Growing up in the 70s & 80s, going to Pizza Hut for dinner was a HUGE deal. It was always packed, the jukebox always rocking, and the tabletop Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man always had long waits. In the spring/summer, local softball teams would go there for post-game pizza & beer. I always felt so grown up there when we went there for dinner.
Nothing made me happier on the late 70s and early 80s than my dad telling me we were going to Pizza Hut on Friday night! School days seem so long back then waiting for that. I miss those times. 2021 sucks.
@Veronica A. Our town had both. Pizza Inn was pretty bland, but it was a few dollars cheaper than Pizza Hut & within walking distance. So, Pizza Inn it was, & only for birthdays.
@@sunshine3914 In my city(Memphis), we had both as well. Pizza Inn was cheaper. From the late 70's til the mid 80's, My family would go to either Pizza Inn or Shakey's. When all the Shakey's closed down in my city(mid 80's), that's when i started going to Pizza Hut. By that time, i was 16-17 and working(summer jobs). On payday and right after, there was a small Pizza Hut downtown and i used to buy the pan pizzas(they were $1.99-2.99 back then)or with a coupon, buy 1 get 1 free.
I remember as a kid in the late 70's, spending the whole day at Six Flags with my family then heading hm and stopping at Pizza Hut....still remember the smell and the excitement when our Pizza came to the table!!!! I'm 54 yrs old now...what great day's those were....
@@0blivioniox864 I think many have forgotten 9/11. America's demographics really started to change @ the end of Bush the elder...and the years 2021 - 2024 may just be the end.
We had one close down about 10 years ago. The building is still there empty. It was an eat in with buffet option or pizza or delivery. The new place sucks. It's in a strip mall. No eat in.
Ah!!! The memories of Friday nites being at Pizza Hut...waiting to be seated by the host/hostess...sounds coming from the jukebox...the sights & smell of hot pizzas coming from the oven...playing space invaders while waiting for your to go order at the take-out area! Just loved the good 'ol days!!! LOL
The Pizza Hut where I grew up had a jukebox too. I had forgotten about it. I would get a quarter and spend at least 10 minutes deciding which song to choose.
And don't forget the fame of " Space Balls" the villain Pizza the Hut, remember John Candy's character saying " Hurray !!, Pizza kicked the bucket !!" at the news of his death.
@@Soxruleyanksdrool I agree wram beer sucks. Except on Saturday mornings at 2 in the afternoon when you finish that can of Budweiser you were drinking when you passed out last night / earlier this morning.
In the corners parts of the Pizza Huts, there were little nooks for dating couples, and at the Pizza hut I worked at in Wichita we served pitchers of beer as well.
Watching all these videos makes me SO nostalgic for times gone by …. Oh how I wish we could go back if only for a few days and experience the 70-80s again! And wow those prices are amazing! 😊
When I was a kid, in the eighties, my mom was manager at a Pizza Hut. I remember her coming home from work and seeing her carrying pizza boxes from the car for dinner. I would do my happy dance every time lol. I even had my birthday party there one year. It's definitely not the same now, but we still order pizza hut from time to time. Miss those old days tremendously though
We used to go to Pizza Hut regularly in the 1970's and they we excellent. I always remember those red soda cups they used but I also remember pizza was considerably more expensive back then. It wasn't until years later when there was stiff competition around that pizza prices seriously dropped. I really miss this old way of life. We didn't have the technology we have today but life was so much better.
Oh man this takes me back to a much happier and simpler time in my life! I remember back in those days, getting the family together on the weekend, going to dine out at Pizza Hut was an event! Those were such fun times. 🤗
When I was in high school in the late 1980s, you were super cool if you had wheels and could go to the Pizza Hut and get a personal pan pizza for lunch. If you were fast, you would actually have time to sit and eat it at the Pizza Hut, and not have to grab it and race back to school. Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane!
LOLOL!!! I remember one of the PIZZA HUT commercials in the late 70's and the jingle was: THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS AT PIZZA HUT, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS UNDER OUR ROOF!!!🎶🎶✌🏾😁
I just want to say thank you for providing great content. I have enjoyed all of the videos I have seen so far. I have plans to make it through all of your content. Be well. Best wishes.
The years when customers didn't have a smartphone, they would enjoy themselves with their families with delicious pizza. They would buy a newspaper that was outside of the pizza hut restaurant to read after they finished eating their pizza. It makes me cry because I want those times back today.
Community is dead. Technology and replacing the original population of our nation, deliberately, so that everyone and their neighbor is an isolated individual with nothing in common, sometimes even basic language. It's a sad thing to see.
And when people in the media ponder why mass shootings and ghetto gun violence is so pervasive today they always blame the guns. No honest conversation about the decline of community and lack of connection and purpose ever occur.
Bishopville South Carolina has one that has the original Red Roof and ( before C-19) used to offer salad and pizza buffet !!!! It was always a treat to go there !!!!
I remember we had a Pizza Hut in Princeton , WV when I was a kid in the 70's. That pizza was as good as it gets. It was not cheap, but it was excellent. You picked up a slice of pizza and you had a ton of real cheese strings hanging down. They also had a good salad bar, oven baked meatball subs that were crazy good etc... This was also where I fell in love with Space Invaders as they had one of the table machines. Nowadays I only buy pizza from the Italian/ Greek mom and pops who still do it right. Fast food pizza is garbage now.
I live in Mercer Co. Loved the Pizza Hut in Princeton. I wish it was still open. The location they have now is pick-up or delivery. It's a hit and miss with that location, sometimes you get a great pizza and other times it's not fit to feed a dog. We rarely go to that one, but there is still a Pizza Hut restaurant in Hinton WV they usually have very good pizzas.
I actually got myself detention on purpose in my senior year of high school when I treated a group of friends to pizza before Christmas at the one across the street from the school in the shopping center! I cut a class to do it but it was so worth it!
In the mid 80s, I remember there being a 15-20 minute wait on weekends for a table at the local Pizza Hut in my town. This was in the days when the pan pizza had a crisp, buttery crust and the waitress would serve everyone their first piece and first glass of soda if you got a pitcher.
I don’t understand how such a great series of history only has 52,000 subscribers. They put a lot of work into these and it brings back good memories. Thank you
It was in 1979, and I was living in Detroit, Michigan and I was working at Hudson's Eastland. One day after work, I stopped at the Pizza Hut located on East 8 Mile Road and Crusade on the Detroit City Limits. I had a pizza,and a beer. I remember when Pizza Hut used to sell beer and wine. The East 8 Mile Road and Crusade Pizza Hut had been closed permanently and to this very day the Pizza Hut on East 8 Mile Road and Crusade is boarded up and abandoned for a very long time.
Picture it. Late 1970s, I was fresh out of the Navy, and getting ready to start my freshman year at GA University. Took a job at the local Pizza Hut, and WOW. So many adventures with the guys who worked there. Manager Dave was a pot-head and took ludes like they were going to be outlawed (guess he saw that coming). He would stand with his staff under the fan and pass the joint. We worked so many shifts with our hair blown back--but hey, we got big tips so we were doing something right. The Assist. Manager, Liceanne became my best friend and we took a two bedroom house together to save on expenses. The misadventures we all shared. As Chic says in their hit single--Those were The Good TImes.
