Where D'ya Wanna Eat?

On our days off together and when we're on vacation, we tend to schedule everything around when and where we're going to eat, and although we're not quite as obsessed with it as we once were, we still like to seek out the All-American diner. These pictures were taken pre-2004 --with film as opposed to digital--at arguably the most well-known diner in the Philadelphia area, the Melrose. If you want to program the address into your GPS, listen for it at the end of this commercial, the jingle which, in the 1970's, every South Philadelphian muttered uncontrollably under their breath as they walked the streets. Everybody who knows...

Even as we ate, the place filled up. They know how to put butts on the stools: