![]() It was probably built in the 1950s or 1960s. The first Foster's Freeze shown above is located in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles. The sign's neon was restored in 2019 for a movie shoot. I believe this location was built in 1949. This Foster's Freeze above features a repainted pole sign and a more modern sign above the original building. However, this sign is now missing the neon tubing. The ice cream portion of the cone was apparently plastic or glass and probably backlit originally. It features one of the early examples of the chain's signs. ![]() This Foster's Freeze location appears to be from the late 1940s or early 1950s. There would also have been a neon sign here originally. I believe the earliest buildings all had rounded corners like many of those shown below. However, this building is probably not the original. This Foster's Freeze might be located on the site of the first stand built in 1946. There was probably a neon pole sign previously. By 2017, the building was boarded up and the signs were gone. This Foster's Freeze featured a neon pole sign and sign panels which were evidently part of a rooftop sign like those shown above in Buellton, Menlo Park, and below in Brawley. In 2016, the building was still there but the signs were gone. In 2015, it was announced that this location would be closing and that the building would be demolished. When the pole sign was repainted, it eliminated the original details (see other signs below). It is set at an angle and partially hidden by a tree which makes it difficult to shoot. ![]() The rooftop sign is the same design as the one in Buellton above. I have not seen one of these porcelain enamel menu board signs anywhere else. Very few of these are still on display at operating locations now. The first sign shown in the top row above would have been installed on top of the roof at early locations like this one. I don't know where they were originally installed or if they came from the same location. These Foster's Freeze signs are located at Mendenhall's Museum of Gasoline Pumps & Petroliana. The company was officially named Foster's Old Fashion Freeze. The first location was built in Inglewood, CA. The company was founded by George Foster in 1946. (hit "refresh" to get the most recent version of this page click on photos for larger images)įoster's Freeze was the first soft serve ice cream chain in California. ![]()
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![]() But those meals were, for the most part, at old-fashioned restaurants that featured servers wheeling around carts with a variety of small plates for the choosing. During that time, we ate our share of dim sum. I settled on one of them – Dim Sum Mania – for our dinner spot.īefore moving to the suburbs, we lived in Philadelphia’s Chinatown for eight years. There are two dim sum-themed Chinese restaurants across the street from Trader Joe’s. ![]() While that selection includes a couple pretty good cheesesteak shops that I’ve already written about, I wanted something different and also figured I’d give my wife a break. It’s got a nice little downtown with a pretty good selection of restaurants that we’ve been sampling since moving from the city to Delco a decade ago. Media is the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. I never need to be asked something like that a second time. Sounds of a bustling kitchen whirled behind him.My wife said the magic words to me Sunday: “Would you like to go to Trader Joe’s tonight? You can pick a place for us to have dinner near there.” Reached by phone during the Tuesday lunch rush, Guo referred questions to his out-of-town attorney (who did not return phone calls), and told a reporter he didn’t have time to talk. There’s a hearing scheduled for Thursday this week in federal court.įor now, both Delco restaurants continue to operate normally, as do the two dim sum houses in Philadelphia. While seeking unspecified damages, the lawsuit also asks a federal judge to order and injunction to Guo from using either “Tom’s” or “Tom’s Dim Sum” in any restaurant he opens - in Media or elsewhere. Customers have already ordered from Guo’s dining room under the impression that it was the original Tom’s location two doors down, the suit claims. The lawsuit claims that “Tom’s Dim Sum,” despite just a few years in business, is a recognizable brand in the Philly-area food scene, and that Guo’s new venture is illegitimately siphoning their business. James Pearl, an attorney for the plaintiffs, did not return requests for comment Tuesday. “Despite any statements to the contrary made by Guo…at no time has Guo been a member, officer or partner of ,” the suit reads. But the plaintiffs in the suit flatly deny Guo had any ownership stake. In an interview with Fox 29, Guo identified himself as a minority owner of Tom’s Dim Sum Media. (the business entity that owns Tom’s on 11th), and Dim Sum House, Inc (the owner of Tom’s in Media). The plaintiffs in the case are Philly Dim Sum Garden, Inc. The only problem? He had sold those rights to Song and Da, according to court records, and now, Chinatown had not one but two Dim Sum Gardens, just blocks apart. Together, they ran the shop until 2013, when Song convinced her mother to expand to brighter, more modern trappings at the current Race Street location.