Nearly all of the Pizza Huts in my area have abandoned their classic “red roof” locations and relocated to newer, much smaller buildings with drive-thru/take-out only operations.
The Book-it program was dynamite! My daughter had absolutely no interest in reading until that program, but became a voracious reader as a result of those free pizzas.
@@sabrina.natalie The teacher would set the number of books that she needed to read in each month, and when they were all read she would receive the coupon for a personal pan pizza - the teacher determined the books were read by asking her questions about each one.
I remember the movie “The Land Before Time” had a huge Pizza Hut partnership in the 80s and I went to many a birthday at Pizza Hut back then. I remember the salad bar, the hostess seating, arcade games, the rockin music and that delicious pizza that had the cheese trailing all the way from your mouth to the pie! That all ended in the 90s, and now Pizza Hut is just a mall or train station takeout afterthought.
I couldn't agree more with your video description. Back in the 1970's-1980's my Mom and Grandma would go grocery shopping and afterward we would head to McDonald's when we were around the ages of 6 and 7. Shortly thereafter we started going to Pizza Hut and never went back to McDonald's. I always liked the setting inside the Pizza Hut restaurants. The booths with checkered table cloths, red glasses, overhead lighting, the brick walls, jukebox and the one we would go to had a sit down Pac-Man arcade game. My brother and I played that until our food came to our table. Great times. Their pan pizzas were the best, thick dough lots of pepperoni and cheese, nothing beat it.
We live in a capitalist society where in order to maximize profits one must sell the lowest quality product for the highest possible price while paying the workers the lowest wages you can get away with. Definitely remember the Pizza tasting different back in the day before they went all cheapskate on the ingredients.
1982-92, I switched back and forth, working at Hut and Inn, corporate and franchises. There's nothing quite like the dine-in Pizza business, out of all of the food service models out there. It was my transition vocation, from high school into bill paying adulthood. To this day, I still know, or occasionally run into friends I made in those jobs. It is a very particular alumni.
When I was a kid in the 80s, Pizza Hut was everywhere! Going there was a treat, but then they went cheap & nasty in the early 2000s and are now just a delivery service and not popular at all. At least thats the story in Australia. Great video again as always!
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's buildings were so unique. Even after several incarnations of different business occupying the ones that had closed, they still remain Pizza Hut and Taco Bell icons.
I remember Pizza Hut still served beer there back when I was in high school in the early to mid 80s. Our senior AP Physics teacher took the class to lunch as a reward for doing so well and I recall on of my fellow students that was 19 (Drinking age in Texas was 19 until 1986) ordered a beer with his lunch. It was a different experience eating in the full service Pizza Hut with your friends than having it out of the cardboard "to go" box on the sofa in front of the TV.
Sometimes my mom and I would go to Pizza Hut.She would order a large pizza supreme.She would eat two or three slices and I would end up eating almost all the rest of it.
Pizza Hut was the shizzz-nit back in the 80’s , my children find that hard to believe, but back when I was a kid, they put a lot of tender loving care into their products, and you could actually dine in.
LOVED Pizza Hut from 1973.... to.... oh I don’t remember the last time I went to Pizza Hut on Peace St, Raleigh, NC. Still do take out/delivery from Hillsborough Street though. Loved the salad bar, and that thin pepperoni pizza, at the sit down tables though. And there was the Western Blvd location as well. Ah, the memories.
great vid. i love all the old pictures. they freeze time a tell a story. the fashion, hairdos, cars and overall feel of a peaceful time. something to get to and not something forgotten and left behind.😌✌
I remember, living in a group home in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a kid and teenager, going to Pizza Hut was everything! We would always get this family meal deal (which actual name escapes me ATM), that came with two or three large pizzas, drinks, and free trips to the salad bar. It was something that I would always look forward to when I was younger. So sad that all the dine-in Pizza Huts are all gone. Those places were my childhood and teenage years. 😰😰😨😨🍕🍕
Pizza Hut was great when I was a kid back in the 70's & 80's. They even sponsored school field trips where we got to go the restaurant to see how pizza was made and then make our own!
Where I come from we had Me-n-Ed's Pizza Parlor, a go-to place on a date in high school, plus they had live music. After 63 years they're still open for business in California.
@@photonotavailable7936 I had no idea Me-N-Ed's was that far down south! I live in the Fresno/Clovis area where there are something like 20 restaurants.
@@ilovegoodsax Hope they all remain open. Sending positive thoughts. The Pizza Chronicles: I worked briefly for minimum wage at Straw Hat Pizza Palace in south Sacramento when I was in college. Not one of my favorite jobs, but I gladly ate the free food. That location is long gone. Now known as Straw Hat Pizza, they’re still open with nearly 30 locations in California. Also in the ‘70s when I was still was in college, but had some discretionary income, I use to go on dates to Pietro’s in Vacaville. Excellent pizza. They’re still open. In the ‘90s and 2000s we frequently ordered to-go or to-be-delivered at Steve’s Pizza in Fair Oaks. Delicious pizza and salad. They’re still around with six locations in the greater Sacramento area including Davis. Nowadays when I order pizza it’s just a slice at Whole Foods.
@@photonotavailable7936My very first slice of pizza was at a Straw Hat! When it was at its best, Straw Hat was Pizza Hut's strongest rival and like Pizza Hut, they were all over the place and then disappeared. A Straw Hat franchise opened in Clovis about a year ago. I've brought one home but sadly, it didn't taste as good as I remembered.☹ I'll have to remember Steve's Pizza (post pandemic). I travel to Sacramento for work several times a year.
Have GREAT memories at Pizza Hut! In the 80s when my friend moved out to newer subdivision (on the edge of country...where there wasn't much to do..no malls ect.). Her mom would drop us off with $20 and the owner at 8pm would say "guys you ready to dance?" and we would move out the tables and chairs to clear a dance area, he would lower the price of songs to 25cents, have the disco ball going, and the special for pizza and a pitcher of soda was $10. 🎶💃 Had a BLAST!😁
Like so many other places covered by Recollection Road, Pizza Hut was a major hangout for my family and friends through the 70's and 80's. Most of the locations I used to hang out at are gone though a few of the buildings now hold other restaurants, including pizza joints. Even though I still occasionally stop at Pizza Hut it is typically when I am traveling for work in the US and UK.
At the age of 10, Pizza Hut was the first restaurant pizza I ate. I didn't know pizzas were round until then, since all the pizzas my parents made were rectangle.
@@dawng.8836 Actually I meant rectangular with toppings right up to the edge with zero exposed crust edge. I've not had it that way too often but loved it the few times I have.
