On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:39:12 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
> wrote:

>On Apr 10, 8:33*am, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:53:53 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >Too many sloppy drunks in TGI Friday's for my
>> >taste.
>>
>> Fridays was tame compared to the places I hung out in after I turned
>> 19 and could drink. *Give me a shot and a beer and a frozen pizza from
>> the pizza oven behind the bar.
>
>When I worked by the airport, from time to time, one of our vendors
>would take us to a bar on Irving Park for happy hour.

I lived and worked in Bensenville and Wood Dale for a few years.
Chances are good I was in that same bar.

>They had such a countertop oven, in which they would bake
>Tombstone pizzas to help us absorb the alcohol.

The ovens are still around in little farm towns too small for a pizza
parlor. An old friend sold them along with the pizzas. He was a food
rep and picked up the distributorship at a trade show. He was wasting
too much time driving so he needed something to make cold calls with
in the redneck towns of central Illinois. If the bar bought a certain
amount of pizzas they got the oven free. Within a month or so he had
to rent a van once a week to make deliveries.

Lou