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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Largest Collection of Tropics Related Merchandise on the Internet


Bar none, this is the largest collection of Tropics Related information on the internet.

I always thought the Tropics was a well designed place, never really recall the food there. It was one of those cocktail lounges only accessible from a highway, which added to the intrigue. It wouldn't really be a roadhouse, because it was upscale, in a Lincoln Illinois sort of way.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about the famous R & R in Clinton? It was fairly tropical.

Jungle Joe Wallis

Anonymous said...

I note there is a Tropics "Special Plate" of Garlic-rubbed cube steak for $1.60.

What else can one say?

HG

Anonymous said...

I'll tell you what else one can say...."Deluxe Smorgasbord - $2.50". Have your Garlic-rubbed cube steak and wash it down with 7 pieces of cherry pie. Mmm....

AW

Anonymous said...

When we still had grade school basketball...yes we really did...Mr. Bender would have a money bag full of dollar coin for one of our trips (I believe it was Hartsburg-Emden)and the bus would stop at the Tropics on the way home. It was the first place that I ever ate a hamburger that had sesame seeds on the bun. How exotic. You couldn't get that at the Shack or the R and R back then...not even Bianucci's next to the tracks on E. Washington St.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if the Bender Horde was ever found?

Bianucci's had the most exotic collection of under the table gum I ever saw.

BEP

Anonymous said...

Biannuci's also had the greatest looking waitresses (all CCHS coeds)and the best pizza in town. They were ahead of their time with their frozen pizzas. A great place to take a date (or look for one.)

Anonymous said...

My middle-aged cranial neurons are getting sclerotic. I now remember the R&R, but only vaguely. Can the wapella.com community refresh that memory via answering the following questions...

1. Just where was the R&R?
2. Is it still standing in some other guise?
3. What was a typical menu item?
4. How was the service?
5. Was it a fancy eatin' place?
6. Was there a standard as well as alternate meaning for the initials R&R? If so, what were they?

HG

Anonymous said...

EEP,

HG's post is a call for the Rover to break out and give a field report.

If memory serves me the R&R was famous for burgers, fried chicken and the usual Central Illinois clogged artery fare. It was special because it was also a five star motel.

HG, if you are headed east going past the former Kentucky Beef eatery the R&R was on the same side of the road, about a quarter mile down, or so. Maybe less.

The service was fab.

BEP

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