It was the opposite for me. Rectangular pizza was brought to me. I simply could not understand why someone would do such a thing. If a couple of us kids got together we would have stomped on it and ran away. WT? Kinda sick joke is this📣
I'm just old enough to remember when going to Pizza Hut felt like something special. Whenever I see one of the few Pizza Huts where you can go in, I always want to go in and just relive that nostalgia for just a bit.
My parents rarely took us out to eat as a kid so going to Pizza Hut was an event and I remember it very fondly. Its strange the things you remember like the teen that left me quarters to play the horizontal PacMan game good memories!
I'm afraid they've cashed out almost all of their brand equity at this point. I haven't wanted to go to a Pizza Hut since they shut the old style restaurants. There are two where I live, and I don't even think they have a dining room. When I want pizza, it never even crosses my mind to call them.
I think if you can find some with black roofs, those are private owned / not corporate and still have the dining room and many other things that the originals had. Good luck finding one tho, I have one an hour away from me
Back in the late 70s my dad and brother remodeled most of the pizza huts on the Gold Coast in Florida by installing Tiffany lights over the tables and lattice walls to make booths. Their Pizza was really good back then, sure miss those red roofed sit down restaurants.
I remember one of these in Newport Ky. My mom would put our Xmas toys in layaway at Kmart,then we'd go across the street to Pizza Hut to have dinner. Great memories.
We had a Pizza Hut in one of the towns where I grew up. We (teenagers) would circle the Pizza Hut, drive two or three miles to a mom and pop drive in, circle it and cruise back to Pizza Hut.
YES!! Our "drag" went from Pizza Hut out to Mc Donalds and back, with a pull-over half way at the Kroger's. I think it's 2 miles one way. I live here, again, and kids don't do this, anymore. It's really sad. We had nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday night. Kids now sit at home and tic tock, or whatever.
@@OhJodi69 some teenagers don't drive automobiles. Also a lot of places you can't loiter and hang out or drag strip due to regulations and noise ordinance. Also in the '80s and '90s and 2000s the US government was cracking down on gang warfare and drug use and teenage pregnancies.
I remember them serving Stroh's beer in pitchers and I couldn't wait until I was old enough to order some. Anyone who ate there remembers those red cups and the crushed ice. Man, I wonder if they still have those recipes someplace.
Pizza Hut was the place to go late at night on a Saturday. They were open until 1am so you could go there and get a baked sandwich or a pizza with friends and party on. I didn't know I would end up working for this company for 20 years. I worked may places and developed a lot of managers who became successful themselves. I also worked at the National Training level in the 1980s. Travel and life in hotels gets old after a while, but I learned a lot.
My parents took me to a very much a Pizza Hut location like this for my 8th grade graduation in 2006. Now is a overgrown graffiti husk that almost demands to be torn down. Hard to see memories become eyesores....
In 1973 -1974, while in high school, I worked at the Pizza Hut Test Hut in Wichita Kansas on North Woodlawn. I made lunch for Frank and Dan several times weekly. I also helped nail down the finalized recipe for Cavatini Supreme. Pizza Hut pizza and pasta was fantastic in those days! Our Hut was the first Hut to have a circular fireplace in the middle of the dining room.
I love pizza Hut. Pizza was special back then.. Delivery destroyed the spacial part of the equation in my opinion.. When I was a kid I had to go and get my own pizza.. We didn't have delivery..
@@Luke-zx4nx plus yer pizzas on the way to cheese coldening up and setting by the time they get to yer house….I pick my own up too…call, wait 12 mins,leave. It’s just coming out, back home in 4 mins and it’s perfect…. Delivery will turn a 12$ pizza into 20$ with tip and delivery charge.
I still love Pizza Hut although the pizza isnt the same. When i was a kid in the 70's, my family preferred Shakey's pizza(or Pizza Inn) until all the Memphis Shakey's closed down in the mid-80's. I didnt start going to pizza hut on my own until the late 80's.
Elwin i’m so jealous you’re from Memphis you might not have Shakey‘s anymore but you do have the rendezvous and Corkys LOL every time I would travel through or visit that was the first place I want to Corkys or rendezvous and then my buddy took me to the famous fried chicken place I think it’s off Poplar? Man now I’m craving a Corkys pulled pork sandwichOr walking down into rendezvous and getting that smell!! Oh yeah and years ago we would drive eight hours down to go to Memphis in May!
@@larryj3164 Rendevous and Corky's are still around my friend. Of course covid ruined at lot of things here. Unfortunately, we didnt have the Memphis in May in 2020 and probably wont do it this yr. Havent been to Corky's in a while....i miss my favorite meal(s). Either a slab of wet ribs w/rolls or BBQ Nachos(xtra meat and bbq sauce, no peppers).😋✌🏾
elwin38 Elwin Omg You are making my mouth water just reading this!! I love the wet ribs also!! Yes Covid you are right I assume the restaurants are closed but you can get everything take out?? I hope so!!! Thanks for sending me a message back! I never had the nachos but when all this is over if I’m in Memphis we’ll get together and have some ribs! We’ll do Corkys for lunch and rendezvoused for dinner LOL
The theme with all these videos is usually the same **** As soon as a major corporation like Pepsi buys you the end is near.. I remember when I was a kid sitting and Pizza Hut and the waitresses would bring up pictures of Pop. And pan pizzas using pliers..
My grandmother took in a foreign exchange student from Brazil back in the early 90s. When we picked him up at the airport the first place we went to eat was Pizza Hut. He didn't know what pizza was and had never heard of it but he enjoyed it only with mayonnaise. 🤣
Okaaaaay- there’s just has been massive migration of Italians to Brazil over her decades and there’s are over 20 million of Italian descent living there - I’m pretty sure pizza places are not that unknown in Brazil in the 90’s, they existed decades before. Pizza isn’t a US invention.
We'll never see dine-in Pizza Hut again. Everything time I hear about another small part of my life destroyed by big government's extreme overreaction to covid and their need to control everything, I die a little inside. I try to stay positive, but then I remember that without a doubt, the best years of my life are behind me anyway and there are certain freedoms and certain traditions we'll never get back. I love these videos and this channel but sometimes they make me incredibly sad too, knowing all the things we lost just in the last year or so and how none of it needed to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I understand change is inevitable sometimes for the better too, and I am accepting of that, but unnecessary destruction of good things, even little things like a pizza place, that's just sad.
Our Pizza Hut in Gladstone Missouri back in the 70s was built from scratch on a bare piece of ground so whoever said they were Mexican restaurants before Pizza Hut ... ours certainly wasn't ... That was the first Pizza Hut around at the time.. my dad would drop me and my girlfriends off there ... treated kids nice too.... $0.50 for three songs on the jukebox ... as little tween girls we would always ask the hostess if we could have one of those Corner tables in the back they were so cool.. ... We had a Pizza Hut before we got our first McDonald's ... my dad would give me a 20 we could get a large pizza and three soft drinks ... still have money to play the Jukebox and he would always say give the rest to the waitress for her tip... and they used to bring Little Bread baskets full of crackers and mini breadsticks ... absolutely free ... my girlfriends and I always thought we were really living! LOL
Pizza Hut Friday night back in the 80s was the best especially with the pan pizzas taking 30 minutes for them to prepare and they were actually super large in size very sad to see how small everything got these days
It is sad how far Pizza Hut has fallen. The 70-80's were great and even a little later until they dropped their lunch buffet. The clip starting @3:27 for about 25 seconds is everything that was great about them. The ones near us were so packed on Friday night and weekends it was crazy. Pizza coming out hot and fresh in the pan was awesome. Playing video games before or after was great too. The jukebox was always going and there typically was a wait to hear your songs. I loved the short lived priazzos they had too.
