Gino entertained us by the thousands when he first opened his hamburger chain with the road signs below, which were outlined in neon at night. Hilarity ensued! People would drive by them at night just to have another snort and giggle!
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Football when pride & the game mattered!
US Army machine gunner in WWII Battle of the Bulge. Nice.
Gino’s in Dundalk near Ft Holabird! What a find at that time!!
RIP.
Damn good player and his burgers were good too.
RIP
RIP Gino. your Baltimore Colts will always epitomize pro-football for me.
Worked at Gino’s #11 near Dundalk ‘62-’64. When he came in the door once he blotted out the light he was so large.
Gino entertained us by the thousands when he first opened his hamburger chain with the road signs below, which were outlined in neon at night. Hilarity ensued! People would drive by them at night just to have another snort and giggle!
My city didn’t have a team in the 50’s so as a youngster I adopted the Colts. Unitas, Berry, Marchetti, lipscomb, Donavan, Ameche, Moore and Thurston. All except Moore and Berry are gone now so I guess WR’s are a hardy lot.
I remember his “interviews” for NFL films.
His personality was bigger than life.
The end of the Gino’s fast food gig was when rodents were discovered in one or more of the stores. Probably in Baltimore where the rats with both four and two legs outnumber the humans hugely.