OT The Bomber restaurant calls it quits after 73 years in Milwaukie

Were you a "Bad Boy"?
Before I was a teenager, my cousin, little brother and I started a club in our attic. We called it the Bad Boys' club.

 

There use to be a tiny joint in downtown Portland called The Original Coney Island. This must have been in the mid 50s.
Speaking of old time restaurants does anyone remember the cafeteria in Olds and King department store known as Manning's?

 

Did you wear leather masks and keep your cousin in a dark closet with a red ball strapped in his mouth?

 

Tell me more about your past, it sounds way more interesting than mine. We stole candy bars and looked at black and white photography magazines printed on incredibly cheap paper that displayed wome who were naked from the waste up. That's what bad boys do.

 

Sounds familiar where was it in Portland?

 

It was around 11th and Washington and when Nicks opened on Hawthorne they changed the name to The Original Coney Island Sandwich Shop as when it first iopened it was just called The Coney Island Sandwich Shop. Closed up in 1969.

 

The Bomber was an institution and I’m sorry I never got to tour it. My father in law was a aircraft mechanic assigned to work on B-17s and B-24s in the Pacific during the war. He also took the after mission damage assessment photos. When the bomber came to Oak Grove back in the day, he was able to take his parents, brother, my mother in law and my much older sister in law (then a child) on a tour so they could “share” in his experiences. His brother was in a wheel chair, so my father in law put him on his back and carried him through. Tours were a regular thing until parts started showing up missing, vandalism was occurring, etc, so they closed it up to the public. Bummer. Humans always ruin everything......

 

When I was a freshman in HS, about 20 of us got together and formed “The Hard Guys Club”. We had “official” ID and everything. Does that count.....??

 

Basically it’s just an older version of Beaverton.....and as much of a clusterfuck....

 

I remember it as a kid as well. I was just always amazed at how they landed it there the way they did.

 

There was a Hard Guys Club while I was in prison. We always tried to stay clear of them!

 

Oh thank God!!! And I thought I was the only one.....

 

Olds and King were about two or three blocks South West of Meier and Frank.
Manning's reminded me of a once very popular restaurant chain of cafeteria style eating in the South East known as Morrison's. I remember they even served food in one of the dorms at the University of South Florida where I visited a friend back in 1967.

 

First strip club (juice bar) I ever went to was on the other side of a trailer park from The Bomber. Sugar Shack was it's name, I was 15.

 

The first one I ever went to was the first one in Portland and it was called the Longhorn, somewhere way out in N.E. Portland.

 

This dude said "way out in NE Portland" Grandpa Simpson......YOU are the one that lives out in the country!

 

I'm talking about farther out than 122nd. son.

 

I used to live on Mildred in Gladstone right behind Tebos. Loved, loved their strawberry shortcake!!

Hey, is Mike's Drive in still in business. I used to live behind the one in Milwaukie off Harrison and the expressway. Once got a traffic ticket there. Long story, but I won.