Yes, Godfather's Pizza is very much alive and kickin'.kicking. There's one in my city and after a quick check on Wikipedia there are currently over 400 locations.
There is a Gofathers Pizza in Lima Ohio I remeber eating at when I was going to school at UNOH in the mid 1990's It was my first and only expeirence with their food, was pretty decent if I remeber correctly
I used to eat Godfathers pizza all the time in the late 80's when i was in the Navy stationed in San Diego, CA. Godfathers used to have a mobile van that would come on base and drive around from pier to pier. I used to buy the sausage and pepperoni personal pizzas for $3 bucks each(this was back in 1988-89).
I grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana. We loved our Pizza Hut so much we had the busiest franchises in America. So much so, it built the “Pizza Hut Mansion.” Constructed by Dick Freeland franchise owner. Today it’s worth over 30 million. Google it. It’s beautiful. 👍🏼
To this day going to a Pizza Hut in Fort Wayne is like using a time machine. I make a point to eat there every time I’m back in town and it’s the same pizza and the same ambiance I grew up with.
Growing up in the 70s & 80s, going to Pizza Hut for dinner was a HUGE deal. It was always packed, the jukebox always rocking, and the tabletop Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man always had long waits. In the spring/summer, local softball teams would go there for post-game pizza & beer. I always felt so grown up there when we went there for dinner.
Oh yes. You hit the nail right on the head. Used to LOVE to play Ms. Pac-Man on that table-top machine.
Nothing made me happier on the late 70s and early 80s than my dad telling me we were going to Pizza Hut on Friday night! School days seem so long back then waiting for that. I miss those times. 2021 sucks.
I AGREE. Good ole days.
Amen
@Veronica A. Our town had both. Pizza Inn was pretty bland, but it was a few dollars cheaper than Pizza Hut & within walking distance. So, Pizza Inn it was, & only for birthdays.
@@sunshine3914 In my city(Memphis), we had both as well. Pizza Inn was cheaper. From the late 70's til the mid 80's, My family would go to either Pizza Inn or Shakey's. When all the Shakey's closed down in my city(mid 80's), that's when i started going to Pizza Hut. By that time, i was 16-17 and working(summer jobs). On payday and right after, there was a small Pizza Hut downtown and i used to buy the pan pizzas(they were $1.99-2.99 back then)or with a coupon, buy 1 get 1 free.
Nothing sucks it what you make of it
I remember as a kid in the late 70's, spending the whole day at Six Flags with my family then heading hm and stopping at Pizza Hut....still remember the smell and the excitement when our Pizza came to the table!!!! I'm 54 yrs old now...what great day's those were....
Oh man, I remember book it! Also, the arcade game, salad bar, the colored glass lamps, juke box.....good memories!
I had one of those colored glass lamp covers as a kid with the Pizza Hut logo on it
Me too. I miss the old pizza hut.
Yes book it.
We drove 30 miles with our daughters. We had a wonderful time.
"Book It" is still a "thing".
I used to love the smell of pizza hut in the 70s-80s. You knew you were getting a good dinner that night and they always had good video games.
The smell as you went up to the door. . Then opening it! You knew you were in for a good night!! So much fun!!
@Gattifan
Pizza hut was good but
Mr. Gattis Pizzawas better 👍🍕
Seemed somewhere in the 90s it was not as good.
It smelled better didn't it....
You don’t like the broken mobile pay, the doughy uncooked crust, the sprayed on cheese, and small cubbyhole style restaurant designs??
I miss those red-roof'ed pizza huts so much. Everything about this place reminds me of better times.
America really changed in the 90s...I miss old America
@@Sungodv I think the events of 9/11/2001 heralded the beginning of the end. Everything (related or not) seemed to go south from there...
@@0blivioniox864 I think many have forgotten 9/11. America's demographics really started to change @ the end of Bush the elder...and the years 2021 - 2024 may just be the end.
We had one close down about 10 years ago. The building is still there empty. It was an eat in with buffet option or pizza or delivery. The new place sucks. It's in a strip mall. No eat in.
Ditto
Ah!!! The memories of Friday nites being at Pizza Hut...waiting to be seated by the host/hostess...sounds coming from the jukebox...the sights & smell of hot pizzas coming from the oven...playing space invaders while waiting for your to go order at the take-out area! Just loved the good 'ol days!!! LOL
The Pizza Hut where I grew up had a jukebox too. I had forgotten about it. I would get a quarter and spend at least 10 minutes deciding which song to choose.
Can remember asking my kids “do you want to go to Pizza Hut?” and they hurriedly ran to the car.
My pizza huts changed. :( Its like biting dust.
Space invaders
What's your high score 👽
That describes my Friday nights growing up in Florida.. loved the thin and crispy pizza, personal pan and salad bar
Pizza Hut was THE place in the 70s and 80s...loved that place...Great times Great food....
It was our honeymoon dinner place the evening we married in the mid seventies
Wait wait don't forget Shakey's! 🍕🍺
They but they closed the Pizza Hut near me!
@@delorestaylor8114 You did NOT have your honeymoon dinner at Pizza Hut. Didn't exactly set the world on fire did you?
Loved when they would bring your fresh pan pizza out in the skillet that was like 8000 degrees and still sizzling.
Nothing like sitting down with an ice clod pitcher of beer and a hot pizza. I miss those days.
And don't forget the fame of " Space Balls" the villain Pizza the Hut, remember John Candy's character saying " Hurray !!, Pizza kicked the bucket !!" at the news of his death.
They stopped selling pitchers of beer here in Hawaii after dui killed 6 people from head on collision
And what about a CIGARETTE along with pizza and beer?
Ice clod beer is always better than wram beer.
@@Soxruleyanksdrool
I agree wram beer sucks.
Except on Saturday mornings at 2 in the afternoon when you finish that can of Budweiser you were drinking when you passed out last night / earlier this morning.
Pizza Hut after the high school football game from '81-'85. Absolute blast!
@Del Jimmy don’t remember, long time ago.
Amen.
We’d go in our high school marching band uniforms, and we’d get a discount out of appreciation.
In the corners parts of the Pizza Huts, there were little nooks for dating couples, and at the Pizza hut I worked at in Wichita we served pitchers of beer as well.
Yes! I just posted about the dating corner windows, a few messages above this one, LOL
Yes. I remember the pitchers of beer.
It was still like that in Australia until the mid to late 90s!
