Brannigans

As I drive around town, I notice new businesses and remember the old ones they replaced. For example, many moons ago -- about the early 1980s -- I remember a restaurant called Brannigans. It was located on Fort Union Boulevard at about 1300 East.

• I remember going there my mom and her friend Maude Savage.
• They had booths with lemon-yellow vinyl benches.
• I remember Club Sandwiches held together with colored, plastic, fuzzy-ended toothpicks.
• The white ceiling tiles (the pressed cardboard kind with the little holes) had stuck in them may of the fuzzy-ended toothpicks, which patrons had launched to see if they would stick. They did!
• I remember bright pink ice cream and in it bright blue bubble gum.

Does anyone else remember Brannigans?