Īfter the transition, Guo swept back into the original 11th Street location with new business partners and began operating the spot as Dim Sum Garden again, according to the Inquirer. ![]() In 2008, a year after opening, Guo sold his stake in the 11th Street hideout to Dajuan “Sally” Song and her mother, Shizhou Da. This is not the Dim Sum Garden you may now know on Race Street - at least not in spirit. ![]() Guo was working in the kitchen, one of the recipe keepers and a business partner in the fledgling business. oQILwIgz6f- Craig LaBan FebruBranding the dumplingīack in 2007, a little hole in the wall called Dim Sum Garden opened up its cramped storefront next to an exhaust-spewing bus station under the tunnel at 11th and Arch Streets. Look who’s serving xiao long bao (soup □) in N’East Philly? Visited the new ShangHai Dim Sum and found Tom Guo, of Tom’s Dim Sum (& original Dim Sum Garden fame) presiding over the simple dining room of the former pizza shop at 6439 Castor Ave. “You do everything, then people use your name, then they kick you out,” Guo told the TV station. The veteran dough-pincher recently told Fox 29 that his former partners used his recipes and his reputation to build their business, and then forced him out. They claim Guo was never a partner in the busy dumpling house, and owned no rights to the biz name - even if it’s his namesake and a brand he helped establish.īut that’s not not the way defendant Guo sees it. Eastern District Court, the owners of the original Tom’s Dim Sum Media allege their former associate opened the Mania version to deliberately mislead the public and “steal away” business from their well-established dining room. If the two-letter difference between Tom’s Dim Sum Media and Tom’s Dim Sum Mania sounds too close to be coincidental, rest assured it is anything but. Just two doors down on commercial strip sits Tom’s Dim Sum Media, an established offshoot of the original Tom’s Dim Sum on 11th Street in Center City, under the Convention Center tunnel. ![]() ![]() Starring: Shubhankar Atre, Amitabh Bachchan, Victor Banerjee, Dhaval Barbhaya To sum up with the refrain (Aladin, Aladin, kahan hai tera jinn) of the film: Aladin, Aladin, kahan hai tera sheen? Truly, a big let down from director Sujoy Ghosh who lost both his jhankar and his beats after ‘Home Delivery’ and ‘Aladin’, his films following a scintillating debut with ‘Jhankar Beats’.Watch Aladin 2009 Full Hindi Movie Free Online As for the dialogues, sample this: Dutt gleefully rubs the magical lamp and says `main dardi rub-a-rub karti'. So where did the visual effects supervisor - the core of a fantasy film - learn his pyrotechnics and whatever happened to Vishal-Shekhar, the currently in-form music duo who churn out one of their most forgettable music score in Aladin. In fact, the special effects of the film are so pathetic, they make you wince.like Mr Bachchan turning into a lion, Riteish mutating into a donkey and an inflated rubber doll, Dutt emasculating into a face in the mirror and leaping up to clench a comet. Enter Sanjay Dutt, with his ragtag army of jokers, giants, fire-eaters who fail to tickle your funny bone, nor do they shock and awe with their killing machine tactics. ![]() ![]() The plot gets more puzzling with the story tellers trying to connect the implausible occurrences on screen with the movement of a comet that promises to make anyone who touches its shadow indestructible. The rest is easy and quite unfunny, with Bachchan trying to play matchmaker and Dutt trying to play comet catcher.Ĭomet, did we say? Yes. He enters our hero's khayals (thoughts) through his ear and ferrets out his hidden passion for classmate, Jasmine. And believe it or not, when Aladin mumbles something about not believing in magic, the genie who call himself Genius, performs the dumbest act. This time, the rubbing actually has results: a not-so-funny Mr Bachchan apparates with his zestless monologues and mantras, urging Aladin to make his three wishes. The gift is actually a prank again, but ends up as the beginning of a new, charmed life for the proverbial loser after he is forced to rub the decrepit object. The jaadu works just once when Jasmine (Jacqueline), the college hottie presents a lamp to the oddball on his miserable birthday. Of course, the wimpy kid fails to create magic most of the time, ending up as the unfriendly neighbourhood's favourite punching bag. Saddled with a name like Aladin, orphaned kid Riteish Deshmukh spends most of his school and college days bearing the brunt of bullies who force him to rub lamps at odd junctures in order to produce the famed genie. Yes, it is the sets of the film alone, comprising a fictitious township called Khwaish, which evoke some interest. Debutant Jacqueline too fails to prove she's more than a pretty face, ending up as mere eye candy in a film that scores mostly in one department: the art direction (Sabu Cyril). Riteish, meanwhile, shuffles through the film with a hangdog expression, woozy and woolly-headed for most of his I'm-the-archetypal-loser act. If Amitabh suffers a bad hair day with his unbecoming wigs and is sartorially challenged throughout the film with his sequined jackets, red waistcoats and white sneakers, then Dutt ends up as a shabby blend of Heath Ledger's Joker and his own Khalnayak. In fact, for the two veterans, Amitabh and Sanjay Dutt, this might be one their most bizarre performances. Neither do the genie (Amitabh Bachchan) and the Ring Master (Sanjay Dutt) create magic with their over the top acts, nor does the Riteish-Jacqueline romance strike a chord. Review: Okay, so the film makers wanted to recreate the popular fairy tale as a modern day fantasy, replete with real life characters.