O yeah, a little hanky panky
Watching all these videos makes me SO nostalgic for times gone by …. Oh how I wish we could go back if only for a few days and experience the 70-80s again! And wow those prices are amazing! 😊
I can feel that red cup in my hand. Just a little grease on my fingers reaching for that red, slightly textured cup
I still drink out of those red cups. Bought some on amazon because of the Pizza Hut nostalgia.
I've got one too. We'll I'm not sure if it's an actual Pizza Hut cup, but it's the same thing, I call it the Pizza Hut cup.
The best job I ever had! I miss the people that I worked with, together we were a well oiled machine.
Olive oiled.
I also loved working at Pizza Hut.
I used to be the manager at Pizza Hut for 3 years. I got promoted my first year there at 19.
I currently feel that way but the customers definitely don’t share those sentiments at my location
I worked there in my mid teens (early 80s). Great co workers. The food was great then.....
When I was a kid, in the eighties, my mom was manager at a Pizza Hut. I remember her coming home from work and seeing her carrying pizza boxes from the car for dinner. I would do my happy dance every time lol. I even had my birthday party there one year. It's definitely not the same now, but we still order pizza hut from time to time. Miss those old days tremendously though
Where did you grew up?
@@ceooflonelinessinc.267 Portsmouth VA.. You?
Me too, it's a shame those lifetimes are over and they are never coming back.
Kids would have birthday parties in pizza hut, awesome memories that I won't forget.
We used to go to Pizza Hut regularly in the 1970's and they we excellent. I always remember those red soda cups they used but I also remember pizza was considerably more expensive back then. It wasn't until years later when there was stiff competition around that pizza prices seriously dropped. I really miss this old way of life. We didn't have the technology we have today but life was so much better.
Yep that started here in Michigan with little Caesar’s and their pizza pizza. 2 medium 1 topping for 8.99 that was in a long bagged package….
I really enjoy these Recollection Road trips.
The nostalgia keeps me grounded.
Oh man this takes me back to a much happier and simpler time in my life! I remember back in those days, getting the family together on the weekend, going to dine out at Pizza Hut was an event! Those were such fun times. 🤗
When I was in high school in the late 1980s, you were super cool if you had wheels and could go to the Pizza Hut and get a personal pan pizza for lunch. If you were fast, you would actually have time to sit and eat it at the Pizza Hut, and not have to grab it and race back to school. Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane!
LOLOL!!! I remember one of the PIZZA HUT commercials in the late 70's and the jingle was: THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS AT PIZZA HUT, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS UNDER OUR ROOF!!!🎶🎶✌🏾😁
Your age has been revealed. Turn in your Bell Bottoms and bushy mustache and or big thick sideburns!
I just want to say thank you for providing great content. I have enjoyed all of the videos I have seen so far. I have plans to make it through all of your content. Be well. Best wishes.
The years when customers didn't have a smartphone, they would enjoy themselves with their families with delicious pizza. They would buy a newspaper that was outside of the pizza hut restaurant to read after they finished eating their pizza. It makes me cry because I want those times back today.
That
Is it just me, or did soda taste better in those plastic red cups?
Yes... I bought a set off Amazon recently very happy with them
It did for sure!
I don’t know about the cups but soda was good in glass this plastic crap today sucks
It sure did!
I’m so glad you said that because I always thought the same thing. I thought I was nuts!
A reminder of community that no longer exists. Some of my best memories are the nights with my mom dad and sister just eating pizza
Community is dead. Technology and replacing the original population of our nation, deliberately, so that everyone and their neighbor is an isolated individual with nothing in common, sometimes even basic language. It's a sad thing to see.
And when people in the media ponder why mass shootings and ghetto gun violence is so pervasive today they always blame the guns. No honest conversation about the decline of community and lack of connection and purpose ever occur.
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Liberals have been destroying our country’s values for years and will stop at nothing until times like these are a distant memory. America is fked.
@@sdfdf46 same goes with conservatives man it's not just liberals.
Bishopville South Carolina has one that has the original Red Roof and ( before C-19) used to offer salad and pizza buffet !!!!
It was always a treat to go there !!!!
I remember we had a Pizza Hut in Princeton , WV when I was a kid in the 70's. That pizza was as good as it gets. It was not cheap, but it was excellent. You picked up a slice of pizza and you had a ton of real cheese strings hanging down. They also had a good salad bar, oven baked meatball subs that were crazy good etc... This was also where I fell in love with Space Invaders as they had one of the table machines. Nowadays I only buy pizza from the Italian/ Greek mom and pops who still do it right. Fast food pizza is garbage now.
I live in Mercer Co. Loved the Pizza Hut in Princeton. I wish it was still open. The location they have now is pick-up or delivery. It's a hit and miss with that location, sometimes you get a great pizza and other times it's not fit to feed a dog. We rarely go to that one, but there is still a Pizza Hut restaurant in Hinton WV they usually have very good pizzas.
I agree. All the chains are garbage now and Pizza Hut pan pizza used to be so good.
Mom and Pop joints are the BEST, there is NO SUBSTITUTE, other great options too like veal parm
I worked for them in 1984 and 1985 good place and fun.
I actually got myself detention on purpose in my senior year of high school when I treated a group of friends to pizza before Christmas at the one across the street from the school in the shopping center! I cut a class to do it but it was so worth it!
Is there still detention?
They had a very good salad bar too. The creamy Italian dressing was very unique and you just can't find it today.
They let customers get their salad at the salad bar in those years.
In the mid 80s, I remember there being a 15-20 minute wait on weekends for a table at the local Pizza Hut in my town. This was in the days when the pan pizza had a crisp, buttery crust and the waitress would serve everyone their first piece and first glass of soda if you got a pitcher.
Pizza Hut 1970's era sounds so good right now!
I don’t understand how such a great series of history only has 52,000 subscribers. They put a lot of work into these and it brings back good memories. Thank you
It was in 1979, and I was living in Detroit, Michigan and I was working at Hudson's Eastland. One day after work, I stopped at the Pizza Hut located on East 8 Mile Road and Crusade on the Detroit City Limits. I had a pizza,and a beer. I remember when Pizza Hut used to sell beer and wine.
The East 8 Mile Road and Crusade Pizza Hut had been closed permanently and to this very day the Pizza Hut on East 8 Mile Road and Crusade is boarded up and abandoned for a very long time.
Picture it. Late 1970s, I was fresh out of the Navy, and getting ready to start my freshman year at GA University. Took a job at the local Pizza Hut, and WOW. So many adventures with the guys who worked there. Manager Dave was a pot-head and took ludes like they were going to be outlawed (guess he saw that coming). He would stand with his staff under the fan and pass the joint. We worked so many shifts with our hair blown back--but hey, we got big tips so we were doing something right. The Assist. Manager, Liceanne became my best friend and we took a two bedroom house together to save on expenses. The misadventures we all shared. As Chic says in their hit single--Those were The Good TImes.
Back when we could smoke a joint and still churn out a hard days work. Now the young have two speeds, slow and stop.
