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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009, 9:01 pm
Roy says:
Oh, for the love of Jake’s. I was in Tarleton from 1960 to 1963. Living off campus, probably 90% of my meals were at Jake’s. Heaven only knows how may hot steak sandwiches I consumed. It seems the price was $1.65. Jake and Dorothy were still alive then.
More interesting is the round corner tables were regularly study tables. With a constant stream of students coming and going, they maintained total occupation of the table. There would be anywhere from two to eight at anytime. For awhile, it would be economic majors and then it might slowly shift over to accounting, then on to other subjects. We often stayed at a table to the wee hours of the morning, switching with the subjects we were studying. Almost all were students that lived off campus and not required to be in dorms by a certain time.
There were a few other off campus gathering places, but Jake’s was the place of choice because of the reception we received and they stayed open 24 hours.
Memories,
Roy
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008, 12:27 am
Cate says:
Having just read the Dec 2008 issue with a cover story on the "40" best cafes in Texas, we just HAD to start our own Odyssy to visit as many of them as possible.
Thankfully, our regular family trek for Thanksgiving included locations for both the "YUMM FACTORY" in Lampassas, and "JAKE AND DOROTHY'S CAFE" in Stephenville.
We checked both of them out, going and coming.
They were both great.
The oldtimer on the green vinyl stool at Jake and Dorothy's (the one on the right, as you look at the picture) came in for dinner while we were there.
He was wearing the same over-alls and plaid shirt as seen in the cover photo.
I thought about asking him for an autograph, but he reminded me too much of my Grandpa...
But the waitresses teased him all over and then some...
As we checked out, I asked the elderly lady at the register if she knew the man was there.
She snorted, "I don't know! He's in here every morning...guess he decided to eat some dinner.."
I pointed out that the Texas Monthly photo looked so much like a Norman Rockwell painting, that I had to look twice at it to make sure it was a photo, and not a fake.
To which this most lovely lady replied, "Well, that's what they WANTED it to look like!!
All I could say was, "Yes, M'am"!
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