04/22/2023
😊 Could this day ☀️ get any better⁉️
It just did‼️ I made it to Montgomery in time to have dinner at Chris' Famous Hotdogs. This hot dog 🌭 joint has been here over 105 😁 years‼️It is Iconic Montgomery! I love the family that owns it. Especially 🤩 Mr. Theo Katechis ( he is Chris’ son). He is a hoot 😂. I haven’t seen 👀 him yet, but I will look for him before I go. For now I’m listening to the waitresses choice on the juke box….”Ghostbusters”‼️ 🎵 “Brickhouse” and then “You Dropped da Bomb on Me” ….and I love it‼️. It’s loud and happy and I’m all about that‼️….and true to my unpredictability I’m having a famous Special Cheeseburger 🍔 instead of a hot dog. ‘Cause I love ❤️ both of ‘em.
I am charmed 🤩 by homey, old tyme places like these and the folks that operate them ‘cause they make me happy 😊 and I like patronizing local hometown businesses. I travel 🚗 by myself a lot so I go where I feel safe and seen. This place right here feels like home to me…a loud, fun, happy home..like I grew up in.
Plus this is a part of my life long 💭 dream! To work in a Pharmacy with an Olde Tyme Soda Fountain that serves Ice Cream, Milkshakes, Short Order Grilled 🌭🍔Foods, Homemade Southern Recipe Sandwiches 🥪 like Chicken Salad, Pimento Cheese, and my Momma’s Secret 🤫 Recipe Egg Salad. I even want to serve Smoothies, Frozen Yogurt, and all kind of 🍜 soups! It’s my dream 💭 and it will happen one day‼️
I may be 105 when it happens, but it will happen‼️😂
Founded in 1917, Chris' Hot Dogs 🌭 has been a fav 🏆 of of all us folks! Young and old, rich and poor, as well as people of all races are welcome and have sat together in the quaint dining area of this Montgomery institution. Folks from every state 🇺🇸 and lots of other countries. Franklin D. Roosevelt (who would frequently ask for a box of the world famous hot dogs as his train stopped in the Montgomery train station), Harry Truman, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Presidents Bush 41 & 43, Jimmy Stewart, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Clark Gable, Tallulah Bankhead and Whoopi Goldberg‼️ Since they opened in 1917, every Alabama Governor has eaten at Chris' even Governor Kay! ….And lots of Politicians….as I was walking to my table I heard one of the yarn spinners …I discovered to be a very nice and friendly guy named Gus…who happens to be Theo’s son! in the diner add to the stories …”and lots of liars …ummm I mean legislators, have eaten here too!”😂😂😂….
Well, at least they had great taste‼️😂🤩😎🌭🍔❤️