īut truly, we fail to get the point because the film doesn't work at any level. Much to the discomfiture of the devilish Ring Master, Sanjay Dutt. ![]() He finds a magical lamp, rubs out its genie, Amitabh Bachchan, and manages to make the right moves, both in life and his love story. ![]() Story: College boy, Aladin falls in love with the campus hottie, Jasmine, but lacks the charisma to woo her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The later released ports for the Amiga and Atari ST have better graphics, full music and even a user-friendly mouse interface. While the ports for the Apple II and C64 both look the same and have the full music (hardware-permitting), the PC-port has CGA graphics and no music at all. The various ports of Ultima III are quite different. The graphics, especially in the dungeons, are now more detailed than previous Ultima games and is the first to feature music, for hardware that supports it. Inserting the cards, the machine explodes and Exodus is no more a threat to the land (its essence later appears in other worlds). Bypassing the Great Earth Serpent and then fighting their way through the minions of Exodus, they finally arrive at the core – the part of Exodus that is a computer. After recovering the Exotic Weapons and Exotic Armour, they make their final assault on the Isle of Fire. With the help of the Time Lord, the group is able to learn the secret of Exodus' vulnerability. Together, they travel through the land, solving the mysteries of Exodus and its fortress, before finding the Four Cards on the lost island of Ambrosia. This time however, the hero has three companions to survive against Exodus' hordes. The player returns as the Stranger for a third time to save the world from this new evil. Beginning a campaign of terror, an island arises from the sea and evil creatures and pirates begin to invade the land. Exodus, their offspring and creation, whose very nature is difficult to classify, wants vengeance for the destruction of its creators. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.Īfter the end of Mondain and Minax, the people of Sosaria are allowed to believe that the evil, and all its aftereffects, have been eliminated. To this end, any parts of the overhead view are blanked out, if the party should be unable to see them due to obstructions.įor details about character attributes in this game, see Character attributes in Ultima III. This is the first Ultima game to constrain the player's vision to line-of-sight. The world of Sosaria has become more complex, with the player now guiding a party of four. This is a turning point in the Ultima games – a big step from the hack-n-slash of the earlier installments. The story of the game is much more straight-forward, and more puzzle-solving is involved. Earlier ports by Starcraft in Japan had the map – for whatever reason – included as a jigsaw puzzle, besides a regular cloth map.Compared to Ultima II, the complexity and seriousness of the game is clearly much more developed. ![]() Japanese releases of Ultima III from Pony Canyon contained a different version of the cloth map which removed the city images from the sides of the map, but clearly placed all cities and dungeons on the map of Sosaria. Paper maps were also included in the Ultima Trilogy I and the Ultima I‑VI Series, all of them in color except for the Korean edition. A special release of the Atari 800- and C64-ports by US Gold in the UK also only had a paper map, this one being in grayscale only. The later versions (~1986) are on a more synthetic cloth and the color is very much yellow-shifted, making the map much harder to read.Ī rare French edition of the Apple II original by publisher Ediciel included a paper map, on which the colors were shifted, creating a rather psychedelic image. The original version of the map is printed on a rather thick cloth and also has vibrant colors. The map actually has two different versions. It was seriously suggested in the book to mark these things with pins! The map actually was drawn by Richard Garriott's mother. Thus the map only shows the pure landscape without these landmarks, although the names of cities and castles are listed in runic at the sides of the map. However, as it is explained in The Book of Play, the cartographer was killed before he could add the locations of the cities, dungeons and moongates to the map. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not sure how to place it, but keep walking in that direction." " There's something unusually warm about you." I sense a speck of good karma about you, but I could be mistaken."." Excessive health and happiness gush from your very being! You are a Godsend!!"." You are overflowing with a blessing of stupendous prosperity!!"." That loathsome is a complete and total abomination to magic!"." dabbles in things that shouldn't be disturbed, and I don't like that."." and I share a very long history, I like the mutual wisdom."." ? We have a princess? Fascinating, she seems nice."." I love that there's a lot to talk about with." The abominations in the Corruption/Crimson/Dungeon disturb me, like the darkest form of magic.". ![]()
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