@@ritaroad hahahahahaha.... slow and stop.... hahahahahahahaha
Back in my day
I'm so angry that I missed quaaludes by about a decade. I hear so much about them. Well the good stuff, not the Cosby stuff.
I have enjoyed all your videos, it brings so many great memories of places that no longer are around!
Nearly all of the Pizza Huts in my area have abandoned their classic “red roof” locations and relocated to newer, much smaller buildings with drive-thru/take-out only operations.
The Book-it program was dynamite! My daughter had absolutely no interest in reading until that program, but became a voracious reader as a result of those free pizzas.
That was awesome. Those personal pan pizzas were delicious.
How exactly did it work? She would just turn in a paper that listed all of the books she read or something?
@@sabrina.natalie The teacher would set the number of books that she needed to read in each month, and when they were all read she would receive the coupon for a personal pan pizza - the teacher determined the books were read by asking her questions about each one.
@@bonniewills2814 - Oh okay, gotcha. That makes sense. Thank you so much for taking a moment to respond. I appreciate it! 🤍
I am a kinder teacher and the program is alive and well. I used it last year during at home learning.
I remember the movie “The Land Before Time” had a huge Pizza Hut partnership in the 80s and I went to many a birthday at Pizza Hut back then. I remember the salad bar, the hostess seating, arcade games, the rockin music and that delicious pizza that had the cheese trailing all the way from your mouth to the pie! That all ended in the 90s, and now Pizza Hut is just a mall or train station takeout afterthought.
Makes me sad to remember the happy times eating there with my parents, sisters and grandma. My sister did the book it thing and was so proud.
I couldn't agree more with your video description. Back in the 1970's-1980's my Mom and Grandma would go grocery shopping and afterward we would head to McDonald's when we were around the ages of 6 and 7. Shortly thereafter we started going to Pizza Hut and never went back to McDonald's. I always liked the setting inside the Pizza Hut restaurants. The booths with checkered table cloths, red glasses, overhead lighting, the brick walls, jukebox and the one we would go to had a sit down Pac-Man arcade game. My brother and I played that until our food came to our table. Great times. Their pan pizzas were the best, thick dough lots of pepperoni and cheese, nothing beat it.
Another fine example of how giant corporations ruin great things.
Pepsico....the destroyer of great food chains. Everything they buy gets squeezed and turned to crap.
Wall Street, people don't like to criticize because their 401k's tied to it
@@jamescady723 kfc Australia still good thought when it's cooked properly
I remember going to Pizza hut for the first time in the early 90's and just remember it was so delicious. It definitely doesn't tast the same anymore.
We live in a capitalist society where in order to maximize profits one must sell the lowest quality product for the highest possible price while paying the workers the lowest wages you can get away with.
Definitely remember the Pizza tasting different back in the day before they went all cheapskate on the ingredients.
1982-92, I switched back and forth, working at Hut and Inn, corporate and franchises. There's nothing quite like the dine-in Pizza business, out of all of the food service models out there. It was my transition vocation, from high school into bill paying adulthood. To this day, I still know, or occasionally run into friends I made in those jobs. It is a very particular alumni.
When I was a kid in the 80s, Pizza Hut was everywhere! Going there was a treat, but then they went cheap & nasty in the early 2000s and are now just a delivery service and not popular at all. At least thats the story in Australia.
Great video again as always!
I loved the all you can eat Pizza Hut here in Melbourne Australia. We had one in the city that had all you can eat salad bar, pasta as well as pizza.
Early 70s thin crispy crust was heaven
The best, cracker like. I could eat an entire large because the of thin crust!
Hell yeah!
Still my favorite thin supreme
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's buildings were so unique. Even after several incarnations of different business occupying the ones that had closed, they still remain Pizza Hut and Taco Bell icons.
For some reason Pizza Hut seemed to taste way better in the 80s and 90s than it does now.
It was definitely much better then.
I remember Pizza Hut still served beer there back when I was in high school in the early to mid 80s. Our senior AP Physics teacher took the class to lunch as a reward for doing so well and I recall on of my fellow students that was 19 (Drinking age in Texas was 19 until 1986) ordered a beer with his lunch. It was a different experience eating in the full service Pizza Hut with your friends than having it out of the cardboard "to go" box on the sofa in front of the TV.
Sometimes my mom and I would go to Pizza Hut.She would order a large pizza supreme.She would eat two or three slices and I would end up eating almost all the rest of it.
Yeah, its time we have a little talk about that.
7:21 OMG, classic decor takes me back.
I remember when our family went to PizzaHut after Sunday Church..
Pizza Hut was the shizzz-nit back in the 80’s , my children find that hard to believe, but back when I was a kid, they put a lot of tender loving care into their products, and you could actually dine in.
I swear when I seen the dining room and the arcade game...I could smell it..It’s some thing buried way back in my mind...Boy what a different time
LOVED Pizza Hut from 1973.... to.... oh I don’t remember the last time I went to Pizza Hut on Peace St, Raleigh, NC. Still do take out/delivery from Hillsborough Street though. Loved the salad bar, and that thin pepperoni pizza, at the sit down tables though. And there was the Western Blvd location as well. Ah, the memories.
great vid. i love all the old pictures. they freeze time a tell a story. the fashion, hairdos, cars and overall feel of a peaceful time. something to get to and not something forgotten and left behind.😌✌
I remember, living in a group home in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a kid and teenager, going to Pizza Hut was everything! We would always get this family meal deal (which actual name escapes me ATM), that came with two or three large pizzas, drinks, and free trips to the salad bar. It was something that I would always look forward to when I was younger. So sad that all the dine-in Pizza Huts are all gone. Those places were my childhood and teenage years. 😰😰😨😨🍕🍕
I'm so glad you have some great memories :-) Hugs to you!
ATM also stands for ass-to-mouth just so you're aware ...
@@giuseppinavitale4284 That's a #7 on your menu, I presume
@@giuseppinavitale4284 WTH??? 😂 Why you ruining the man’s memory with that? 😂
@@giuseppinavitale4284 ATM is automatic teller machine 🏧
Pizza Hut was great when I was a kid back in the 70's & 80's. They even sponsored school field trips where we got to go the restaurant to see how pizza was made and then make our own!
Where I come from we had Me-n-Ed's Pizza Parlor, a go-to place on a date in high school, plus they had live music. After 63 years they're still open for business in California.
I live a 5-minute walk from a Me-N-Ed's. I think all their locations are here in the San Joaquin Valley. It's very much a regional chain.
@@ilovegoodsax Lucky you. The one we frequented is in Lakewood, next to Long Beach, and it’s still open after all these years. Amazing.
@@photonotavailable7936 I had no idea Me-N-Ed's was that far down south! I live in the Fresno/Clovis area where there are something like 20 restaurants.
