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Has anyone eaten at the Original Tommy's Hamburgers , in Los Angeles?
Memory! ^

Posted on 02/19/2012 3:22:10 PM PST by narses

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To: max americana

:)


41 posted on 02/19/2012 4:53:21 PM PST by narses
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To: dalereed

Same burgers, then and now.


42 posted on 02/19/2012 4:54:47 PM PST by narses
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To: narses

Ooh, yeeesss!! Corner of Beverly & Vigil. Great memories.


43 posted on 02/19/2012 5:00:33 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: narses

I just realized that I’ve never seen it in daylight !!


44 posted on 02/19/2012 5:02:31 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Rampart - not Virgil. But yes! Taco Bell kitty corner now, used to be Der Wienerscnitzel way back when.


45 posted on 02/19/2012 5:03:50 PM PST by narses
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To: narses

Isn’t Virgil in there somewhere?


46 posted on 02/19/2012 5:04:55 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: null and void

My fiancee’ is originally from LA county. He says Tommy’s is great.


47 posted on 02/19/2012 5:05:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: kabumpo

That is west of there. A car wash, iirc.


48 posted on 02/19/2012 5:08:16 PM PST by narses
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To: narses
Sure lots of times....but i prefer the chili cheese frys
49 posted on 02/19/2012 5:10:47 PM PST by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: kabumpo

ROTFLMAO!


50 posted on 02/19/2012 5:11:50 PM PST by narses
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To: Mark

I also recommend Burrito King on the corner of Sunset & Alvarado.


51 posted on 02/19/2012 5:13:48 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: narses

My husband grew up eating food from this particular Tommy’s. There’s a Tommy’s in Simi Valley on Madera Rd., and DH said it’s the “real deal” — not one of the phony joints with a “Tommy’s” name slapped on it. My fave was a tamale in a paper container, slathered with chili and cheese. We moved away in 2010, and I do miss Tommy’s!


52 posted on 02/19/2012 5:16:07 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Don't blame me; I voted for the American.)
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To: dsrtsage

I always went late at night.


53 posted on 02/19/2012 5:17:23 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: narses

Being SO CAL GAL HELL YEAH


54 posted on 02/19/2012 5:17:40 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: dsrtsage; narses; OregonRancher
Back in the late '60s when I attended USC, 2 a.m. would find lots of SC and UCLA students there chowing down, since it was sorta midway between. It was crowded because there was only the one line--they added the eastern kitchen later.

I took my 70-year-old grandmother and 82-year-old great uncle, and they both loved it!

Ol' Tommy used to hire ex-cons. Quite an atmosphere.

55 posted on 02/19/2012 5:24:25 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: narses

The original, Beverly and Rampart. 2AM. Sigh.....

Yep, me too. Sigh........


56 posted on 02/19/2012 5:41:10 PM PST by PinkChampagneonIce
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To: narses

Many, many, many times while a student at UCLA. There was a “Son of Tommy’s” right down the street from my apartment, but nothing ever matched the Original Tommy’s.


57 posted on 02/19/2012 5:42:59 PM PST by Mrs.Liberty (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot.)
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To: narses

I now live in rural Oklahoma. It is impossible for me to adequately describe to anyone from my new environs the special ambiance in the original Tommy’s tiny parking lot around 3 AM on a Friday or Saturday night. Holding the burger over the little wooden shelves (I assume they are still there, but I have not been there since about 2000).

Ah, gooooooood times. For those who don’t know, the Rampart area is not a particularly good one. And the later it gets the more interesting it gets. I would open the moon roof on my 1984 Toyota Celica, crank up the mariachi music, and no one ever tried to mess with my white-girl a**!
The hardest part was getting home before the chili kicked in......


58 posted on 02/19/2012 5:50:09 PM PST by PinkChampagneonIce
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To: SkyDancer

YES and they are still great! I remember having one right after seeing the Exorcist—many moons ago. The chili is outstanding.


59 posted on 02/19/2012 6:05:09 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: narses

So Tommy didn’t have to always eat his own food he used to meet us a couple of times a month for breakfast at Astros at Glendale and Rowena


60 posted on 02/19/2012 6:08:42 PM PST by dalereed
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