Zuider Zee?
kennon.baird
This goes back to 1972. Although I never ate there, I seem to recall
there being a restaurant called The Zuider Zee. Seems like it was in
the shape of a Dutch windmill, or had a windmill decor. Also seems
like it was a seafood place.
Any old coots out there recall it, or was it just another
hallucination?
KB
gyfirst
Years ago as you say, Zuider Zee (sp?) was
the seafood place to go in Lubbock. Its been
gone many years. I guess it was a chain.
mark
I remember going there with my grandfather shortly before he died in
1970.
In fact, that's the last memory I have of him as a healthy person.
So it
was there and is a little older than you think. And you're right
about the
windmill decor and it being a seafood place.
Kennon Baird wrote in message <3692962f...@news3.dnai.com>...
max.tindell.
You have it all correct. ZZ was the first seafood restaurant in
Albuquerque; ca. 1970.
Max
carey.akin
Other than the Zee/Sea reference, I can't imagine the Dutch theme for
seafood. About the only thing that I enjoy eating in the Netherlands
is all
of the Indonesian food available....
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Carey Akin, coming to you live from downtown Pearland, Texas
Max Tindell wrote in message <3692C8CA...@mail.hal-pc.org>...
do...@farkas.caam.rice.edu
Kennon Baird wrote:
> This goes back to 1972. Although I never ate there, I seem to
recall
> there being a restaurant called The Zuider Zee. Seems like it was
in
> the shape of a Dutch windmill, or had a windmill decor. Also seems
> like it was a seafood place.
>
> Any old coots out there recall it, or was it just another
> hallucination?
When I was a kid in Dallas/Fort Worth around 68-72, Zuider Zee was a
chain
of moderately priced seafood restaurants with fried and broiled fish,
oysters,
and all the free hush puppies you could eat. I loved the hush
puppies, my
dad liked the oysters, and it was the only place we ever ate out.
Sometime
around 1969, the guy who ran them sold out, and all those windmilled
fast
food joints started popping up with the Zuider Zee name. After a
time, he
started a new restaurant in west Fort Worth called "Bill Martin's
Second
Edition". You should be able to guess his name by now. Then there
was the
"Third Edition" in west Fort Worth, and a "Fourth Edition" somewhere
on I-35W
near Alvarado, or someplace like that. I think there might've been a
fifth at
one point. We went to the Third Edition for a few years.
I don't know what's happened to those businesses in the last 20
years.
Nostalgically,
Doug
garth.wells
I grew up on the west side of Ft. Worth and ate all three
Bill Martin's restaurants. The original, 2nd Edition I guess,
is my first memory of a restaurant with a live lobster tank.
I was probably in the fifth or sixth grade when we started
going there so I cannot remember much more than the
catfish--which I liked quite a bit.
kraken.
Kennon Baird wrote:
>
> This goes back to 1972. Although I never ate there, I seem to
recall
> there being a restaurant called The Zuider Zee. Seems like it was
in
> the shape of a Dutch windmill, or had a windmill decor. Also seems
> like it was a seafood place.
>
> Any old coots out there recall it, or was it just another
> hallucination?
>
> KB
>
>
I don't remember it at all, but I didn't arrive in Houston until
1975. I
guess it was gone with the wind by then.
kraken
71142...@compuserve.com
Kennon Baird asked:
> This goes back to 1972. Although I never ate there, I seem to
recall there being a restaurant called The Zuider Zee. Seems like
it was in the shape of a Dutch windmill, or had a windmill decor.
Also seems like it was a seafood place.
Any old coots out there recall it, or was it just another
hallucination?<
It must have been mass hysteria, because I can remember
having all-you-can-eat fried shrimp at the Zuider Zee
in Denver while wearing a polyester double-knit suit.
But *I'm* not old or anything. I just have these clear
recollections of occurances during a previous life cycle. :)
Pete Romfh
cmark...@hickham.com
Hi Kennon,
You're not hallucinating.. believe there used to be a Zuider Zee on
Uvalde
in North Shore. Think it was near Uvalde Malt n' Burger. It was a
seafood
place in the shape of a windmill.
Chris (an old coot)
MailTo:cmark...@hickham.com
Kennon Baird wrote in message <3692962f...@news3.dnai.com>...
>This goes back to 1972. Although I never ate there, I seem to
recall
>there being a restaurant called The Zuider Zee. Seems like it was
in
>the shape of a Dutch windmill, or had a windmill decor. Also seems
>like it was a seafood place.
>
>Any old coots out there recall it, or was it just another
>hallucination?
>
>KB
>
>
mark
It was one of Billy Gibbons' favorite restaurants. He used to say it
was
"tops." I hear he liked it so much and was so distraught by its
closing he
abbreviated the name of the restaurant and named a band after it.
ron....@spectrum-eit.com
I heard the band was named after veteran blues-man ZZ Hill.
mark
OK, that's partially true since ZZ Hill used to eat there too and,
indeed,
also renamed himself after the restaurant. Seems that the hush
puppies were
to die for. Personally, my favorite menu item was the sales tax.
Ronald Kerr wrote in message <3693B97A...@spectrum-eit.com>...
jack.sloan.
Gyfirst wrote:
>
> Years ago as you say, Zuider Zee (sp?) was
> the seafood place to go in Lubbock. Its been
> gone many years. I guess it was a chain.
Yep, seems like it was out on Slide Road. We saved up for weeks to
get
their Dungeness(sp)crab special...$2.95. WOW It was great.
Jack