@@ilovegoodsax Hope they all remain open. Sending positive thoughts. The Pizza Chronicles: I worked briefly for minimum wage at Straw Hat Pizza Palace in south Sacramento when I was in college. Not one of my favorite jobs, but I gladly ate the free food. That location is long gone. Now known as Straw Hat Pizza, they’re still open with nearly 30 locations in California. Also in the ‘70s when I was still was in college, but had some discretionary income, I use to go on dates to Pietro’s in Vacaville. Excellent pizza. They’re still open. In the ‘90s and 2000s we frequently ordered to-go or to-be-delivered at Steve’s Pizza in Fair Oaks. Delicious pizza and salad. They’re still around with six locations in the greater Sacramento area including Davis. Nowadays when I order pizza it’s just a slice at Whole Foods.
@@photonotavailable7936My very first slice of pizza was at a Straw Hat! When it was at its best, Straw Hat was Pizza Hut's strongest rival and like Pizza Hut, they were all over the place and then disappeared. A Straw Hat franchise opened in Clovis about a year ago. I've brought one home but sadly, it didn't taste as good as I remembered.☹ I'll have to remember Steve's Pizza (post pandemic). I travel to Sacramento for work several times a year.
Have GREAT memories at Pizza Hut! In the 80s when my friend moved out to newer subdivision (on the edge of country...where there wasn't much to do..no malls ect.). Her mom would drop us off with $20 and the owner at 8pm would say "guys you ready to dance?" and we would move out the tables and chairs to clear a dance area, he would lower the price of songs to 25cents, have the disco ball going, and the special for pizza and a pitcher of soda was $10. 🎶💃 Had a BLAST!😁
Wow! That is a great story. What a nice manager, too.
Ahhh. Pizza and beer back in the 70's and even early 80's. I LOVED their pizza, the salad bar. Now it tastes like sh!t.
Yep, like shit and way expensive
I forgot about the salad bar in the middle of the floor lol
It tastes like shit because the dishes are washed in shit water and the food is made with filthy hands
Like so many other places covered by Recollection Road, Pizza Hut was a major hangout for my family and friends through the 70's and 80's. Most of the locations I used to hang out at are gone though a few of the buildings now hold other restaurants, including pizza joints. Even though I still occasionally stop at Pizza Hut it is typically when I am traveling for work in the US and UK.
At the age of 10, Pizza Hut was the first restaurant pizza I ate. I didn't know pizzas were round until then, since all the pizzas my parents made were rectangle.
Did you grow up with Detroit style pizza?
I thought that too
@@timmmahhhh if you mean all the toppings were under the cheese, then yes
@@dawng.8836 Actually I meant rectangular with toppings right up to the edge with zero exposed crust edge. I've not had it that way too often but loved it the few times I have.
It was the opposite for me.
Rectangular pizza was brought to me. I simply could not understand why someone would do such a thing. If a couple of us kids got together we would have stomped on it and ran away. WT? Kinda sick joke is this📣
I'm just old enough to remember when going to Pizza Hut felt like something special. Whenever I see one of the few Pizza Huts where you can go in, I always want to go in and just relive that nostalgia for just a bit.
I remember going to Pizza Hut in Liverpool. Probably around 1985/6. The pizza was served in a deep pan skillet and tasted really good.
My parents rarely took us out to eat as a kid so
going to Pizza Hut was an event and I remember it very fondly.
Its strange the things you remember like the teen that left
me quarters to play the horizontal PacMan game good memories!
You're right. It was a big deal to go out to eat as a kid. And everyone ate inside and hardly went to the drive thru.
I'm afraid they've cashed out almost all of their brand equity at this point. I haven't wanted to go to a Pizza Hut since they shut the old style restaurants. There are two where I live, and I don't even think they have a dining room. When I want pizza, it never even crosses my mind to call them.
Same ! I always go for the small businesses and those with the best ingredients. I’ll pay more because it’s truly worth it.
I think if you can find some with black roofs, those are private owned / not corporate and still have the dining room and many other things that the originals had. Good luck finding one tho, I have one an hour away from me
Breaks my heart. I miss those old school Pizza Hut.
Pizza hut is still my favorite
Memories I'll cherish for the rest of my life. At time when Pizza Hut was the place to go once a month when I was a kid. Team parties and birthdays.
Back in the late 70s my dad and brother remodeled most of the pizza huts on the Gold Coast in Florida by installing Tiffany lights over the tables and lattice walls to make booths. Their Pizza was really good back then, sure miss those red roofed sit down restaurants.
I remember one of these in Newport Ky. My mom would put our Xmas toys in layaway at Kmart,then we'd go across the street to Pizza Hut to have dinner. Great memories.
I love this!!!
“Layaway” I haven’t heard that in years!!!
I miss both K-Mart and Pizza Hut.
We had a Pizza Hut in one of the towns where I grew up. We (teenagers) would circle the Pizza Hut, drive two or three miles to a mom and pop drive in, circle it and cruise back to Pizza Hut.
YES!! Our "drag" went from Pizza Hut out to Mc Donalds and back, with a pull-over half way at the Kroger's. I think it's 2 miles one way. I live here, again, and kids don't do this, anymore. It's really sad. We had nothing better to do on a Friday or Saturday night. Kids now sit at home and tic tock, or whatever.
@@OhJodi69 +1000
@@OhJodi69 some teenagers don't drive automobiles. Also a lot of places you can't loiter and hang out or drag strip due to regulations and noise ordinance. Also in the '80s and '90s and 2000s the US government was cracking down on gang warfare and drug use and teenage pregnancies.
Pizza hut in 1983 was still fantastic but last year it just wasn't the same. Love this channel make more videos
In 1992 I ate at the Pizza Hut in Moscow, Russia....near Red Square. What a kick! The pizza's tasted exactly like home.
Wow what memories!,I Remember it was a classy place ,and my brother and sister both went there with dates after prom lol,they had the best pizza then
I remember them serving Stroh's beer in pitchers and I couldn't wait until I was old enough to order some. Anyone who ate there remembers those red cups and the crushed ice. Man, I wonder if they still have those recipes someplace.
I remember some of the old Pizza Pete signage still standing when I was a kid. The chain was outstanding, but they lost their way.
This channel is amazing, it's truly a walk down memory lane. Keep up the awesome content! 🇺🇲🤙
My mom worked there in the 80's, some of my best memories picking up mom with dad when she got off work.
Pizza Hut was the place to go late at night on a Saturday. They were open until 1am so you could go there and get a baked sandwich or a pizza with friends and party on. I didn't know I would end up working for this company for 20 years. I worked may places and developed a lot of managers who became successful themselves. I also worked at the National Training level in the 1980s. Travel and life in hotels gets old after a while, but I learned a lot.
Hope your at home now.....thanks
I always ate at the one in Venice on Lincoln Blvd Great times .
My parents took me to a very much a Pizza Hut location like this for my 8th grade graduation in 2006. Now is a overgrown graffiti husk that almost demands to be torn down. Hard to see memories become eyesores....
Amen to that!
This video popped up in my recommended! You got a lot of great old stuff on your channel 👍
What I wouldn’t give for a personal Supreme pan pizza from the 80’s! So good!
