likely to be disciplined by the lady next door as easily as by your own mom. Yep, those must have been the days.
We all ordered one scoop ice cream sundaes and when our water was delivered we all exclaimed, "Oh, I remember these cup holders!" It had been YEARS since any of us had seen those cone shaped paper cups!
As we enjoyed our sundaes we talked of years gone by and how different things are today.
More interior shots of the soda shop.
Tonight the McMullen's and the Quinn's got their kicks on Route 66!
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