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MilwRdPaulMilwRdPaulOGR Forum Member

Jerman, fantastic vignettes! The abandoned gas station is so lifelike and the trailer trash tells me to stay out of that neighborhood.

Vernon, nice stuff. Your White Castle takes me back to my Navy days when the guys on my ship that had one back home bragged about White Castle burgers. Never having one, I would always wonder what the attraction was for them! I still have never had one.

Mark BoyceMark BoyceOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:

This thread just keeps getting better and better!  When it started, I felt that within a few days everyone would post their "greatest hits" and that would be it, but they just keep coming.  I look forward to this every morning now . . . Just outstanding!

Lee,

I thought the same as you.  I agree, it keeps getting better and better as folks catch on.

Mark BoyceMark BoyceOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Originally Posted by leavingtracks:

OK...JON!!!   Guess what I found this evening at the grocery store...WHITE CASTLE burgers!!  Bought a box and zapped them in the microwave..added the mustard and pickle and viola...  They were pretty good too...still not quite as good as FRESH!!

 

Alan

I have heard of White Castle, but have not seen one.  I do remember commuting to college in Pittsburgh 40 years ago and there was a White Tower on a corner on the North Side of the 16th Street Bridge not far from the Heinz Plant.  As I recall, it looked sort of like the photos of the White Castle.  I wonder if they were corporately related, or just similar ideas by different companies.  Does anyone have any idea.

MC Mill CityOGR Forum Member

Wikipedia:

 

John E. Saxe and Thomas E. Saxe started White Tower Hamburgers after investigating various White Castle locations, observing operations and hiring a White Castle operator. The first location opened near Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the end of 1927, there were six locations in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. In 1929, White Tower put 30 locations in Detroit alone. Despite the Depression, White Tower expanded to 130 locations.White Tower placed many of its restaurants near train and trolley stops.

In 1929, White Castle sued White Tower in Minnesota for unfair competition and White Tower counter-sued in Michigan as White Tower had arrived in Michigan first. The Minnesota case ended in 1930 in favor of White Castle, forcing White Tower to end its use of similar building designs, slogans and name. The Michigan case dragged on until 1934, revealing the hiring away of a White Castle location operator and photographing of the latest White Castle to keep up on design. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the lower court's rulings that they had copied White Castle deliberately. White Castle refrained from forcing a name change for White Tower but did require new locations to pay a royalty fee, and to send photos of the locations. Having to change its look, White Tower first used an art deco, then modernistic designs. Territorially, White Tower and White Castle stayed away from each other from then on.

 

 

White Tower grew to 230 restaurants at its peak in the 1950s, but then gradually faded away, as customers moved away from its locations in declining urban areas.


The last surviving White Tower franchise in Toledo shut down in 2004.

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Mark BoyceMark BoyceOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Originally Posted by Mill City:

Wikipedia:

 

John E. Saxe and Thomas E. Saxe started White Tower Hamburgers after investigating various White Castle locations, observing operations and hiring a White Castle operator. The first location opened near Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the end of 1927, there were six locations in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. In 1929, White Tower put 30 locations in Detroit alone. Despite the Depression, White Tower expanded to 130 locations.White Tower placed many of its restaurants near train and trolley stops.

In 1929, White Castle sued White Tower in Minnesota for unfair competition and White Tower counter-sued in Michigan as White Tower had arrived in Michigan first. The Minnesota case ended in 1930 in favor of White Castle, forcing White Tower to end its use of similar building designs, slogans and name. The Michigan case dragged on until 1934, revealing the hiring away of a White Castle location operator and photographing of the latest White Castle to keep up on design. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit later affirmed the lower court's rulings that they had copied White Castle deliberately. White Castle refrained from forcing a name change for White Tower but did require new locations to pay a royalty fee, and to send photos of the locations. Having to change its look, White Tower first used an art deco, then modernistic designs. Territorially, White Tower and White Castle stayed away from each other from then on.

 

 

White Tower grew to 230 restaurants at its peak in the 1950s, but then gradually faded away, as customers moved away from its locations in declining urban areas.


The last surviving White Tower franchise in Toledo shut down in 2004.

Mill City,

Thank you so much!  Well I know the White Tower on Pittsburgh's North Side was there in 1976.  It may have stayed until they built the ramps for the Parkway North and the Veterans Bridge, but I don't know.

Mark BoyceMark BoyceOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I had to look up the White Castle Web site to see what a "Slider" is.  It looks like every sandwich is a Slider.  I didn't find why they call them Sliders.  Sounds like one of those things we used to ask my Dad, why do they call a "such and such" a "such and such"?  He would say, "They had to call it something!"  

 

Actually, now I perceive that statement as profound wisdom!  

MC Mill CityOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:

I had to look up the White Castle Web site to see what a "Slider" is.  It looks like every sandwich is a Slider.  I didn't find why they call them Sliders.  Sounds like one of those things we used to ask my Dad, why do they call a "such and such" a "such and such"?  He would say, "They had to call it something!"  

 

Actually, now I perceive that statement as profound wisdom!  

I believe the name "slider" was meant as a derogatory comment on their ability enter and exit with ease.

Mark BoyceMark BoyceOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Originally Posted by Mill City:
Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:

I had to look up the White Castle Web site to see what a "Slider" is.  It looks like every sandwich is a Slider.  I didn't find why they call them Sliders.  Sounds like one of those things we used to ask my Dad, why do they call a "such and such" a "such and such"?  He would say, "They had to call it something!"  

 

Actually, now I perceive that statement as profound wisdom!  

I believe the name "slider" was meant as a derogatory comment on their ability enter and exit with ease.

Thanks, Jon

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