In 1973 -1974, while in high school, I worked at the Pizza Hut Test Hut in Wichita Kansas on North Woodlawn. I made lunch for Frank and Dan several times weekly. I also helped nail down the finalized recipe for Cavatini Supreme. Pizza Hut pizza and pasta was fantastic in those days! Our Hut was the first Hut to have a circular fireplace in the middle of the dining room.
The Cavatini was delicious. I was a waitress at Pizza Hut *commented above* and it's the only thing I ate there.
@@annettevillain4352 hell yeah, the cavatini with that amazing baked, melted cheese on top. Yum!
I love pizza Hut.
Pizza was special back then..
Delivery destroyed the spacial part of the equation in my opinion..
When I was a kid I had to go and get my own pizza..
We didn't have delivery..
I still do. Delivery is a rip off. I get carry out at the national chains and eat in at my local pizzerias
@@Luke-zx4nx plus yer pizzas on the way to cheese coldening up and setting by the time they get to yer house….I pick my own up too…call, wait 12 mins,leave. It’s just coming out, back home in 4 mins and it’s perfect…. Delivery will turn a 12$ pizza into 20$ with tip and delivery charge.
One fond childhood memory is of my mother taking us to Pizza Hut for dinner.
I still love Pizza Hut although the pizza isnt the same. When i was a kid in the 70's, my family preferred Shakey's pizza(or Pizza Inn) until all the Memphis Shakey's closed down in the mid-80's. I didnt start going to pizza hut on my own until the late 80's.
Elwin i’m so jealous you’re from Memphis you might not have Shakey‘s anymore but you do have the rendezvous and Corkys LOL every time I would travel through or visit that was the first place I want to Corkys or rendezvous and then my buddy took me to the famous fried chicken place I think it’s off Poplar? Man now I’m craving a Corkys pulled pork sandwichOr walking down into rendezvous and getting that smell!! Oh yeah and years ago we would drive eight hours down to go to Memphis in May!
@@larryj3164 Rendevous and Corky's are still around my friend. Of course covid ruined at lot of things here. Unfortunately, we didnt have the Memphis in May in 2020 and probably wont do it this yr. Havent been to Corky's in a while....i miss my favorite meal(s). Either a slab of wet ribs w/rolls or BBQ Nachos(xtra meat and bbq sauce, no peppers).😋✌🏾
elwin38 Elwin Omg You are making my mouth water just reading this!! I love the wet ribs also!! Yes Covid you are right I assume the restaurants are closed but you can get everything take out?? I hope so!!! Thanks for sending me a message back! I never had the nachos but when all this is over if I’m in Memphis we’ll get together and have some ribs! We’ll do Corkys for lunch and rendezvoused for dinner LOL
@@larryj3164 Cool. They do carry out and at Corky's you can go through the drive thru as well. Good luck.
elwin38 thanks buddy , take care
Back in the early 70's.We had a pizza hut and a friendly's right next to the high school.Skipped classes all the time to go to both restaurants.
The theme with all these videos is usually the same ****
As soon as a major corporation like Pepsi buys you the end is near..
I remember when I was a kid sitting and Pizza Hut and the waitresses would bring up pictures of Pop.
And pan pizzas using pliers..
This was good. Memories. I cried just like I did when I first had my first Pizza Hut pie. Thank you.
Retro dining ,we need it back
Still my favorite. Local hut still has the same essential feel from the 70s.
My grandmother took in a foreign exchange student from Brazil back in the early 90s. When we picked him up at the airport the first place we went to eat was Pizza Hut. He didn't know what pizza was and had never heard of it but he enjoyed it only with mayonnaise. 🤣
Okaaaaay- there’s just has been massive migration of Italians to Brazil over her decades and there’s are over 20 million of Italian descent living there - I’m pretty sure pizza places are not that unknown in Brazil in the 90’s, they existed decades before. Pizza isn’t a US invention.
@@xr6lad
Mikeys not lying, back off.
This is the best channel on YT.
We'll never see dine-in Pizza Hut again. Everything time I hear about another small part of my life destroyed by big government's extreme overreaction to covid and their need to control everything, I die a little inside. I try to stay positive, but then I remember that without a doubt, the best years of my life are behind me anyway and there are certain freedoms and certain traditions we'll never get back. I love these videos and this channel but sometimes they make me incredibly sad too, knowing all the things we lost just in the last year or so and how none of it needed to happen.
Exactly how I feel. I love the videos but they make me sad, too.
You summed it up perfectly. I find myself thinking about this often.
Don't get me wrong, I understand change is inevitable sometimes for the better too, and I am accepting of that, but unnecessary destruction of good things, even little things like a pizza place, that's just sad.
Our Pizza Hut in Gladstone Missouri back in the 70s was built from scratch on a bare piece of ground so whoever said they were Mexican restaurants before Pizza Hut ... ours certainly wasn't ... That was the first Pizza Hut around at the time.. my dad would drop me and my girlfriends off there ... treated kids nice too.... $0.50 for three songs on the jukebox ... as little tween girls we would always ask the hostess if we could have one of those Corner tables in the back they were so cool.. ... We had a Pizza Hut before we got our first McDonald's ... my dad would give me a 20 we could get a large pizza and three soft drinks ... still have money to play the Jukebox and he would always say give the rest to the waitress for her tip... and they used to bring Little Bread baskets full of crackers and mini breadsticks ... absolutely free ... my girlfriends and I always thought we were really living! LOL
Pizza Hut Friday night back in the 80s was the best especially with the pan pizzas taking 30 minutes for them to prepare and they were actually super large in size very sad to see how small everything got these days
It is sad how far Pizza Hut has fallen. The 70-80's were great and even a little later until they dropped their lunch buffet. The clip starting @3:27 for about 25 seconds is everything that was great about them. The ones near us were so packed on Friday night and weekends it was crazy. Pizza coming out hot and fresh in the pan was awesome. Playing video games before or after was great too. The jukebox was always going and there typically was a wait to hear your songs. I loved the short lived priazzos they had too.
Maybe do Godfather's Pizza? It was so popular when I was a kid and it's all but vanished. I miss it.
Yes, Godfather's Pizza is very much alive and kickin'.kicking. There's one in my city and after a quick check on Wikipedia there are currently over 400 locations.
There is a Gofathers Pizza in Lima Ohio I remeber eating at when I was going to school at UNOH in the mid 1990's
It was my first and only expeirence with their food, was pretty decent if I remeber correctly
I used to eat Godfathers pizza all the time in the late 80's when i was in the Navy stationed in San Diego, CA. Godfathers used to have a mobile van that would come on base and drive around from pier to pier. I used to buy the sausage and pepperoni personal pizzas for $3 bucks each(this was back in 1988-89).
I grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana. We loved our Pizza Hut so much we had the busiest franchises in America. So much so, it built the “Pizza Hut Mansion.” Constructed by Dick Freeland franchise owner. Today it’s worth over 30 million. Google it. It’s beautiful. 👍🏼
To this day going to a Pizza Hut in Fort Wayne is like using a time machine. I make a point to eat there every time I’m back in town and it’s the same pizza and the same ambiance I grew up with.