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22. It was the sort of restaurant that more or less typified the mid 1980s:

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:40 PM

12 hrs ago

... a "fusion cuisine" place with less than 10 tables, and a menu written on a chalk board. It was gone within a year.

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Where did you go for you first date with your SO? We went to Red Lobster. And you? [View all] debm55 22 hrs ago OP

Mariner's Inn cloudbase 22 hrs ago #1

Thank you cloudbase. I am sure it was better than Red Lobster. debm55 22 hrs ago #2

Hey, I used to take my future wife to restaurants in Northport. NNadir 17 hrs ago #11

Small world. cloudbase 17 hrs ago #13

Thank you so much! cloudbase 1 hr ago #24

We went to an art fair and... radical noodle 22 hrs ago #3

Sounds very nice. Thank you very much, radical noodle. debm55 22 hrs ago #4

We went to a party that some mutual friends were livetohike 22 hrs ago #5

It's hard to say since we were friends before we were lovers. NNadir 21 hrs ago #7

He came over to my apartment, and we talked until 3 am Mad_Dem_X 21 hrs ago #8

We didn't know what we were in for! LOL Mad_Dem_X 17 hrs ago #12

Now you know. Sit in the back. debm55 14 hrs ago #20

Met for lunch Mz Pip 16 hrs ago #14

Thank you very much for sharing with us, Mz and Mr, Pip debm55 14 hrs ago #19

To A Movie, Then To The Disco ProfessorGAC 15 hrs ago #15

Mr Lucky's in Phoenix Mosby 15 hrs ago #16

HAHAHAHHAHAHa. Thank you very much, Mosby for sharing. debm55 14 hrs ago #17

To see Star Wars. emulatorloo 13 hrs ago #21

It was the sort of restaurant that more or less typified the mid 1980s: surrealAmerican 12 hrs ago #22

I had a friend who owned many acres in western North Carolina. OldBaldy1701E 46 min ago #25

A restaurant called The Broom Factory exboyfil 19 min ago #26